Funding News: 4 December 2009
December 04, 2009
In This Issue:
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* Student and institutional support programs
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* GrantsNet sponsorship
New Research Funding Programs
- Department of Agriculture. National Institute of Food and Agriculture
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Special Research Grants Program - Potato Breeding Research
The purpose of this grant program is to support potato (.) research that focuses on varietal development/testing and whose output will be or include potato varieties. As used herein, varietal development/testing is research using traditional and biotechnological genetics to develop improved potato varieties. Aspects of evaluation, screening, and testing must support or complement the development of improved varieties. Approximately $1.3 million is available to fund four or five potato research applications in fiscal year 2010. Proposals should be submitted for a 1-year project period. Priority will be given to proposed projects demonstrating experienced staff, adequate facilities and equipment, a multi-institutional, multistate approach, and finally, evidence of stakeholder participation in developing project objectives and plans for implementation. Examples of previously funded projects can be found on the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Current Research Information System. Deadline: 2010-01-20
- Department of Agriculture. National Institute of Food and Agriculture
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Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI)
The Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) seeks to solve critical organic agriculture issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research and extension activities. The purpose of this program is to fund projects that will enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high-quality organic agricultural products. Priority concerns include biological, physical, and social sciences, including economics. OREI is particularly interested in projects that emphasize research and outreach that assist farmers and ranchers with whole-farm planning and ecosystem integration. Projects should plan to deliver applied production information to producers. Fieldwork must be done on certified organic land or on land in transition to organic certification, as appropriate to project goals and objectives. Refer to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic Program (http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop) for organic production standards. There is no commitment by USDA to fund any particular application or to make a specific number of awards. Approximately $19 million (total) is available in fiscal year 2010. Deadline: 2010-02-09
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Translational Tools for Clinical Studies of CAM Interventions (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages investigator(s)-initiated applications that propose to develop, enhance, and validate translational tools to facilitate rigorous study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches that are in wide use by the public. Recent data from the National Health Interview Survey establish that Americans are utilizing CAM approaches to promote health and well-being, to treat or prevent disease, and for symptom relief. CAM approaches being widely used include massage and manipulative therapies, meditation, yoga, nonvitamin/nonmineral natural products, and acupuncture with chronic pain, back pain, and musculoskeletal pain being the most commonly cited reasons for their use. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on encouraging the development of improved research methodology to study safety, efficacy, and clinical effectiveness of mind-body interventions (such as meditation), manual therapies, and/or yoga therapy. Investigations of other CAM interventions (including natural products and dietary supplements) are not allowed for this FOA. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) grant mechanism. NCCAM intends to commit up to $6 million per year (total costs) to support approximately eight grants. A maximum of $300,000 (direct costs) per year may be requested. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 5 years. Deadline: 2010-03-23
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research grant applications from organizations/institutions that propose the development of novel radioligands for positron emission tomography or single photon emission computed tomography imaging in the human brain and that incorporate pilot or clinical feasibility evaluation in preclinical studies, model development, or clinical studies. This FOA will use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Exploratory/Developmental Phased Innovation Grant (R21/R33) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-10-023, that encourages applications under the NIH Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) award mechanism and PA-08-137 that seeks applications using the Small Business Innovation Research [R43/R44] award mechanism. The total project period for a combined R21/R33 application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed 5 years, with no more than 3 years for either the R21 phase or the R33 phase. Direct costs are limited to a maximum of $175,000 per year for the R21 phase and less than $500,000 per year for the R33 phase. Deadline: 2010-02-16; 2010-06-16; 2010-10-16
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research grant applications from organizations/institutions that propose the development of novel radioligands for positron emission tomography or single photon emission computed tomography imaging in the human brain. Research must also incorporate pilot or clinical feasibility evaluation in preclinical studies, model development, or clinical studies. This FOA will use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Exploratory/Developmental (R21) award mechanism and runs in parallel with FOAs of identical scientific scope, such as PA-10-024, which encourages applications under the NIH Exploratory/Developmental Phased Innovation (R21/R33) award mechanism, and PA-08-137, which seeks applications using the Small Business Innovation Research [R43/R44] award mechanism. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 2 years. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 2-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. Deadline: 2010-02-16; 2010-06-16; 2010-10-16
