For the next several weeks, our regular Grant Alerts update emails will lead off with a comprehensive overview of the funding landscape pertaining to the COVID-19 response effort.
Hanover is closely monitoring developments surrounding COVID-19 and how it has and may continue to impact the education community. Thisresource centerprovides key facts, resources, and potential responses to this rapidly evolving situation. Our dedicated COVID-19 support email (covid19-support@hanoverresearch.com) can be used to ask any questions related to COVID-19. In addition, and as always, your dedicated Content Director and Relationship Director also are ready to help with custom research solutions to the challenges you are facing.
In the past week, the Department of Education has issued various guidance pertaining to CARES Act grant distribution. For IHEs, CARES Act funds are received by filling out an institutional certification form. If you have not yet received your Opportunity Number from the Department of Education, this should be forthcoming shortly from ED’s Higher Education Programs division. See the following resources for more details:
The NEH has published an FAQ regarding its CARES Act funding. Of the $45 million that will be open to applicants for NEH emergency relief funding, "eligible applicants include U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, public and 501(c)(3) accredited institutions of higher education, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments."
Further, the NEH "plans to announce funding opportunities for eligible organizations seeking support for at-risk humanities positions and projects at cultural nonprofits that have been impacted by the coronavirus. More information will be announced on the NEH website and through social media by April 30, 2020."
Finally, the NEH notes that "eligible entities should also contact their state humanities councils. NEH supports56 state and jurisdictional humanities councilsacross the country, all of which also make awards to local humanities projects." The CARES Act provides $30 million to these councils.
National Endowment for the Arts
The NEA has announced an official CARES Act funding mechanism through Grants.gov. This program "will be carried out through one-time grants to eligible nonprofit organizations including arts organizations, local arts agencies, statewide assemblies of local arts agencies, arts service organizations, units of state or local government, federally recognized tribal communities or tribes, and a wide range of other organizations that can help advance the goals of the Arts Endowment and this program. Grants will be made either to organizations for their own operations, or to designated local arts agencies, eligible to subgrant." Notably, all applicants must be previous National Endowment for the Arts award recipients from the past four years. Support is limited to any or all of the following: salary support, full or partial, for one or more positions that are critical to an organization’s artistic mission; fees for artists and/or contractual personnel to maintain or expand the period during which such persons would be engaged; and facilities costs such as rent and utilities. Grants are $50,000 for direct funds, or up to $250,000 for subgranting agencies. The deadline for the Grants.gov phase of the application is April 22, 2020.
General COVID-19 Funding Updates
In addition to CARES Act funding, listed above, various relevant COVID-19 grant opportunities have been announced in the past week:
The Department of Defense has announced a suite of medical research tracks (through CDMRP) for COVID-related "Emerging Viral Diseases and Respiratory Health" proposals in the areas of (1) clinical trials, (2)investigator-initiated research, and (3)technology/therapeutic development. Pre-applications are due by May 28 or June 8, 2020, depending on track, with full proposals due by June 12 or June 22, 2020, depending on track. A total of 13 large-scale research awards will be distributed.
The Department of Defense has announced a Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic. These awards will be presented to a single investigator or team of up to two investigators that develops a “transformative idea” to resolve challenges, advance frontiers, and set new paradigms in areas of immense potential benefit to DoD and the nation at large. Proposals should aim to produce novel conceptual frameworks or theory-based approaches that present disruptive ways of thinking about fundamental scientific problems that have evaded resolution, propose new, paradigm-shifting scientific directions, and/or address fundamental and important questions that are argued to be undervalued by the scientific community. Ten grants of roughly $50,000 each will be awarded. Proposals are due by May 15, 2020.
The Department of Agriculture has announced a second application window for Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program funding; the previous window closed on April 10, 2020, and the new deadline is July 13, 2020. Notably, this new deadline is not related to the $25 million in additional CARES Act funding; the USDA will make a separate announcement in the coming weeks when those funds are available.
MIT Solve is seeking tech innovations that can slow and track the spread of an emerging outbreak, for example by improving individual hygiene, developing low-cost rapid diagnostics, analyzing data that informs decision making, and providing tools that support and protect health workers. The initial grant amount is $10,000, with the possibility for larger awards in later phases. The deadline for proposals is June 18, 2020.
