Grant Funding Opportunities: 3/1/2013
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Announcements
The University Startups Conference will take place March 20 to 22, 2013 at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, with an Opening Reception on March 20, 2013. This year's focus is on the important relationship between Corporate Venture Capital and University Startups. The Conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2), now in its 7th year. For more information and to register, please visit www.ncet2.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=547&Itemid=84
Grant Opportunities
Deadline: 3/28/2013
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Development and Integration of Novel Components for an Automated Artificial Pancreas System (DP3)
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (DP3) applications from institutions/organizations proposing original research addressing the development of new technologies that may be integrated in a wearable, portable, automated, closed loop system for a physiological glucose control in individuals who suffer of Type 1 Diabetes.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=210634
Eligibility: State Agricultural Experiment Stations; colleges and universities; university research foundations; other research institutions and organizations; Federal agencies; national laboratories; private organizations or corporations; individuals who are U.S. citizens.
Deadline: 4/1/2013
Agency: The Gloeckner Foundation
Program: Applicant Driven Grants
Description: The Gloeckner Foundation awards grants for research and educational projects in floriculture and in the supporting and allied fields, such as agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, entomology, molecular biology, plant breeding, plant pathology, and plant physiology related to floriculture. The proposed research and educational projects must be of substantial importance, and the results made available to the interested public. Grants are awarded on the basis of project outlines, including objectives as well as methods, procedures, materials, equipment and personnel involved in the project. Requests for only equipment are considered when supported by a research project outline.
Award Amount: Varies (but 2011 grants ranged up to $10,000). Grants, although approved for funding for only one year at a time, will be evaluated and considered for renewal upon receipt of a progress report, plans for the coming year, and a written request for continuation of funding.
Website: www.gloecknerfoundation.org/fundingp.htm
Eligibility: Higher Education Institutions
Deadline: 4/2/2013
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Research Using Biosamples from Selected Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies (DP3)
Description: This FOA invites applications for ancillary studies using archived samples from the DCCT/EDIC, DPT-1, TrialNet, and GoKind type 1 diabetes clinical trials and studies. Ancillary studies are expected to generate scientific discoveries on type 1 diabetes primary pathogenesis or the pathogenesis of complications, and biomarkers of disease progression or clinical responses to interventions.
Award Amount: $5,000,000 Total program funding
Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=205093
Eligibility: Government entities, school districts and universities, nonprofits, small businesses, private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, Native American tribal organizations
Deadline: 4/3/2013
Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Program: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Sustainable Bioenergy
Description: This AFRI Challenge Area focuses on the priority to secure America's energy future. It supports the development of regional systems for the sustainable production of bioenergy and biobased products that contribute significantly to reducing dependence on foreign oil, have net positive social, environmental, and rural economic impacts, and are compatible with existing agricultural systems. The long-term outcome for this program is to implement regional systems that materially deliver liquid transportation biofuels to help meet the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 goal of 36 billion gallons/year of biofuels by 2022 and reduce the National dependence on foreign oil. In order to achieve this outcome, this program will support single-function Research, multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects, and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants that address one of the Program Area Priorities (see Sustainable Bioenergy RFA for details).
Award Amount: $10,000,000 Total program funding
Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=212913
Eligibility: Government entities, school districts and universities, nonprofits, small businesses, private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, Native American tribal organizations
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Program: Program Grants
Description: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants on six broad subject matters, known within the Foundation as major program areas: Basic Research; STEM Higher Education; Public Understanding of Science; Economic Performance and Quality of Life; Select National Issues; and Civic Initiatives.
Award Amount: Varies; guidelines vary if amount requested is greater than $125,000
Website: http://www.sloan.org/
Eligibility: Institutes of higher education; nonprofits