Document Actions
Funding for Biomedical, Life Sciences, and Agriculture
Biomedical, Life Sciences, and Agriculture Funding
Funding opportunities posted by the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine
Updated January 2007
The below listings are a compilation of annual funding opportunities in the biomedical, life sciences, and agriculture fields identified as of January 8, 2006 and distributed monthly by OPD as Current Funding Opportunities & Potential Project Listings at Texas A&M University.
The below URLs were all active at the time this version (above date) was prepared. Program dates, when given, are for the most current past funding cycle, and therefore may change slightly for upcoming opportunities. URLs can change. If a URL link is not active copy and paste the program title into Google or Yahoo to search for a more current URL.
Please direct comments and feedback to mikecronan@tamu.edu, or suggest potential listings for updated versions.
USDA
- Secondary and 2-year Postsecondary
Agriculture Education Challenge Grants
(Due 11 January 2008)
- Higher Education Challenge Grants
(Due 1 February 2008)
- Hispanic Serving Institutions
Education
(Due 6 February 2008)
- National Research Initiative – Entire
2008 Solicitation
Agricultural Genomics and Biosecurity Cluster (Overview)
Animal Protection and Biosecurity
- Animal Disease
Letter of Intent due: October 9, 2007
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
- Animal Well-Being
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
- Coordinated Agricultural Project
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Microbial Biology
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: Offered in partnership with NSF; see NSF for due dates
Letter of Intent due: October 9, 2007
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Plant Genome
- Tools, Resources, and Bioinformatics
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
- Functional Genomics
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
- Genome Structure and Organization
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
- Applied Plant Genomics Coordinated Agricultural Project
Letter of Intent due: November 26, 2007
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
Microbial Genomics
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: March 8, 2007
- Functional Genomics of Microorganisms
Next accepting applications until FY2009
Animal Genome
Letter of Intent due: November 26, 2007
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
Letter of Intent due: March 14, 2008
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Letter of Intent due: March 14, 2008
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Plant Biosecurity
Letter of Intent due: March 14, 2008
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management
Letter of Intent due: November 26, 2007
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
Letter of Intent due: November 26, 2007
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
Letter of Intent due: March 14, 2008
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Letter of Intent due: March 14, 2008
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Cluster (Overview)
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: November 15, 2007
Plant Biology
Letter of Intent due: October 9, 2007
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Letter of Intent due: October 9, 2007
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Letter of Intent due: October 9, 2007
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Letter of Intent due: November 26, 2007
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
Letter of Intent due: November 26, 2007
Proposal due: February 14, 2008
Biobased Products and Bioenergy Production Research
Letter of Intent due: November 2, 2007
Proposal due: January 17, 2008
Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: January 17, 2008
Animal Growth and Nutrient Utilization
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
Agribusiness markets and Trade
Next accepting applications until FY2009
Nutrition, Food Safety and Quality Cluster (Overview)
Food Safety and Epdemiology
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Letter of Intent due: October 9, 2007
Proposal due: December 19, 2007
Bioactive Food Components for Optimal Health
Letter of Intent due: November 5, 2007
Proposal due: January 17, 2008
Improving Food Quality and Value
Letter of Intent due: November 5, 2007
Proposal due: January 17, 2008
Human Nutrition and Obesity
Letter of Intent due: None
Proposal due: June 5, 2008
American Cancer Society, Extramural Grants Program. Institutional Research Grants
The purpose of the IRG program is (1) to support the development of newly independent investigators to conduct cancer research; (2) to foster direct relationships between funded institutions and the local American Cancer Society (ACS); and (3) to support research by newly independent investigators in areas of special interest to the ACS (psychosocial and behavioral research, health policy or health services research, cancer in the poor and underserved, and childhood cancer).
Deadline: April 1
The purpose of this RFA is two fold: (1) to develop new methods to prevent transmission of Antimicrobial Resistant (AR) pathogens (R01) and (2) to reduce Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) Infection in households (U01). The purpose of the R01 award is to develop novel methods for controlling transmission of antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens with the intent of interrupting transmission to such a degree that rates of infection due to antimicrobial resistant pathogens are favorably impacted, the overall health of the population is improved, and healthcare cost savings are realized.
Deadline: April 3
Biomass Research and Development Initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly solicit applications for financial assistance addressing research, development, and demonstration of biomass based products, bioenergy, biofuels and related processes.
Deadline: April 3
NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)
This initiative will develop and implement a new Pathway to Independence Award Program (PI) designed to facilitate receiving an R01 award earlier in an investigator’s research career. The primary, long-term goal of the PI Award Program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported independent investigators. The Pathway to Independence Award will provide up to five years of support consisting of two phases. The initial phase will provide 1-2 years of mentored support for highly promising, postdoctoral research scientists. This phase will be followed by up to 3 years of independent support contingent on securing an independent research position.
Deadline: April 7
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide support for a specialized center to conduct a pilot public consultation study to obtain wide societal input to inform the design of a possible large U.S.-based longitudinal cohort study of the role of genes and environment in health and disease.
Deadlines: LOI April 10; full May 10
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biological Informatics
The National Science Foundation offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biological Informatics to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in developing and using computational, statistical, and other tools in the collection, organization, dissemination, and use of information to solve problems in biology. The research and training plan of each fellowship is expected to address important scientific questions in contemporary biology and include a bold linkage between computer, information, and computational science and biology and develop and/or apply state of the art informatics tools or approaches to the stated problem. Fellows who accept a tenure track position following the fellowship may apply for research starter grants.
Deadline: April 10
AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation (R36)
Application Submission Dates(s): April 10, August 10, December 10, annually. This Funding Opportunity Announcement will use the dissertation grant (R36) award mechanism. The total direct costs awarded under this FOA for dissertations must not exceed $35,000 for the entire project period, which should be a minimum of nine months and not to exceed 17 months in duration. The proposed grant start date should not be sooner than five months after the submission deadline.
