Below is a recap ofresearch 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.
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The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to promote initial establishment of basic science-clinical collaborations by providing small grants to teams of basic scientists, physician scientists, and/or clinicians. These interdisciplinary teams may include but are not limited to the following: developmental biologists, cell biologists, geneticists, genomicists, physician-scientists including individuals with DVM/VMD degrees, clinicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and/or bioinformaticists. Applications must include at least one scientist with expertise from the basic science side of the spectrum as well as one from the clinical side. The multiple PD/PI model is strongly encouraged but not required. The goal is to facilitate the gathering of preliminary data to support future, larger research grant applications that will combine expertise and integrate basic, translational, and/or clinical approaches to understanding the developmental biology, genetics, and/or environmental basis of structural birth defects.
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: Courses for Skills Development, and Research Experiences.
This program aims to support the development and application of tools that would enable the monitoring in real-time of the dynamic three-dimensional structure of mammalian genomes and provide insight into how organizing components of 4D genome architecture affect biological processes in live cells.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by February 17, 2020, with full proposals due by March 17, 2020.
The NIMH Instrumentation Program encourages applications from NIH funded investigators to purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available. Examples of instruments that might be submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement include light microscopes, electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, and biomedical imagers.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by January 10, 2020, with full proposals due by February 10, 2020.
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to support the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community. The highest priority is to archive original data collected with NICHD funding.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to enhance mechanistic and epidemiologic investigations addressing the roles of co-infection. Co-infection is defined as the occurrence of infections by two or more infectious (pathogenic or non-pathogenic) agents – either concurrently or sequentially – and includes both acute and chronic infections by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and/or other microorganisms. Preference will be given to investigations of co-infections with known oncogenic agents (excluding HIV) and of co-infections that engender novel opportunities for prevention and treatment.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by February 17, 2020, with full proposals due by March 17, 2020.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage exploratory or developmental research to improve the oral health of adolescents in the United States, and to reduce observed oral health disparities and inequities in this population. This FOA defines “adolescents” as those individuals between the ages of 10 and 19.
The purpose of the AMF Program is to expand the number of fellows at accredited AMF and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include U.S. based sponsoring institutions of accredited addiction medicine or accredited addiction psychiatry fellowship programs, or a consortium consisting of at least one domestic teaching health center and one domestic addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry fellowship program. The sponsoring institution of addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry fellowship programs must be accredited by ACGME or, until 2021, by ACAAM.
The purpose of this one-year funding opportunity is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty. This NOFO seeks to accomplish this by providing funding to accredited schools of nursing to offer loans to students enrolled in advanced education nursing degree programs who are committed to become nurse faculty. In exchange for full-time post-graduation employment as nurse faculty, the program authorizes cancelation of up to 85 percent of any such loan (plus interest thereon).
This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Rural Health Research Center Program. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to support high-quality, impartial, policy-relevant research to assist health care providers and decision/policy-makers at the federal, state and local levels in better understanding the challenges faced by rural communities and in designing policies to improve health care access and population health. RHRC recipients will conduct policy-oriented health services research, update trend analyses and existing research, and conduct necessary literature reviews on rural issues and synthesize the issues into publically available policy briefs designed to be easily understood by a non-technical audience. In addition to primary and secondary research, the applicant must be willing and able to conduct literature syntheses and update existing research to produce timely and relevant information. The ratio of original research to other needed projects will be reviewed by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and the final ratio will be negotiated between the recipients and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. The four-year RHRC Program awards are designed to support research centers with specific rural health research areas of concentration. The topic(s) of concentration must be policy-relevant and of enduring interest and importance to rural providers, rural stakeholders, policy makers and/or rural communities.
The NRI-2.0 program builds upon the original National Robotics Initiative (NRI) program to support fundamental research in the United States that will accelerate the development and use of collaborative robots (co-robots). A co-robot is a robot whose main purpose is to work with people or other robots to accomplish a goal. An ideal co-robot is an adaptable partner, not limited to a narrow set of specified interactions or functions, but able to significantly enhance team performance despite changes in its role, its teammates, or the team’s collective goals. The focus of the NRI-2.0 program is on ubiquity, which in this context means seamless integration of co-robots to assist humans in every aspect of life.
EarthCube is a community-driven activity sponsored through a partnership between the NSF Directorate for Geosciences and the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering to transform research in the academic geosciences community. EarthCube aims to create a well-connected and facile environment to share data and knowledge in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner, thus accelerating our ability to understand and predict the Earth system.
ECR’s Building Capacity for STEM Education Research solicitation supports projects that build individuals’ capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research that will enhance the nation’s STEM education enterprise and broaden the pool of researchers that can conduct fundamental research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM workforce development. Specifically, ECR: BCSER supports activities that enable early and mid-career researchers to acquire the requisite expertise and skills to conduct rigorous fundamental research in STEM education. ECR: BCSER seeks to fund research career development activities on topics that are relevant to qualitative and quantitative research methods and design, including the collection and analysis of new qualitative or quantitative data, secondary analyses using extant datasets, or meta-analyses.
