RFA-CA-22-012: Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) Development and Trial Centers (PDTCs) Network (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Closed
This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of National Institutes of Health notices from 2022.
National Institutes of Health offered grants to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes, small businesses and businesses. Applications closed on November 1, 2022.
From the official notice on Grants.gov, last changed March 25, 2022. Checked November 7, 2026.
- Award amountsNot given on Grants.gov
- Cost sharingNot required
- Funding typeCooperative Agreement
About this NIH notice
- Activity codeU54
- Clinical trialsNot allowed
- Funded byNCI
- Median yearly award$190,452
- Typical project length8 years
- U54, Specialized Center Cooperative Agreement. A research center with several projects and shared cores, with substantial NIH involvement. Other open U54 notices.
Projects funded under RFA-CA-22-012 were run by National Cancer Institute (NCI, 6 projects). Contact the program officer at the institute that fits your project before you apply; the notice lists them.
Application due dates, page limits and budget limits are set in the notice. Read RFA-CA-22-012 in the NIH Guide.
Key dates
| Posted | March 25, 2022 |
|---|---|
| Deadline | November 1, 2022 |
| Archived by Grants.gov | December 7, 2022 |
Who can apply
This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes, small businesses and businesses.
All 15 applicant types the notice lists
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
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 Institutions) are not eligible to apply. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
Is this a realistic fit?
- Most of the money in the 2 programs behind this notice (58% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
- No cost sharing or match is required.
What the grant funds
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) requests applications for PDX (patient-derived xenografts) Development and Trial Centers (PDTCs) to serve as the laboratory research units of the PDX Development and Trial Centers Research Network (PDXNet). The PDXNet is a National Cancer Institute (NCI) program established to coordinate collaborative, large-scale development and pre-clinical testing of targeted therapeutic agents in patient-derived models (PDMs) to advance the vision of cancer precision medicine. The main goals for PDTCs include: develop and implement mechanism-based preclinical trials of drug combinations in large sets of molecularly characterized PDXs to advance cancer precision medicine through the therapeutic development of these agents, with a focus on NCI-IND agents; provide evidence-based recommendations for early phase clinical trials to be conducted in NCI clinical trial networks by identifying agent combinations that produce in vivo evidence of deep and durable responses of PDX models to the therapeutic intervention; develop and characterize new PDX models to share with the NCI Patient Derived Models Repository (PDMR) that fill identified resource gaps in the PDMR collection. This includes PDX models from patients with clinical drug resistance, models obtained from racial/ethnic minority populations, and models of rare cancers; engage collaboratively as a network to develop and apply metrics for preclinical in vivo drug response that improves the value of PDX drug response data in predicting clinical outcomes; advance the understanding of therapeutic outcome disparities by race/ethnicity to ensure that early phase clinical trials are well equipped to support diverse and equitable recruitment; and devise procedures and platforms to make preclinical PDX data broadly available to researchers across the cancer community, using PDTCs and NCI mutually agreed upon standards.
Funded under RFA-CA-22-012 so far
NIH funded 6 projects under RFA-CA-22-012 in fiscal 2023 to 2026, at 6 institutions. The median yearly award was $190,452.
| Project | Institution | Fiscal year | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative Core | Wistar Institute | 2026 | $108,059 |
| University of Pennsylvania Patient-derived Xenograft Development and Trials Center | University of Pennsylvania | 2026 | $1.1 million |
| Administrative Core | Utah State Higher Education System--University of Utah | 2026 | $190,453 |
| Bioinformatics Core | Washington University | 2026 | $188,933 |
| Advancing gastric cancer precision medicine in Latinos through patient-derived modeling | University of California at Davis | 2026 | $218,818 |
| Administrative Core | Virginia Commonwealth University | 2026 | $98,041 |
Who has won Cancer Treatment Research grants before
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Cancer Treatment Research (93.395) awarded $5.6 billion across 3,622 grant awards, an average of $1.5 million per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | Texas | 144 | $188 million |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. | Massachusetts | 68 | $185 million |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York | 35 | $179 million |
| Public Health Institute | California | 4 | $168 million |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Washington | 57 | $156 million |
Who has won Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research grants before
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research (93.394) awarded $2.7 billion across 1,944 grant awards, an average of $1.4 million per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco | California | 56 | $114 million |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Washington | 37 | $96.7 million |
| The Leland Stanford Junior University | California | 62 | $89.1 million |
| Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research | New York | 52 | $88.7 million |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Maryland | 63 | $86.5 million |
Applying now
This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.
The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.
Questions people ask
Is RFA-CA-22-012 still open?
No. It closed on November 1, 2022.
Who can apply for Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) Development and Trial Centers (PDTCs) Network (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)?
National Institutes of Health accepted applications from nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes, small businesses and businesses. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.
What is the deadline for Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) Development and Trial Centers (PDTCs) Network (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)?
Closed November 1, 2022. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.
Who has been funded under RFA-CA-22-012?
NIH RePORTER lists 6 projects funded under RFA-CA-22-012 in fiscal 2023 to 2026, at 6 institutions. The most were at Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Utah State Higher Education System--University of Utah.
Who has won Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research grants before?
The largest recipients over five fiscal years were The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, The Leland Stanford Junior University. The program made 1,944 awards worth $2.7 billion in that time.
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