Consortium for Palliative Care Research Across the Lifespan (U54 Clinical Trial Optional)

Background
The Consortium for Palliative Care Research Across the Lifespan (U54 Clinical Trial Optional) is a funding opportunity provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a specialized center to advance innovative, high-quality research on palliative care for those with serious illness across the lifespan. The research infrastructure will encompass Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD), cancer, and other serious illnesses and populations relevant to the partnering Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs). The goals of this initiative include generating new scientific knowledge, fostering development of early- and mid-career palliative care investigators, serving as a national platform to provide research resources and facilitate high-quality palliative care research, engaging healthcare systems and community-based organizations as research partners, and disseminating research findings, best practices, data, and other impactful resources to the palliative care research and clinical communities.

Grant Details
The Consortium will consist of seven required components: Overall (required), Leadership and Administrative Component (required), Research Education Component (REC) (required), Pilot/Exploratory Studies Component (required), Research Design and Methodology Component (required), Measures and Measurement Development Component (required), Health Disparities Research and Community Engagement Component (required). Additionally, applicants may propose up to four optional components such as Data science, Cost-effectiveness and health economics, Bioethics, Implementation and dissemination. The Consortium aims to create new scientific knowledge on delivery and outcomes of palliative care approaches across the lifespan, foster development of early- and mid-career investigators in palliative care research, serve as a national platform for high-quality research on palliative care across various populations and serious illnesses, engage healthcare systems and community partners in research studies, disseminate research findings to relevant audiences.

Eligibility Requirements
The funding opportunity is open for new applications proposing the development of a specialized center. The participating organizations include National Institute on Aging (NIA), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Cancer Institute (NCI). The application due dates are specified in the document.

Period of Performance
The project period is limited to 5 years. The earliest start date is July 2, 2024. All applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.

Grant Value
The total costs committed by NIH components intend to be $9.5 million in year 1 and $14 million per year in years 2-5. The application budgets are limited to $9.5 million in total costs in year 1 and $14 million per year in total costs in years 2-5.