DBP 2010

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Motivations and Procedure

The original RFA specified the following:

• In core 3, an investigator will propose 2-4 collaborations with NIH funded biomedical or behavioral researchers to address a biomedical/behavioral question using computational approaches. It is not essential that the biomedical researchers have expertise in computational biology, but they should have a question that will drive the fundamental computational research in cores 1 and 2. The purpose of this core is to ensure that the research carried out in cores 1 and 2 has direct relevance to biomedical or behavioral research. It may be useful for these Driving Biological Projects (DPB's) to have a focus on a particular disease or organ, but that sort of focus might not be appropriate for all NIH NCBCs. It is expected that many of the biomedical researchers in core 3 will not be at the same institution as the parent NIH NCBC. In such cases, convincing plans for collaboration at a distance must be presented in the proposal.

The DBP's for the 2010 round will be solicited by Ron Kikinis in consultation with the core 1 and core 2 PI's. The DBP's will participate in the development and implementation of the competitive renewal. Specifics of this process will be determined after the RFA has been released.

Steps

Prerequisites for candidate groups

• Candidates have to have existing NIH funding as PI or co-investigator
• Joint publications with at least one Core 1 or Core 2 member or active participation in the NA-MIC project week events.
• Willingness to fully adopt the NA-MIC kit
• NA-MIC funds are NOT to be used for data acquisition
• Willingness to use DBP funds to hire a software engineer to help
  • adoption of the NA-MIC kit by the DBP group and
  • customization of Na-mic software towards the needs of the DBP.
• Create tutorials on how to use the NA-MIC technology for the DBP project
• Become the NA-MIC ambassador into the scientific community of the DBP
  • Disseminate the accomplishment by organizing training events/workshops etc.

2008 and 2009

For background on NA-MIC, you can refer to our short NA-MIC overview. We are looking for a short text that addresses the following points:

December 2008

• Abstract from the qualifying NIH grant (or comparable short description of the driving project), grant # and program officer
• What is the history with the core 1 or core 2 "sponsor" (1 paragraph)
• What is the benefit to the DBP applicant (1 paragraph)
• What is the benefit to NA-MIC (1 paragraph)

January 2009

• Attend the NA-MIC AHM in Salt Lake City in early January of 2009 to meet with the NA-MIC principals