Deadline: April 10
Tumor Microenvironment Network (TMEN) (U54)
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites cooperative agreement and NIH intramural applications from groups of investigators interested in becoming components of the NCI Tumor Microenvironment Network (TMEN). The main objective is to delineate mechanisms of tumor-stroma interactions in human cancer and to generate a comprehensive understanding of composition of the stroma in normal tissues as well as its roles in tumor initiation, progression, and metastasis. A total of $12.0 million/per year for 5 years will be awarded to fund up to six individual multidisciplinary Research Programs using the U54 cooperative agreement mechanism.
Deadlines: LOI April 10; full May 10
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide support for a specialized center to conduct a pilot public consultation study to obtain wide societal input to inform the design of a possible large U.S.-based longitudinal cohort study of the role of genes and environment in health and disease.
Deadline: LOI April 10
Genomics: GTL Facility for the Production Characterization of Proteins and Molecular Tags
The Genomics: GTL program (GTL) in the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is a broad, microbe-based research program that will dramatically advance understanding of both individual microbes and complex microbial communities as whole living systems. To achieve this understanding, the scientific community needs access to resources that enable individual scientists to collect, access and analyze vast amounts of data that exceed the capabilities of their individual laboratories (see Genomics: GTL Roadmap at http://doegenomestolife.org/roadmap/index.shtml
Deadline: April 11
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aquatic Invasive Species Program (AISP) and the National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP) are soliciting applications for aquatic invasive species research and outreach projects for specific activities listed in the PROGRAM GUIDANCE section below. They include (1) human health-related outreach activities related to the invasive species lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the southeast United States, (2) research related to control of invasive green crab (Carcinus maenus), and (3) research and outreach related to the control of several species of tunicates invading the northern east and west coasts of North America and related fishing grounds.
Deadline: April 13
NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13/U13)
This funding opportunity provides updated guidelines for National Institutes of Health (NIH) support of conferences and scientific meetings. Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to conduct the proposed conference or scientific meeting is invited to work with that individual’s institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: April 15
Whitehall Foundation Research Grants
Grants in basic research in neurobiology are available for established scientists working at accredited US academic institutions. 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. Research 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. Research grants normally range from $30,000 to $75,000 per year.
Deadlines: Apr. 15, Oct. 1 (letter of intent), Sep. 1, Feb. 15, 2007
Whitehall Foundation Grants-in-Aid
The Grants-in-Aid program is designed for 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. All applications will be judged on the scientific merit and innovative aspects of the proposal, as well as on past performance and evidence of the applicant’s continued productivity. Grants-in-Aid are awarded for a one-year period and do not exceed $30,000. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology.
Deadline: Apr. 15, Oct. 1 (letter of intent), Sep. 1, Feb. 15, 2007
Whitehall Foundation, Inc, Grant Programs. Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
It is the foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by federal agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. Research grants normally range from $30,000 to $75,000 per year.
Deadline: April 15
NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13/U13)
This funding opportunity provides updated guidelines for National Institutes of Health (NIH) support of conferences and scientific meetings. Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to conduct the proposed conference or scientific meeting is invited to work with that individual’s institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: April 15
Prostate Cancer Research Program Health Disparity Research Award
The intent of the Health Disparity Research Award is to encourage and support investigators who focus their research efforts on the disparity of prostate cancer within an affected population or community. Appropriate disparity focus areas include, but are not limited to, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, access to health care, insurance status, age, geography, and cultural beliefs.
Deadline: April 17
DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs, possibly enabled by intimately integrating microsystems within insects, during their early stages of metamorphoses. The healing processes from one metamorphic stage to the next stage are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface to insects, as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects. Once these platforms are integrated, various microsystem payloads can be mounted on the platforms with the goal of controlling insect locomotion, sense local environment, and scavenge power. Multidisciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, and biologists are expected to work together to develop new technologies utilizing insect biology, while developing foundations for the new field of insect cyborg engineering. The HI-MEMS may also serve as vehicles to conduct research to answer basic questions in biology.
Deadline: April 17
Small Animal Imaging Resource Program (U24)
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications from extramural investigators for Small Animal Imaging Resources (SAIRs). These grants will support: (a) shared imaging resources to be used by cancer investigators; (b) research related to small animal imaging technology or methodology; and (c) training of both professional and technical support personnel interested in the science and techniques of small animal imaging.
Deadline: April 18
USAID Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative
USAID is seeking funding applications from Amazon-based and/or U.S.-based institutions, representing a mix of environmental and development partners performing under consortium partnering arrangements to conserve biodiversity and address priority threats and opportunities in the Amazon Basin. (Please refer to the Program Description, Section C). Subject to the availability of funds, USAID anticipates awarding three to five cooperative agreements in the range of $3 to $8 million each, for an intended total of $38 million over this five-year period of ABCI (2006-2010).
Deadline: April 19
Bioinformatics and Assays Development Program 2 (BIAD2) - BAA 06-01
A critical area of focus for DHS is the protection of the homeland from the release of a biological agent. This focus is demonstrated by the BioWatch surveillance system and a number of programs initiated by HSARPA that are developing new sensor technologies. These include the Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detectors (BAND) and Rapid Automated Biological Identification System (RABIS) programs under solicitation RA03-01, as well as Instantaneous Bio-Aerosol Detector Systems (IBADS; BAA 04-18), Low-Cost Bio-Aerosol Detector Systems (LBADS; BAA 05-08), and Food Biological Agent Detection Sensors (FBADS; BAA 05-06) programs. As a complement to the technology program initiated under RA03-01, HSARPA initiated the Bioinformatics and Assays Development program (BIAD; BAA 04-03) to extend the existing family of detection and forensics assays as well as to develop next generation assays and new tools for assay development. (See www.hsarpabaa.com for details about these past solicitations.) Development of new sensor systems is not a priority for the BIAD2 program.
