The National Institutes of Health intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre.

The National Institutes of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders needs to procure a services for DNA collection and Analysis.  The contractor shall perform clinical evaluations, collect DNA, ascertain the families then send DNA samples, consent forms, and clinical data from the families to the lab for further studies.  The NIDCD has maintained a longstanding collaboration in Pakistan to study the genetics of hearing and speech disorders.  Researchers in the lab work with Professor S. Riazuddin's laboratory for research in genetic diseases, previously at the National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology and presently at the Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre. This collaboration involves ascertaining families in Pakistan with hearing and speech disorders and mapping the underlying genes for these disorders.  Two human subjects protocols at the NIH have been approved for these studies: (1)Nonsyndromic hereditary hearing impairment-gene mapping protocol number is OH93-DC-016, and (2)Genetics Studies of Stuttering, protocol 97-DC-0057.  See attached Statement of Work for further information.

 
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