Funding News, March 2008
March 07, 2008
March 2008 Issue 56 new programs
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GrantsNet sponsorship
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52 new research funding programs
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GrantsNet Express
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4 new student and institutional support programs
GrantsNet Sponsorship
Sponsorship opportunities are now available on GrantsNet and GrantsNet Express. Please contact Daryl Anderson for more information.
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Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
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Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
Alfried Krupp Fellowships
The Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald will award three to six Alfried Krupp Senior Fellowships and three to six Alfried Krupp Junior Fellowships for the academic year 2009/10. The Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg is an independent academic institution in the center of the venerable Hanseatic and university city on the Baltic Sea. Together with the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung established it in order to enhance the excellence of the university. Academics who have proven themselves through outstanding research and teaching may apply for an Alfried Krupp Senior Fellowship. The Alfried Krupp Junior Fellowships are awarded to particularly qualified young academics with doctorates. The Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg enables the fellows to concentrate on a major scientific or scholarly project, free of extensive teaching duties. The Institute also offers the opportunity to discuss their discipline with colleagues and students at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. It is therefore desired--but no condition--that the proposed scientific projects have reference to the university's main fields of research (life sciences, physics and geosciences, cultural interaction with main emphasis on North and Eastern Europe, state and economy). A joint application by several people who wish to realize a project in Greifswald in interdisciplinary and international cooperation is also possible. Fellows are appointed either for a semester (1 October to 31 March or 1 April to 30 September) or for a whole academic year (1 October to 30 September). Accommodation and working facilities are provided rent-free. The fellowships are endowed in accordance with the high expectations placed in the applicants' academic performance.
Deadline: 2008-12-31
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research
The program's goal is to foster the development and productivity of established independent physician-scientists who will strengthen translational research, through their own studies as well as their mentoring of physician-scientist trainees. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to explore fundamental scientific questions, to apply the resulting knowledge at the bedside, and to bring insights from the clinical setting back to the laboratory for further exploration.
Deadline: 2008-10-01
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Recognizing the vital role such cross-trained scientists will play in furthering biomedical science, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund has developed Career Awards at the Scientific Interface. These grants are intended to foster the early-career development of researchers with backgrounds in the physical/computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research.
Deadline: 2008-04-15
Department of Agriculture
Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants
The fellowships supported through the Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program (NNF) are intended to encourage outstanding students to pursue and complete graduate degrees in critical areas of national need, through graduate programs at eligible institutions. The fellowship support through this NNF program for graduate training provides a student stipend and a cost-of-education allowance to the institution. USDA-CSREES supports graduate fellowship training grants for both master's and doctoral levels of study. Also, Special International Study or Thesis/Dissertation Research Travel Allowances (IRTA) awards will provide support for eligible USDA National Needs Fellows to conduct thesis/dissertation research or to undertake studies at sites outside of the United States. IRTA awards are for eligible USDA NNF Grant Program Fellows.
Deadline: 2008-05-15
Department of Defense. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Strategic Technologies
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Strategic Technology Office (STO) is soliciting proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement for the performance of research, development, design, and testing that directly supports STO. This includes space and near-space sensors and systems, strategic and tactical networks, information assurance, counter underground facilities, weapons of mass destruction defense, small unit operations, maritime operations, and core strategic technologies.
Deadline: 2009-02-12
Department of Education
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) for Wheeled Mobility
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, by conducting advanced engineering research and development on innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or remove environmental barriers. RERCs also demonstrate and evaluate such technologies, facilitate service delivery system changes, stimulate the production and distribution of new technologies and equipment in the private sector, and provide training opportunities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
Department of Education
Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs) - Health and Function Across the Lifespan of Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, through advanced research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in general problem areas. Such activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, and the family members or other authorized representatives of individuals with disabilities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
Department of Education
Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs) - Disability Statistics and Demographics
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, through advanced research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in general problem areas. Such activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, and the family members or other authorized representatives of individuals with disabilities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
Department of Education
Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTC) - Personal Assistance Services (PAS) in the 21st Century
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, through advanced research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in general problem areas, as specified by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Such activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, and the family members or other authorized representatives of individuals with disabilities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
Department of Education
Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs) - Community Living and Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, through advanced research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in general problem areas. Such activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, and the family members or other authorized representatives of individuals with disabilities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
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Department of Education
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) for Universal Interface and Information Technology Access
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, by conducting advanced engineering research and development on innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or remove environmental barriers. RERCs also demonstrate and evaluate such technologies, facilitate service delivery system changes, stimulate the production and distribution of new technologies and equipment in the private sector, and provide training opportunities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
Department of Education
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) for Communication Enhancement
The purpose of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, by conducting advanced engineering research and development on innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or remove environmental barriers. RERCs also demonstrate and evaluate such technologies, facilitate service delivery system changes, stimulate the production and distribution of new technologies and equipment in the private sector, and provide training opportunities.