Emergent Ventures has announced a Fast Funding for COVID-19 Science grant mechanism. Applicants must be a PI at an academic institution; already working on a project that could help with the COVID-19 pandemic within the next six months; and in need of additional funding to complete the project. Applications are accepted online at any time. Grants are up to $500,000, and decisions are made in under 48 hours.
Merck KGaA is offering research grants to stimulate innovative research in challenging areas of future importance. Grants of 100,000 to 500,000 euro (approximately $110,000 to $550,000) for up to three years are available for the focus area of pandemic preparedness and fighting new emerging viral infectious diseases. This opportunity is open to U.S.-based researchers. Applications will be accepted until August 31, 2020.
Pfizer is offering grants through a program entitled Providing Enhanced Medical Support for Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders. Individual projects of up to $250,000 will be considered for projects that leverage the utilization of innovative technology platforms for distant learning to reach the intended audience with a focus on patient outreach, medical support and telework. IHEs and health providers are eligible to apply; proposals are due by June 8, 2020. (Pfizer is also offering smaller-scale programs for niche medical areas; see here.)
Previously Announced COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
The funding opportunities listed in the table below were profiled in our previous COVID-19 updates and remain viable to approach (sorted by deadline):
Provides support for the conduct of worker-based training to prevent and reduce exposure of hospital employees, emergency first responders, and other workers who are at risk of exposure.
Supports projects focusing on the use of informatics solutions to diagnose cases and facilitate research on COVID-19 and advance the translation of research findings into diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.
May 4 to September 25, 2020 (varies by track; U01, U54, R21)
Supports genomic studies utilizing generalized approaches that take advantage of human research or model systems to study the consequences of infection.
A pre-announcement for proposals to rapidly develop and deploy the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network: a cloud-based, low-resource, stand-alone health information management system.
Solicits research applications for milestone-driven projects focused on preclinical development of lead candidate therapeutics, vaccines and related countermeasures.
Supports collaborative research activities that develop innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of turning laboratory, clinic and community observations into interventions that improve public health.
Encourages international partnerships for projects addressing prevention, early detection, containment, and investigation of the causes, impacts, and management of pandemics.
Seeks research pertaining to host response, associations with heart, lung, and blood diseases, potential impacts on transfusion safety, and clinical outcomes of infected individuals.
Seeks projects focusing on viral natural history, pathogenicity, transmission, as well as projects developing medical countermeasures and suitable animal models for pre-clinical testing of vaccines and therapeutics.
Invites RAPID proposals and supplemental funding requests to existing awards that address COVID-19 challenges through data and/or software infrastructure development activities.
University researchers may serve as subcontractors for any small business’ commercializable R&D pertaining to NSF-related COVID-19 topics.
Rolling (quarterly)
NIH
R01, R21, SBIR/STTR for COVID-19
Three of the largest NIH parent/umbrella funding mechanisms have now been updated to indicate that applications pertaining to COVID-19 research are welcomed.
Standard dates (rolling / tri-annual) for R01, R21, SBIR/STTR
Encourages scientific questions that underpin COVID-19 response that the research community may answer using DOE user facilities, computational resources, and enabling infrastructure.
A total of $20 million in Google Cloud research credits will be provided for leveraging Google’s computing capabilities and infrastructure to study therapies, vaccines, etc.
Below is a recap of non-COVID-19research funding opportunitiesthat were recently announced, nationwide. While these alerts are intended to provide you with a broad-reaching overview of the opportunities available, we certainly want to hear if thereare specific opportunities that you would like to pursue. Please let your Content Director know if you have any questions or are interested in learning more. (Notably, DOD's CDMRP medical research program, highlighted in our previous two non-COVID updates and therefore not profiled below, recently announced seven new focus areas.) It should also be kept in mind that some grant-makers may shift their priorities to better address the public health impacts of the pandemic. It will be important to continually monitor funding announcement deadlines as grant-makers pivot to meet the changing demands of society.
Quick Links to Non-COVID Opportunities
These links will take you directly to the websites of the grant opportunities.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to promote research to understand the underlying mechanisms of sleep deficiencies among U.S. populations that experience health disparities and how sleep deficiencies may lead to disparities in health outcomes.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by June 14, 2020; full proposals by July 14, 2020.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks innovative research to optimize HIV prevention and care which is aligned with NIMH Division of AIDS Research priorities. Applications may include formative basic behavioral and social science to better understand a step or steps in the HIV prevention or care continuum, and/or the initial development and pilot testing of innovative intervention approaches.
The NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) award is intended to support the research and research career advancement of outstanding, exceptionally productive scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who plan to make a long-term career commitment to research in specific mission areas of the NIMH. This award seeks to assist these individuals in launching an innovative clinical, translational, basic, or services research program that holds the potential to profoundly transform the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of mental disorders. The NIMH BRAINS program will focus on the research priorities and gap areas identified in the NIMH Strategic Plan.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions beyond NIH early-career requirements.
Dates:
LOIs are due by May 20, 2020; full proposals by June 20, 2020.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages applications for investigator-initiated fully remotely delivered and conducted clinical trials to assess the efficacy or effectiveness of complementary and integrative health interventions in NCCIH designated areas of high research priority. Applications submitted under this FOA are expected to propose a remotely delivered and conducted clinical trial with no in-person contact between research staff and study participants and may utilize mHealth tools or technologies. To justify the proposed remotely delivered efficacy or effectiveness clinical trial, applications must have sufficient preliminary data that includes: demonstration of feasibility of remote recruitment and accrual of participants; demonstration of participant adherence to the intervention as well as retention of participants throughout the study; completion of final data collection from any related studies; demonstration of the safety of the intervention; and evidence that the intervention has promise of clinical benefit.
The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage applications for studies that will enhance knowledge of mechanisms associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's disease-related dementia. The findings are expected to advance mechanistic understanding of both biobehavioral and neurobiological pathways leading to NPS. Findings may also provide insight into novel therapeutic targets that can be advanced into interventions to treat and prevent the development of NPS in AD and/or ADRD.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity supports implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention. Such an approach includes strong leadership as the convener of multi-sectoral partnerships; prioritizes data to identify vulnerable populations and to better characterize risk and protective factors.
DOE-Fossil Energy’s program in Carbon Capture has been developing carbon capture technologies since 2001 with the goal of decreasing the cost of carbon capture systems. Technologies developed to date have focused on the capture of Carbon Dioxide directly from fossil fuel power plant gases. The Carbon Capture program is aiming to leverage this past research in materials and systems development for application to the conditions and process requirements of Direct Air Capture (DAC). However, there are several significant differences between these applications that will require applied research and the development of alternative capture media.
The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research hereby announces its interest in making research data and artificial intelligence models findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable to facilitate the development of new AI applications in SC’s congressionally authorized mission space, which includes the advancement of AI research and development. In particular, ASCR is interested in supporting FAIR benchmark data for AI; and FAIR frameworks for relating data and AI models. For this FOA, AI is inclusive of, for example, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, computer vision, and natural language processing. Data, in this context, are the digital artifacts used to generate AI models and/or employed in combination with AI models during inference. An AI model is an inference method that can be used to perform a “task,” such as prediction, diagnosis, or classification. The model is developed using training data or other knowledge. An AI task is the inference activity performed by an artificially intelligent system.
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is issuing, on behalf of the Water Power Technologies Office, a Funding Opportunity Announcement addressing priorities in the following Topic Areas: Foundational Research and Development (R&D); Atlantic Marine Energy Center (AMEC); Foundational Research Network Facilitator (FRNF); and Current Energy Technology Testing Infrastructure.
The DOE SC program in Nuclear Physics hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for R&D efforts directed at transformative accelerator R&D of relevance to current or next generation NP accelerator facilities.
This solicitation supports fundamental research to enable transformative change in our ability to detect, disrupt and disable illicit supply networks that traffic in persons, and tangible and virtual goods. These transformations will require well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches that complement long-standing law-enforcement, victim-centric and trafficking domain-focused research efforts with fundamental, innovative, and high-risk research that draws from multiple domains of engineering, computer and information science, and the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Trafficking networks comprise complex, interconnected collections of entities, sometimes under centralized control but with decentralized information sharing. Research proposals should take a holistic, system-focused approach to understanding the operations and dynamics of illicit supply networks, including such issues as mapping illicit supply chains, characterizing their elements and their use of communications, transportation, financial infrastructures; understanding geospatial data patterns and networks of transactions that provide actionable insight into their activity; understanding how illicit production co-mingles with legal production in commercial supply chains and the underlying value chain that creates wealth through illicit activities; and how individuals are incentivized and/or exploited to participate in these activities.
The Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) is a research and action competition in the Smart and Connected Communities domain designed to build a more cohesive research-to-innovation pipeline and foster a collaborative spirit. Building on the NSF S&CC program and the extensive S&CC ecosystem, CIVIC aims to accelerate the impact of S&CC research, and deepen cooperation and information sharing across sectors and regions. CIVIC will lay a foundation for a broader and more fluid exchange of research interests and civic priorities that will create new instances of collaboration and introduce new areas of technical and social scientific discovery. CIVIC will fund projects that can produce significant community impact within 12 months (following a four-month planning phase) — in contrast to many community-university partnerships that take years to provide tangible benefits to communities — and have the potential for lasting impact beyond the period of the CIVIC award.
The Hydrologic Sciences Program supports basic research on the fluxes of water in the terrestrial environment that constitute the water cycle as well as the mass and energy transport function of the water cycle. The Program supports the study of processes including (but not limited to): rainfall, runoff, infiltration and streamflow; evaporation and transpiration; the flow of water in soils and aquifers; and the transport of suspended, dissolved, and colloidal components. The Program is interested in how water interacts with the landscape and the ecosystem as well as how the water cycle and its coupled processes are altered by land use and climate. Studies may address physical, chemical, and/or biological processes that are coupled directly to water transport. Observational, experimental, theoretical, modeling, synthesis and field approaches are supported. Projects submitted to Hydrologic Sciences commonly involve expertise from physical and ecosystem sciences, engineering and/or mathematics; and proposals may require joint review with related programs.
The USMA BAA seeks proposals from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and for-profit organizations (i.e., large and small businesses) for research based on the following campaigns: Socio-Cultural; Information Technology; Ballistics, Weapons, and Protections; Energy and Sustainability; Materials, Measurements, and Facilities; Unmanned Systems and Space; Human Support Systems; and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Quantum Technologies. Proposals are sought for cutting-edge innovative research that could produce discoveries with a significant impact to enable new and improved Army technologies and related operational capabilities and related technologies. The specific research areas and topics of interest described in this document should be viewed as suggestive, rather than limiting.
To maximize warfighter performance, the ADvanced Acclimation and Protection Tool for Environmental Readiness program will develop systems to provide warfighters control over their own physiology. This program will integrate engineered cells and biochemicals into an internal, bioelectronics carrier that the warfighter can signal, as needed, to initiate the production and release of therapies that either eliminate the principal cause of traveler's diarrhea - pathogenic bacteria - or regulate disrupted circadian rhythms caused by jetlag or shift work schedules.
The overarching goals and desired outcomes for the ECDRE program are: to combat Huanglongbing (HLB) and its disease complex in order to continue to be able to farm citrus in a financially sustainable way through collaborative approaches and knowledge; transition from component-focused research to deploying research outcomes and conclusions on farms; and encourage research teams to bring knowledge together to find grower solutions to combat and prevent HLB infection.
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is requesting Applied Science proposals for projects that develop and demonstrate improved science and technologies related to the mining of coal and the reclamation of the land after mining.
Preservation and Access Education and Training awards are made to organizations that offer national, regional, or statewide education and training programs across the pedagogical landscape and at all stages of development, from early curriculum development to advanced implementation. Awards help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Awards support projects that prepare the next generation of preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce heritage practitioners to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
The Lupus Research Alliance is inviting Letters of Intent for its Global Team Science Awards. Through the program, grants of up to $3 million over three years will be awarded to established investigators across scientific disciplines and geographies who are positioned to make major advances in understanding the heterogeneity of systemic lupus erythematous using highly collaborative, synergistic, and innovative approaches. Investigators are encouraged to apply through the LOI process for four-month planning grants of up to $10,000 each to assemble a team that can develop and submit a full application. LRA anticipates that up to six planning grants and up to three Global Team Science Awards will be awarded.
