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American Psychiatric Foundation
Alexander Gralnick, M.D. Award for Research in Schizophrenia
The award acknowledges research achievements in the treatment of schizophrenia, emphasizing early diagnosis and treatment and psychosocial aspects of the disease process. Additional preference will be given to researchers working in a psychiatric facility. The amount of the award is $4,000. The award and lecture will be presented at the Institute on Psychiatric Services meeting in October 2010.
Deadline: 2009-11-02
Barth Syndrome Foundation
Research Grant
Barth syndrome is a serious X-lined recessive condition associated with cardiomyopathy, neutropenia, skeletal muscle weakness, exercise intolerance, growth retardation, and diverse biochemical abnormalities (including defects in mitochondrial metabolism and phospholipid biosynthesis). Because many clinical and biochemical abnormalities of Barth syndrome remain poorly understood, we are seeking proposals for research that may shed light on any aspect of the syndrome. We are determined to find improved treatments--and ultimately a cure--for this rare and underdiagnosed disorder. The Barth Syndrome Foundation is most interested in providing "seed money" to be used by experienced investigators for the testing of initial hypotheses and collection of preliminary data leading to successful long-term funding by the National Institutes of Health and other major granting institutions around the world. In addition, we are especially interested in attracting new investigators to the very interesting field of Barth syndrome research.
Deadline: 2009-10-31
Dana Foundation
Program in The Neuroimmunology of Brain Infections and Cancers
Specifically, the foundation is inviting studies of 1) immune-based therapies for primary brain tumors, and for metastases to the brain of other cancers; 2) immune responses to infections in the brain, including but not limited to viral encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral malaria, and prion diseases; and 3) how immune functions are carried out and modified in the brain. (Note that due to financial constraints, selection this year will be extremely competitive, with fewer than 10 percent of preliminary proposals likely to receive funding.) This program focuses on clinical studies in humans or human tissues. Animal studies that are directly relevant to human disease but not ready for application to studies of humans or human tissues will also be considered. Each U.S. medical school dean, and each president of the few selected biomedical research institutions that have been invited by letter, may nominate one proposal. Investigators at institutions that are affiliated with a medical school are eligible to apply only through their affiliated medical school by submitting an application to the medical school dean. Projects involving collaborations with NIH intramural researchers or industry scientists are acceptable. Emphasis is placed on providing support to faculty tenure track researchers who are early in their career, at the assistant professor level, or early in their associate professor career. Established researchers pioneering efforts in brain infections and cancers are also eligible to apply. Post-doctoral fellows are not eligible.
Deadline: 2009-04-01
Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Eating Disorders Research 2009 Grant Cycle
The Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation is pleased to launch its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Eating Disorders Research. By attracting young scientists to the field, each fellowship may lead to a lifetime career contribution to understanding the biological causes of eating disorders. The long-term goal of the program is to accelerate medical research discoveries that will lead to improved therapies for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The awards will support postdoctoral fellows working in nonprofit academic or research institutions in the United States. Research Focus: Research areas of interest include but are not limited to neural pathways of feeding behavior in animal models, molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function, testing of new chemical compounds that might be used in animal models as experimental treatments, and brain imaging technologies that identify neurochemical pathways in patients with these disorders. Clinical psychotherapeutic studies, medication trials, and obesity research are currently outside the scope of this program.
Deadline: 2009-04-02
Department of Defense
Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corp Science and Technology
The Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation is pleased to launch its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Eating Disorders Research. By attracting young scientists to the field, each fellowship may lead to a lifetime career contribution to understanding the biological causes of eating disorders. The long-term goal of the program is to accelerate medical research discoveries that will lead to improved therapies for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The awards will support postdoctoral fellows working in nonprofit academic or research institutions in the United States. Research Focus: Research areas of interest include but are not limited to neural pathways of feeding behavior in animal models, molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function, testing of new chemical compounds that might be used in animal models as experimental treatments, and brain imaging technologies that identify neurochemical pathways in patients with these disorders. Clinical psychotherapeutic studies, medication trials, and obesity research are currently outside the scope of this program.