Deadline: 2008-04-01
Department of Energy. Chicago Service Center
Systems Biology, Model Organism Development, and Enzyme
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research that supports the Genomics: GTL research program (http://www.genomicsgtl.energy.gov). In this solicitation, applications are solicited for: 1.) systems-level research to improve understanding of microbial regulatory and metabolic networks related to hydrogen production, 2.) development of new model organisms for microbial hydrogen production, and 3.) targeted approaches for the identification and characterization of enzymes and biochemical pathways relevant to biological hydrogen production in genome and metagenome sequences.
Deadline: 2008-04-09
Department of Energy. Chicago Service Center
Radiochemistry and Instrumentation
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science hereby announce its interest in receiving applications for pilot research project grants in two topic areas. The first topic area is radiochemistry. BER invites applications for conducting fundamental research in radiotracer chemistry, involving particularly improvements in the synthetic methodology for incorporating the radioisotope in a wide range of organic molecules with techniques that result in high specific activities and sufficient protections against autoradiolysis to ensure the integrity and biological behavior of the intact radiolabeled molecule in vivo. The second topic area is in imaging instrumentation. BER invites applications dealing with the design and development of new, improved radionuclide imaging instrumentation that can significantly increase the accuracy of quantitative assessments of the three-dimensional spatial and temporal distribution of radiotracers in living systems. Applications should focus on basic research that will significantly advance the current state of the science underpinning nuclear medicine advances. Responses to this announcement should address the development and use of highly innovative radiotracer chemistry or instrumentation technologies for quantitative in vivo measurement of site-specific (in situ) chemical reactions, their metabolic perturbations, and ensuing biological processes with a high degree of specificity.
Deadline: 2008-04-17
Department of Energy. Chicago Service Center
Notice for FY 2008 SBIR/STTR Phase II
The Department of Energy (DOE) invites all DOE Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Awardees from fiscal year 2007 to submit Phase II grant applications. The purpose of Phase II is to perform the research and development required to meet the DOE objectives stated in the technical topic of the Phase I funding notice. In addition, it is intended that the small business grantee would be in a position to pursue commercial applications of the Research and Development at the end of Phase II.
Deadline: 2008-04-18
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
NIH Revision Awards for Studying Interactions Among Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Health (R01)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues this funding opportunity announcement to invite applications from current NIH-funded investigators to study how interactions among of genetic and behavioral/social factors influence health and disease.
Deadline: 2008-04-13
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
NIH Revision Awards for Studying Interactions Among Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Health (R21)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues this funding opportunity announcement to invite applications from current NIH-funded investigators to study how interactions among of genetic and behavioral/social factors influence health and disease.
Deadline: 2008-04-13
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
NIH Revision Awards for Studying Interactions Among Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Health (P01, P20, P50, P60, U0
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues this funding opportunity announcement to invite applications from current NIH-funded investigators to study how interactions among genetic and behavioral/social factors influence health and disease.
Deadline: 2008-04-13
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved (R21)
The ultimate goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, is to solicit Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically underserved areas and medically underserved populations as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. This FOA will use the R21 grant mechanism to encourage studies that specifically target medically underserved areas as well as underserved and underrepresented populations. This focus will allow studies to assess the nature and scope of health problems in underserved communities, formulate hypotheses about the relationship of community dynamics and health problems as they relate to underrepresented populations, design targeted interventions aimed at addressing health disparities in specified communities and specific populations, and track the efficacy of outreach efforts that result from Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in the community. The FOA will ensure that the health issues of underserved communities and populations are addressed using CBPR strategies.
