Grant Funding Opportunities: 9/26/2014
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Announcements
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Upcoming Deadlines
Deadline: 10/6/2014
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) - CREST Center
Description: The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions (MSI) through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. CREST promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty, and an expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. HBCU-RISE awards specifically target HBCUs to support the expansion of institutional research capacity as well as the production of doctoral students, especially those from groups underrepresented in STEM, at those institutions. HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE) awards support the development of research capability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities that offer doctoral degrees in science and engineering disciplines. Supported projects must have a unifying research focus in one of the research areas supported by NSF, a direct connection to the long-term plans of the host department(s) and the institutional mission, and plans for expanding institutional research capacity as well as increasing the production of doctoral students, especially those underrepresented in STEM.
Award Amount: Varies
Website:www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6668&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev
Eligibility: Preliminary and invited full CREST Center proposals may be submitted by minority-serving institutions of higher education in the United States. This denotes institutions that have undergraduate enrollments of 50% or more (based on total student enrollment) of members of minority groups underrepresented among those holding advanced degrees in science and engineering fields: African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Native Pacific Islanders. Eligibility as a minority-serving institution will be determined by reference to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) of the US Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics. Proposals are also invited from institutions of higher education that primarily serve populations of students with disabilities.
Deadline: 10/8/2014
Agency: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Program: Institutional Development Grant
Description: The purpose of the Institutional Development Grant program is to provide research equipment or core facilities that serve multiple investigators. Research Extensive universities* require at least six investigators; Non-research Extensive universities require at least three.
*Research Extensive universities include UNC-CH, NCSU and Duke.
Award Amount: $200,000
Website: www.ncbiotech.org/research-grants/research-funding/institutional-development
Eligibility: A principal investigator from a North Carolina academic or nonprofit research institute. (Other scientists in the research process may be from industry.) For grants awarded to academic institutions, the principal investigator must hold a full-time faculty appointment. For grants awarded to nonprofit institutions, the principal investigator must hold a full-time permanent appointment. An institution may not submit multiple proposals for similar equipment during the same funding year. A principal investigator may have no more than two active awards from the Center at the same time. An institution that receives IDG funds to purchase a piece of equipment is ineligible for two years to receive IDG funds to purchase similar equipment.
New Opportunities
Deadline: 10/15/2014
Agency: American Diabetes Association
Program: Chronic Kidney Disease and Renal Insufficiency in the Setting of Diabetes
Description: This award is designed to support basic, clinical or translational research to better understand the issues surrounding the relationship between diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Specifically, these grants would support research aimed at 1) understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of renal complications in people with diabetes, and 2) improving the treatment and management of people with chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Refer to the Request for Applications for further details regarding the scope of the award. Basic science projects will receive a maximum of $345,000 over three years ($115,000 per year, including indirect costs). Clinical or translational science projects will receive a maximum of $660,000 over three years ($220,000 per year, including indirect costs).
Award Amount: $345,000-660,000
Website: http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?typ=18&cid=91956
Eligibility: Applicant must hold a PhD, MD, PharmD, DO or DPM degree or, for other health professionals, the equivalent health- or science-related degree, and posses the necessary skills and training to carry out the proposed work.
Deadline: 10/15/2014
Agency: ALS Therapy Alliance
Program: Breakthrough ALS
Description: The ALS Therapy Alliance was established in 2000 to facilitate ALS research projects and collaborations involving scientists and clinicians at multiple institutions working to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. To that end, ATA partners with corporations, biotech and pharmaceutical firms, manufacturers, and the media to create awareness and raise funds for research of ALS through its annual Breakthrough ALS campaign. To date, more than $30 million dollars has been raised to fund research for finding a cure for this devastating disease. The ALS Therapy Alliance is accepting applications from investigators for ALS research projects. Grants ranging from $100,000 to $1 million over one to three years will be awarded to projects -- including but not limited to basic, clinical, and translational research and clinical trials -- that lead to a better understanding of or treatments for ALS.
Award Amount: $100,000 - 1,000,000
Website: http://alstherapyalliance.org/index.php/research/grant-submission-process.html
Eligibility: National and international nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies are eligible to apply.
Deadline: 10/16/2014
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Discovery Research K-12
Description: The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. Teachers and students who participate in DRK-12 studies are expected to enhance their understanding and use of STEM content, practices and skills.DRK-12 invites proposals that address immediate challenges that are facing preK-12 STEM education as well as those that anticipate radically different structures and functions of pre-K 12 teaching and learning. The DRK-12 program has four major research and development strands: (1) Assessment; (2) Learning; (3) Teaching; and (4) Implementation Research. The program recognizes that there is some overlap among the strands. Proposals may address more than one strand. For example, projects in the Learning Strand may also include assessments of student learning, and/or support for teachers and plans for larger dissemination and use. Likewise, the Teaching Strand has a specific focus on RMTs for teacher education and professional development, but these are often based on a particular curriculum or set of instructional materials or tools. The Implementation Research strand that replaces the Scale-up strand in the previous solicitation might potentially address any or a combination of the other three strands. The program supports three types of projects: (1) Exploratory, (2) Full Design and Development, and (3) Conferences, Workshops, and Syntheses. All three types of projects apply to each of the four DRK-12 strands.
Award Amount: $100,000
Website: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13601/nsf13601.htm
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 10/17/2014
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Description: The LSAMP program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM discipline: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The knowledge generation portfolio of LSAMP supported activities contributes to the body of literature on successful practices in student recruitment, retention, persistence, and attainment of STEM undergraduate and graduate degrees, especially for the previously mentioned populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program provides funding for: Alliances (New, Mid-Level, Senior-Level, B2B); Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity; Broadening Participation Research (BPR) in STEM Education. The Broadening Participation Research (BPR) in STEM Education track provides support for knowledge generation research projects that seek to create and study new theory-driven models and innovations related to the participation and success of diverse groups in STEM undergraduate education. BPR projects add new research-based strategies and models to broadening participation in STEM and increase the capacity of scholars to conduct this type of research.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13646&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Eligibility: Universities and Colleges - Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions.