Research Opportunity Purpose:

The purpose of this announcement is to invite applications to establish the Training Center (TC) for the

Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE). The TC award made through this announcement will support

CFDE by providing and evaluating training that enables the research community, with a special emphasis

on postgraduate students engaged in research and early stage investigators, to use Common Fund (CF)

program generated data sets and knowledge. The recipient will work collaboratively with other

participating components of the CFDE to support and coordinate training-related activities across the

ecosystem. The end products of CFDE will constitute a thriving and inclusive ecosystem that enables the

biomedical research community to use and reuse CF-generated data, knowledge and other digital

resources for discoveries and new purposes.

This initiative is funded through the NIH Common Fund, which supports cross-cutting programs that are

expected to have an exceptionally high impact. All Common Fund initiatives invite investigators to

develop bold, innovative, and often risky approaches to address problems that may seem intractable or

to seize new opportunities that offer the potential for rapid progress.

Applicants responding to this ROA are expected to familiarize themselves with the other components of

the CFDE listed below, as the TC will be expected to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate with

these components.