POC: Evelyn Gibbs, Contract Specialist, Phone 202-254-6115, Fax 202-254-6167, Email Evelyn.Gibbs@dhs.gov
Deadline: April 21
Basic Research Program in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense – 2007
The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) announces the availability of Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) No. W911NF-06-R-0005 for Basic Research Program in Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense of the Joint Science and Technology Office, Physical Science and Technology Division – 2007. The BAA sets forth basic research areas of interest to the Physical Science and Technology Basic Research Program of the Joint Chemical and Biological Defense Program. Basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding the fundamental aspects of phenomena and has the potential for broad, rather than specific, application. Proposals for basic research are solicited in the following sciences: Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Biological and Life Sciences, Chemistry, Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Computing and Information Science, Electronics, Mathematical Science, Materials Science, Mechanical Science, Physics, Terrestrial and Ocean Sciences, and Nanoscience.
Deadline: April 22 white paper; full June 20
Low Dose Radiation Research Program - Basic Biology
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Human Research Program (HRP), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), hereby announce their interest in receiving grant applications for new research to develop a better scientific basis for understanding exposures and risks to humans from low doses or low fluences of ionizing radiation.
Deadline: April 26
Application of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R21, R21/R33, R33)
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for research projects to evaluate the usefulness of emerging molecular technologies that are ready for initial application to clinical or biological questions in cancer research. Technology encompasses methods and tools that enable research, including, but not limited to, instrumentation, techniques, and devices. Molecular technologies are distinct from resources such as databases, individual reagents, therapeutic agents, and tissue repositories, and do not include the development of whole body imaging technologies. Repositories, agent development, whole body imaging technologies, and software development are supported through other initiatives.
Deadline: LOI April 26
Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer (R21, R33)
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for research projects proposing the development of highly innovative cancer relevant molecular technologies. Technology encompasses methods and tools that enable research, including, but not limited to, instrumentation, techniques, and devices. Molecular technologies are distinct from resources such as databases, individual reagents, therapeutic agents, and tissue repositories, and do not include the development of whole body imaging technologies. Repositories, agent development, whole body imaging technologies, and software development are supported through other initiatives.
Deadline: LOI April 26
Food & Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate & Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants
Applications may be submitted by: (1) land-grant institutions, (2) colleges and universities having significant minority enrollments and a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences, and (3) other colleges and universities having a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences. An institution eligible to receive an award under this program includes a research foundation maintained by an eligible college or university.
Deadline: April 28
The publication Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM), Fiscal 2006, Competitive Award Program: Description and Application Process describes PREISM's priority research areas and application requirements for 2006. The deadline for submitting proposals is April 28, 2006.
Deadline: April 28
Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program: senior posts in educational institutions abroad
These awards, viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Program, enable senior scholars to assume posts in educational institutions abroad. This year’s program includes opportunities in a variety of fields, most within the humanities and social sciences but some within the biological and physical/mathematical sciences. The posts are located in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden.
Deadline: May 1 for prelim apps
Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)
The National Institutes of Health are interested in promoting innovative research for Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment. Applications may include development of novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations; across various age-groups including older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; or statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases.
Deadline: LOI May 1; full June 1
The American Nurses Foundation (ANF) Nursing Research Grants Program is to encourage the research career development of all nurses. To effectively achieve this goal, the program supports research of beginning and experienced nurse researchers. The majority of the grants have subject restrictions required by the funding organization. Several special awards are given in addition to the ANF awards. These awards are administered by ANF and vary in funding levels that are determined by the sponsoring organization. Please refer to the website for more information.
Deadline: May 1
Microbiology Fellowships for Minorities
The American Society for Microbiology welcomes applications for the Robert D. Watkins Minority Graduate Fellowship. The goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities completing doctoral degrees in the microbiological sciences. Candidates should provide evidence of a successful research plan developed in collaboration with a research advisor or mentor. The total stipend is for three years at $57,000.
Deadlione: May 1
This letter is to call your attention to a new opportunity to broaden participation of underrepresented students in Ph.D. programs in electrical engineering and biomedical/biochemical/environmental engineering through supplements to current research grants funded by the Electrical and Communications Systems Division (ECS) or the Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division (BES) in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Deadline: May 1
Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06) Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
The PRMRP expects to fund 33 Investigator –Initiated Research Awards at $625,000 direct costs, 2 New Program Project Awards at $1.25M direct costs , 2 Existing program Project Awards at $1,25M, 3 Advanced Technology: Product/Technology Down Selection or Optimization at $940,000 direct costs, 2 Advanced Technology: Clinical Testing/Trials at $2.5M direct costs.
Deadline: May 9
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.-Faculty Start-up Awards
The Faculty Start-up Awards Program is open to all academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that do not grant a doctoral degree in chemistry, biochemistry or chemical engineering. Faculty members who start their first tenure-track appointment in one of these departments in 2006 are eligible for nomination in 2006.
Deadline: May 11
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.-New Faculty Awards Program
The New Faculty Award provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000 that is generally made before the new faculty members formally begin their first tenure-track appointment, and is based on institutional nomination.
Deadline: May 11
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is soliciting research proposals for studies on the pathophysiology, surrogate markers, mechanisms and treatment of Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's-related neurodegenerative conditions to include initiating causes, interaction of environmental and genetic risk factors, epigenetic modifying factors, with emphasis on exposure factors encountered in military operations which may be neurotoxic or lead to neurodegenerative conditions.
Deadline: May 15
Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Research Program
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is soliciting research proposals for studies on the pathophysiology, surrogate markers, mechanisms and treatment of Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's-related neurodegenerative conditions to include initiating causes, interaction of environmental and genetic risk factors, epigenetic modifying factors, with emphasis on exposure factors encountered in military operations which may be neurotoxic or lead to neurodegenerative conditions.