Deadline: 2008-04-14
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Application of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects to evaluate the performance of emerging molecular-analysis technologies and develop applications for an appropriate cancer-relevant biological system. These systems may cover cancer-relevant molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. The thrust of effort in the projects proposed in response to this FOA must be on emerging technology application rather than on technology development. Emerging technology is one that has passed the initial developmental stage and shows promise but has not been evaluated/developed in the context of the proposed application and has not been commercialized. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This FOA is part of the broader NCI-sponsored program Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT). Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts provides a brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs.
Deadline: 2008-04-29
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Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Innovative Technology Solutions to Cancer Sample Preparation (STTR [R41/R42])
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits grant applications from small-business concerns that propose research projects focused on the development and/or application of innovative technologies addressing various aspects of the preparation, purification, processing, and handling of cancer-relevant samples. The overall goal is to develop technologies that maximize the quality and utility of biospecimens for molecular analyses of cancer cells and their host environments without compromising donor/patient health. This FOA will also support the development of methods and tools to assess sample quality, preserve/protect sample integrity, and establish verification criteria for quality assessment/quality control under diverse conditions. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). The proposed development of cancer sample-preparation technologies must reflect the intent to ultimately commercialize these technologies. This FOA is part of a broader NCI-sponsored Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program. Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate notice in the National Institutes of Health’s Guide for Grants and Contracts provides brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs.
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Innovative Technology Solutions to Cancer Sample Preparation (R33)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits developmental grant applications proposing research projects focused on the development and/or application of innovative technologies addressing various aspects of the preparation, purification, processing, and handling of cancer-relevant samples. The overall goal is to develop technologies that maximize the quality and utility of biospecimens for molecular analyses of cancer cells and their host environments without compromising donor/patient health. This FOA will also support the development of methods and tools to assess sample quality, preserve/protect sample integrity, and establish verification criteria for quality assessment/quality control under diverse conditions. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This FOA is part of the broader National Cancer Institute-sponsored program Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT). Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate notice in the National Institutes of Health’s Guide for Grants and Contracts provides a brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs.
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Innovative Technology Solutions to Cancer Sample Preparation (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits developmental grant applications proposing research projects focused on the development and/or application of innovative technologies addressing various aspects of the preparation, purification, processing, and handling of cancer-relevant samples. The overall goal is to develop technologies that maximize the quality and utility of biospecimens for molecular analyses of cancer cells and their host environments without compromising donor/patient health. This FOA will also support the development of methods and tools to assess sample quality, preserve/protect sample integrity, and establish verification criteria for quality assessment/quality control under diverse conditions. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This FOA is part of the broader National Cancer Institute-sponsored program Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT). Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate notice in the National Institutes of Health’s Guide for Grants and Contracts provides a brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs.
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on the inception and early stage development of highly innovative cancer-relevant technologies. The emphasis of this FOA is on technically innovative molecular-analysis tools with the potential to add a new quality to the investigations of the molecular basis of cancer (e.g., by facilitating the detection of cancer-related characteristics/alterations at the molecular and cellular levels of organization and function). These technologies may be intended for molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions).
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Application of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R33)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects to evaluate the performance of emerging molecular-analysis technologies and develop applications for an appropriate cancer-relevant biological system. These systems may cover cancer-relevant molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. The thrust of effort in the projects proposed in response to this FOA must be on emerging-technology application rather than on technology development. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). This FOA is part of the broader NCI-sponsored program Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT).
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Innovative and Applied Molecular Analysis Technologies for Cancer (SBIR [R43/R44])
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) proposing exploratory/developmental research projects focused on (i) the inception and early stage development of highly innovative cancer-relevant technologies and/or (ii) the evaluation of the performance of emerging molecular analysis technologies and development of applications for an appropriate cancer-relevant biological system. The emphasis is on molecular-analysis tools with the potential to add a new quality to the investigations of the molecular basis of cancer (e.g., by facilitating the detection of cancer-related characteristics/alterations at the molecular and cellular levels of organization and function). These technologies may be intended for molecular analyses in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). The proposed development of molecular analysis tools must reflect the intent to ultimately commercialize these technologies. This FOA is part of a broader NCI-sponsored Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program. Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts provides brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs. For more information about research opportunities for small business at National Cancer Institute, visit their Web site at http://sbir.cancer.gov.
