A--CARDIA Oakland Field Center Solicitation

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued an award notice under solicitation number HHSN26818HV00014R for the CARDIA Oakland Field Center. This acquisition provides field center support services in the Oakland, California, area to leverage more than 30 years of longitudinal data and samples collected through the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. The project focuses on addressing new research questions regarding the development and progression of clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related health conditions.

The scientific objectives for this effort include enhancing statistical power for analyzing predictors of clinical events, studying the progression of risk factors into subclinical and clinical CVD, and identifying new risk factors or interactions that inform disease pathophysiology. To meet these goals, the center will conduct continued cohort follow-up, perform data collection on clinical events, foster scientific collaborations, and execute a limited clinical examination of CARDIA participants to serve as a platform for ancillary study components.

The contract is classified under NAICS 541713 for Research and Development in Nanotechnology and PSC code A. Arun Mathur is the primary point of contact for this award notice, which was published on June 20, 2018. No set-aside was specified for this action.