This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the Fogarty International Research Collaboration Basic Biomedical (FIRCA-BB) Research Award facilitates collaborative basic biomedical research between scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and investigators in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). Special consideration will be given to proposed research that addresses significant global health problems, (particularly those of high relevance to a LMIC country or region) and that includes research capacity building as a major aim of the proposed project.