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National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Purpose

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is issuing this Notice to highlight interest in receiving grant applications focused on exploring the interaction of microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists) with the human-built environment, including but not limited to the following:

• The characteristics of microbes interacting with the built environment (e.g. identities, numbers, dynamics, or interactions with other microorganisms);
• Investigation of the physical and chemical principles governing interactions, release, and viability of microbes on/in solids, liquids and gases related to the built environment;
• Investigation of modes of interaction between humans or other model hosts and microbes in the built environment; 
• Development or improvement of technologies for microbe detection, sampling and culturing, and bioinformatic approaches for characterizing complex microbial communities.  

The Institute is particularly interested in the discovery of generalizable principles; thus, studies of model systems and surrogate microbes rather than actual infectious agents are more likely to be in the NIGMS mission and will be a higher priority for funding.  

Applications from multidisciplinary teams of investigators including architects, engineers, epidemiologists, microbiologists, physicists, chemists, data scientists, and physicians are encouraged.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Michael Sakalian, Ph.D.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Email: [email protected]