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures (R03)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications that propose to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related natural experiments (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior) and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects, including (1) pilot and feasibility studies; (2) secondary analysis of existing data; (3) small, self-contained research projects; (4) development of research methodology; and (5) development of new research technology. The R03 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This FOA runs in parallel with two other FOAs of identical scientific scope, PA-10-027 and PA-10-028, that encourage applications under the NIH Research Project (R01) and NIH Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant mechanisms. Budgets for direct costs of up to $50,000 per year and a project duration of up to 2 years may be requested for a maximum of $100,000 direct costs over a 2-year project period. Deadline: 2010-02-16; 2010-06-16; 2010-10-16
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, encourages Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) applications that propose to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related natural experiments (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior); and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans. The R21 grant mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory/developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of project development. This FOA runs in parallel with two other FOAs of identical scientific scope, PA-10-027 and PA-10-029, that encourage applications under the NIH research project (R01) and NIH Small Grant (R03) grant mechanisms. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 2 years. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 2-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. Deadline: 2010-02-16; 2010-06-16; 2010-10-16
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Development, Application, and Evaluation of Prediction Models for Cancer Risk and Prognosis (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourages research applications from clinicians, epidemiologists, geneticists, statisticians, and translational researchers working in the field of cancer control and prevention to improve existing models for cancer risk and prognosis, by developing innovative research projects that (1) use existing data, (2) develop new models for cancer risk and prognosis, and (3) validate new models and evaluate their utility in research and clinic settings. To explore this opportunity, the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences and the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis encourage applications for research projects to develop, apply, and evaluate new and existing cancer risk and prognostic prediction models for use by researchers, clinicians, and the general public. This FOA is designed to provide a mechanism of support for investigators to address two major challenges in model development, which are: (1) integrating diverse types of data (e.g., clinical, demographic, pathologic, environmental, epidemiologic, outcomes, and genetic data from varied data marts or warehouses) and (2) ensuring adequate validation (i.e., using multiple separate populations to define sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values). Applications that are focused on the identification and characterization of prognostic/diagnostic markers are not appropriate for this FOA. This FOA will use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-10-025, that encourages applications under the NIH research project grants (R01). The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 2 years. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 2-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. Deadline: 2010-02-16; 2010-06-16; 2010-10-16
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking in Adulthood (NADIA)(U01 and U24)
The purpose of this initiative is to support a consortium of researchers across different research institutions to clearly define the persistent effects of adolescent alcohol exposure and to begin to explore the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these effects. This initiative is limited to animal studies only. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will utilize the National Institutes of Health Cooperative Agreement (U01) or the Resource-Related (U24) award mechanism. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism expects to commit approximately $4 million in total costs in fiscal year 2010 to fund one consortium of several new cooperative agreements in response to this request for applications. It is anticipated that a single consortium will contain seven to 10 individual U01 and U24 applications. The total project period for a consortium application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed 5 years of support. Deadline: 2010-01-02
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA Headquarters
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Solar Probe Plus Investigations