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Metagenomic Analyses of the Oral Microbiome (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement issued by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health, solicits proposals to develop new insight into the role of microbes in human oral health and disease through research on the total oral microbial community (microbiota) using metagenomic approaches built upon recent developments in DNA sequencing, gene assembly, and bioinformatics. The ultimate goal is to completely characterize all microbes and their genes (microbiome) in the oral environment. To this end, we are soliciting projects that will analyze the genomes of both cultivatable and uncultivable bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Applicants will be expected to work with state-of-the-science genomic sequencing centers and bioinformatics groups to sequence and annotate all microbes in the oral cavity under conditions of health and disease.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement issued by National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, encourages the submission of research project grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to: (1) improve the measurement of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection, and statistical/analytical techniques; (2) enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment, and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and (3) reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States (U.S.).
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Alcohol Research Education Project Grants (R25)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports research programs to advance understanding of the biological and behavioral processes involved in the development, expression, and consequences of alcoholism and other alcohol-related problems. The institute also supports prevention, treatment, and health-services research on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. A part of NIAAA’s mission is the dissemination of new knowledge acquired from alcohol research to diverse audiences, including scientists, educators, clinicians, and other health and social service providers, patients and their families, professionals within the criminal justice system, and the general public. This funding opportunity announcement identifies the research activity on alcohol education of health professions that NIAAA will consider for award through Research Education Grants (R25).
Deadline: 2008-05-25
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Developing Centers for Intervention and/or Services Research (DCISR) (P20)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research grant applications to support core infrastructure for conducting intervention and/or services research directly addressing the mission of NIMH, which is to reduce the burden of mental and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior. In particular, this initiative addresses the mission of the Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR), as well as that of NIMH’s Geriatrics Research Branch. DSIR supports two main areas of research: a) intervention research to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacologic, psychosocial, somatic, rehabilitative, and combination treatment or preventive interventions on mental and behavior disorders and b) mental health services research that consists of interdisciplinary investigations of the predictors, processes, and outcomes of mental health services, including availability, access, and acceptability; organization; decision-making; service delivery, utilization and quality of care; costs, cost-effectiveness, and financing of mental health care, and the dissemination and implementation of effective interventions into service systems. The Geriatrics Research Branch supports intervention research relevant to older adults. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to establish infrastructure support for groups of investigators to further expand their intervention and/or services research. Applicants under this FOA must have current ongoing research activities relevant to mental health intervention and/or services. This FOA is issued as a companion to the PAR-08-088, Advanced Centers for Intervention and/or Services Research, which requires a larger amount of existing research activity than required for this funding opportunity. This FOA is meant to support investigators with active but still limited research programs who can benefit from infrastructure support to further develop and expand their research activities. The scope of this initiative is broad and meant to support investigators involved in treatment, prevention, and/or services research. Thus, this center grant mechanism can be utilized for a variety of research activities, such as controlled clinical trials of treatment or preventive interventions, research aimed at optimization and personalization of care, evaluation and improvement of the safety of interventions, research on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions, evaluation and improvement of mental health services, or economics of mental health services. Along the spectrum from effectiveness to services research, the applicant should indicate and justify the specific focus of the center that is being proposed. Novel methodological and organizational approaches and the creation of multidisciplinary research teams are especially encouraged. Based on the type and stage of development of the research activities being pursued, applicants can propose collaborations between academic investigators and relevant partners and justify support of the collaboration as part of the center.