Deadline: May 15
Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences
The goal of the Undergraduate Biology and Mathematics (UBM) activity is to enhance undergraduate education and training at the intersection of the biological and mathematical sciences and to better prepare undergraduate biology or mathematics students to pursue graduate study and careers in fields that integrate the mathematical and biological sciences. The core of the activity is long-term research experiences for interdisciplinarily balanced teams of at least four undergraduates. Projects should focus on research at the intersection of the mathematical and biological sciences.
Deadline: May 18
FANRP 2006 Request for Research Proposals-The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program is inviting proposals for its 2006 Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program. Proposals are due (postmarked) May 22, 2006. ERS anticipates funding about $1.5 million for competitive grants and cooperative agreements this fiscal year.
Deadline: May 22
International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health
Support is provided to train environmental and occupational health scientists from developing countries for careers in research and public health in their home countries.
Deadline: LOI May 22; full
Camille, Henry Dreyfus Foundation--Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The award of $120,000 over two years is given to a faculty member who submits a proposal judged to be exceptional, both in its potential for leading edge contributions to environmental science, and in the arrangements for the education of the Fellow.
Deadline: May 25
NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Investigator-Initiated Small Grant (R03) funding opportunity supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. Investigator-initiated research, also known as unsolicited research, is research funded as a result of an investigator submitting a research grant application to NIH in an investigator’s area of interest and competency.
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21)
The Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
Identification of All Functional Elements in Selected Model Organism Genomes (U01)
The RFA solicits applications to identify all of the sequence-based functional elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans and/or Drosophila melanogaster genomes.
Deadline: LOI June 1; full June 22
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to Promote Diversity (K23)
The Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch (CMBB), Office of Centers, Training and Resources (OCTR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), announces the availability of the "Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to Promote Diversity" for career development of individuals with a health professional doctoral degree (e.g., M.D., D.D.S., D.O., O.D., D.V.M., D.N.Sc., N.D. [Doctor of Naturopathy], Pharm.D.), from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related science. This award provides specialized study for those who are committed to a career in patient-oriented cancer research.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Bureau of Reclamation - Flat Tailed Horned Lizard Study
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, Yuma Area Office is requesting proposals to fund projects for activities in support of their Endangered Species program in federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 (October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006). The Yuma Area Office periodically makes funding available for conducting activities for Threatened and Endangered (T&E) species and their habitats under Section 7.(a).(1). of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The objective is to fund opportunities for collecting field data of the Flat-Tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma mcalli) in accordance with the Flat Tailed Horned Lizard (FTHL) Range-wide Management Strategy (2003 revision).
Deadline: September 2006
National Science Foundation - Biomaterials (BMAT)
The focus of the Biomaterials Program is the study of biologically related materials and phenomena, including biological pathways to new materials. The materials and systems of interest include biomolecules, biomolecular assemblies (systems of strongly interacting biomolecules), biomolecular systems (vesicles, membranes, and various other assemblies and networks of biomolecules), and biomimetic, bioinspired, or biocompatible materials.
Deadline: September 18, 2006 - November 3, 2006
USDA/CSREES Agricultural Genomics Program Cluster
Microbial Genome Sequencing (23.2), Microbial Observations (23.3), Animal Genome (43.0), Functional Genomics of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (45.0), Suborganismal Biology and Genomics of Arthropods and Nematodes (51.3), and Plant Genome (52.1). Deadline: Varies by program (February 15, 2006-June 15, 2006).
Deadline: June 15, 2006
Topics: Biotechnology (BT), Chemical-based Technologies (CT), and Emerging Opportunities (EO). Do not submit proposals prior to November 8, 2005. Proposals submitted prior to November 8, 2005 will be returned without review.
Deadline: June 13
National Science Foundation - Cognitive Neuroscience
The Cognitive Neuroscience program seeks highly innovative proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior. Topics may bear on core functions such as sensory, learning, language, reasoning, emotion, and executive processes, or more specialized processes such as empathy, creativity, representation of self and other, or intentionality, among many other possibilities. Topics may also include how such processes develop and change in the brain.
Deadline: July 14
Collaborative Research Molecular and Genomic Studies of Basic Behavior in Animal Models
The purpose of the initiative is to facilitate collaborative research, involving behavioral scientists and investigators with expertise in molecular biology and/or genomics, which addresses questions about basic mechanisms of behavior in animal models.
Deadline: Feb. 1, June 1, Oct. 1
Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)
This funding opportunity is aimed at advancing the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity pertinent to cancer and/or other pathologies through support of research on improved instruments, technologies, and/or statistical/analytical techniques. Studies proposed in the grant applications should be aimed at optimizing the combined use of objective and self-report measures of physical activity and/or dietary intake for testing in both general and diverse populations.
Deadline: LOI May 1, June 1
Whitaker Foundation International Fellowship Scholarship Program
The goal of the program, which the grant will fund for 15 years, is to give biomedical engineers an international outlook. Whitaker Fellows will have a bachelor's or master's degree (but not a doctorate) in biomedical engineering or bioengineering when they begin their fellowship.
Deadline: August 2006
Science and Society
S&S considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
Deadline: Aug. 1
NIH Career Development Awards (K Awards)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides several Career Development Awards (K awards) that individuals with a research doctorate should consider. Most of these awards support individuals that have accepted or are ready for a faculty position.
PA-06-001: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
PA-00-020: Independent Scientist Award (K02)
PA-00-021: Senior Scientist Award (K05)
PA-00-070: Academic Career Award (K07)
PAR-02-069: Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (K18)
PA-00-019: Career Transition Award (K22)
PA-06-087: Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25)
PAR-99-065: Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research Award (K26)
PAR-04-058: International Research Scientist Development Award (K01). Deadline: Feb. 16
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1.
Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins (R01)
This PA solicits applications to develop research and methods to enhance the rate of membrane protein structure determination and to determine specific membrane protein structures. Innovative methods for expression, oligomerization, solubilization, stabilization, purification, characterization, crystallization, isotopic labeling, and structure determination of unique and biologically significant membrane proteins by x-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron microscopic, mass spectrometry, and other biophysical techniques are encouraged. Projects that will lead in the near term to determining the structures of biologically important membrane proteins are also encouraged.
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1.
Oral Health Research Education Grants (R25)
The goals of the NIDCR Oral Health Research Education (OHRE) Grants program are to infuse an appreciation of science and the results of scientific research into the dental school curriculum and to develop a pipeline of students interested in pursuing a career in oral health research.
Deadline: June 1
Human Nutrition and Obesity, United States Department of Agriculture
This crosscutting program addresses the complex problem of obesity prevention. Projects funded by this program are intended to lead to a better understanding of the behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity and to the development and evaluation of effective interventions to prevent obesity. Goals for this program are: the behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity will be sufficiently well understood to develop effective obesity prevention strategies; valid behavioral and environmental instruments for measuring progress in obesity prevention will be available; and effective strategies for preventing overweight and obesity will be available.
Deadline: June 15
Air Quality, United States Department of Agriculture
Agriculture, forest, and range production practices have increasingly become subject to state and federal regulations that are meant to protect air resources. In many instances, data do not exist or are not representative of agricultural industries for the purpose of estimating emissions to the atmosphere of regulated pollutants or of public nuisances such as odors and fugitive dust. Goals of this program are: a) develop emission data for agriculture, forest, and range production practices that will lead to emission reduction targets, based on sound science, that will significantly improve air quality and protect human and environmental health; b) develop mitigation strategies that will increase adoption of best management practices to reduce agricultural emissions; c) and improve understanding of odor, gases, and particulate matter (PM) measurement, production, flux, fate and transport that will lead to a better understanding of the environmental fate of agricultural atmospheric emissions.
Deadline: June 15
Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research (K26)
The goals of NIH-supported career development programs are to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists are available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical needs. The Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research seeks to support established pathobiologists to allow them to devote protected time to mouse pathobiology research and mentor beginning investigators.
Eligible candidates must hold a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, M.D., Ph.D. or equivalent degree and are within 15 years of their specialty training. Candidates must have a demonstrated record of meritorious mouse pathobiology research, experience in mentoring, conduct up to 5 years of enhanced mouse pathobiology research, and serve as mentors for beginning pathobiologist investigators.
Deadline: July 1
Genes and Genome Systems Cluster
The Genes and Genome Systems Cluster supports studies on genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus. Proposals on the structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated are appropriate. Areas of interest include genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information. Of equal interest are the processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation. The use of innovative in vivo and/or in vitro approaches, including biochemical, physiological, genetic, genomic, and/or computational methods, is encouraged, as is research at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and engineering.
Deadline: July 12
Nanostructured Dental Composite Restorative Materials (R21)
The purpose of this initiative is to encourage nanotechnology and nanoscience approaches in the design and development of new dental composite materials. The expected outcomes are new formulations for dental composites with improved adhesive bonding to dentin and enamel surfaces, durability, esthetics, and biocompatibility.
Deadline: July 17
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invites qualified investigators from academic institutions or non-profit research institutions to submit an application for a Disease Investigation through Specialized Clinically-Oriented Ventures in Environmental Research (DISCOVER) Center. Each DISCOVER Center will develop an over-arching theme that is based on a specific environmentally-influenced disease or dysfunction and will craft an interdisciplinary research approach that integrates patient-oriented or public health research with basic mechanistic studies to address disease etiology, pathogenesis, susceptibility and/or progression. An extraordinary level of synergy, integration, and potential for advancement of environmental health sciences is expected. By fostering collaborative research these centers will (1) increase the relevance of basic scientific discoveries in environmental health sciences to human disease; and (2) move this knowledge into clinical and public health application to ultimately improve human health.
Deadline: LOI October 17, 2006, Application November 17, 2006
Plant Biosecurity, United States Department of Agriculture
This program supports integrated projects aimed at ensuring a continued supply of safe, high-quality, affordable food and fiber for consumers in the U.S. and international trade partners. The goal of the program is to harness our NationÆs scientific and technological resources to help agricultural producers and professionals implement strategies to safeguard agriculture in the U.S. from high-consequence plant diseases. To accomplish this, the program will focus on integrated research, education and extension projects that counter threats to the agriculture system in the U.S., both by stepwise improvements to current responses and by development of innovative new capabilities.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences
Scientific knowledge achieved through this research program is expected to move the field of environmental health sciences into new directions and approaches for the identification, treatment, and prevention of environmentally-related diseases or disorders.
Deadline: LOI Dec. 11; full Jan. 11
Research on Learning and Education
The ROLE program seeks to capitalize on important developments across a wide range of fields related to human learning and to STEM education. It supports research across a continuum that includes: the biological basis of human learning; behavioral, cognitive, affective and social aspects of STEM learning; STEM learning in formal and informal educational settings; STEM Policy research; and the diffusion of STEM innovations.
Deadline: Dec. 11 LOI
Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics
The Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics program focuses on advancing the state of the art in the application of advanced information technology to science and engineering problems in specific domains, such as astronomy, biology, the geosciences, public health and health care delivery.
Deadline: Dec. 15
Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Xenopus
Investigator-initiated applications designed to exploit the power of Xenopus as a vertebrate model for biomedical research. Applications are welcome proposing to develop new tools or genetic or genomic resources of high priority to the Xenopus community that will advance the detection and characterization of genes, pathways, and phenotypes of interest in development, organogenesis, and in cell biological processes, such as cell division, signaling and migration.
Deadlione: LOI Dec. 19; full Jan. 18
Short Courses on Application of Genomics and Proteomics to Complex Heart, Lung, Blood
The National Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Institute invites applications for education projects to develop, conduct, evaluate, and disseminate short-term courses on application of genomics and proteomics to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. The courses should provide hands-on training to investigators interested in leveraging genomic and proteomic technologies and resources to advance the understanding of disease mechanisms of interest to the institute.
