The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant program focusses on encouraging applications for Animal and Biological Material Resource Centers. These centers are pivotal in offering support through special colonies of laboratory animals and other vital resources like informatics tools, reagents, cultures (cells, tissues, organs), and genetic stocks. Such resources are tailored to aid the biomedical research community on multiple levels including local, regional, and national scopes. A significant goal of these projects is to furnish research resources that contribute towards the improvement of scientific accuracy, integrity, and repeatability in biomedical research. This initiative is designed to cater to the continuation of existing resources as well as the innovation of new resources to meet evolving research needs, ensuring a broad applicability across multiple National Institutes of Health Institutes or Centers (ICs) to align with the overarching NIH-wide mission outlined by the ORIP. Additionally, potential applicants are encouraged to engage in preliminary consultations with scientific or research staff to ensure alignment with program priorities and enhance the competitiveness of their applications.