Deadline: 2008-05-21
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Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Advanced Centers for Intervention and/or Services Research (ACISR) (P30)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research grant applications to support core infrastructure for conducting intervention and/or services research directly addressing the mission of NIMH, which is to reduce the burden of mental and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior. In particular, this initiative addresses the mission of the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR), as well as that NIMH’s Geriatrics Research Branch. DSIR supports two main areas of research: a) intervention research to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacologic, psychosocial, somatic, rehabilitative, and combination treatment or preventive interventions on mental and behavior disorders and b) mental health services research that consists of interdisciplinary investigations of the predictors, processes, and outcomes of mental health services, including availability, access and acceptability; organization; decision-making; service delivery, utilization and quality of care; costs, cost-effectiveness, and financing of mental health care, and the dissemination and implementation of effective interventions into service systems. The Geriatrics Research Branch supports intervention research relevant to older adults. The scope of this initiative is broad and meant to support investigators involved in treatment, prevention, and/or services research. Thus, this center grant mechanism can be utilized for a variety of research activities, such as controlled clinical trials of treatment or preventive interventions, research aimed at optimization and personalization of care, evaluation and improvement of the safety of interventions, research on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions, evaluation and improvement of mental health services, or economics of mental health services. Along the spectrum from effectiveness to services research, the applicant should indicate and justify the specific focus of the center that is being proposed. Novel methodological and organizational approaches, and the creation of multidisciplinary research teams are especially encouraged. Based on the type and stage of development of the research activities being pursued, applicants can propose collaborations between academic investigators and relevant partners and justify support of the collaboration as part of the center.
Deadline: 2008-05-21
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Lab to Marketplace: Tools for Brain and Behavioral Research (SBIR [R43/R44])
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a framework to enhance cooperative activities among the NIH Office of the Director and 15 NIH institutes and centers that support research on the nervous system. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is released in affiliation with the Neuroscience Blueprint, with institutes and centers participating independently, and with participation by institutes and centers that are not part of the blueprint. This FOA encourages the translation of technologies for brain or behavioral research from academic and other non-small business research sectors to the marketplace. Solicited from small business concerns (SBCs) are Small Business Innovation Research grant applications that propose to further develop, make more robust, and make more user-friendly technologies in preparation for commercial dissemination. It is expected that this activity will require partnerships and close collaboration between the original developers of these technologies and SBCs, which may be accomplished in any of a number of ways, including the use of multiple principle investigators. For more information about research opportunities for small business at the National Cancer Institute, visit their Web site at http://sbir.cancer.gov.
Deadline: 2008-04-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Innovative Technology Solutions to Cancer Sample Preparation (SBIR [R43/R44])
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) that propose research projects focused on the development and/or application of innovative technologies addressing various aspects of the preparation, purification, processing, and handling of cancer-relevant samples. The overall goal is to develop technologies that maximize the quality and utility of biospecimens for molecular analyses of cancer cells and their host environments without compromising donor/patient health. This FOA will also support the development of methods and tools to assess sample quality, preserve/protect sample integrity, and establish verification criteria for quality assessment/quality control under diverse conditions. Responsive technologies encompass relevant methods, techniques, tools, instrumentation, and devices (but not software or informatics solutions). The proposed development of cancer sample-preparation technologies must reflect the intent to ultimately commercialize these technologies. This FOA is part of a broader NCI-sponsored Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program. Several IMAT FOAs of identical or closely related scientific scope using various funding mechanisms are available. To facilitate selection, a separate notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts provides brief cross-comparison and links to all the IMAT FOAs.