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate is releasing a NASA announcement of opportunity (AO) (NNH10ZDA002O), Solar Probe Plus (SPP) Investigations. This AO solicits principal investigator–led instrument science investigations and Observatory Scientist investigations for the SPP mission. NASA expects to select sufficient instrument science investigations to address the SPP mission science objectives; NASA expects to select one observatory scientist investigation. All proposed investigations must describe a science investigation with goals and objectives that address the SPP mission science objectives. Participation is open to all categories of organizations (U.S. and non-U.S), including educational, industrial, and not-for-profit organizations, federally funded research and development centers, university affiliated research centers, NASA centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other government agencies. This solicitation will be open from 3 December 2009 through 26 March 2010. Upon the release date, the full text of the AO and all appendices will be available electronically at http://nspires.nasaprs.com. A preproposal conference will be held in the Washington, D.C., area; see http://lws.larc.nasa.gov/solarprobe for details. Deadline: 2010-11-01
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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A Cooperative Institute to Support NOAA Research Facilities in the Pacific Northwest
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean and Atmospheric Research and National Marine Fisheries Service invite applications for the establishment of a cooperative institute (CI) to support NOAA research facilities in the Pacific Northwest. The CI will focus on the themes of: (1) ocean and coastal observations, (2) climate research and impacts, (3) environmental chemistry, (4) sea-floor processes, (5) marine ecosystems, (6) protection and restoration of marine resources, and (7) tsunami observations and modeling. The CI will be established at a research institution having outstanding graduate degree programs in NOAA-related sciences and is located within a daily commuting distance to the Pacific Northwest NOAA facilities in Seattle, Washington. The CI will provide significant coordination of resources among all nongovernmental partners and will promote the involvement of students and postdoctoral scientists in NOAA-funded research. If the CI is comprised of multiple member institutions, only the lead institution applying for the award and where the CI will be established must satisfy the daily commuting distance requirement. This announcement provides requirements for the proposed CI and includes details for the technical program, evaluation criteria, and competitive selection procedures. Applicants should review the CI Interim Handbook prior to preparing a proposal for this announcement. The award period will be 5 years and may be renewed for up to an additional 5 years based on the outcome of a CI review in the fourth year. All funding is contingent upon the availability of federal appropriations. NOAA anticipates that up to approximately $20 million will be available annually for this CI. Of that amount, approximately $500,000 will be available per year for task I. The final amount of funding available for task I will be determined during the negotiation phase of the award based on availability of funding. Deadline: 2010-10-02
- National Science Foundation.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to conduct research about the Arctic. Arctic research includes field and modeling studies and data analysis in and about the arctic region. The goal of the NSF Division of Arctic Sciences is to gain a better understanding of the Arctic's physical, biological, geological, chemical, social, and cultural processes, and the interactions of ocean, land, atmosphere, biological, and human systems in the Arctic. The Division of Arctic Sciences and other NSF programs support projects that contribute to the development of the next generation of researchers and scientific literacy for all ages through education, outreach, and broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Program representatives from the Office of Polar Programs and other non-OPP NSF programs that support arctic research coordinate across NSF, including joint review and funding of arctic proposals and mutual support of special projects with high logistical costs. The Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation provides investigators with information about available programs and priorities to determine the program best suited to their proposed work. The Proposal Preparation section (Section V.A.) has specific instructions for proposers conducting field work, including information about requesting logistics support or ship time, working with arctic communities, and complying with environmental policies that should be adhered to by all proposers. Proposals should be written and planned in accordance with NSF's Grant Proposal Guide. Deadline: 2010-01-14
- National Science Foundation.
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Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems
A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise they offer for discovery and learning. The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports fundamental scientific research, particularly advances in social, organizational, and design science understanding, directed at advancing the understanding of how to develop virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision and management sciences, economics, engineering, organization theory, organizational behavior, social and industrial psychology, public administration, political science, and sociology. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. VOSS-funded research must be grounded in theory and rooted in empirical methods. It must produce broadly applicable and transferable results that augment the knowledge and practice of virtual organizations as a modality. VOSS does not support proposals that aim to implement or evaluate individual virtual organizations. NSF plans to fund eight to 18 new awards. The estimated funding amount is $3 million. Pending the availability of funds and quality of proposals, award sizes are expected to range from $50,000 to $400,000 in total costs (including indirect costs) for the period of the grant with durations up to 3 years. Deadline: 2010-01-25
- National Science Foundation.
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Population and Community Ecology
The Population and Community Ecology Cluster supports research that advances the conceptual or theoretical understanding of population ecology, species interactions, and community dynamics in terrestrial, wetland, and freshwater habitats. We encourage projects that integrate theoretical, modeling, and empirical approaches or that promote synthesis across spatial and temporal scales. The cluster seeks to fund projects that are transformative--that is, those that will change the conceptual bases of population and community ecology and have broad implications for future research. Proposals that develop research questions within the context of existing theory, consider alternate mechanisms, and design critical tests to distinguish among mechanisms are particularly encouraged, together with those that use contemporary approaches to develop new paradigms. Inter- and multidisciplinary proposals that cross traditional programmatic boundaries are welcomed in the Population and Community Ecology Cluster; such proposals may be coreviewed with other programs in the Division of Environmental Biology, in other divisions in the Biology Directorate, or in other directorates. The Population and Community Ecology Cluster funds projects within the Population and Community Ecology Program as well as programs such as Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology, Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis, and Faculty Early Career Development. The Population and Community Ecology Program supports topics such as the population dynamics of individual species, demography, and fundamental ecological interactions affecting populations, communities, and their environments. Themes include, but are not limited to: (1) population regulation; (2) food-web structure and trophic dynamics; (3) competition, predation, mutualism, and parasitism; (4) mechanisms of coexistence and the maintenance of species diversity; (5) community assembly; (6) paleoecology; (7) landscape ecology; (8) conservation and restoration biology; (9) behavioral ecology; and (10) macroecology. The program particularly encourages studies that can be applied to a wide range of habitats and taxa across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Deadline: 2010-01-09; 2010-07-09
- National Science Foundation.
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Solid State and Materials Chemistry
This multidisciplinary program supports basic research in solid state and materials chemistry comprising the elucidation of the atomic and molecular basis for material development and properties in the solid state from the nanoscale to the bulk. General areas of interest include but are not limited to innovative approaches to design, synthesis, bulk crystal, and/or film growth, and characterization of novel organic, inorganic, and hybrid materials. Other areas include liquid crystal materials and multicomponent material systems exhibiting new phenomena and/or providing new scientific insights into structure/composition/property relationships in the solid state. Relevant topics include (1) original material design principles, (2) new approaches to assembly or crystalline material growth, (3) characterization of new material phenomena or superior behavior, (4) investigations of surface and interfacial effects on material system structures and properties, (5) and unraveling the relationships between structure/composition (e.g., self- or program-assembled materials, crystalline material growth, and nanostructured material systems) and properties (e.g., charge, ionic, thermal, or spin transport, exciton diffusion, chemical reactivity and selectivity, etc.). Development of new organic solid state materials, environmentally safe and sustainable materials, and fundamental studies of novel material and material systems for efficient energy harvesting, conversion and storage are encouraged. The Solid State and Materials Chemistry program works closely with other programs within the Division of Materials Research and in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering directorates to accommodate the multidisciplinary nature of proposal submissions. Deadline: 2010-10-31
- National Science Foundation.
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions Research
The Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions Research program supports training and research for recent doctoral degree recipients in any aspect of scientific study of the Antarctic and/or the Arctic within the Office of Polar Programs program areas. The program also provides travel grants to those eligible for fellowships for the purpose of meeting prospective mentors and colleagues, presenting seminars, discussing mutual research and/or education interests, evaluating facilities and professional development opportunities, and initiating collaborative relationships. The fellowship program develops and trains recent Ph.D.s (especially those new to polar research) with concomitant goals to promote scientific research in polar regions, support innovative research in emerging areas, encourage interdisciplinary research, foster activities that create broader impacts for science and society, and increase the participation of underrepresented groups in polar regions research. Five fellowship awards are anticipated in each fiscal year (2010, 2011, and 2012). Up to 10 travel awards are anticipated in each FY (2010, 2011, and 2012). The amount of $1 million will be available each year in FY 2010, FY 2011, and FY 2012, pending the availability of funds. Deadline: 2009-12-28; 2010-10-18; 2011-10-18
- National Science Foundation.
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The Ecosystem Science Cluster supports projects within two programs: (1) the Ecosystem Studies Program and (2) the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. The Ecosystem Studies Program supports investigations of whole-system ecological processes and relationships across a diversity of spatial and temporal (including paleo) scales in order to advance understanding of: (1) material and energy fluxes and transformations within and among ecosystems; (2) the relationships between structure, including complexity, and functioning of ecosystems; (3) ecosystem dynamics and trajectories of ecosystem development through time; and (4) linkages among ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales. Research on natural, managed, and disturbed ecosystems is supported, including terrestrial, freshwater, wetland, coastal (including salt marsh and mangrove), and human-dominated environments. Proposals may focus on areas such as: (1) biogeochemical cycling and element budgets from local to global scales; (2) roles of microbes in ecosystem functioning; (3) primary productivity; (4) stoichiometric relationships; (5) climate-ecosystem feedbacks; (6) energy and radiatively active gas fluxes; (7) relationships between diversity and ecosystem function; (8) ecosystem services; and (9) landscape dynamics. Proposals may focus on the cycling of nonnutrient elements, but those specifically ecotoxicological in orientation, or without an explicit link to ecosystem processes, will not be considered. Ecosystem-oriented proposals that focus on coastal marine or deep ocean or Laurentian Great Lakes habitats are reviewed by the Biological Oceanography Program in the Division of Ocean Sciences. Studies of the structure of and linkages within food webs are reviewed by the Ecological Biology program, also in the Division of Environmental Biology. Observational and manipulative approaches in field, mesocosm, and laboratory settings are supported, with the expectation that the research, whether hypothesis- or discovery-driven, have a strong conceptual foundation. Inter- and multidisciplinary proposals that fall across traditional programmatic boundaries are welcomed and encouraged; the Ecosystem Studies Program often coreviews proposals with related programs across the foundation. Proposals that incorporate quantitative or conceptual modeling efforts promoting integration and synthesis, or advancing ecosystem science through either the pursuit of new theoretical paradigms or novel modeling efforts, are encouraged. Proposals that, in whole or part, strive to develop new techniques can be supported when a compelling argument exists that there is the potential for a major advance in ecosystem research. Projects that are potentially transformative--that is, those that may change the conceptual basis of ecosystem science and have broad implications for future research--are given particular priority. Unsolicited proposals to the Ecosystem Studies Program should be prepared as described in the Grant Proposal Guide. The program also funds proposals submitted in response to Faculty Early Career Development, Research Coordination Network, Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology, and Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis solicitations. The LTER Program supports fundamental ecological research that requires long time periods and large spatial scales at a coordinated network of more than two dozen field sites. LTER is not currently soliciting proposals for new sites and does not accept unsolicited proposals. Deadline: 2010-01-09; 2010-07-09
- Queensland Health.
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Australian Senior Clinical Research Fellowships (Round Two)
Senior Clinical Research Fellowships (SCRF) provide funding of up to $850,000 (AUD) for 5 years to attract and retain researchers to Queensland, Australia, who are international leaders in their field. Successful applicants will be at the forefront of research, development, and innovation and will be expected to bring new clinical and intellectual resources that will further stimulate Queensland's research potential. Please be aware that SCRF are advertised both nationally and internationally. The application process for SCRF includes two stages. Stage one involves completing an "Expression of Interest" (EOI) form and submitting it online by 1 March 2010. An Office of Health and Medical Research–appointed Review Panel will consider each eligible EOI against the selection criteria and short list those proposals for which applicants will be invited to submit a full application. During stage two, short-listed candidates will be eligible to submit a full application. Short-listed applicants will be notified and invited to submit a detailed proposal that builds upon the information in the EOI. Applicants for SCRF must refer to the Funding Policy and Research Strategy then download and complete an EOI form and apply online. Deadline: 2010-03-01
New Student and Institutional Support Programs
- Institute of International Education.
