Grant Funding Opportunities: 11/22/2013
Weekly Grant Funding Opportunities
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Grant Opportunities
Deadline: 12/1/2013 (LOI due)
Agency: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc.
Program: Clinical Research Awards
Description: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc., the nonprofit drug discovery and development affiliate of the CF Foundation, offers competitive awards to support clinical research projects directly related to cystic fibrosis treatment and care. The awards program supports projects that address diagnostic or therapeutic methods related to CF or the pathophysiology of CF. Applicants must demonstrate access to a sufficient number of CF patients from CF Foundation-accredited care centers and to appropriate controls. Up to $100,000 per year (plus 8 percent indirect costs) for a maximum of three years may be requested for single-center clinical research grants. For multicenter clinical research, the potential award is up to $225,000 per year (plus 8 percent indirect costs) for a maximum of three years. For trials exceeding these limitations, please contact Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics before submission.
Award Amount: $100,000.00
Website: www.cff.org/research/ForResearchers/FundingOpportunities/ClinicalResearchAwards/
Eligibility: Individuals who demonstrate access to a sufficient number of CF patients from CF Foundation-accredited care centers and to appropriate controls
Deadline: 12/2/2013 (LOI due)
Agency: McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
Program: 2014 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience
Description: The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. To this end, the fund is inviting Letters of Intent for the 2014 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards. The awards program is designed to encourage and support scientists working on the development of novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. The fund is especially interested in how a new technology may be used or adapted to monitor, manipulate, analyze, or model brain function at any level, from the molecular to the entire organism. The program seeks to advance and enlarge the range of technologies available to the neurosciences and to foster collaboration between the neurosciences and other disciplines; thus, collaborative and cross-disciplinary applications are encouraged.
Award Amount: $100,000.00
Eligibility: Investigators who are United States citizens or lawful permanent residents conducting research at institutions within the United States are invited to apply. Eligible applicants must hold tenured or tenure-track faculty positions, and may not be employees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute or scientists within the intramural program of the National Institutes of Health.
Deadline: 12/3/2013
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program
Description: The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11550/nsf11550.htm
Eligibility: Academic institutions
Deadline: 12/3/2013
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application of federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses. The STTR Program requires researchers at universities and other non-profit research institutions to play a significant intellectual role in the conduct of each STTR project. These researchers, by joining forces with a small company, can spin-off their commercially promising ideas while they remain primarily employed at the research institution. The program is governed by Public Law 112-81 (SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011).This STTR Phase I solicitation aims at encouraging the commercialization of previously NSF-funded fundamental research (NSF funding lineage). It is highly desirable that the core innovation described in the submitted proposals can in some manner be linked to fundamental research funded by the NSF. This lineage must be documented in the Project Description section of the proposal. (See Proposal Preparation Instructions for more information.) The proposals submitted should fall into one the nine broad topic areas, which are detailed on the SBIR/STTR topics homepage: Educational Technologies and Applications (EA); Information and Communication Technologies (IC); Semiconductors (S) and Photonic (PH) Devices and Materials; Electronic Hardware, Robotics and Wireless Technologies (EW); Advanced Manufacturing and Nanotechnology (MN); Advanced Materials and Instrumentation (MI); Chemical and Environmental Technologies (CT); Biological Technologies (BT); Smart Health (SH); and Biomedical (BM) Technologies
Award Amount: $225,000.00
Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=241813
Eligibility: Small businesses
Deadline: 12/17/2014
Agency: DARPA - Defense Sciences Office
Program: Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS)
Description: DARPA seeks to develop a new understanding of complex, systems-based disorders of the brain. A major goal of this effort is to deliver a platform technology for precise therapy in humans living with neuropsychiatric and neurologic disease, including veterans and active duty soldiers suffering from mental health issues. Methods developed through this program will use neural recording and stimulation to close the loop on therapeutic treatment in individuals who receive minimal benefits from currently available treatments. This program could lead to improved knowledge of multiple neural subnetworks of the brain that are involved in disease and illness. This program combines novel device development, complex modeling of behaving human neural systems, clinical neurology, and animal research in order to advance the understanding and translation of safe, effective neurotechnological therapies.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=245414
Eligibility: Unrestricted