Deadline: 2008-04-29
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Decision Making in Cancer: Single-Event Decisions (R01)
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to invite applications for research projects that will enhance understanding of human decision-making processes so that individuals can make more informed and satisfying choices regarding their health. The National Cancer Institute encourages collaborations between researchers studying the processes of basic judgment and decision-making and researchers conducting cancer-control investigations that will elucidate single-event decision-making processes at the level of either the individual patient or the health care provider. These decision-making processes are pertinent to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, survivorship, or end-of-life care. For the purpose of this initiative, a single-event decision is defined as a discrete decision made at a specific point in time.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved (R01)
The ultimate goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) with a special review issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to solicit Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically underserved areas and medically underserved populations as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. This FOA will use the R01 grant mechanism to encourage studies that specifically target medically underserved areas as well as underserved and underrepresented populations. This focus will allow studies to assess the nature and scope of health problems in underserved communities, formulate hypotheses about the relationship of community dynamics and health problems as they relate to underrepresented populations, design targeted interventions aimed at addressing health disparities in specified communities and specific populations, and track the efficacy of outreach efforts that result from Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in the community. The FOA will ensure that the health issues of underserved communities and populations are addressed using CBPR strategies. Mechanism of support: This FOA will utilize the NIH (R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PAR-08-076, that solicits applications under the Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) award mechanism.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Community Participation in Research (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, solicits R01 grant applications that propose intervention research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that communities and researchers jointly conduct. For the purposes of this FOA, intervention research is quasi-experimental research projects that seek to influence preventive behaviors, treatment adherences, complementary behaviors, and related attitudes and beliefs. Natural experiments may also fall under the interventions rubric. Examples include and are not limited to promotion of physical activity and friendly neighborhoods; tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse prevention among youth; a community-led action plan for cancer, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease prevention and control in minority populations; establishing safer work practices among agricultural workers in rural areas; nutrition and reducing childhood obesity; HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease prevalence among young adults; promoting infant mental health; and reducing health disparities.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
The Science and Ecology of Early Development (SEED) [R01]
This funding opportunity announcement encourages submission of investigator-initiated research grant applications that seek to develop a comprehensive program of research focused on the mechanisms through which social, economic, cultural, and community-level factors, and their interactions, impact the early cognitive, neurobiological, socioemotional, and physical development of children.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Health Behavior Change in People with Mental Disorders (R01)
The National Institute of Mental Health encourages studies on health-behavior change related to function, disability, morbidity, and mortality in people with mental disorders. An important goal of this funding opportunity announcement is to identify potent, modifiable risk and protective health-behavior factors amenable to intervention and to translate the results of such studies into initial tests of theory-driven prevention and early intervention strategies aimed at improving function and decreasing disability, morbidity, and mortality among people with mental disorders. Risk and protective factors include biological, psychosocial, behavioral, and environmental contributors to health behaviors among people with mental disorders. It is incumbent upon the applicant to demonstrate the public health significance of the study by describing the severity and/or prevalence of the health behaviors, disability, morbidity, or mortality of the populations represented in the topics studied.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is intended to make funding opportunities in the area of energy balance (i.e., the relationship between diet, physical activity, and body composition) known to researchers with expertise and experience in health economics, health services, and econometric modeling (including multilevel analyses) who otherwise might not be aware of the opportunity to apply their disciplines and efforts collectively to this area of research. Obesity has become a major focus of public health efforts at the national, state, and local levels. The major focus of this FOA is to solicit projects that enhance the state of the science on the causes of obesity and to inform federal decision-making on effective public health interventions for reducing the rate of obesity in the United States. This FOA is also intended to promote collaborative activities between researchers trained in economics and researchers specializing in public health, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other chronic diseases so that the desired goals can be more efficiently, quickly, and successfully attained.
Deadline: 2008-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Decision Making in Cancer: Single-Event Decisions (R21)
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to invite applications for research projects that will enhance understanding of human decision-making processes so that individuals can make more informed and satisfying choices regarding their health. The National Cancer Institute encourages collaborations between researchers studying the processes of basic judgment and decision-making and researchers conducting cancer-control investigations that will elucidate single-event decision-making processes at the level of either the individual patient or the health care provider. These decision-making processes are pertinent to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, survivorship, or end-of-life care. For the purpose of this initiative, a single-event decision is defined as a discrete decision made at a specific point in time.
Deadline: 2008-06-16
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Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
The Science and Ecology of Early Development (SEED) [R03]
This funding opportunity announcement encourages submission of investigator-initiated research grant applications that seek to develop a comprehensive program of research focused on the mechanisms through which social, economic, cultural, and community-level factors, and their interactions, impact the early cognitive, neurobiological, socioemotional, and physical development of children.
Deadline: 2008-06-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (R03)
This funding opportunity announcement encourages the submission of Small Research Grant (R03) applications from organizations/institutions that propose to: (1) improve the measurement of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection, and statistical/analytical techniques; (2) enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment, and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and (3) reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States.
Deadline: 2008-06-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement encourages Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications from applicant organizations that propose to: (1) improve the measurement of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection, and statistical and analytical techniques; (2) enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment, and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and (3) reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States.