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Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program
The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program. This program is funded by the Freeman Foundation. It aims to develop student leaders and strengthen the nonprofit sector in Indonesia. IIE will select and pair 10 Indonesian students pursuing U.S. degrees with 10 U.S. undergraduates and arrange internships for them to work together in an Indonesian nonprofit organization. The 9-week experience, from 15 June 2010 to 17 August 2010, arranged by IIE's partner organization, the Indonesian International Education Foundation, will take place in three cities: Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta. All program-related costs will be covered. Upon returning to the United States, students will be expected to share their experiences with peers on their home campuses and to explore ways to incorporate what they learned over the summer into their academic and professional careers. Interested American and Indonesian sophomores and juniors enrolled in U.S. institutions are encouraged to apply, using the online application at http://www.iie.org/programs/finip. The deadline for submission of completed applications for the summer 2010 program is 15 February 2010. Deadline: 2010-02-15
- National Science Foundation.
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Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure
The purpose of the Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) program is to develop, deploy, and sustain a set of reusable and expandable software components and systems that benefit a broad set of science and engineering applications. SDCI is a continuation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Middleware Initiative in an expanded context appropriate to the current expanded vision of cyberinfrastructure. This program supports software development across five major software areas: (1) system software and tools for high-performance computing environments; (2) software promoting NSF's strategic vision for digital data;(3) network software to support distributed software, (4) software in the form of middleware capabilities and services, and (5) cybersecurity. SDCI funds software activities for enhancing scientific productivity and for facilitating research and education collaborations through sharing of data, instruments, and computing and storage resources. The program requires open source software development. The SDCI program will fund software-development projects at $50,000 to $1 million per year for 2 or 3 years as standard or continuing grants, subject to award conditions described in the solicitation. Proposals for development of new software may not exceed $500,000 per year in requested funds. Proposals for software improvement and support may not exceed $1 million per year in requested funds. Deadline: 2010-02-26
- National Science Foundation.
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Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
The Directorate for Engineering (ENG) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) offers a research initiation grant-funding opportunity with the goal of broadening participation to all engineers including members from underrepresented groups and persons with disabilities in the engineering disciplines. These grants are intended to increase the diversity of researchers in engineering disciplines to initiate research programs early in their careers, including those from underrepresented groups, engineers at minority-serving institutions, and persons with disabilities. By providing these funding opportunities, ENG intends to further broaden participation of engineering researchers who share NSF's commitment to diversity in the following ways: (1) Expand the population of role models who will interact with an increasingly diverse student population, the work force of the future. (2) Increase the number of engineering researchers at minority-serving institutions actively and competitively engaged in research as independent investigators, thereby creating new research opportunities for students from underrepresented groups and persons with disabilities. (3) Fund engineering research projects that use innovative ways to attract and retain members of underrepresented groups and persons with disabilities to careers in engineering. Awards are for 24 months and are limited to a maximum of $175,000 total costs (direct plus indirect). NSF will fund 27 to 30 awards per year. The anticipated funding amount is $5 million. Deadline: 2010-02-25
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Deadline Watch
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- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Pathway to Independence Award in Cancer Nanotechnology Research (K99/R00)
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- American Association for Cancer Research.
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AACR Basic Cancer Research Fellowships
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- American Association for Cancer Research.
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AACR Judah Folkman Fellowship for Anti-Angiogenesis Research
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- American Association for Cancer Research.
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AACR-AstraZeneca Fellowship for Translational Lung Cancer Research
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- American Association for Cancer Research.
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AACR-FNAB Career Development Award for Translational Cancer Research
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- National Science Foundation.
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Interdisciplinary Research (IDR)
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- American Association for Cancer Research.
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AACR Career Development Awards for Pediatric Cancer Research
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- American Association for Cancer Research.
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AACR Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Fellowships
Deadline: 2009-12-07
- Environmental Protection Agency.
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National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, FY 2009/2010 Request for Proposals (RFP)
Deadline: 2009-12-08
- Environmental Protection Agency.
