Grant Funding Opportunites: 1/31/2014

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Announcements

NCET2 workshop: Applying to the NIH SBIR Phase I Program for First-Time Applicants

Now on its ninth run, the NIH SBIR Phase I Program for First-Time Applicants is a very practical step-by-step, four-hour online "How-To" workshop over two evenings to help researchers, faculty members, graduate students, post-docs and entrepreneurs create a SBIR company and apply to the NIH SBIR program in April of 2014. This workshop includes a post-course review of the applicant's proposed SBIR application by our experts before submission to the NIH. As an added benefit, your SBIR companies will be included on NCET2's newsletters that is sent out to VCs, angel investors, Global 1000 companies, and government funders. For more information and to register, click here.

 

Grant Opportunities

Deadline: 2/5/2014

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

Description: The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and post-baccalaureate students holding STEM degrees who earn a teaching credential and commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts. The NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship Track provides funding to support STEM professionals who enroll as NSF Teaching Fellows in master's degree programs leading to teacher certification by providing academic courses, professional development, and salary supplements while they are fulfilling a four-year teaching commitment in a high-need school district. This track also supports the development of NSF Master Teaching Fellows by providing professional development and salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and science teachers to become Master Teachers while they fulfill a five-year teaching commitment in high-need school districts. Capacity Building Projects support the development of new programs and activities to increase the capacity for institutions to provide innovative teacher preparation programs that enable increasing numbers of STEM majors and STEM professionals to become effective K-12 mathematics and science teachers and to develop the capacity to prepare Master science and mathematics teachers.

Award Amount: $150,000-3,250,000

Website: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14508/nsf14508.htm

Eligibility:  Universities and colleges


Deadline: 2/10/2014

Agency: American Association for Cancer Research

Program: Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Award for Research in Tumor Microenvironment

Description: With support from the Landon Foundation, the American Association for Cancer Research is accepting applications from early career investigators for the Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Award for Research in Tumor Microenvironment. Proposed projects may be basic, translational, clinical, or epidemiological in nature and must focus on the study of various aspects of the tumor microenvironment, including but not limited to the role of stroma and extracellular matrix in tumor development, angiogenesis, immunity and inflammation in the tumor microenvironment, as well as approaches to therapeutically target the tumor environment. The grant provides $100,000 over two years for expenses related to the research project, including travel for attendance at an AACR annual meeting, any AACR tumor microenvironment-related conference, or other AACR meeting for the purpose of participating in scholarly exchange about the funded research. AACR expects to award one grant in 2014.

Award Amount: $100,000

Website:www.aacr.org/home/scientists/aacr-research-funding/current-funding-opportunities-for-junior-faculty.aspx#TME

Eligibility: To be eligible, applicants must have a medical and/or doctoral degree (Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.C., N.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., Sc.D., D.N.S., Pharm.D., or equivalent doctoral degree)  in a related field and not currently be a candidate for a further doctoral or professional degree. At the start of the grant term on July 1, 2014, applicants must hold a full-time, tenure-track faculty position with the title of instructor, research assistant professor, assistant professor, or an equivalent full-time faculty position; have held a full-time faculty position or the equivalent for no more than five years; and work at an academic, medical, or research institution anywhere in the world. AACR membership is required.


Deadline: 2/15/2014

Agency: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Program: Translational Research Program

Description: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has issued a new Request for Proposals through its Translational Research Program in support of researchers in six critical areas of unmet medical need. The RFP marks the society's aggressive and proactive approach to addressing the challenge of improving outcomes for cancer patients with particularly urgent needs. The program is designed to help accelerate the movement of promising discoveries from lab to clinic. The goal of translational research is to reduce the time between laboratory findings and actual treatment. The society aims to stimulate more academic research in the following areas: defining genetic/molecular predispositions to long-term and late-term effects associated with standard therapies in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and applying that information to improved patient outcomes; the development of novel therapeutic strategies for patients with noncutaneous T-cell lymphoproliferative disorders; the development of novel targeted therapies for chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with real curative potential; the development of novel treatment strategies for myelodysplastic syndrome patients for whom hypomethylating agents have failed; the development of  novel targeted therapies for patients with high-risk myeloma; and the development of new-targeted therapies for indolent lymphoma patients.

Award Amount: $600,000 over 3 years

Website:www.lls.org/#/researchershealthcareprofessionals/academicgrants/translationalresearch/

Eligibility:  Applicants (principal investigators) must hold an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, and work in a nonprofit organization (domestic or foreign), university, college, hospital, or lab. Applications may involve multiple institutions, and the applicant should have an independent research or academic position. Applicants need not be citizens of the United States.


Deadline: 2/15/2014

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Nanomanufacturing

Description: Nanomanufacturing is the production of useful nano-scale materials, structures, devices and systems in an economically viable manner. The NSF Nanomanufacturing Program supports fundamental research in novel methods and techniques for batch and continuous processes, top-down (addition/subtraction) and bottom-up (directed self-assembly) processes leading to the formation of complex heterogeneous nanosystems. The program supports basic research in nanostructure and process design principles, integration across length-scales, and system-level integration. The Program leverages advances in the understanding of nano-scale phenomena and processes (physical, chemical, electrical, thermal, mechanical and biological), nanomaterials discovery, novel nanostructure architectures, and new nanodevice and nanosystem concepts. It seeks to address quality, efficiency, scalability, reliability, safety and affordability issues that are relevant to manufacturing. To address these issues, the Program encourages research on processes and production systems based on computation, modeling and simulation, use of process metrology, sensing, monitoring, and control, and assessment of product (nanomaterial, nanostructure, nanodevice or nanosystem) quality and performance.The Program seeks to explore transformative approaches to nanomanufacturing, including but not limited to: micro-reactor and micro-fluidics enabled nanosynthesis, bio-inspired nanomanufacturing, manufacturing by nanomachines, additive nanomanufacturing, hierarchical nanostructure assembly, continuous high-rate nanofabrication such as roll-to-roll processing or massively-parallel large-area processing, and modular manufacturing platforms for nanosystems. The Program encourages the fabrication of nanomaterials by design, three-dimensional nanostructures, multi-layer nanodevices, and multi-material and multi-functional nanosystems. Also of interest is the manufacture of dynamic nanosystems such as nanomotors, nanorobots, and nanomachines, and enabling advances in transport and diffusion mechanisms at the nano-scale. The program supports education of the next generation of researchers, and encourages building a workforce trained in nanomanufacturing systems. It is also interested in understanding long-term environmental, health and societal (EHS) implications of large-scale production and use of nano-scale materials, devices and systems.

Award Amount: $300,000

Website:www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13347

Eligibility:  Unrestricted; Individual and small group proposals are encouraged to partner with industry and government sponsored laboratories.


Deadline: 2/25/2014

Agency: Department of Energy - Office of Science

Program: Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy: A Joint Research Funding Opportunity Announcement USDA, DOE

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), hereby announce their interest in receiving applications for genomics- based research that will lead to the improved use of biomass and plant feedstocks for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Specifically, applications are sought for research on plants that will improve biomass and oil seed characteristics, yield, or sustainability. Research to overcome the biological barriers to the low-cost, high-quality, scalable and sustainable production of bioenergy feedstocks using the tools of genetics and genomics are encouraged.

Award Amount: $200,000-500,000

Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=247994

Eligibility:  Unrestricted

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