The Directorate for Geosciences contributes to the IUSE initiative through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Geosciences: Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric Sciences (IUSE:GEOPAths) funding opportunity. IUSE:GEOPAths invites proposals that specifically address the current needs and opportunities related to education within the geosciences community through the formation of STEM Learning Ecosystems that engage students in the study of the Earth, its oceans, polar regions and atmosphere. The primary goal of the IUSE:GEOPAths funding opportunity is to increase the number of students pursuing undergraduate and/or postgraduate degrees through the design and testing of novel approaches that engage students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due very soon, by December 20, 2019; proposals are due by February 14, 2020.
The Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems solicitation will support activities that confront vexing environmental engineering and sustainability problems by uncovering and incorporating fundamental knowledge to design new processes, materials, and devices from a systems-level perspective. Projects should be compelling and reflect sustained, coordinated efforts from interdisciplinary research teams. A key objective of the solicitation is to encourage conversations and robust collaborations amongst the chemical process, transport phenomena, bioengineering, and environmental and sustainability research communities such that unanticipated solutions may arise. Furthermore, training the future workforce to actively engage and be successful in interdisciplinary research will be necessary to continually innovate given the scope of the environmental problems faced by our global community.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
Preliminary proposals are due by February 12, 2020, with full proposals due by April 30, 2020.
This is a follow-up solicitation on the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Storage and Retrieval Program (SemiSynBio-II). Future ultra-low energy storage-based computing systems can be built on principles derived from organic systems that are at the intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering. Next-generation information storage technologies can be envisioned that are driven by biological principles and use biomaterials in the fabrication of devices and systems that can store data for more than 100 years with storage capacity 1,000 times more than current storage technologies. Such a research effort can have a significant impact on the future of information storage and retrieval technologies. This focused solicitation seeks high-risk/high-return interdisciplinary research on novel concepts and enabling technologies that will address the fundamental scientific issues and technological challenges associated with the underpinnings of synthetic biology integrated with semiconductor technology. This research will foster interactions among various disciplines including biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, computer science and engineering that will enable in heretofore unanticipated breakthroughs.
This solicitation addresses the overlapping objectives of the National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan and the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Update through a pilot program. The goal of this pilot program is to transform development of predictive modeling of the coupled evolution of the magnetized solar atmosphere and the solar wind, and their interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. This requires advancing our understanding of the necessary and sufficient requirements of model complexity, computational performance, and observational inputs. The pilot program is also expected to directly contribute to the long-term goal of creating space weather models with quantifiable predictive capability.
The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to (1) facilitate convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of computer science, design, engineering, learning sciences, research on education and workforce training, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences; (2) encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way people learn and adapt to technological change, creative and supportive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales; (3) promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent work technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical or cognitive impairment; and (4) understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks arising from future work at the human-technology frontier. Ultimately, this research will advance understanding of how technology and people interact, distribute tasks, cooperate, and complement each other in different specific work contexts of significant societal importance. It will advance the knowledge base related to worker education and training and formal and informal learning to enable all potential workers to adapt to changing work environments. It will advance our understanding of the links between the future of work at the human-technology frontier and the surrounding society, including the intended potential of new technologies and the unintended consequences for workers and the well-being of society.
The goal of the DIGET program is to leverage advances in gene editing technologies to develop low-cost, high-trust, sensitive, multiplexed, rapidly reconfigurable, and fieldable diagnostics and biosurveillance technologies to address the need for timely and comprehensive threat detection surveillance to support DoD stabilization missions and outpace infectious disease.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
Abstracts are due by January 7, 2020; proposals are due by February 25, 2020.
The Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific) seeks funding for basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and advanced component development and prototype for areas relating to the advancement of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities, enabling technologies for Information Operations and Cyberspace Operations, and Information Technology systems. Proposed research should investigate unique and innovative approaches for defining and developing next generation integratable C4ISR capabilities and command suites.
The Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) seeks to solve critical organic agriculture issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research, education, 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. The OREI is particularly interested in projects that emphasize research, education and outreach that assist farmers and ranchers with whole farm planning by delivering practical research-based information. 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 USDA National Organic Program for organic production standards.
The DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) hereby invites new and renewal grant applications for support of research programs in high energy physics. The mission of the HEP program is to understand how the universe works at its most fundamental level, which is done by discovering the elementary constituents of matter and energy, probing the interactions between them, and exploring the basic nature of space and time. Three crosscutting research areas enable new scientific opportunities by developing the necessary tools and methods for discoveries: Theoretical High Energy Physics, where the vision and mathematical framework for understanding and extending the knowledge of particles, forces, space-time, and the universe are developed; Accelerator Science and Technology Research and Development, where the technologies and basic science needed to design, build, and operate the accelerator facilities essential for making new discoveries are developed; and Detector Research and Development, where the basic science and technologies needed to design and build the High Energy Physics detectors essential for making new discoveries are developed.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs (not required) are due very soon, by December 18, 2019; proposals are due by January 22, 2020.