Deadline: 2009-04-02
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
New Technologies for Liver Disease SBIR (R43/R44)
The purpose of this announcement is to solicit Small Business Innovation Research grant applications from small business concerns that propose to develop resources, research tools, instrumentations, biomarkers, devices, drugs, or new and innovative approaches to diagnosis, monitoring, management, treatment, and prevention of liver diseases. Areas of interest include development of reliable and practical means of diagnosis of liver diseases; biomarkers for disease activity and stage; noninvasive tests for inflammation, fibrosis, and fat in the liver; and drugs, complementary and alternative modalities, biologics or molecular reagents for the therapy or prevention of liver diseases.
Deadline: 2009-04-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Dietary Supplement Research Centers: Botanicals (P50)
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invite new and renewal applications to support research centers that will (1) promote collaborative integrated interdisciplinary study of botanicals, particularly those found as ingredients in dietary supplements and (2) conduct research of high potential for being translated into practical benefits for human health. This initiative is intended to advance the spectrum of botanical research activities, ranging from plant identification and characterization to early phase clinical studies. Preclinical research that will inform future clinical studies is encouraged as the primary research focus of this program. ODS has a particular interest in botanicals as part of health care for conditions relating to health maintenance or primary prevention. NCCAM is interested in the study of botanicals broadly used by the American public. The NCI Division of Cancer Prevention is interested in supporting research focused on mechanisms by which botanically derived bioactive food components might influence cancer risk and tumor behavior. This funding opportunity announcement is not supportive of applications focused on new drug discovery.
Deadline: 2009-12-03
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Expanding the Chemical Space for Carbohydrates (R01)
This funding opportunity addresses a critical need for biologically relevant carbohydrate libraries; means to functionalize and link carbohydrates; efficient high-throughput screening tools for exploring glycan-protein, and glycan-lipid interactions; and carbohydrate standards necessary for use in the structural analysis of biologically relevant glycans. Applications are therefore sought for development of new, rapid, and cost-effective chemical methodologies that will speed access to: specialized glycan reagents; carbohydrate libraries and structural standards for the emerging field of glycomics; and facilitate the development of tools necessary to understand glycan function in human biology and disease.
Deadline: 2009-03-19
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
New Technologies for Liver Disease STTR (R41/R42)
The purpose of this announcement is to solicit Small Business Innovation Research grant applications from small business concerns that propose to develop resources, research tools, instrumentations, biomarkers, devices, drugs ,or new and innovative approaches to diagnosis, monitoring, management, treatment and prevention of liver diseases. Areas of interest include development of reliable and practical means of diagnosis of liver diseases; biomarkers for disease activity and stage; noninvasive tests for inflammation, fibrosis, and fat in the liver; and drugs, complementary and alternative modalities, biologics or molecular reagents for the therapy or prevention of liver diseases.
Deadline: 2009-04-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Alcohol Pharmacotherapy and the Treatment and Prevention of HIV/AIDS (R01)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism requests Research Project Grant (R01) applications: 1) to test innovative single and combined pharmacologic therapies for alcohol-use disorders in HIV+ populations for the purpose of improving adherence to antiretroviral medications, reducing the rate of viral mutation and toxicity related to alcohol-ARV interactions, and reducing sexual risk-taking; and 2) to assess the potential usefulness of medications for alcohol-use disorders in preventing secondary HIV infections in targeted high-risk populations of gay men and minority women.
Deadline: 2009-04-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Translational Tools for Clinical Studies of CAM Interventions (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health 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. CAM approaches being widely used include massage and manipulative therapies, meditation, yoga, and acupuncture. Health conditions, particularly chronic pain, back pain, and musculoskeletal pain, are the most commonly cited reasons for their use. This FOA focuses on encouraging the development of improved research methodology to study safety, efficacy, and clinical effectiveness of widely used CAM approaches, such as: mind-body interventions, manual therapies, yoga, and acupuncture. This FOA is not focused on the study of natural products, such as herbal therapies.
Deadline: 2009-07-17
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Alcohol, Decision-Making and Adolescent Brain Development (R21
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, encourages exploratory Research Project grants (R21) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to study decision-making processes in adolescents as they relate to drinking behavior, and the role of neural circuitry development in adolescent decision-making and alcohol abuse and dependence. This will use the NIH Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant mechanism.
