Grant Funding Opportunities: 2/21/2014
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Upcoming Deadlines
Deadline: 3/15/2014
Agency: ALS Therapy Alliance
Program: ALS Research Projects
Description: The ALS Therapy Alliance was established in 2000 to facilitate ALS research projects and collaborations among a diverse group of scientists and clinicians at multiple institutions. Today, ATA partners with corporations, biotech and pharmaceutical firms, manufacturers, and the media to create awareness and raise funds for ALS research through its annual Breakthrough ALS campaign. To date, more than $30 million has been raised to fund research for finding a cure for this devastating disease. ATA 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 — related 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: 3/15/2014
Agency: Foundation Fighting Blindness
Program: Early Career Development Award
Description: The Foundation Fighting Blindness invites applications from outstanding early career clinical research scientists for its Career Development Award program, which is designed to encourage junior investigators to pursue vigorous research designed to identify therapies and cures for retinal degenerative diseases such as inherited orphan retinal degenerative diseases and non-exudative age-related macular degeneration. The goal of the program is to facilitate advances in laboratory and clinical research; to elucidate the mechanisms for the etiology and pathogenesis of RDDs; to develop innovative strategies to prevent, treat, and cure these diseases; and to jump-start the careers of highly-qualified junior clinical researchers.
Award Amount: $ 375,000
Website: www.blindness.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=945&Itemid=273#cda
Eligibility: Eligible applicants include clinician-scientists possessing an M.D., D.O., or recognized equivalent foreign degree and who are in their first, second, or third year of a junior faculty appointment. Applicants do not have to be citizens of the United States. All award recipients must be mentored by one or more senior clinician-scientist.
New Opportunities
Deadline: 3/19/2014
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Novel Methods for Detection and Measurement of Organ Fibrosis in Kidney, Bone Marrow and Urological Diseases (U01)
Description: The purpose of this FOA is to establish a consortium to carry out research on novel methods for detection and measurement of organ fibrosis after acute or chronic injury in kidney, bone marrow, prostate, or urinary tract.
Award Amount: $ 250,000
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-13-026.html
Eligibility: State, county or city governments; public and private institutes of higher education; school districts; small businesses; nonprofits; Native American tribal organizations; others
Deadline: 4/5/2014
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Direct Phase II SBIR Grants to Support Biomedical Technology Development
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications to the newly authorized Direct-to-Phase II SBIR grant mechanism. Applications are invited from eligible United States small business concerns (SBCs) that have demonstrated the scientific and technical merit and feasibility of the prototype stage of developing a biomedical technology that has commercial potential, R&D that is characteristic of Phase-I (R43) SBIR projects. The Direct-to-Phase II grant mechanism is intended to facilitate SBIR-type R&D, to expand R&D opportunities for applicant small business concerns (SBCs), and to enhance the pace of technology development and commercialization.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-088.html
Eligibility: Small businesses
Deadline: 5/1/2014
Agency: American Honda Foundation
Program: Grants for Youth Education and STEM
Description: The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.
Award Amount: $25,000 – 75,000
Website: http://corporate.honda.com/america/philanthropy.aspx?id=ahf
Eligibility: Nonprofit charitable organizations classified as a 501(c) (3) public charity by the Internal Revenue Service, or a public school district, private/public elementary and secondary schools as listed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). To be considered for funding organizations MUST have two years of audited financial statements examined by an independent CPA for the purpose of expressing an opinion if gross revenue is $500,000 or more. If gross revenue is less than $500,000, and the organization does not have audits, it may submit two years of financial statements accompanied by an independent CPA’s review report instead.
Deadline: 4/28/2014
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Plant Genome Research Program
Description: This program is a continuation of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) that began in FY 1998 as part of the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI). Since the inception of the NPGI and the PGRP, there has been a tremendous increase in the availability of functional genomics tools and sequence resources for use in the study of key crop plants and their models. Proposals are welcomed that build on these resources to develop conceptually new and different ideas and strategies to address grand challenge questions in plants of economic importance on a genome-wide scale. There is also a critical need for the development of novel and creative tools to facilitate new experimental approaches or new ways of analyzing genomic data. Especially encouraged are proposals that provide strong and novel training opportunities integral to the research plan and particularly across disciplines that include, but are not limited to, plant physiology, quantitative genetics, biochemistry, bioinformatics and engineering.Activities in four focus areas will be supported in FY 2014: (1) Genomics-empowered plant research to tackle fundamental questions in plant sciences on a genome-wide scale; (2) Development of tools and resources for plant genome research including novel technologies and analysis tools to enable discovery; (3) Mid-Career Investigator Awards in Plant Genome Research (MCA-PGR) to increase participation of investigators trained primarily in fields other than plant genomics; and, (4) Advancing Basic Research in Economically Important Crop Plants (ABR-PG) to develop sequence resources that are critically needed to enable basic research resources in crop plants. Proposals addressing these opportunities are welcomed at all scales, from single-investigator projects through multi-investigator, multi-institution projects, commensurate with the scope and scale of the work proposed.
Award Amount: $ 100,000
Website: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14533/nsf14533.htm
Eligibility: Academic institutions; nonprofits
Deadline: 5/22/2014
Agency: Department of Defense
Program: Defense Sciences Research and Technology
Description: DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to the Defense Sciences Office. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science and technology. Specifically excluded is research that results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art.
Award Amount: Varies
Website:www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6770856d1667e455fb8661340ffaf6a8&tab=core&_cview=1