The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support efficient collection, banking and sharing of biospecimens and associated clinical data from critically ill patients, ultimately for use in mechanistic research on sepsis.
The goals of this FOA are to determine the scientific
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value of existing or newly collected sepsis human biospecimen sets as testbeds for studies on human sepsis, and to provide guidance on the best practices for collecting, utilizing and analyzing human biospecimens, thus maximizing their value for the entire sepsis research community.