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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21) applications that propose to study the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of human genome research. These applications should propose single or mixed methods studies that break new ground, extend previous discoveries in new directions or develop preliminary data in preparation for larger studies. Of particular interest are studies that explore the implications of new or emerging genomic technologies or novel uses of genomic information. There are also R01 and R03 tracks.
This FOA seeks applications for research projects to explore the effects of genomic variation on phenotypes at the network level. Research projects supported through this FOA will measure changes in the activity of genes and regulatory elements during biological transitions and use generalizable analytical approaches to understand network-level relationships among genomic variation, functional elements, genes, and phenotypes related to human health and disease. Funded projects will also enable others to perform related research by sharing approaches and standards, as well as identifying methodological strengths and weaknesses. Projects funded through this initiative will become part of the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium. As members of this Consortium, network projects will be expected to work with one another and other Consortium components to accelerate understanding of how genomic variation impacts human health and disease. Up to seven grants will be awarded. There is also a parallel funding track entitled Developing Predictive Models of the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due on October 4, 2020; full proposals by November 4, 2020.
The purpose of this FOA is to accelerate the development of devices to treat Substance Use Disorders. The continuing advances in technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to develop neuromodulatory or neurophysiological devices that are safe and effective SUD treatments. The objective is to move devices to their next step in the FDA approval process, with the ultimate goal of generating new, FDA approved device-based treatments for SUDs.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by November 15, 2020; full proposals by December 15, 2020.
This FOA encourages applications for multi-site exploratory and confirmatory clinical trials focused on promising interventions; biomarker or outcome measure validation studies that are immediately preparatory to trials in stroke prevention, treatment, and recovery; and ancillary studies designed to add scientific aims to active studies being conducted within StrokeNet. Successful applicants will collaborate and conduct the study within the NIH StrokeNet. Following peer review, NINDS will prioritize studies among the highest scoring to be conducted in the NIH StrokeNet infrastructure.
The NIDDK Catalyst Award is designed to complement NIDDK's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists who propose pioneering and transformational studies in topic areas of interest to NIDDK. Applications should be focused on major scientific challenges, and have the potential to produce an unusually high impact on diseases and conditions that are central to the mission of these two divisions within NIDDK. To be considered responsive to this initiative, the proposed research should reflect new and novel scientific directions that are distinct from concepts and approaches being pursued in the investigator’s research program or elsewhere. Up to six grants will be awarded.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by December 6, 2020; full proposals by January 6, 2021.
The NSF CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, as well as advanced cyberinfrastructure.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
Proposals are accepted at any time for Small projects, and by November 12, 2020, for Medium/Core projects.
This DCL highlights the NSF’s interest of existing programs in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Engineering in interdisciplinary research for the development of novel biological platforms that are capable of sensing and responding to emerging infectious agents. The mechanism of sensing should be adaptable and or evolvable such that the sentinel cells, or other appropriate biotechnology solutions, are robust to a range of emergent threats, and/or can easily be reprogrammed and deployed once a new threat is identified. Investigators are encouraged not to be limited in their approach, but to think broadly about innovations leveraging biology and engineering to advance adaptable detection of emerging biological threats.
The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of transmission among any host species, including but not limited to humans, non-human animals, and/or plants.
CISE seeks to award grants intended to support research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources. It is expected that funds obtained through this program will be used to support untenured faculty or research scientists (or equivalent) in their first three years in a primary academic position after the PhD, but not more than five years after completion of their PhD. Applicants for this program may not yet have received any other grants or contracts in the PI role from any department, agency, or institution of the federal government, including from the CAREER program or any other program, post-PhD, regardless of the size of the grant or contract.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions beyond the early-career requirement.
The goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel, transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital Infrastructure is broadly defined as the totality of software, hardware, and the methods for managing them for the purpose of efficient computation. This research includes, but is not limited to, computer software and systems; management of distributed software, the Digital Infrastructure, and data center power sourcing; and resource allocation and scheduling. Critical to initiating such research is to set its objectives through the definition of novel metrics and benchmarks that capture the sustainability challenges of all components in the entire computation chain.
The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation umbrella program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure. This program continues the CSSI program by removing the distinction between software and data elements/framework implementations, and instead emphasizing integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.
Research supported by the Division of Materials Research focuses on advancing fundamental understanding of materials, materials discovery, design, synthesis, characterization, properties, and materials-related phenomena. This solicitation applies to the following three DMR Topical Materials Research Programs that fund research and educational projects by individual investigators or small groups: Ceramics, Electronic and Photonic Materials, and Solid State and Materials Chemistry.
Research supported by the Division of Materials Research focuses on advancing fundamental understanding of materials, materials discovery, design, synthesis, characterization, properties, and materials-related phenomena. This solicitation applies to the following four DMR Topical Materials Research Programs that fund research and educational projects by individual investigators or small groups: Biomaterials, Condensed Matter Physics, Metals and Metallic Nanostructures, and Polymers.
EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation announces competitive funding announcements for projects and programs relating to air quality, transportation, climate change, indoor air and other related topics. EPA is soliciting applications from eligible entities to conduct demonstration, technical assistance, training, education, and/or outreach projects that seek to reduce exposure to indoor air contaminants by advancing national policy and systems-level initiatives. Applications should clearly articulate a plan to produce results that have implications and/or benefits on a national level. This RFA is not intended to fund small-scale local projects. Applications should also address one or more of the following EPA Indoor Air Program priority areas: Radon, Indoor Environmental Asthma Triggers, or Comprehensive Indoor Air Risk Reduction. EPA will not consider any applications under this RFA that are exclusively designed to conduct scientific research. However, applications may include research components as a foundation for demonstration, technical assistance, training, education, and/or outreach projects. Up to five awards of up to $200,000 will be distributed.