Deadline: 2009-06-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Independent Scientist Award (K02)
The primary purpose of the AHRQ Independent Scientist Awards (K02) program is to foster the development of outstanding health service researchers and enable them to expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field of research. The K02 award provides 3, 4, or 5 years of salary support and protected time for newly independent scientists who can demonstrate the need for a period of intensive research focus as a means of enhancing their research careers. Applicants must focus their research careers on areas that would have a significant impact on the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. This program represents the continuation of an AHRQ program.
Deadline: 2009-06-12
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Established Investigator Award in Cancer Prevention and Control (K05)
The NCI Established Investigator Award (K05) provides qualified cancer prevention, control, behavioral, and/or population scientists with protected time to devote to research and to mentoring new investigators.
Deadline: 2009-06-12
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Short-Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators (K18)
The purpose of these short-term career development awards is to allow established, well-funded clinician investigators to expand research programs to answer questions relevant to the environmental health sciences and to provide established environmental health sciences research investigators the tools to expand their efforts to translational research.
Deadline: 2009-06-12
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Alcohol Pharmacotherapy and the Treatment and Prevention of HIV/AIDS (R03)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism requests Research Project Grant (expanded R03) applications to conduct initial studies of the safety and feasibility of pharmacotherapies for alcohol-use disorders in HIV-infected populations. These studies will set the stage for future research to: 1) determine the efficacy and effectiveness of innovative single and combined pharmacologic therapies for alcohol-use disorders in HIV+ populations for the purpose of improving adherence to antiretroviral medications, reducing the rate of viral mutation and toxicity related to alcohol-ARV interactions, and reducing sexual risk-taking; and 2) assess the potential usefulness of medications for alcohol-use disorders in preventing secondary HIV infections in targeted high-risk populations of gay men and minority women.
Deadline: 2009-04-16
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Alcohol, Decision-Making, and Adolescent Brain Development (R01)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project grants (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to study decision-making processes in adolescents as they relate to drinking behavior, and the role of neural circuitry development in adolescent decision-making and alcohol abuse and dependence. This will utilize the Research Project Grant (R01) award mechanism.
Deadline: 2009-06-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
NCMHD Health Disparities Research on Minority and Underserved Populations (R01)
The objective of this announcement is to support all investigators whose current research focuses on disease/conditions that disproportionately affect ethnic racial minorities, underserved populations, and rural and low-income populations. The research may include, but is not limited to, chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, infant mortality, asthma, obesity, and kidney disease. Specific targeted areas of research also may include studies that influence health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems) lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family), social (peer influences), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences.
Deadline: 2009-04-17
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy System Technology Research and Development (SBIR [R43/R44])
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Act), P.L. 110-140, requires SBIR/STTR agencies, whenever possible and appropriate, to give high priority within the SBIR and STTR programs to energy efficiency or renewable energy system research and development projects (R&D). As part of the implementation of this act, this funding opportunity announcement encourages eligible United States small business concerns whose biomedical research is related to energy efficiency or renewable energy systems, to submit SBIR Phase I, Phase II, and Fast-Track grant applications for R&D projects in those areas.
Deadline: 2009-04-05
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
The NEI Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award (K12)
The purpose of the NEI Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award (K12) is to facilitate and support the career development of clinical vision scientists who have made a commitment to independent research careers.
Deadline: 2009-05-13
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Childrens Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (P20)
This funding opportunity announcement issued by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency solicits P20 planning grant applications for Childrens Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (CEHC Formative Centers). This program will support the development of an integrative research environment to sustain a multidisciplinary program of basic and applied research that examines the effects of environmental threats to children's health and well-being. Research conducted as part of the CEHC Formative Centers should include new and emerging areas of science in children's health while incorporating innovative technologies and approaches in the pursuit of developing a strong base of science. This opportunity will allow development of new research teams, connections with communities and other stakeholders, and will obtain preliminary data on childhood diseases and disorders for which the evidence of an environmental contribution has yet to be fully established or appreciated. This new program will develop strong links between disciplines in the basic, applied, clinical, and public health sciences for which collaborations are currently in the formative stages to prevent disease and promote health in all children.
