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Archive: Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA)
Status: No plans to recompete at this time
Program Overview
The Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) has been terminated. The program fostered international research partnerships between NIH-supported scientists and their collaborators in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). FIRCA aims to benefit the research interests of both collaborators while increasing and enhancing research capacity at the LMIC site.
Inquiries
Flora N. Katz, Ph.D.
Director, Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, B2C39
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Phone: (301) 402-9591
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email: flora.katz@nih.gov
Partners
The following NIH Institutes and Centers co-sponsored this program with Fogarty.
FIRCA Basic Biomedical (BB)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Institute on Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
FIRCA Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS)
Archives
- Notice of Termination of PAR-11-036, "Limited Competition: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Behavioral and Social Sciences (FIRCA-BSS) Research Award (R03)" released April 26, 2012
- Notice of Termination of PAR-11-037, "Limited Competition: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Basic Biomedical (FIRCA-BB) Research Award (R03)" released December 9, 2011
- Expired announcements:
- Limited Competition: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Behavioral and Social Sciences (FIRCA-BSS) Research Award (R03) (PAR-11-036)
- Archive: Grants awarded through PAR-11-036 in NIH RePORTER
- Limited Competition: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Basic Biomedical (FIRCA-BB) Research Award (R03) (PAR-11-037)
- Archive: Grants awarded through PAR-11-037 in NIH RePORTER
- Limited Competition: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Behavioral and Social Sciences (FIRCA-BSS) Research Award (R03) (PAR-11-036)
- FIRCA grantee news: Link found between genes in mosquitos and the spread of diseases, fragments of transfer RNA molecules may hold the key to halting the spread of dengue fever, other diseases
University of Missouri news, Jan 24, 2018 - FIRCA grantee news: Mexico’s soda tax could reduce diabetes, heart disease and health costs, new study [supported by Fogarty] finds
UCSF news, Nov 1, 2016 - Researchers supported by NIAAA advance fetal alcohol exposure research , including FIRCA grantee Dr S Jacobson
May / Jun 2016 Global Health Matters - Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) Program Evaluation , published July 2006