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Deadline: 2009-12-08
- National Science Foundation.
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CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative
Deadline: 2009-12-08
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Deadline: 2009-12-08; 2010-04-08; 2010-08-08
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Deadline: 2009-12-08; 2010-04-08; 2010-08-08
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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National Centers for Biomedical Computing (U54)
Deadline: 2009-12-09
- Environmental Protection Agency.
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Deadline: 2009-12-10
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Enabling Technologies in DNA Repair Research (R21)
Deadline: 2009-12-10
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Leveraging Existing Health care Networks to Transform Effectiveness Research (U19)
Deadline: 2009-12-11
- National Science Foundation.
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Organization of Projects on Environmental Research in the Arctic
Deadline: 2009-12-11
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Biosignature Discovery for Personalized Treatment in Depression (U01)
Deadline: 2009-12-14
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Paul B. Beeson Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award in Aging (K23)
Deadline: 2009-12-14
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Functional Modeling of Pediatric Upper Airway Disorders (R01)
Deadline: 2009-12-14
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Paul B. Beeson Clinical Scientist Development Award in Aging (K08)
Deadline: 2009-12-14
- Templeton-Cambridge.
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2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science and Religion
Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- American Federation for Aging Research.
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Ellison/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aging Research Program
Deadline: 2009-12-15
- American Federation for Aging Research.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- American Federation for Aging Research.
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease
Deadline: 2009-12-15
- National Science Foundation.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- American Federation for Aging Research.
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The Julie Martin Mid-Career Awards in Aging Research
Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Foundation for Polish Science.
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Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Dynamics of Host-Associated Microbial Communities (R01)
Deadline: 2009-12-15
- American Federation for Aging Research.
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Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Award
Deadline: 2009-12-15
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Deadline: 2009-12-16
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Effectiveness Research on Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients (U01)
Deadline: 2009-12-18
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Deadline: 2009-12-18
- Pasteur Foundation.
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Deadline: 2009-12-18
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Technologies for Image-Guided Interventions (R01)
Deadline: 2009-12-20
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Deadline: 2009-12-21
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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NHLBI Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Coordinating Unit (U01)
Deadline: 2009-12-21
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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NHLBI Centers for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (U01)
Deadline: 2009-12-21
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (U34)
Deadline: 2009-12-21
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Roadmap Transformative Research Projects Program (R01)
Deadline: 2009-12-22
- National Science Foundation.
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NIBIB Quantum Projects: Implementation Phase II (U01)
Deadline: 2009-12-22
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Media Research (U01)
Deadline: 2009-12-22
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Engineered Nanomaterials: Linking Physical and Chemical Properties to Biology (U19)
Deadline: 2009-12-22
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Deadline: 2009-12-22
- Department of Health and Human Services. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
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Medical Liability Reform and Patient Safety Demonstration Projects (R18)
Deadline: 2009-12-23
- Department of Health and Human Services. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
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Medical Liability Reform and Patient Safety Planning Grants (R21)
Deadline: 2009-12-23
- Department of Defense.
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FY09 DOD Lung Cancer Biospecimen Resource Network Award
Deadline: 2009-12-23
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Deadline: 2009-12-28; 2010-04-20; 2010-08-21; 2010-12-20
- National Science Foundation.
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions Research
Deadline: 2009-12-28; 2010-10-18; 2011-10-18
- Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
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Deadline: 2009-12-30; 2010-08-30
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
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Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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2009 Innovation in Clinical Research Award
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- Octapharma USA Inc..
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Grants Program to Support Research on Immunology, Coagulation Disorders, and Critical Care
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- National Postdoctoral Association.
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Inaugural Award Recognizing Scientific Entrepreneurs
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Deadline: 2009-12-31
- Keystone Symposia.
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Underrepresented Minority Scholarships
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- Department of Defense.
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High School Apprenticeship Program (HSAP)
Deadline: 2009-12-31
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
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Rapid Response Innovation Awards
Deadline: 2009-12-31
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