Deadline: 2008-06-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity and Energy Balance (R21)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to make funding opportunities in the area of energy balance (i.e., the relationship between diet, physical activity, and body composition) known to researchers with expertise and experience in health economics, health services, and econometric modeling including multi-level analyses who otherwise might not be aware of the opportunity to apply their disciplines to this area of research. Obesity has become a major focus of public health efforts at the national, State, and local levels. The major focus of this FOA is to solicit projects that enhance the state-of-the-science on the causes of obesity and to inform Federal decision making on effective public health interventions for reducing the rate of obesity in the United States. Especially, this FOA aims to promote collaborative activities between researchers trained in economics and researchers specializing in public health, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases.
Deadline: 2008-06-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Studies of Antimicrobial and Prebiotic Activity of Oligosaccharides (R01)
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to elucidate the antimicrobial and prebiotic activities of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to stimulate research on how oligosaccharides prevent enteric infections and to develop a new class of antimicrobial therapy to prevent or treat enteric bacterial or viral infections. A key step in reaching this goal is to develop biosynthetic means of producing large enough quantities of oligosaccharides with antimicrobial properties for preclinical tolerance and safety studies and for safety and clinical testing in populations that are exposed to gastrointestinal pathogens. This FOA should also stimulate research on the expression of genes in the host that determine oligosaccharide assembly and linkage. This line of research should lead to a better understanding of the how oligosaccharide binding sites for specific enteric pathogens are synthesized, packaged, transported, and incorporated into the cell membrane of the enterocyte. By knowing more about oligosaccharide structures of pathogen binding sites on the surface of the enterocyte, it may be possible to predict which individuals are susceptible to specific bacterial and viral infections and to develop antimicrobial agents based on oligosaccharide structural mimicry of these pathogen-binding sites. This FOA should also encourage research on oligosaccharides that stimulate the proliferation of beneficial intestinal bacteria and the production of short-chain fatty acids, thereby serving to reduce the incidence and severity of enteric infections. Studies on the immunomodulatory effects of various oligosaccharides on the function of the intestinal immune system are also encouraged.
Deadline: 2008-10-14
Environmental Protection Agency
Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality
The goal of this solicitation is to assemble modeling systems capable of capturing important linkages between regional climate drivers and terrestrial hydrologic systems and to apply these modeling systems to improve the overall understanding of the sensitivity of key water quality or aquatic ecosystem management targets to the types of climate changes anticipated over the next several decades.
Deadline: 2008-05-08
Environmental Protection Agency
Early Career Projects: Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality
The goal of this solicitation is to assemble modeling systems capable of capturing important linkages between regional climate drivers and terrestrial hydrologic systems and to apply these modeling systems to improve the overall understanding of the sensitivity of key water quality or aquatic ecosystem management targets to the types of climate changes anticipated over the next several decades. This solicitation includes the opportunity for early career projects.
Deadline: 2008-05-08
National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Research and Training
The program is designed to bring together humanities scholars, graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States. Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities may be hosted by colleges, universities, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. Projects that will be held more than once and at different locations are permissible. Possible topics and areas to be addressed might include: text encoding, electronic editing, and publishing; e-literature; textual analysis and text mining; immersive and virtual environments in multimedia research; three-dimensional imaging technology, including laser scanning; creativity, culture, and computing; digital image design; information aesthetics; computer gaming and the humanities; high performance or supercomputing and the humanities; and advanced geographic information systems applications. Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grants may not be used for digitization of collections; support for workshops on routine computer applications from which little new knowledge about techniques or approaches in the digital humanities will emerge; the development and presentation of courses or programs that focus on the skills and knowledge required to preserve, digitize, or catalog humanities collections (such as training in digital scanning); graduate programs in the digital humanities; or programs that are not regional (multistate) or national in scope.
