Grant Funding Opportunities: 3/17/2014
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Announcements
NCET2 will be teaching a course titled “Product development and the innovation process for researchers” starting March 25. This course will expose SBIR researchers and graduate students to technology transfer and technology commercialization best practices that are utilized to develop breakthrough innovative products. The main focus is to provide technology readiness and technology transfer/commercialization tools and metrics to effectively execute the end-to-end product delivery process. The course is arranged into two key technology commercialization categories: market attack planning and technology readiness/staging for transfer or commercialization. For more information on the course or to register, click here.
Upcoming Deadlines
Deadline: 3/24/2014 (pre-proposals); 10/6/2014 (full proposals)
Agency: McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
Program: 2015 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards
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 that end, the fund assists scientists working to apply knowledge achieved through basic research to human brain disorders that affect memory or cognition. The McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award supports programs that address mechanisms of memory or cognition at the synaptic, cellular, and behavioral level in animals, including humans. Each year, up to four awards are given. Awards provide $100,000 per year for three years and may be used for a variety of research activities, excluding the recipient's salary. Priority is given to proposals that incorporate fundamentally new approaches, as well as those that involve human experimentation. Collaborative and cross-disciplinary applications are encouraged.
Award Amount: $100,000
Website: www.neuroscience.mcknight.org//newsroom/upcoming-deadlines/2015-mcd
Eligibility: Investigators who are United States citizens or lawful permanent residents conducting research at institutions within the U.S. are invited to apply. Applicants must be in tenured or tenure-track faculty positions; research faculty in annually renewable positions are ineligible.
Deadline: 4/15/2014 (LOI); 5/15/2014 (application)
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Planning Grants for Alzheimer's Disease Translational Centers for Predictive Drug Development (R34)
Description: The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications for planning grants that will support the preparation of full applications for NIA's Alzheimer's Disease Translational Centers for Predictive Drug Development (ADCPD) funding initiative.
Award Amount: $200,000
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-14-017.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: 4/30/2014
Agency: ING Unsung Heroes
Program: 2014 Class Project Awards
Description: The ING Unsung Heroes awards program annually recognizes K-12 educators in the United States for their innovative teaching methods, creative educational projects, and ability to positively influence the children they teach. Educators are invited to submit grant applications describing class projects they have initiated or would like to pursue. Each year, one hundred educators are selected to receive awards of $2,000 each to help fund their innovative class projects. At least one award will be granted in each of the fifty United States, provided one or more qualified applications are received from each state. Of the one hundred finalists, three will be selected for additional financial awards. The first-place winner will receive $25,000; second place will receive $10,000; and third place will receive $5,000. All awards must be used to further the winning projects within the school or school system.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: http://ing.us/about-ing/responsibility/childrens-education/ing-unsung-heroes
Eligibility: All K-12 education professionals are eligible to apply. Applicants must be employed by an accredited K-12 public or private school located in the U.S. and be a full-time educator, teacher, principal, paraprofessional, or classified staff member working on a project with demonstrated effectiveness in improving student learning. Previous recipients of ING Unsung Heroes awards are not eligible to apply.
New Opportunities
Deadline: 5/6/2014
Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Program: Grand Challenges Explorations Round 13
Description: Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges. For each round of Grand Challenges Explorations, applicants are asked to focus their proposals on specific topics where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. Explorations Round 13 topics include:New Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based Interventions - new!
Award Amount: $100,000.00
Website: www.grandchallenges.org/explorations/Pages/introduction.aspx
Eligibility: The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Deadline: 5/28/2014 (pre-proposal)
Agency: Michael J. Fox Foundation
Program: Target Validation
Description: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, which seeks to stimulate development of therapeutics for Parkinson's disease, is accepting pre-proposals for its Target Validation Program. Part of the foundation’s annual Edmond J. Safra Core Programs for PD Research, the Target Validation program supports work seeking to determine whether manipulating a novel biological target has impact in a Parkinson’s disease-relevant animal model ̶ ̶̶̶ an essential early step to the development of potentially promising therapies. The program supports two-year grants of up to $250,000 inclusive of both direct and indirect costs. Total annual direct costs cannot exceed $100,000, and no more than 2 percent (academic institutions) or 10 percent (for-profit organizations) of the direct costs may go to indirect costs. As therapeutic programs may require many kinds of expertise, MJFF encourages industry and academic collaborations when appropriate. Given the significant coordination and leadership necessary for the program, postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to apply as principal investigators.
Award Amount: $250,000.00
Website: www.michaeljfox.org/research/grant-detail.php?id=16
Eligibility: Biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies, other for-profit entities, public and private nonprofit universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, and government agencies
Deadline: 6/10/2014
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Genomes to Natural Products (U01)
Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications that utilize the wealth of genomic and metagenomic sequencing data available, and recent advances in synthetic biology for the purpose of developing new high-throughput and broadly applicable approaches to natural products discovery. Well-integrated, collaborative research teams possessing synthetic biology, bioinformatics, and natural products expertise are encouraged to apply. Applicants responding to this FOA must also plan for participation in trans-network activities, including collaborative projects with other network participants.
Award Amount: $ 1,500,000
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-15-001.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: 6/16/2014 (LOI due 30 days before application date)
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Mechanisms of Adverse Drug Reactions in Children (R03)
Description: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications from organizations/institutions that propose to study the molecular, cellular and genetic mechanisms involved in the production of adverse drug reactions in children. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. The R03 is intended to support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-052.html
Eligibility: State, county or city governments; public and private institutes of higher education; school districts; small businesses; nonprofits; Native American tribal organizations; others