Centers grants are designed to support shared resources and/or multidisciplinary research teams. NIAMS supports Resource-based Centers, Core Centers for Clinical Research (CCCR), Centers of Research Translation (CORT), and the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Network.
NIAMS periodically reviews the programs it funds to ensure that taxpayer dollars are used efficiently to promote the best possible science. NIAMS formed a Centers Evaluation Working Group (CEWG) to advise the Institute as to how its Centers program could be more responsive to current research needs and opportunities.
Active Centers Funding Opportunities
Core Centers for Clinical Research (CCCR)
The CCCR (P30) provides avenues to advance the methodological sciences that support clinical research within and across NIAMS’ portfolio of diseases. They address existing and future research needs in musculoskeletal, rheumatologic, and skin diseases by fostering the development, implementation, and inclusion of novel data, analytical methods, metrics, and outcome measures into clinical research at the institutional, local, and national level.
More information on the CCCR:
- List of Current Core Centers for Clinical Research Awards
- Read the CCCR FAQs
- View Active CCCR Funding Opportunities
Resource-based Centers
The Resource–based Centers (P30) provide critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services, and resources to groups of investigators, with the broad overall goal of accelerating, enriching, and enhancing the effectiveness of ongoing basic, translational, and clinical research and promoting new research within the NIAMS mission. The components include one or more Resource Cores and an Administrative Core that includes an Enrichment Program.
More information on the Resource-based Centers:
- List of Current Resource-based Center Awards
- Read the Resource-based Centers FAQs
- Active Resource-based Funding Opportunities
Centers of Research Translation
The primary objective of the Centers of Research Translation (CORT) (P50) Program is to foster research that is translational in nature, directed at elucidating the relevance of basic research to human disease in an area within the NIAMS mission. Two major features of the CORT program include: 1) the overarching aim of disease-related research translation, and 2) the inclusion of resources and an administrative structure to facilitate research translation.
View a list of current CORT Funding Awards
Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Network
The Wellstone Centers seek to promote collaborative basic, translational, and clinical research and provide important resources that can be used by muscular dystrophy researchers. The Centers are supported by five-year, renewable grants. Learn more about the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Network.