Grant Funding Opportunities 11/30/2012
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Announcements
The University Startups Conference will take place March 20 to 23, 2013, at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, with an Opening Reception on March 20, 2013. The Conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2), now in its 7th year. It is a unique best practices conference series dedicated exclusively to creating and funding globally-competitive, venture-backable university startups. We bring together universities creating startups with VCs, angel investors, SBIR program managers and Fortune 500 technology scouts funding them. The conference also includes NSF, NIH, NIST, DOD, DOE, DHS and other government agencies working on improving the Innovation Economy by increasing the quality and quantity of startups coming out of universities.
For more information (including how to register), click here: http://www.ncet2.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=547&Itemid=84
Grant Opportunities
Deadline: 1/4/2013
Agency: DARPA – Defense Sciences Office
Program: Advanced Biological Imaging and Measurement
Description: The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative ideas that may support a potential new DARPA program designed to provide novel approaches to non-invasive imaging technologies that allow visualization of morphology and characterization of function of a single or group of cells in a living organism (in situ). DARPA is especially interested in novel imaging and measurement methods that utilize modalities that have not been applied to clinical biological imaging. Submissions to this RFI should propose a novel technology or a combination of technologies, and should outline the necessary technical areas in which research would be needed in order to develop the proposed technology.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=15d659b0c050f76d4713325ecfa36a18&tab=core&_cview=0
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 1/15/2013
Agency: DARPA
Program: Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics: Prophylactic Options to Environmental and Contagious Threats
Description: DARPA is soliciting proposals for the development of nucleic acid platforms capable of in vivo host production of a transient immune prophylaxis for adults as a component of the Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics (ADEPT) program.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=205433
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 1/23/2013
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research (P50)
Description: The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) invites new and renewal applications for the Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research program. The overarching goal of the specialized Udall Centers program is to establish a network of Centers that work collaboratively as well as independently to define the causes of and discover improved treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD). A more immediate goal for each Center is to rapidly advance synergistic basic, translational and clinical research programs while serving as local resources and national leaders in PD research. The overall theme, proposed research projects, and associated cores must inform the etiology, pathogenesis or treatment of PD. Investigations on related parkinsonian disorders may be included, to the extent that these directly inform research on PD. Required components include: 1) a minimum of three interdisciplinary research projects, with at least one translational research project focusing on the development of therapeutics, diagnostics, or clinical criteria that would ultimately lead to new approaches for the treatment of PD; 2) Research Cores that are essential to accomplish the aims of proposed research projects, plus an Administrative Core; and 3) a specific plan to provide for training of PD researchers. Because basic research serves as the foundation for discovery in the Udall Centers program, NINDS programmatic priorities will focus on applications that propose multidisciplinary programs including a well-integrated basic research project. A considerable degree of synergy must be evident among Center research projects and Cores, such that successful completion of the aims could not be accomplished without the Center structure.
Award Amount: $1,500,000 award ceiling
Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=208054
Eligibility: Government entities, school districts and universities, nonprofits, small businesses, private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, Native American tribal organizations
Deadline: 2/15/2013
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Description: The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The relationships between mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization are of interest. In addition, the influence of in vivo mechanical forces on cell and matrix biology in the histomorphogenesis, maintenance, regeneration, and aging of tissues is an important concern. Funded projects may include theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches. The program encourages the consideration of diverse living tissues as smart materials that are self-designing.
Award Amount: $400,000 award ceiling
Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=2CjJQS2MNpd2z2rtntt6JTvJjW9STR6Hs2p3yWph0fLnLcDYvggg!-1747183049?oppId=133634&mode=VIEW
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 2/21/2013
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Major Research Instrumentation Program
Description: The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, and not-for-profit museums, science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations. This program especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, by supporting proposals for shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments. Each MRI proposal may request support for the acquisition (Track 1) or development (Track 2) of a single research instrument for shared inter- and/or intra-organizational use; development efforts that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument development capacity at MRI submission-eligible organizations are encouraged. To accomplish the program's goals, the MRI program assists with the acquisition or development of a shared research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. The instrument is expected to be operational for regular research use by the end of the award period. For the purposes of the MRI program, a proposal must be for either acquisition (Track 1) or development (Track 2) of a single instrument or for equipment that, when combined, serves as an integrated research instrument (in contrast to requests for multiple instruments that enable research in a common or focused research domain, which MRI does not support).
Award Amount: $4,000,000 award ceiling
Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=208034
Eligibility: Institutes of higher education; non-profit organizations; small businesses; non-profit consortia