Deadline: LOI Dec. 19; full Jan. 17
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
The goals of NIH-supported career development programs are to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists are available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to address the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.
Deadline: January 3, 2009
Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund
Talbots welcomes applications for the Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund. This program annually awards five $10,000 scholarships and fifty $1,000 scholarships to women seeking a bachelor's or associate's degree later in life.
Deadline: Jan. 3
Planetary Biodiversity Inventories
To accelerate the discovery and study of the world’s biodiversity, proposals are invited from teams of investigators to conduct a worldwide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms. Each project should conduct fieldwork necessary to fill gaps in existing collections, produce descriptions, taxonomic revisions, web-searchable databases, and interactive keys (or other automated identification tools) for all new and known species in the targeted group, analyze their phylogenetic relationships, and establish predictive classifications for the group.
Deadline: Jan. 10
NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity
Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) program seeks to facilitate and promote, at research institutions with significant number of mentors with NIH or other extramural research support, the entry into biomedical or behavioral research fields of undergraduate and graduate students from groups underrepresented in these fields.
Deadline: Feb. 1 annually
Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES)
MUSES is aimed at soliciting new multidisciplinary activities that encourage researchers in engineering, physical and life sciences, social and behavioral sciences, economics, mathematics, and education to reach beyond their disciplinary boundaries in order to address complex issues related to materials use in the environment. There are two challenges: (a) to propose exploratory research issues that are viable and (b) to create new teams of researchers with the necessary expertise who can work together.
Deadline: February 7, 2007
AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars
The AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars honors an untenured woman scholar who has a record of exceptional early professional accomplishments and demonstrates promise of future distinction. The award is open to women in all disciplines.
Deadline: Feb. 10
Terrestrial Carbon Processes Research
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the Office of Science, Department of Energy, hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for carbon cycle research that will improve understanding of terrestrial carbon processes and aid carbon cycle predictions related to climate change. Research to improve understanding of carbon processes includes attention to mechanisms that control net CO2 exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere.
Deadline: LOI Feb. 17, 2006
Advanced Informatics for Biomedicine: Request for Information
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to issue a call for proposals that address a highly selective set of informatics problems of fundamental importance to biomedicine. To inform planning for such a program NLM solicits responses from the informatics, computer science, information science and engineering communities to the question: What are the major informatics research challenges in biomedicine today? This Request for Information is addressed to all with interest in the application of computation to biomedical research, healthcare, and the education of health professionals (biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and computational biology.). Please send responses of 1-2 pages to Milton Corn, M.D. at cornm@mail.nih.gov.
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2006
Microbial Genome Sequencing Program FY 2006
As a collaborative, interagency effort, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture invite research proposals (i) to support high-throughput sequencing of the genomes of microorganisms (including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, oomycetes, protists and agriculturally important nematodes) and (ii) to develop and implement strategies, tools and technologies to make currently available genome sequences more valuable to the user community.
Deadline: March 2, 2006
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for research project grants to support highly innovative research in the quantitative analysis of proteins and peptides of interest in clinical cancer studies. This funding opportunity is a component of the NCI’s Clinical Proteomic Technologies Initiative for Cancer (http://proteomics.cancer.gov) that aims to improve the technological capability to reliably identify, quantify, and compare measurements and analyses of proteins and peptides in complex biological mixtures. The NCI intends to commit approximately $10 million in FY 2006 to fund approximately 10 new grants in response to this funding opportunity.
Deadline: LOI March 11
Concepts Cleared at the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors Meeting
- Small Animal Imaging Resource Program (SAIRPs) (U24 CA) (RFA, pending publication)
- Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment Consortia (U24 CA) (RFA, pending publication)
- Advanced Proteomic Platforms, Analytical Methods, and Computational Sciences (R01, R21/R33 grants) (RFA, pending publication)
- Clinical Proteomic Reagents Resource (contracts) (RFP, pending publication)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering, and conducting of conferences in the areas of (1) EPA mission related issues connected to protecting, human health and safeguarding the natural environment; (2) advancing the scientific and technical research that promotes environmental protection; (3) exploring current and emerging issues of importance to environmental protection; and/or (4) encouraging collaboration among the nation’s best scientists and engineers in academia, business and nonprofit research institutes. The awards under this BAA may involve the collection of geospatial information.
Deadline: Jan. 18 2007
Scientific Cooperation Exchange Program with China
The Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, invites applications to the Scientific Cooperation Exchange Program with the People’s Republic of China (SCEP). The program supports international exchanges that promote agricultural development and economic growth, and mitigate animal and plant health issues that impede trade. This unique program offers excellent opportunities for US teams of up to 5 members to initiate linkages with potential long-term collaborators at Chinese institutions throughout the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Under a special USDA Scientific Technological Exchange Agreement with the PRC, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture specifically tailors two-week visits to China to meet the scientific objectives of each team. US teams are responsible only for their international airfare to and from China. In 2006, the SCEP will accept proposals for food safety, animal and plant health, agricultural biotechnology and other emerging technologies, food and non-food product development, and sustainable plant and animal production, and natural resources management.
Deadline: Jan. 25
Spatially extensive observing systems for environmental research, together with the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research on the dynamics of complex environmental systems, create the need for a sophisticated information infrastructure to support these observing systems and to facilitate the integrated use of data from them. There are a number of questions about how to best construct such a cyberinfrastructure.
Deadline: Jan. 25
Nanomedicine Development Centers (PN2)
Each multidisciplinary center will consist of a team of clinicians, biologists, engineers, physical scientists, and mathematicians that work together to investigate the physical properties of molecules and molecular complexes in living cells in order to understand design principles of the native molecular machinery that operates inside cells. The long-term (10-year) goal is to engineer molecular components and complexes in cells to treat disease and/or repair tissue.
