Research Centers

P20: Exploratory Centers

Exploratory Centers (P20) support planning for new programs, expansion or modification of existing resources, and feasibility studies to explore various approaches to the development of interdisciplinary programs that offer a potential solutions to problems of special significance to NIA. These exploratory studies may lead to specialized or comprehensive centers.

 For more information:

See: The Human Brain Project (Neuroinformatics): Phase I— Feasibility; Phase II—Refinements, Maintenance, and Integration (P01, P20, R01)

• Release Date: December 3, 2002 (see addendum NOT-EB-03-002)
• PA Number: PAR-03-035

P30: Center Core Grants

Center Core Grants (P30) support shared resources and facilities for research by many researchers from different disciplines who provide a multidisciplinary approach to a collaborative research effort or from the same discipline who focus on a common research problem. The core grant is utilized by research projects, though funded independently of them.

For more information:

NIA currently has no P30 initiatives with open receipt dates. New Initiatives for P30s are advertised weekly in the NIH Guide under Request for Applications (RFAs). See Funding Opportunities for recently published P30 initiatives sponsored by NIH.

P50: Specialized Centers

Specialized Centers (P50) support any part of the full range of research from very basic to clinical; they may involve ancillary supportive activities such as protracted patient care necessary to the primary research. The spectrum of activities comprises a multidisciplinary study on a specific disease entity or biomedical problem area.

For more information:

NIAcurrently has no P50 initiatives with open receipt dates. New Initiatives for P50s are advertised weekly in the NIH Guide under RFAs. See Funding Opportunities for recently published P50 initiatives sponsored by NIH. 

P60: Comprehensive Centers

Comprehensive Centers (P60) support a multipurpose unit designed to unite divergent, but related, facilities within a given community. It may be based in a university or may involve other locally available resources, such as hospitals, computer facilities, regional centers, and primate colonies. The objectives of P60s typically include:

• Fostering biomedical research and development both at the fundamental and clinical levels
• Initiating the expanding community education, screening, and expanding community education, screening, and counseling programs
• Educating health professionals concerning the problems of diagnosis and treatment of a specific disease

For more information:

NIA currently has no P60 initiatives with open receipt dates. New Initiatives for P60s are advertised weekly in the NIH Guide under RFAs. See Funding Opportunities for recently published P60 initiatives sponsored by NIH.