Clinical Trials for Organ Transplantation in Children Program

By Michael Saunders

The National Institutes of Health, more generally known as NIH, is a federal government agency operating within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that is significantly responsible for pursuing and encouraging the country’s biomedical and health-related research studies.

The programs and grants of the NIH are all geared towards the realization of its overall agency mission which is to “seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behaviour of living systems and the application of that data to improve health, lengthen life, and cut back the burdens of sickness and disability.”

In accordance with this mission, the National Insitutes of Health has formed a partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to establish the Clinical Trials for Organ Transplantation in Children Program whereby both agencies propose to support a group of investigators in their quest of conducting clinical trials regarding pediatric solid organ transplant recipients.

The clinical trials that’ll be covered under the programme can be done together with observational clinical trials and mechanistic studies. The trials can be in its first, 2nd or third phase and should focus on pediatric solid organ transplant recipients, that is patients who have undergone heart, liver,lung, small intestine, or kidney transplantation before they turned 21 years old.

In a larger scope, the initiatives of the programme will concentrate on reducing or alleviating cases of long-term graft dysfunction and immune-mediated morbidity and mortality that is exclusive to pediatric solid organ transplant patients.

The NIH and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are ready to administer a total funding amount of $4,300,000 to three to four admissible grant participants.

The institutions and associations who will be permitted to submit an application under this programme are the following:

a) Higher Education Institutions such as Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education and Private Institutions of Higher Education

b) Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions

c) Nonprofit setups other than institutions of higher education

d) For-Profit Setups like Small Businesses

e) State Governments, County Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), and Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Apart from Federally Recognized)

f) Independent School Districts, Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities, Native American Tribal Associations (apart from Federally recognized tribal governments), Faith-based or Community-based Organizations, and Regional Organizations.

Michael Saunders is an editor of TopGovernmentGrants.com one the the most comprehensive Websites offering information on government grants and federal government programs.
He also maintains Websites providing resources on artist grants and children grants.

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