This federal contract award, with an ID of 75N92018D00010|75N92018F00001, was issued by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health. The prime contractor is the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), a major academic medical center in Mississippi. The contract, valued at $9,995,895.89, is a multi-year Delivery Order for the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) - Coordinating Center (CC). UMMC serves as the coordinating center, with several subcontractors including the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Boston University Medical Campus, LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Rush University Medical Center, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the University of Mississippi, the University of Washington, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Vermont, and the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. This contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting UMMC's status as a large academic institution. The JHS is a long-running study focused on cardiovascular disease in the African American population, and this contract supports the continued operation of the coordinating center for this important research initiative.
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