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: 7/22/2013

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

Description:  The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Award Amount: $400,000.00

Website:www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Eligibility:  U.S. academic institutions; nonprofit, non-degree granting organizations such as museums, observatories or research laboratories.

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: $14,000,000.00

Website: www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=176153

Eligibility:  Non-profit organizations; independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies; universities and colleges.

Deadline: 8/22/2013

Agency: Association for Frontal Temporal Degeneration

Program: Research Projects

Description:  The Association for Frontal Temporal Degeneration is accepting Letters of Intent from research projects that address the pathologic mechanisms of neurodegeneration in frontotemporal dementia and related disorders. One-year grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded to support the development of biomarkers to accelerate drug development and early diagnosis, innovative pilot clinical trials, target validation studies, development and testing of novel high throughput screening assays, medicinal chemistry on lead compounds, identification, and in vitro testing of potentially disease modifying lead compounds. In addition, grants will support ADME, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics on lead compounds, and testing of lead compounds in a relevant animal model for preclinical proof of concept. Awards will not support applications for basic research.

Award Amount: $150,000.00

Website: www.theaftd.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2013-ADDF-AFTD-FTD-RFP.pdf

Eligibility:  To be eligible, applicants must be a nonprofit academic institution or for-profit biotechnology company, either public and private, anywhere in the world.

Deadline: 8/23/2013

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Program: NCI Experimental Therapeutics – Clinical Trials Network with Phase 1 Emphasis

Description:  The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is to support an experimental therapeutics clinical trials program through the creation of a consolidated, integrated NCI Experimental Therapeutics-Clinical Trials Network (ET-CTN). This FOA solicits UM1 cooperative agreement applications for multidisciplinary groups that will conduct early phase experimental therapeutics clinical trials. Members of the ET-CTN will work on investigational agent-specific trans-network project teams to define the drug development plan, and to conduct experimental therapeutic clinical trials filed to the Investigational New Drug (IND) applications by NCIs Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD), Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP). 

Award Amount: $850,000

Website: www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=219835

Eligibility:  Government entities, school districts and universities, nonprofits, small businesses, private institutions of higher education, for-profit organizations, Native American tribal organizations

Deadline: Rolling

Agency: Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure

Program: Program Grants

Description:  Our mission and focus is straightforward: to invest in research aimed at finding the fastest possible route to a cure for brain cancer. We look for new concepts that hold the potential to dramatically improve patient care and we look to partner with exceptional teams who have demonstrated the ability to bring those ideas to patients as quickly as possible.  As such, our funding process is similar to the approach of the venture capitalists whose investments have helped solve some of the most perplexing challenges.

Award Amount: Varies

Website: abc2.org

Eligibility:  Medical research centers, early-stage biotechnology companies and large multi-national pharmaceutical companies