Deadline: 2009-04-30
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy System Technology Research and Development (STTR [R41/R42])
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Act), P.L. 110-140, requires SBIR/STTR agencies, whenever possible and appropriate, to give high priority within the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs to energy efficiency or renewable energy system research and development projects (R&D). As part of the implementation of this act, this funding opportunity announcement encourages eligible United States small business concerns whose biomedical research is related to energy efficiency or renewable energy systems, to submit STTR Phase I, Phase II, and Fast-Track grant applications for R&D projects in those areas.
Deadline: 2009-04-05
Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice
NIJ FY09 Social Science Research in Forsensic Science
Forensic science, particularly in the area of DNA, has experienced numerous advances over the past decade. Improvements in science and technology have increased capabilities to use DNA in terms of the amount of evidence needed to obtain DNA, the speed of DNA processing, and the range of crimes DNA can help solve. The National Institute of Justice is interested in stimulating research to examine the impact of these forensic advances on the criminal justice system as well as the impact of changes in policies to adapt to the more widespread use of DNA.
Deadline: 2009-04-13
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Debiopharm Life Sciences Award 2009
The Presidency of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the Dean of the EPFL School of Life Sciences, and the executive board of Debiopharm Group are pleased to invite applications for the Debiopharm Life Sciences Award 2009. In 2009, this annual award will be given to a young investigator in the field of Biology and Immunology of Infection. It will be awarded on the occasion of the Annual EPFL Life Science Symposium to be held from 2 to 4 September 2009. The award is sponsored by Debiopharm Group, a Swiss biopharmaceutical company that focuses on drug development. The prize will honor a European investigator below the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions to infection biology. It consists of a total of 100,000 Swiss Francs (approximately $87,000 US). One half of this amount is a personal reward, and the other half will contribute to support her/his research. Candidates are invited to submit their applications. A jury of internationally renowned scientific experts will evaluate the applications. The dossier should comprise: a one-page endorsement letter describing the importance of the nominee's contribution to the biology and immunology of infection, her/his curriculum vitae, her/his list of publications, and a one-page outline of her/his plans for future research.
Deadline: 2009-04-15
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Bernstein Award 2009, Computational Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience is a very dynamic research discipline in the field of the neurosciences. With its interdisciplinary approach and systematic cooperation among biology, medicine, physics, mathematics, and computer science, this research area promises the accelerated generation of new findings as well as major impetus for application-oriented fields such as health research, information technology, and education. These high-performing centers are the major structural elements of the National Network. This means that a new structure has been created that is necessary for developing a new quality in computational neuroscience, for networking this research area, and for promoting its international visibility. It is particularly important to attract excellent young researchers in order to lastingly strengthen and establish computational neuroscience as a field of research in Germany. The Bernstein Centres contribute substantially to achieving this goal with their concepts for supporting junior researchers at the level of study programs and postgraduate studies. But there is also a great need to attract and support young researchers at the level of research group leaders, who will be able to develop their own research profile and greater scientific independence by establishing and heading their own junior research groups. The "Bernstein Award" funding activity aims to support research projects in the field of computational neuroscience, thus enabling excellent young researchers working in this field to implement innovative project ideas in computational neuroscience in the German research environment. This is intended inter alia to promote the academic qualification of these outstanding young researchers. The projects supported under the "Bernstein Award" initiative will become an integral part of the National Network for Computational Neuroscience and give new impetus to scientific activities.
Deadline: 2009-05-25
Indiana State Department of Health, Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund
Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Fund Research Grant Program
The Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Board is pleased to announce the 2009 request for research applications for Indiana spinal cord and brain injury researchers.
