Grant Funding Opportunities: 9/12/2014

Weekly Grant Funding Opportunities

Please feel free to send special funding search requests any time (susan_craft@ncbiotech.org).  Grant funding requests are included our regular research and include a fee of $100/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.

 

Upcoming Deadlines

Deadline: 9/17/2014

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering

Description: The Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering (BBBE) program supports fundamental engineering research that advances the understanding of cellular and biomolecular processes (in vivo, in vitro, and/or ex vivo) and eventually leads to the development of enabling technology and/or applications in support of the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, and bioenergy industries, or with applications in health or the environment. Quantitative assessments of bioprocesses are considered vital to successful research projects in the BBBE program. Fundamental to many research projects in this area is the understanding of how biomolecules and cells interact in their environment, and how those molecular level interactions lead to changes in structure, function, phenotype, and/or behavior. The program encourages proposals that address emerging research areas and technologies that effectively integrate knowledge and practices from different disciplines, and effectively incorporate ongoing research into educational activities. Research projects of particular interest in BBBE include, but are not limited to: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology; Quantitative systems biotechnology; Tissue engineering and stem cell culture technologies; Protein engineering/protein design; Development of novel -omics tools for biotechnology applications. The duration of unsolicited awards is generally one to three years.

Award Amount: $300,000 - 600,000

Website: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024

Eligibility:  Unrestricted


Deadline: 9/17/2014

Agency: North Carolina Biotechnology Center

Program: Biotechnology Research Grant

Description: Biotechnology Research Grants support novel research projects that have the potential to strengthen biotechnology research and development at academic and non-profit research institutions in the early stages of building their research capacity. Awards are intended to support the generation of data required to attract funding from other sources, with the ultimate goal of technology commercialization. The focus areas for 2014-2015 are Biotechnology applications to Applied Agriculture and Food Safety, Marine Biotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Biotechnology Medical Devices, Biotechnology applications to Drug Discovery, Biotechnology applications to Natural Products, and Regenerative Medicine.

Award Amount: $100,000

Website: www.ncbiotech.org/research-grants/research-funding/biotechnology-research

Eligibility:  The principal investigator must be associated with a North Carolina academic or nonprofit research institution. Investigators at the main campuses of Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and NCSU are only eligible for this program in focus area 1: Applied Agriculture and Food Safety.


Deadline: 9/22/2014

Agency: Prostate Cancer Foundation

Program: Lethal Prostate Cancer Research

Description: The Prostate Cancer Foundation seeks applications for its 2014 PCF Global Treatment Sciences Challenge Awards for Lethal Prostate Cancer. Grants of up to $1 million will be awarded for research projects related to lethal prostate cancer. Priority will be given to high risk, first-in-field, and currently unfunded projects. Funding will support the correlative research around either clinical trials of novel agents or strategies of standard of care. One emphasis is on developing or validating biomarkers that guide therapy in patients or further our understanding of the mechanism by which therapies work. While the focus is on research in humans, the actual trials or treatments themselves will not be supported. Human samples are highly preferred, although at times model systems might be required to complement the understanding of an important mechanism.

Award Amount: 1,000,000

Website: www.pcf.org/atf/cf/%7b7c77d6a2-5859-4d60-af47-132fd0f85892%7d/RFA-2014-GTSN-CHALLENGE.PDF

Eligibility:  Investigators representing nonprofit academic research centers


 

New Opportunities

Deadline: 9/30/2014

Agency: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Program: Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction

Description: Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): The purpose of this BAA is to solicit proposals for the Research and Development, Fundamental Research program: This BAA is an extramural endeavor that combines fundamental research needs of DTRA and other DoD interests. DTRA safeguards America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and provide capabilities to reduce, eliminate and counter the threat and effects from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives. DTRA seeks to identify, adopt, and adapt emerging, existing and revolutionary sciences that may demonstrate high payoff potential to Counter-WMD (C-WMD) threats. This announcement solicits white papers for long-term challenges in specific fundamental areas of research that offer a significant contribution to the current body of knowledge, understanding of phenomena and observable facts, significantly advance revolutionary technology, new concepts for technology application, and may have impact on future C-WMD capabilities. There are a total of 15 open windows (approximately 3 per year), and submissions may occur at any time during those open window periods. Grants are the preferred procurement instrument, but contracts and other transaction agreements (OTAs) may be proposed, as well. The Government reserves the right to award any combination of approaches which offer the best overall value to the Government.

Award Amount: Varies

Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=49658

Eligibility:  Unrestricted


Deadline: 10/1/2014

Agency: Burroughs Wellcome Foundation

Program: Career Awards for Medical Scientist

Description: The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Awards for Medical Scientists program provides support for physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. By increasing the number of physician-scientists and keeping them in research, BWF believes that this bridging award, supporting the last year(s) of a mentored position in addition to supporting the beginning years of an independent position, will facilitate their transition to a career in research and buy time from service commitments. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are ineligible. Candidates must be nominated by accredited, degree-granting institutions ̶ ̶̶̶ including medical schools, graduate schools, and affiliated hospitals and research institutes ̶ ̶̶̶ in the U.S. or Canada. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada.

Award Amount: $700,000

Website: www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/biomedical-sciences/career-awards-medical-scientists

Eligibility: The ideal candidate will be two years away from becoming an independent investigator, have at least two years or more of postdoctoral research experience, and have a significant publication record. In addition, program candidates must have an M.D., D.D.S., or D.V.M. degree. Candidates must be a fellow, resident, or a postdoctoral researcher and have at least two years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of application.


Deadline: 10/1/2014

Agency: ALS Association

Program: Fellowship to Support ALS Clinical Research Training

Description: The ALS Association and American Brain Foundation (ABF) announce a call for applications for a two-year fellowship to support clinical research training for the field of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. For this fellowship, clinical research is defined as “patient-oriented research conducted with human subjects, or translational research specifically designed to develop treatments or enhance diagnosis of neurological disease. These areas of research include epidemiologic or behavioral studies, clinical trials, studies of disease mechanisms, the development of new technologies, biomarker discovery and molecular neuropathy, and health services and outcomes research.” Disease-related studies not directly involving humans or human tissue are also encouraged if the primary goal is the development of therapies, diagnostic tests, or other tools to prevent or mitigate neurological diseases.

Award Amount: $110,000.00

Website: www.alsa.org/news/archive/call-2014-fellowship.html

 Eligibility: Eligibility for this award includes membership of the American Academy of Neurology interested in the clinical research profession, who has completed residency or a post-doctoral fellowship within the past five years. Applicants early in their clinical research careers will receive priority.

grants
scroll back to top of page