Deadline: Concept Approval Letter March 15
Emerging Infections Sentinel Networks
The purpose of the program is to assist awardees in operating provider-based sentinel networks. These networks will contribute to surveillance for emerging infectious diseases (e.g., SARS, West Nile virus), including drug-resistant, foodborne and waterborne, and vaccine-preventable or potentially vaccine-preventable diseases, and will enhance information exchange.
Deadline: March 15
Human Frontier Science Program Organization Research Grants - Young Investigators
The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
Deadline: March 20
Biotechnology: Potential Allergenicity of Genetically Engineered Food
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing to develop methods to assess the potential allergenicity of genetically engineered foods. The development of these methods will help in identifying substances that induce dietary allergy in humans and lead to improved evaluation of the relative potency of unknown proteins.
Deadline: March 21
Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) solicits applications for the Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) program. The SIG program accepts applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade commercially available instruments that cost at least $100,000. The maximum award is $500,000. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell sorters, X-ray diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers among others. Awards are for one year and for direct costs only.
Deadline: March 22
NSF IGERT (major revisions to the previous program solicitation)
It is limited submit: 4 preliminary (due March 27; previously there were no restrictions on the number of preliminary proposals submitted by an institution) and 3 invited full (Sept. 29).
Deadline: March 27 prelim
NSF announces its intention to continue support of multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics.
Deadline: March 27
One -Year Rural Health Research Grant Program
Awards are available for competitive grants for policy-oriented rural health services research. Individual research projects that address rural health services will be funded under this announcement. Policy-oriented rural health services research is useful because it informs policy-makers concerned with rural health issues and it enhances knowledge about rural health and rural health services. These grants are designed to provide support both for entities established in the rural health services research field as well as those entering this field. These grants are also intended to advance specific areas of rural health services research in which a limited amount of research exists. To conduct and disseminate policy-relevant research on issues of national significance in the area of rural health services.
Deadline: May 19
International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health
Support is provided to train environmental and occupational health scientists from developing countries for careers in research and public health in their home countries
Deadline: LOI May 22; full
CDC Avian Influenza Cooperative Research Centers -Studies at the Human-Animal Interface
The need for an integrated human health – animal health approach to research on zoonotic diseases is highlighted by the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Southeast Asia in early 2004 with subsequent and rapid spread to other parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. This solicitation is for cooperative research centers to perform research on avian influenza at the human-animal interface to improve and inform public health detection, prevention and control strategies.
Deadline: LOI due May 25 and proposal June 26
The Effect Of Racial And Ethnic Discrimination/Bias On Health Care Delivery (R03)
The purposes of this FOA are: (1) to improve the measurement of racial /ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection and statistical/analytical techniques; (2) to enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and (3) to reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics (R21)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to continue to support new studies on the genes, and genetic and epigenetic mechanisms influencing sex determination, fertility, reproductive health and reproductive aging, and other topics in Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Information Technologies & Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R03)
Study of the use of technology to disseminate health-related information. How does information technology impact the packaging, transmission, and reception of information? This may include how IT influences the access, comprehension, and use of health information.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Information Technologies & Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R01)
Study of the use of technology to disseminate health-related information. How does information technology impact the packaging, transmission, and reception of information? This may include how IT influences the access, comprehension, and use of health information. Study of the use of technology as a medium through which effective treatment and preventive interventions can be delivered. (e.g. telemedicine) How does the use of technology impact the intervention? Are adaptations to the intervention required? Does use of technology fundamentally change the way interventions are conceptualized?
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Information Technologies & Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R21)
This funding opportunity encourages investigators to submit applications studying the impact of health information technology on health interventions and services. Studies related to the impact of technology on the delivery of health-related information as well as health-related clinical interventions are encouraged.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Award to Promote Diversity (K08)
The Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch (CMBB), Office of Centers, Training and Resources (OCTR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), announces the availability of Mentored Clinical Scientist Awards to Promote Diversity for career development of individuals from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related science who have obtained health professional doctoral degrees (e.g., M.D., D.D.S., D.O., O.D., D.V.M., D.N.Sc., N.D., Pharm.D.). This award provides specialized study for those who are committed to a career in laboratory or field-based cancer research (not patient-oriented research).
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Nutrition and Diet in the Causation, Prevention, and Management of Heart Failure (R21)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage submission of investigator-initiated research applications on the role of nutrition and diet in the causation, prevention, and treatment of cardiomyopathies and heart failure.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Novel Approaches To Study Polymicrobial Diseases (R21)
The NIH Institutes listed above invite research grant applications to conduct studies designed to develop innovative approaches that would contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms that impact on the virulence of infections involving two or more microorganisms or strains of microorganisms (with the exception of HIV).
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21)
The Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
NIH Career Development Awards (K Awards)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides several Career Development Awards (K awards) that individuals with a research doctorate should consider. Most of these awards support individuals that have accepted or are ready for a faculty position.
PA-06-001: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
PA-00-020: Independent Scientist Award (K02)
PA-00-021: Senior Scientist Award (K05)
PA-00-070: Academic Career Award (K07)
PAR-02-069: Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (K18)
PA-00-019: Career Transition Award (K22)
PA-06-087: Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25)
PAR-99-065: Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research Award (K26)
PAR-04-058: International Research Scientist Development Award (K01). Deadline: Feb. 16
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins (R01)
This PA solicits applications to develop research and methods to enhance the rate of membrane protein structure determination and to determine specific membrane protein structures. Innovative methods for expression, oligomerization, solubilization, stabilization, purification, characterization, crystallization, isotopic labeling, and structure determination of unique and biologically significant membrane proteins by x-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron microscopic, mass spectrometry, and other biophysical techniques are encouraged. Projects that will lead in the near term to determining the structures of biologically important membrane proteins are also encouraged.