Deadline: 2009-03-16
Lupus Research Institute
Research Grants for Novel Approaches to Lupus
The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) - founded to support highly promising, idea-driven, novel approaches to discover the cause, improve treatment, and cure lupus - invites applications for financial support starting December 2009 for Novel Research Projects relevant to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Research applications will be judged principally on novelty of the hypotheses, scientific quality, strength of approach, relevance to lupus, and likelihood of success. Creativity will be valued. Rationale for the hypotheses proposed rather than amount of preliminary data will be emphasized. Continuations of long-term research projects are not appropriate for this submission. Projects on aspects of the disease that have been less extensively studied and applications from investigators in diverse disciplines, including those who may not have previously worked in lupus, are encouraged. Investigations should be relevant to the pathogenesis or diagnosis of the disease, and/or therapeutic approaches to lupus. The Institute also encourages projects based on novel explorations of human lupus biology-innovative studies that use human material to address the physiological, cellular, molecular and/or genetic basis of human lupus. Studies in animal models may serve as the background for these new investigations, but cannot be the focus of this research. Projects on the biology of human lupus including immunoregulation, inflammation, cytokine/chemokine biology, relevant organ physiology and organ damage are appropriate. Both established and new investigators may apply. Applicants should hold advanced degrees and be affiliated with institutions of higher learning in the United States. Grant application research plans are limited to six pages. Annual funding of up to $100,000 per year, for a term of up to three years, will be awarded for approved projects.
Deadline: 2009-05-29
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Education Associates Program
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center is releasing a Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) to solicit proposals to administer the Education Associates Program (EAP). EAP is a unique self-sustaining work force development education program. The program provides a means for NASA scientists and managers to tap higher education institutions for students and faculty in a quick turn-around process. It provides participants hands-on experience with NASA scientists, engineers, and program managers on a variety of NASA projects and missions. Students receive academic credit for the experience. Through this program, NASA demonstrates its commitment to attract students into NASA's education pipeline and provides competency-building research and education opportunities for faculty, with a special emphasis on those from underrepresented and underserved groups. EAP will provide opportunities to students majoring in fields related to NASA's science and technology interests and to faculty in STEM disciplines.
Deadline: 2009-12-31
National Science Foundation
Joint Domestic Nuclear Detection Office-National Science Foundation: Academic Research Initiative
In FY 2009, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will invest, in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), in frontier research at academic institutions. This transformational research effort will be focused on detection systems, individual sensors or other research that is potentially relevant to the detection of nuclear weapons, special nuclear material, radiation dispersal devices and related threats. The joint DNDO-NSF effort, in coordination with the efforts of other agencies, seeks to advance fundamental knowledge in new technologies for the detection of nuclear threats and to develop intellectual capacity in fields relevant to long-term advances in nuclear detection capability. This research and the research community that will be built under the ARI are seen as critical to our nation's ability to deploy effective nuclear detection measures to counter the serious threat of a nuclear terrorist attack.
Deadline: 2009-04-27
Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust
Microgravity Research Competition
Microgravity is a unique window on biological and physical processes. Its value has been demonstrated by NASA and international researchers over the past several decades. Examples include: * Microbes grown in microgravity show unique virulence factors compared with those on Earth, which can help isolate relevant genes and lead to vaccine design. * Three-dimension tissue specimens grown in microgravity have improved fidelity for pharmaceutical testing. * Protein crystals grown in microgravity can be superior, thereby enabling successful characterization of target molecule structure for rational drug design. * Commercially relevant research in material sciences, combustion, metallurgy, and other disciplines has been performed in microgravity. In the past, it was difficult for the broad research community to access microgravity. In the 2010 time frame, this is expected to change due to two significant milestones: * completion of the International Space Station and the beginning of routine Commercial Orbital Transportation Services. Because of limited accessibility, microgravity's benefits are understood by a relatively small segment of the research community. Given that access will soon improve, it is prudent to increase awareness of its applications. In this context, this competition will provide an opportunity to perform innovative research while promoting use of microgravity in a wide range of near-term applications. The prize offered consists of: * flight of an experiment in Earth orbit as early as November 2009, * a grant of $25,000, * a trip for four to see the launch of the winning experiment from Cape Canaveral. The flight is donated by Space Exploration Technologies. The competition is organized by the Heinlein Prize Trust with assistance from the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. It is open to U.S. universities, colleges, and nonprofit organizations with optional industry partners. Notices of intent are requested by 20 February and proposals are due on 20 March.