SC hereby invites grant applications for support under the Early Career Research Program in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Biological and Environmental Research; Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics. The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by SC.
Eligibility:
The Principal Investigator must be an untenured Assistant Professor on the tenure track or an untenured Associate Professor on the tenure track at a U.S. academic institution as of the deadline for the application. Principal Investigator (PI) means the scientist or other individual designated by the recipient institution to direct the project. The PI must be employed in the eligible position as of the closing date for this FOA. Except as outlined below, no more than ten (10) years can have passed between the year the PI’s. Ph.D. was awarded and 2019.
Dates:
Pre-applications are due by January 7, 2020; proposals are due by March 16, 2020.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences announces the call for Energy Frontier Research Centers proposals and encourages both new and renewal applications. Applications will be required to address priority research directions and opportunities identified in recent BES workshop and roundtable reports, the scientific grand challenges identified in the report Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination, and the opportunities described in the report Challenges at the Frontiers of Matter and Energy: Transformative Opportunities for Discovery Science. All of these reports are described below. BES is soliciting proposals in four (4) topical areas: 1) Environmental Management (new and renewal proposals); 2) Quantum Information Science (new proposals only); 3) Microelectronics (new proposals only); and 4) Polymer Upcycling (new proposals only).
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
Pre-applications are due by January 16, 2020; proposals are due by April 7, 2020.
The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for Atmospheric System Research within BER’s Climate and Environmental Sciences Division. ASR supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. This FOA solicits research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use observations supported by BER, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility, to improve understanding and model representation of 1) aerosol-cloud interactions and 2) high-latitude atmospheric processes; 3) to support aerosol and cloud research associated with ARM’s Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment; and/or 4) to develop new proof-of-concept data products from ARM site instruments. All research supported from awards under this FOA is intended to benefit the public through increasing our understanding of the Earth system.
The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. Applicants may apply to create institutes that are a single opportunity or are offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks and held at a single site or at multiples sites; virtual institutes are also permissible. Training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic; it should also be appropriate for the intended audience.
Through this RFA, the organization seeks to advance understanding of how aging contributes to the pathogenesis and natural history of MS progression and to use that knowledge to reveal potential targets and develop strategies that slow down or stop disability progression. To that end, grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded to innovative, cutting-edge ideas or untested methods aimed at understanding the impact of aging on MS and to gather enough preliminary data to apply for longer-term funding.
The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. To that end, SFARI is inviting applications for the SFARI Research Awards. The award provides up to $1.3 million (including indirect costs) over a period of up to four years in support of investigations of key unresolved research questions in autism, particularly those that connect etiology to brain function and behavior. SFARI welcomes risk and novelty in proposals, but potential impact on the autism research field will be the most important criterion.
The Whitehall Foundation works to advance scholarly research in the life sciences through its research grants and grants-in-aid programs. It is the foundation's policy to support those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not broadly supported by federal agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest. To that end, the foundation invites LOIs for two grant programs: (1) Research — Grants of up to $225,000 over three years will be awarded to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States. Grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose. (2) Grants-in-Aid — One-year grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to researchers at the assistant-professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists.
Founded in 1978 as the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation, the Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) is a nonprofit organization committed to identifying effective drug therapies for neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), and schwannomatosis, and improving the lives of those living with these disorders. To that end, CTF is inviting applications for the Young Investigator Award. Through the program, salary support of up to $54,000 per year for two years will be awarded to scientists early in their careers. The research scope of the program includes all manifestations of all types of NF (NF1, NF2, schwannomatosis); a subset of the available funds will be dedicated to funding NF2 and schwannomatosis-focused studies, and such proposals will be evaluated separate from NF1-focused proposals to ensure that a minimum number of NF2/schwannomatosis studies can be initiated.
Eligibility:
To be eligible, applicants must be a postdoctoral fellow (MD, PhD, or equivalent) no more than seven years past completion of their first doctoral degree or a graduate student pursuing their MD, PhD, or equivalent. Applicant must be affiliated with the laboratory of a senior researcher who can serve as a research sponsor.
Dates:
LOIs are due by January 3, 2020; full proposals are due by March 6, 2020.
The San Francisco-based Leakey Foundation is dedicated to increasing scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. To that end, the foundation is accepting applications from investigators for promising new research projects specifically related to human origins and evolution. Current funding priorities include paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and primates (old and new world), including their evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups. Most grants will range between $3,000 and $15,000, though larger grants of up to $25,000 may be awarded to senior scientists and postdoctoral students.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants must be affiliated with a school or research institution and hold a PhD or equivalent qualification in anthropology or a related discipline; or be enrolled in a doctoral program with all degree requirements fulfilled other than the thesis/dissertation. There are no citizenship restrictions.
Dates:
Proposals are due by January 10, 2020.
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