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of software verification and assurance by enabling piecewise, compatible-by-construction enhancement of software components in legacy DOD systems, and creating methods and tools to recover succinct models of domain data abstractions and logic from the source code, adding enhancements at the level of these models, and converting them to performant new component implementations, which are verified to be compatible and secure. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
The NIST’s Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to enhance augmented reality (AR) capabilities in support of first responder operations. The PSIAP-AR aims to attract experts and innovators from industry and academia to focus on conducting research and development of visual interfaces through the use of AR technology. The goals and outcomes of this funding opportunity will be improving the general usability and ecosystem of AR applications and technology built around the public safety use case. This funding opportunity extends across multiple PSCR research areas and includes additional objectives under cybersecurity, resiliency, and location-based services domains. Grants are up to $600,000 per year for up to two years.
Funded research will fall into one or more categories corresponding to HRP’s five Elements: Space Radiation, Human Health Countermeasures, Exploration Medical Capability, Human Factors and Behavioral Performance, and Research Operations and Integration. This NRA covers all aspects of research to provide human health and performance countermeasures, knowledge, technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human space exploration.
The EIR program provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students; and rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students. Grants range from $3 million to $12 million.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
The notice of intent to apply is due by August 18, 2020; proposals by September 10, 2020.
The American Gastroenterological Association is inviting applications for the AGA-Pilot Research Award. The award program provides $30,000 to recipients at any career stage in support of research focused on new directions in the areas of gastroenterology or hepatology. Applicants performing any type of research (basic, translational, clinical) relevant to digestive disorders are eligible to apply. Applicants who are physician-scientists, female, or from racial/ethnic groups underrepresented in biomedical research are strongly encouraged to apply.
Eligibility:
To be eligible, applicants must be a member of AGA.
The NEA is inviting applications for its Catalyst Research Grant program. Through the program, early-career researchers will be awarded grants of up to $50,000 in support of novel and promising eczema research aimed at gathering a preliminary yet meaningful body of data that helps advance the field.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include assistant professors (or equivalent) without current or previous NIH R-series funding as a senior or co-PI.
The program seeks to lay the necessary groundwork for larger intervention and implementation studies and support the profession’s Vision 2025 for occupational therapy as an evidence-based profession. To that end, the IRG program provides seed funding for the development of new and/or novel ideas that can generate preliminary data as proof of concept. To that end, grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded to principal investigators who do not currently have substantial extramural research awards as an independent PI in support of pilot studies, feasibility studies, and intervention research planning that lays the necessary groundwork for larger studies aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions with respect to occupation, participation, and health. There is also a parallel track for health services research.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
LOIs are due by August 31, 2020; full proposals by November 30, 2020.
The foundation encourages proposals for a one-year period that allow all the capabilities of a new cancer researcher or new cancer approach 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.
The Conference on College Composition & Communication is inviting applications for its Emergent Researcher Awards. The program is intended to support the efforts of the organization and its members in becoming a clear, trusted public voice on issues of writing and writing instruction. To that end, grants of up to $10,000 over up to two years will be awarded to projects that contribute to or affect discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education. The initiative also asks recipients to clearly address the impact their research might have on these conversations, conveying the potential implications of their work in at least two final products: one that is addressed to a scholarly audience of researchers and teachers in the field, and one that is addressed to a specifically identified more public audience. There is also a parallel track for general research.
Eligibility:
Principal investigators must be a member of CCCC at the time of application.
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation supports projects that illuminate European works of art and architecture, from antiquity to the early 19th century. To help advance this mission, the foundation welcomes Letters of Intent for its Conservation Grants Program, which provides support for the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era. Through the program, grants will be awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, the development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focused on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants also will be awarded in support of activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, exhibitions that include a prominent focus on materials and techniques, and other professional events. There is also a parallel track for European art projects.
Through this program, grants will be awarded to prison education providers and organizations working, in this moment of pandemic-generated crisis and national reckoning, to expand or stretch on questions of race and justice—and beyond. The foundation seeks proposals from organizations that are imagining and implementing visionary educational practices; interrogating linkages between education and liberation; and placing the humanities at the center of their work. The program is open to prison-education programs that confer university or college credit toward degree-granting programs and organizations whose mission includes the analysis and support of higher education in prison. Direct support will be awarded both to providers of college-in-prison programs and to those affiliated with or providing research, curricular, or other support to such programs, possibly including transfer pathway support, career advising, and general counseling support for those leaving incarceration and matriculating to another college or university. Grants will range from between $250,000 to $1 million over two years.
Eligibility:
There are no eligibility restrictions.
Dates:
The registration deadline is August 21, 2020; proposals are due by August 28, 2020.
XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing is a $5 million, six-month competition to develop faster, cheaper, and easier-to-use COVID-19 testing methods at scale. The winning teams will develop COVID-19 tests that are radically affordable compared to what’s currently available on the market. For about the price of a latte, the tests will be equal to (or better than) commercial offerings at measuring sensitivity, specificity, and limit of detection, with a maximum turnaround time of twelve-hours from sample to result. The winning teams will also be able to successfully deploy and conduct a minimum of five hundred tests per week at a live testing site within sixty days and have the potential to scale their solutions to thousands of tests per week.
Eligibility:
IHEs are eligible to apply.
Dates:
Proposals are due by August 31, 2020.
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