Weekly Grant Funding Opportunities

Please feel free to send special funding search requests any time (susan_craft@ncbiotech.org).  Please note that beginning July 1, 2013, grant funding requests will be rolled into our regular research and will include a fee of $80/hour. Also, let us know if any of your partners have submitted grant applications to funding announcements posted in the weekly grant alert emails.  We would love to hear of their successes!

Visit NCBiotech’s Funding Gateway page to get more information on funding announcements, links to opportunity search databases and grant development tips.

Announcements

The Department of Defense (DoD) intends to issue four Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) as contemplated in Federal Acquisition Regulation Parts 35.016 and 6.102(d)(2) for the Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) Program on or about July 12, 2013.

The RIF Program was established to facilitate the rapid insertion of innovative small business technologies into military systems or programs that meet critical national security needs. RIF also intends to facilitate innovative technologies that show a clear transition path to fielding the technology into existing defense acquisition programs.

Each BAA will list the technology areas of interest, instructions for submission of white papers and source selection criteria. Subsequent RIF proposals will be invited based on the evaluation results of the white paper submission. Those selected for RIF awards may receive up to $3 million in funding. The period of performance for RIF awards shall not exceed 24 months.

Participation in the DoD RIF BAA is open to all responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs; however preference shall be given to small businesses capable of transitioning innovative technologies.

Grant Opportunities

Deadline: 8/13/2013

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Description:  This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution. The program does not make scholarship awards directly to students; students should contact their institution’s Office of Financial Aid for this and other scholarship opportunities.

Award Amount: Varies

Website: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Eligibility:  Institutes of higher education

Deadline: 8/13/2013

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Advances in Biological Informatics

Description:  The Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) program seeks to encourage new approaches to the analysis and dissemination of biological knowledge for the benefit of both the scientific community and the broader public. The ABI program is especially interested in the development of informatics tools and resources that have the potential to advance- or transform- research in biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.  The ABI program accepts three major types of proposals: Innovation awards that seek to pioneer new approaches to the application of informatics to biological problems, Development awards that seek to provide robust cyberinfrastructure that will enable transformative biological research, and Sustaining awards that seek to support ongoing operations and maintenance of existing cyberinfrastructure that is critical for continued advancement of priority biological research.  

Award Amount: Varies

Website: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5444&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Eligibility:  Universities and colleges; Nonprofit, non-academic institutions

Deadline: 8/26/2013

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Description:  Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) provide sustained support of interdisciplinary materials research and education of the highest quality while addressing fundamental problems in science and engineering. MRSECs address research of a scope and complexity requiring the scale, synergy, and interdisciplinarity provided by a campus-based research center. They support materials research infrastructure in the United States, promote active collaboration between universities and other sectors, including industry and international institutions, and contribute to the development of a national network of university-based centers in materials research, education, and facilities. A MRSEC may be located at a single institution, or may involve multiple institutions in partnership. 

Award Amount: Varies

Website: www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=231022

Eligibility:  Academic institutions

Deadline: 9/1/2013

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Program: High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)

Description:  The ORIP High-End Instrumentation Grant (HEI) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single major item of equipment to be used for biomedical research that costs at least $750,000. The maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments in this category include, but are not limited to, biomedical imaging systems, NMR spectrometers, mass spectrometers, electron microscopes and supercomputers. 

Award Amount: $750,000

Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=218720

Eligibility:  Institutes of higher education; nonprofits

Deadline: 9/5/2013

Agency: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

Program: General Request for Proposals

Description:  The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) funds drug discovery and development research programs in the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), related dementias and cognitive aging. The ADDF seeks to fill the critical translational funding gap between basic research and later stage drug development by funding promising drug discovery and development programs. In addition to funding academic programs, the ADDF also invests in and creates early stage biotechnology companies. The ADDF also co-sponsors conferences to stimulate new ideas and approaches in areas of interest to the Foundation.

Award Amount: $150,000.00

Website:www.alzdiscovery.org/assets/content/static/2013_General_RFP_AND_Funding_Priorities_for_display.pdf

Eligibility:  Academic medical centers and universities; private early-stage biotech companies