Deadline: 2008-04-09
Computer Systems Research
Computer systems are being applied to increasingly demanding applications. The environments in which they function and the resources they manage are increasingly diverse, distributed, and dynamic. Although the time scales for control decisions are shrinking, the scale and complexity of the systems are increasing. Furthermore, many of the assumptions behind today's most common computer systems no longer hold. As a result, these systems often fail in unpredictable ways, become compromised, or perform poorly. Accordingly, the frontiers of computer-systems research must be moved forward and new, bold research directions must be established to draw upon interdisciplinary research capabilities across science and engineering.
Deadline: 2008-04-23
National Science Foundation
University Radio Observatories Program
The University Radio Observatories (URO) program provides support for operations, technical enhancements, scientific investigations, and student training at university-based radio facilities. A primary function of funded URO is to provide focused research environments that foster hands-on student access to state-of-the-art radio astronomy instrumentation. UROs also serve the general astronomical community by providing open access to 30% to 50% of available telescope time.
Deadline: 2008-05-30
National Science Foundation
Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
When the left brain collaborates with the right brain, science emerges with art to enhance communication and understanding of research results--illustrating concepts, depicting phenomena, and drawing conclusions. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, invite you to participate in the sixth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The competition recognizes scientists, engineers, visualization specialists, and artists for producing or commissioning innovative work in visual communication. Winners in each category will be published in the 26 September 2008 issue of Science and on Science online and will be displayed on the NSF Web site.
Deadline: 2008-06-19
National Science Foundation
Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Departmental Multi-user Instrumentation
The Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program is structured to enable the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry to respond to a variety of needs for infrastructure that promotes research and education in areas traditionally supported by the division (NSF Chemistry home page).
Deadline: 2008-06-23
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GrantsNet Express
GrantsNet Express -- for AAAS members only -- offers a new listing each week of science funding opportunities from private foundations and organizations, as well as new U.S. government science grant announcements.
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New Student and Institutional Support Programs
National Science Foundation
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research and education, with the interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills to become, in their own careers, leaders and creative agents for change. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education, for students, faculty members, and institutions, by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate diversity in student participation and preparation and to contribute to a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and engineering work force.
Deadline: 2008-04-24
National Science Foundation
Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum and Infrastructure
The Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure program supports research that addresses three basic issues related to engineering education: (1) how students best learn the ideas, principles, and practices to become creative and innovative engineers, and how this learning is measured; (2) research that helps the community understand how to better attract a more talented and diverse student body, in particular U.S. citizens and permanent residents, to all levels of engineering study. (This would also include research to understand how to increase student interest in engineering by leveraging partnerships among engineering schools, school districts, and exemplary nonprofit organizations to recruit and retain engineering students.); and finally (3), this program will support projects to investigate potential models for the evaluation and assessment of how successful teaching, advising, and mentoring leads to improved retention and graduation, and ultimately, to a sound business model for engineering education.
Deadline: 2008-04-30
National Science Foundation
American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship
The American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship (ACC-F) program is a program to support postdoctoral associates in chemistry. It seeks to (1) build ties between academic and industrial, and/or national laboratory, and/or Chemistry Division-funded center researchers (partners) and (2) involve beginning scientists in efforts to broaden participation in chemistry. Fellows will pursue research with industrial, and/or national laboratory, and/or Chemistry Division-funded center partners that will enrich their in-house research program. In addition, fellows will develop and implement their own plans for broadening participation in the chemical sciences. Successful applicants must propose a well-integrated, synergistic research plan with their chosen affiliate as well as an effective outreach plan that will broaden participation by underrepresented groups in chemistry. The research must be in a thematic area that is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Chemistry. The program will support fellows for 2 years of postgraduate study. The chemistry division envisions that postdoctoral fellows with successful programs who pursue careers in academia will have opportunities for significant additional funding, either through supplements to their original ACC-F award or through new awards from the division. Future revisions of this solicitation will expand the scope of this program to other beginning scientists, pending availability of funds.
Deadline: 2008-05-01
The Aspen Institute. Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Students
The fellowship, which is based on academic excellence and need, is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who are members of minority groups. The Hearst Fellow serves as an intern with the fund. Through this program, the fund seeks to introduce a diverse group of students to issues relating to philanthropy, volunteerism, and nonprofit organizations. Recipients may arrange with their colleges or universities to receive academic credit for this experience.
Deadline: 2008-07-15
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