Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers

Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers

This program funds integrated research centers that unite basic and clinical investigators to advance understanding of digestive and liver diseases. DDRCCs operate on a shared-resources model, where core facilities and collaborative infrastructure amplify research productivity and generate new scientific directions across a cohesive theme. Your center must organize around a unifying research focus—such as a specific disease mechanism, organ system, or patient population—that aligns with NIDDK's digestive and hepatic disease mission and does not duplicate the primary funding scope of other NIH institutes.

The program emphasizes synergy between disciplines and career stages, cost-effective resource deployment, and sustained momentum in areas where coordinated, multi-investigator effort yields greater impact than individual grants. Eligible themes span basic molecular and cellular mechanisms, translational pathways, clinical outcomes research, and implementation science in gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and liver disorders.

At a glance:

• Who can apply: Institutions with research capacity in digestive or liver diseases; applicants must demonstrate institutional commitment and the ability to convene a collaborative research team. Not stated whether foreign institutions are eligible.
• Funding & project length: Not stated in this excerpt.
• Award / mechanism: Centers grant (P30 mechanism implied by "Core Centers" structure).
• Key dates: Not stated.
• Best fit for: Established research groups in gastroenterology, hepatology, pancreatic biology, or related fields seeking to build shared cores (imaging, animal models, biobanks, bioinformatics) and cross-investigator collaboration.