Deadline: 2009-03-20
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RWJF Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
The Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supports highly qualified individuals to undertake broad studies of America's most challenging policy issues in health and health care. Grants of up to $335,000 are awarded to investigators from a variety of disciplines for innovative research projects that have national policy relevance.
Deadline: 2009-03-25
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Games Research
Health Games Research: Advancing Effectiveness of Interactive Games for Health is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that funds research to enhance the quality and impact of interactive games that are used to improve health. The goal of the program is to advance the innovation, design, and effectiveness of health games and game technologies so that they help people improve their health-related behaviors and, as a result, achieve significantly better health outcomes. In this round of funding, approximately $2 million will be available to support outstanding research projects that study one or more games designed to increase physical activity and/or improve self-care.
Deadline: 2009-04-08
Science of Generosity
Science of Generosity
The aim of the Science of Generosity initiative is to stimulate scientific research on the practice of generosity in human life and society. The initiative is particularly focused on improving the understanding of three key aspects of generosity: the sources, origins, and causes of generosity; the variety of manifestations and expressions of generosity; and the consequences of generosity for both the givers and the receivers involved. The program invites inquiries from scholars worldwide who propose to focus research on any one of these aspects of generosity or investigate more than one aspect and the linkages between them. Proposed projects may involve but are not limited to scholars in the disciplines of economics, behavioral economics and finance, sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, social psychology, family and developmental studies, geography, law, education, communication and cultural studies, religious studies, and sociobiology. Proposals may be either discipline-specific or interdisciplinary and may come from scholars with expertise in generosity research or those new to the field. Four to eight grants of between $250,000 and $500,000 each will be awarded during the initiative's first grant competition in 2009. (A second competition in 2010 will provide a total of $1.2 million for smaller projects.)
Deadline: 2009-04-01
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Rapid Response Innovation Awards
Having funded $2 million in total awards to support twenty-seven high-risk, high-reward approaches to Parkinson's disease research in the first year of its Rapid Response Innovation Awards initiative, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has announced that it will commit a total of $2 million to a second round of funding in 2008. RRIA is designed to ensure that researchers can pursue good ideas without delay. Under this program the foundation accepts proposals on a rolling basis with no deadline, makes funding decisions within six weeks of application, and speeds up to $75,000 to one-year basic, pre-clinical, or clinical research projects in any Parkinson's-relevant arena. The program is designed to provide funding for strong ideas being tested for the first time. RRIA allows for the submission of applications at any time of year. There is no pre-proposal stage, and the standard application has been shortened to three pages. Additionally, postdoctoral researchers are permitted to apply as principal investigators under this initiative, provided the head of their lab serves as Administrative PI to assist with the provision of institutional documents and sign the award contract. Applications may be submitted by U.S. and non-U.S. entities, public and private nonprofit entities such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government and for-profit entities. Collaborative efforts are welcome.
Deadline: 2009-12-31
The Swire Institute of Marine Science
James Henry Scott Hong Kong PhD Scholarship tenable at the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS)
The scholarship supports advanced interdisciplinary research in physical-ecological processes. The scholar will be supervised by international experts from SWIMS and the Croucher Laboratory of Environmental Hydraulics, Department of Civil Engineering of HKU.
Deadline: 2009-06-06

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Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health
Enhancing Developmental Biology Research at Undergraduate Institutions Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by NICHD encourages grant applications to strengthen the developmental biology research environment at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.In addition this FOA attempts to foster the development of novel or underutilized experimental model systems, and to motivate students through exposure and participation in research projects designed to study fundamental processes underlying normal development.Projects that benefit students through exposure to and participate in developmental biology research are encouraged. Projects that employ novel or underutilized experimental animal model systems are also encouraged.
Deadline: 2009-04-13
Lung Cancer Research Foundation
Lung Cancer Research Foundation Award
The Lung Cancer Research Foundation will award as many as five $50,000 individual grants for lung cancer focused research projects in basic science, translational applications, clinical care programs, and/or outcomes science.
Deadline: 2009-06-30
QuestBridge
QuestBridge Program
QuestBridge is a non-profit program that links bright, motivated low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some of the nation's best colleges. QuestBridge is the provider of the National College Match Program and the College Prep Scholarship.
Deadline: 2009-03-31

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