Weekly Grant Funding Opportunities

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Grant Opportunities

Deadline: 6/13/2013

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2014  (STTR) 

Description: 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. Proposals should fall into one of the four broad topic areas: Biological and chemical technologies; Education applications; Electronics, information and communication technologies; Nanotechnology, advanced materials and manufacturing.

Award Amount: Varies

Website: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504857&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Eligibility:  Small businesses

Deadline: 6/19/2013

Agency: Michael J. Fox Foundation

Program: Cognition Biomarker Research Projects

Description: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is accepting pre-proposals for projects aimed at developing biomarkers of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease. Grants totaling $3 million will be awarded to support projects that aim to develop cognition biomarkers or combinations of biomarkers that help identify the transitions between normal cognition and cognitive impairment, and between cognitive impairment and dementia. Appropriate projects include, but are not limited to, data analyses in clinically well-characterized PD populations to correlate defined biological and clinical features with cognitive decline, hypothesis-driven imaging studies for identification of changes associated with different patterns of cognitive decline and transitions between different cognitive states, studies that seek to define predictive or state-defining biomarkers associated with specific cognitive profiles, and studies that seek to evaluate the predictive value of combinations of two or more biomarkers.

Award Amount: $3,000,000.00

Website: www.michaeljfox.org/research/grant-detail.php?id=14

Eligibility:  Eligible applicants include biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies, other for-profit entities public and private nonprofit universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, and government agencies.

Deadline: 6/25/2013

Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Program: Special Research Grants Program Potato Breeding Research

Description: The purpose of this grant program is to support potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) research programs that focus on varietal development and testing and potato varieties for commercial production. As used herein, varietal development and testing is research using classical breeding and/or biotechnological approaches to develop improved potato varieties. Aspects of evaluation, screening and testing must support variety development.

Award Amount: $1,238,000.00

Website:www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=235223

Eligibility:  Institutes of higher education; state agricultural experiement stations; research foundations established by land-grant colleges and universities; accredited schools or colleges of veterinary medicine

Deadline: 7/17/2013

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Program: Genome Medicine Pilot Demonstration Projects (U01)

Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support a consortium of collaborative genomic medicine pilot Demonstration Projects designed to demonstrate the feasibility of, and develop methods for, incorporating an individual patients genomic findings into his or her clinical care.

Award Amount: $3,000,000 total program funding

Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=228753

Eligibility:  State, county or city governments; public and private institutes of higher education; school districts; small businesses; nonprofits; Native American tribal organizations; others

Deadline: 7/18/2013

Agency: Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA

Program: DoD Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Idea Development Award

Description: The PRORP Idea Development Award is designed to promote new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield highly impactful data and new avenues of investigation. This mechanism supports conceptually innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress in the clinical care of combat-related orthopaedic injuries. Applications should include a well-formulated, testable hypothesis based on strong scientific rationale. 

Award Amount: Varies

Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=221620

Eligibility:  Unrestricted