Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA EB 18 004
This funding opportunity, titled "Limited Competition: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" (RFA-EB-18-004), is a discretionary NIH grant designed to sustain and advance the NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory and, more broadly, to enable collaborative research in neuroimaging informatics. In practical terms, the FOA is aimed at strengthening shared infrastructure, software, data standards, methods, and other community-facing resources that make neuroimaging research more interoperable, reproducible, and scalable across laboratories and projects. It is positioned as an R24 resource-focused mechanism and explicitly does not allow clinical trials, signaling that the work should center on tool/resource development, integration, dissemination, and related informatics activities rather than prospective interventional human studies.
The competition is explicitly limited, meaning only a specific set of prior awardees can apply. Eligibility is restricted to the U24 awardees and subawardees from the earlier funding announcement RFA-EB-16-002. This constraint indicates NIH intent to maintain continuity and leverage an existing consortium or network of teams already funded to build the collaboratory, rather than opening participation to entirely new groups. While the listing includes "Public and State controlled institutions of higher education" as eligible applicants, the limited-competition language is the controlling factor, so only those institutions that also meet the prior-awardee/subawardee requirement would realistically qualify to submit an application.
There are also important geographic and organizational eligibility boundaries. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities (foreign institutions) are not eligible to apply as applicant organizations, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible to apply. At the same time, foreign components are allowed as defined by the NIH Grants Policy Statement, which typically means a U.S.-based applicant may include certain foreign elements or collaborations when well-justified and permitted under NIH policy, even though a foreign institution cannot serve as the primary applicant for this FOA. Anyone considering international partnerships would need to structure them carefully within NIH rules governing foreign components and ensure the primary applicant and the core of the project remain domestic and consistent with the FOA restrictions.
Key administrative details include that the sponsoring agency is the National Institutes of Health, the opportunity category is discretionary, and the funding instrument is a grant. The funding activity category is listed broadly under Education, Environment, Health, Income Security and Social Services, reflecting the cross-cutting federal classification rather than a narrow scientific topic label. The FOA was created on December 18, 2018, with an original closing date of February 22, 2019, and it lists an award ceiling of $600,000. Multiple CFDA numbers are associated with the announcement (93.113, 93.121, 93.213, 93.242, 93.273, 93.279, 93.286, 93.350, 93.361, 93.853, 93.865, 93.866, 93.867), reflecting NIH institutes and programs that may be involved in funding or administering the collaboratory-related activities.
Overall, this FOA is best understood as a continuation and support mechanism for an existing NIH-backed neuroimaging informatics collaboratory. It prioritizes collaborative, community-serving resources and coordination that help researchers create, share, standardize, and analyze neuroimaging data more effectively, while keeping the scope firmly outside clinical trial activity and limiting eligibility to teams already participating in the prior U24-funded effort.Apply for RFA EB 18 004
- The National Institutes of Health in the education, environment, health, income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Limited Competition: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.113, 93.121, 93.213, 93.242, 93.273, 93.279, 93.286, 93.350, 93.361, 93.853, 93.865, 93.866, 93.867.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-12-18.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-02-22. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $600,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
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