Data Coordinating Center for NCCIH Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions (Collaborative U24 Clinical Trial Required)
This cooperative agreement funds a Data Coordinating Center to provide project coordination, data management, and biostatistical support for a companion investigator-initiated multi-site Phase III+ clinical trial of NCCIH-relevant mind and body interventions.
⚑ Must be submitted simultaneously with a companion Clinical Coordinating Center application under PAR-21-243. · Clinical trials only; specifically investigator-initiated multi-site Phase III and beyond. · Applicants must be relevant to NCCIH mission and high priority to the Center. · Foreign organizations may apply, but non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are not eligible.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 80 strong | technical depth: central; funds data infrastructure |
| IPPRA | 79 strong | portfolio topics: mental_behavioral_health, public_health; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds data/survey infrastructure |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 15 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), utilizing the U24 grant funding mechanism, encourages applications for a collaborating Data Coordinating Center (DCC) application that accompanies an investigator-initiated multi site clinical trial (Phase III and beyond) application submitted under companion PAR-21-243. The DCC application must be specific to the companion Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) application. The objective of the DCC application is to propose a comprehensive plan that provides overall project coordination, and administrative, data management, and biostatistical support for the proposed clinical trial. Both a DCC application and a corresponding CCC application need to be submitted simultaneously for consideration by NCCIH. Trials for which this NOFO applies must be relevant to the research mission of NCCIH and considered a high priority by the Center. For additional information about the mission, strategic vision, and research priorities of NCCIH, applicants are encouraged to consult the NCCIH website (http://www.nccih.nih.gov). Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate Scientific/Research contact for the area of science for which they are planning to develop an application prior to submitting to this NOFO.
Eligibility
Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs); Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) are not eligible to apply.Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
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Proposal brief
Proposal shell · National Institutes of Health conventions
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
15/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a biomedical trial-support opportunity for a Data Coordinating Center focused on mind-body clinical trials, not an IPPRA-style research project in behavioral policy, risk communication, or population survey work. While it involves health research infrastructure and could support analysis/biostatistics, the topic is clinical and disease-treatment oriented rather than a social-science or policy question, and the NOFO is aimed at trial coordination rather than research. Public universities are eligible, but the fit to IPPRA’s portfolio is only tangential.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 15 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a biomedical trial-support opportunity for a Data Coordinating Center focused on mind-body clinical trials, not an IPPRA-style research project in behavioral policy, risk communication, or population survey work. While it involves health research infrastructure and could support analysis/biostatistics, the topic is clinical and disease-treatment oriented rather than a social-science or policy question, and the NOFO is aimed at trial coordination rather than research. Public universities are eligible, but the fit to IPPRA’s portfolio is only tangential. |
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an NIH data coordinating center opportunity for multi-site clinical trials of mind-body interventions, which is squarely a biomedical/clinical research infrastructure call rather than a social-science or policy study. IPPRA’s methods in survey research, behavior, and health communication could be useful in a related trial, but the NOFO is not targeted to that kind of work and public universities are eligible only as supporting partners in a clinical-trial consortium context. |