MODIFICATION
A -- LUNG TISSUE RESEARCH CONSORTIUM: CLINICAL CENTERS
- Notice Date
- 2/28/2003
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Contracts Operations Branch 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-HR-04-08
- Response Due
- 5/22/2003
- Archive Date
- 6/6/2003
- Point of Contact
- Joanne Deshler, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 435-0340, Fax (301) 480-3338, - Fred Ettehadieh, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 435-0340, Fax (301) 480-3338,
- E-Mail Address
-
jd52g@nih.gov, fe19w@nih.gov
- Description
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Health (NIH), will make available a request for proposal (RFP) to interested offerors with the ability to serve as a Clinical Center (CC) for a new five-year multi-center research program, the Lung Tissue Research Consortium (LTRC). The overall objective of the LTRC is to enable better management of lung diseases by increasing understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms of these diseases through molecular histopathological studies of human lung tissues with and without disease. The LTRC will facilitate histopathological research of pulmonary diseases by collecting lung tissues from donors and preparing and distributing collections of tissue specimens to researchers within and outside the Consortium. Primary emphases will be on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Collections of specimens will be linked to extensive, individual clinical data appropriate to the particular disease. Donor subjects will be recruited for specific enrollment groups that are designed to address important research questions. The consortium will be comprised of CCs; a Tissue Processing and Distribution Center (TC), RFP-NHLBI-HR-09; a Radiology Center (RC), RFP-NHLBI-HR-10; and a Data Coordinating Center (DCC), RFP-NHLBI-HR-11. Offerors are strongly encouraged to read the RFPs for all of these components of the LTRC to better understand the overall structure and function of the Consortium. CCs, will recruit and enroll specimen donors; perform clinical testing of subjects; extract data from the patients? medical records; obtain lung tissues and other specimens and perform initial processing of these specimens and transmit clinical data, computed tomographic (CT) image data, and biological specimens to appropriate centers of the LTRC. CCs will provide reports of any radiographic or pathological abnormalities noted by the RC and/or TC to the donor subjects? primary care physicians. In addition, each CC will perform hypothesis-oriented, tissue-based research, using LTRC specimens, that addresses pathogenetic mechanisms of COPD and/or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and work with other LTRC investigators to prepare reports and manuscripts for publication. ******This is not a RFP and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this notice. It is anticipated that RFP-NHLBI-HR-04-08, Lung Tissue Research Consortium: Clinical Centers, will be available on or fifteen (15) days after the publication of this notice through the NHLBI Website at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/inits/index.htm#rfp and posted on FedBizOpps at: http://www.fedbizopps.gov. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541710 with a business size standard of 500 employees. No collect calls will be accepted. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (28-FEB-2003). IT ACTUALLY FIRST APPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 07-MAR-2003. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Record
- SN00274546-W 20030309/030307215944 (fbodaily.com)
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