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
Oral Health Research Education Grants (R25)
The goals of the NIDCR Oral Health Research Education (OHRE) Grants program are to infuse an appreciation of science and the results of scientific research into the dental school curriculum and to develop a pipeline of students interested in pursuing a career in oral health research.
Deadline: June 1
Human Nutrition and Obesity, United States Department of Agriculture
This crosscutting program addresses the complex problem of obesity prevention. Projects funded by this program are intended to lead to a better understanding of the behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity and to the development and evaluation of effective interventions to prevent obesity. Goals for this program are: the behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity will be sufficiently well understood to develop effective obesity prevention strategies; valid behavioral and environmental instruments for measuring progress in obesity prevention will be available; and effective strategies for preventing overweight and obesity will be available.
Deadline: June 15
Strategic Agricultural Initiative/Food Quality Protection Act Grant Program
EPA Region 6 is soliciting proposals to help implement the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) and to support efforts by the agricultural community to “transition” away from high-risk pesticides to lower risk pesticides and sustainable practices in food production. The program supports grants for education, extension and demonstration projects for FQPA transition and reduced risk practices for pest management in agriculture.
Deadline: June 16
Plant Genome Comparative Sequencing Program (PGCSP)
The goal of this program is to support the development of genome sequence resources that would contribute to a conceptual framework for the interpretation of the structure, function and evolution of genomes of economically important plants. Projects are solicited that focus on a biological question that is enabled by the proposed sequence resources and was unanswerable with existing resources. Proposers must provide clear justification for the plant or plants selected and the type of resource to be generated. Projects should also advance the goals of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP).
Deadline: June 16
A Data Coordination Center for the Model Organism ENCODE Project
The purpose of this RFA is to solicit applications for a Biotechnology Resource Cooperative Agreement (U41) award to develop and implement a Data Coordination Center (DCC) as part of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Project for model organisms (modENCODE). The modENCODE Project will establish a Research Consortium that will conduct experiments to identify all of the sequence-based functional elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans and/or Drosophila melanogaster genomes. Both computational and experimental approaches will be critical components of these efforts and a separate RFA, HG-06-006, “Identification of all functional elements in selected model organism genomes” is being issued to support the modENCODE Project.
Deadline: LOI June 21 & app. July 21
Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics (R03)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to continue to support new studies on the genes, and genetic and epigenetic mechanisms influencing sex determination, fertility, reproductive health and reproductive aging, and other topics in Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics.
Deadline: July 1; Nov. 1
Genes and Genome Systems Cluster
The Genes and Genome Systems Cluster supports studies on genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus. Proposals on the structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated are appropriate. Areas of interest include genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information. Of equal interest are the processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation. The use of innovative in vivo and/or in vitro approaches, including biochemical, physiological, genetic, genomic, and/or computational methods, is encouraged, as is research at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and engineering.
Deadline: July 12
The Cognitive Neuroscience program seeks highly innovative proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior. Topics may bear on core functions such as sensory, learning, language, reasoning, emotion, and executive processes, or more specialized processes such as empathy, creativity, representation of self and other, or intentionality, among many other possibilities. Topics may also include how such processes develop and change in the brain. The program is particularly interested in supporting the development of new techniques and technologies for recording, analyzing, and modeling complex brain activity.
Deadline: July 14
International Neuroscience Fellowship (F05)
The goal of this International Neuroscience Fellowship Program is to provide a unique opportunity to qualified foreign neuroscientists, at junior or mid-career level, to receive one to two years of research training in the United States.
Deadline: LOI July 14 & app. August 14
The focus of the Biomaterials Program is the study of biologically related materials and phenomena, including biological pathways to new materials. The materials and systems of interest include biomolecules, biomolecular assemblies (systems of strongly interacting biomolecules), biomolecular systems (vesicles, membranes, and various other assemblies and networks of biomolecules), and biomimetic, bioinspired, or biocompatible materials.
Deadline: Sept. 18-Nov. 3
Flat Tailed Horned Lizard Study
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, Yuma Area Office is requesting proposals to fund projects for activities in support of their Endangered Species program in federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 (October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006). The Yuma Area Office periodically makes funding available for conducting activities for Threatened and Endangered (T&E) species and their habitats under Section 7.(a).(1). of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The objective is to fund opportunities for collecting field data of the Flat-Tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma mcalli) in accordance with the Flat Tailed Horned Lizard (FTHL) Range-wide Management Strategy (2003 revision).
Deadline: Sept. 30
Plant Biosecurity, United States Department of Agriculture
This program supports integrated projects aimed at ensuring a continued supply of safe, high-quality, affordable food and fiber for consumers in the U.S. and international trade partners. The goal of the program is to harness our NationÆs scientific and technological resources to help agricultural producers and professionals implement strategies to safeguard agriculture in the U.S. from high-consequence plant diseases. To accomplish this, the program will focus on integrated research, education and extension projects that counter threats to the agriculture system in the U.S., both by stepwise improvements to current responses and by development of innovative new capabilities
Deadline: Oct. 31
Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences (R21)
This initiative is intended to support collaborations between scientists with basic and clinical expertise to advance understanding of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of environmentally-induced human diseases.
Deadline: LOI Dec. 11; full Jan. 11
Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (P42)
These mandates include the development of 1) methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment; (2) advanced techniques for the detection, assessment, and evaluation of the effect on human health of hazardous substances; (3) methods to assess the risks to human health presented by hazardous substances; and (4) basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances.
LOI Jan. 21; full March 21
2010 Project -- The Directorate for Biological Sciences
The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces its intention to continue support of research to determine the functions of all genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010. Individual investigators or groups of investigators will be supported to conduct creative and innovative, genome-wide or systems-level research designed to determine, using all available means, the functions of Arabidopsis genes.
Deadline: Jan. 29