Grants / Department of Health and Human Services / Food and Drug Administration

RFA-FD-22-004: Renewal - Cooperative Agreement to Support the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, JIFSAN (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Closed Closed January 25, 2022 Opportunity RFA-FD-22-004 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Flexible Funding Model - Advancing Domestic Mutual Reliance Through Strengthened Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs (PAR-27-017). Status: Rolling or no fixed deadline. It is in our archive of Food and Drug Administration notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$7.5 million
• Total funding$7.5 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, JIFSAN.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Food and Drug Administration Research awards averaged $1.3 million; this notice allows up to $7.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (35% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its intention to receive and consider a cooperative agreement with the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), to support the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN). The purposes of this partnership is to: 1) Continue promoting the integration of applied research, education, and outreach programs that have been established between UMD-JIFSAN and FDA to advance the scientific base for the development of sound public policy; 2) Enhance FDA's ability to address an increasing number of critical and complex food safety and public health issues associated with foods that FDA regulates; 3) Provide opportunities to leverage additional resources among US government agencies, academia, industry, and consumers to address new and emerging issues associated with an increasingly diverse domestic and global food supply; 4) Continue to promote a greater awareness and understanding of the critical role of regulatory science and practice among academic scientists and the pool of future scientists; and 5) Support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which emphasizes the concept of preventing food safety-related problems before they occur, and enhance FDA’s efforts to partner with other nations to improve US and worldwide health

Category: Agriculture, Consumer Protection, Food and Nutrition.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, PAR-27-017, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.