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation is inviting applications from investigators at nonprofit institutions in the U.S. working on innovative research focused on identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The foundation encourages proposals for a one-year period that allow the capabilities of a new cancer researcher or new cancer approaches by an established cancer researcher to be established. The foundation anticipates that this early-stage funding may lead to subsequent and expanded support from a government agency or other source. The relevance of the project to cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified.
Eligibility:
Post-docs who are on the tenure track and have a tenured mentor are eligible to apply.
The Amgen Foundation is inviting applications for its Competitive Grant Program in Migraine Research. Through the program, grants of between $50,000 and $150,000 will be awarded to early-career investigators in support of novel research proposals that seek to advance the medical knowledge of migraine.
Eligibility:
Applicants must be in their first five years post-PhD.
The Emergent Innovation Program seeks to accelerate the development of bold nursing-driven interventions targeting the needs of vulnerable populations. Through the program, grants of $50,000 will be awarded in support of early-stage (pre-evidence or untested) innovations that address health and healthcare problems in new ways. Priority will be given to proposals that include one or more of the following: the engagement of patients, families, caregivers, and/or community organizations; inter-professional or multidisciplinary collaboration; institutional and community partnerships; and the provision of care in non-hospital settings.
Eligibility:
Applicants must be tax-exempt (501c3 or similar designation).
Through this program, grants of up to $500,000 over eighteen months will be awarded to support the development of innovative clinical quality measures that promote excellence in diagnosis of three categories of disease, acute vascular events (such as stroke and myocardial infarction), infections (such as sepsis and pneumonia), and cancer (such as lung and colorectal cancer). The expected work requires two interlinked activities: 1) development of the rationale for a measure, and 2) operationalizing the measure into an algorithm that can undergo pilot (or proof-of-concept) testing.
Facebook Research has issued an RFP for its Foundational Integrity Research: Misinformation and Polarization initiative. Under the RFP, the social media giant is offering awards to researchers interested in exploring the societal issues of misinformation and polarization related to social communication technologies.
AACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research program. Through the program, grants of up to $450,000 over three years will be awarded in support of young investigators engaged in creative, paradigm-shifting cancer research that has not be funded through conventional channels. The proposed research must represent a highly innovative approach to a major challenge in cancer and have the potential to lead to groundbreaking discoveries in the field and transform our understanding of the tumorigenesis process and/or our ability to treat, detect, or prevent cancer. The research can be in any area of basic, translational, or clinical science.
The foundation welcomes applications to its Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum program, the primary goal of which is to address gaps in the field and advance novel approaches to improving function and developing curative therapies after SCI. Research proposals should be focused on improving understanding and advancing the treatment of acute and chronic SCI, including mechanistic, preclinical, translational, and/or clinical studies.
The Parkinson’s Pathway Biomarkers program is open to industry and academic investigators proposing studies aimed at developing sensitive readouts for pathway activation/dysfunction and improving technologies for analyzing the target/pathway of interest. Through the program, grants of up to $300,000 will be awarded in support of studies focused on the development of biomarkers for pathways/targets with established relevance to PD.
The foundation is inviting applications for its 2020 Greater Value Portfolio grant program. The goal of the program is to test approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the health care they provide to their patients and communities. To that end, grants of up to $400,000 over up to two years will be awarded in support of promising approaches designed to help create a higher value healthcare system. The proposed research should be focused on developing actionable solutions to one or more of the symptoms of low value health care: high and rising healthcare costs; unwarranted variation in prices; unaffordable cost of care burden on patients and families; unacceptable variation in quality; and/or lack of transparency in both price and outcomes.
The Environmental Research & Education Foundation provides funding in support of scientific research and educational initiatives focused on waste management practices benefiting industry participants and the communities they serve. To that end, EREF welcomes applications for projects and research addressing any area of integrated solid waste management, with priority given to research aimed at increasing sustainable solid waste management practices. The following topic areas will be considered: waste minimization; recycling; waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals or other useful products (including waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion, composting, and other thermal or biological conversion technologies); strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g., organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.); and landfilling.
The William T. Grant Foundation is inviting applications for its Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program, which supports high-quality field-initiated studies from a range of disciplines and methodologies relevant to policies and practices that affect the lives of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States. Through the program, grants of up to $600,000 over up to three years will be awarded in support of research that aims to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices that can reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. Descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality are welcomed.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by May 6, 2020.
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