Grant Funding Opportunities: 9/13/2013
Weekly Grant Funding Opportunities
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Announcements
NCET2 is offering an NSF SBIR Workshop on September 24 and 25, and an NIH SBIR Workshop on October 1 and 2. These workshops include 2 online classes, Research Commercialization & SBIR Center’s SBIR Application Companion, and a post-course proposal review. Each workshop is limited to 25 students and is geared toward S&T faculty members, graduating S&T students, post-docs and entrepreneurs, who have a plan for high impact innovative research that NSF or NIH would be interested in.
Grant Opportunities
Deadline: 10/1/2013
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: Nanomanufacturing
Description: The Nanomanufacturing program supports fundamental research and education on design and manufacturing at the nanoscale. Emphasis of the program is on advancing manufacturing technology using production systems based on thermal, electrical, chemical and mechanical processes as well as biological actors (viruses, cells and bacteria) to fabricate nanostructures and to integrate these into micro-devices and meso- and macroscale systems. Examples include carbon, polymeric and bio-molecular architectures that exploit nanoscale features for nanomotors, nanorobots, and other nanomachinery. A goal of the program is to enable manufacturing scalability leading to commercial production, including improvements in component reliability, yield, efficiency and affordability. The program also targets environmental health and safety in nanomanufacturing. The Nanomanufacturing program does not support research that focuses on analysis, synthesis or macroscale processing of nanomaterials, which is supported in the Division of Materials Research (DMR). Investigators wishing to serve on a proposal review panel should email the Program Director with a short biographical sketch, a list of areas of expertise and/or a link to their home page. REU/RET supplement requests should be submitted by March 31 each year.
Award Amount: $ 300,000
Website:www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13347&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 10/2/2013
Agency: Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA
Program: DoD FY13 Prostate Cancer Idea Development Award
Description: The Idea Development Award supports new ideas that represent innovative approaches to prostate cancer research and have the potential to make an important contribution to the PCRP mission. Although groundbreaking research often involves a degree of risk, applications should be based on a sound scientific rationale that is established through logical reasoning and/or critical review and analysis of the literature. Due to this award’s emphasis on innovation, the presentation of preliminary data relevant to prostate cancer and the proposed project is encouraged but not required. Research deemed innovative may represent a new paradigm, challenge current paradigms, look at existing problems from new perspectives, or exhibit other highly creative qualities. Research that is an incremental advance upon published data is not considered innovative. The PCRP seeks applications from the wide spectrum of basic, population-based, translational, and clinical research. In addition, applicants are expected to address at least one of the PCRP focus areas and are highly encouraged to address one of the PCRP overarching challenges. If the proposed project does not address any of the overarching challenges, the application should include a description to justify how the project will nevertheless address a critical need in the field of prostate cancer research and/or patient care. New Investigator Option: The FY13 Idea Development Award mechanism encourages applications from investigators in the early stages of their careers. The New Investigator Option is designed to allow applicants early in their faculty appointments, or in the process of developing independent research careers, to compete for funding separately from established investigators. Applications from New Investigators and Established Investigators will be peer- and programmatically reviewed in separate groups. PIs using the New Investigator Option are strongly encouraged to strengthen their applications through collaboration with investigators experienced in prostate cancer research and/or possessing other relevant expertise. It is the responsibility of the PI to describe how collaboration will augment his or her expertise to best address the research question.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=234313
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 10/4/2013
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: NIH Transformative Research Awards (R01)
Description: The NIH Transformative Research Awards complements NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=238504
Eligibility: State, county or city governments; public and private institutes of higher education; school districts; small businesses; nonprofits; Native American tribal organizations; others
Deadline: 10/4/2013 (LOI); 11/12/2013 (Full proposal)
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program: ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
Description: For many decades, an increasing number of women have obtained STEM doctoral degrees, however, women, particularly women of color, continue to be significantly underrepresented in almost all STEM academic positions. While the degree of underrepresentation varies among STEM disciplines, women's advancement to senior professorial ranks and leadership roles is an issue in all fields. The underrepresentation of women is also a critical issue for the nation, at large, as its need to develop a globally competitive and diverse workforce increases. Research has shown that women's representation and advancement in academic STEM positions are affected by many external factors that are unrelated to their ability, interest and technical skills (Spencer, et al, 1999; Halpern and Tan, 2001; Hyde, 2005; National Academy of Sciences, 2007). Such factors include, but are not limited to: stereotype threat, societal impacts, organizational constraints of academic institutions; differential effect of work and family demands; implicit and explicit bias; and lack of women in academic leadership and decision-making positions. The cumulative effect of such diverse factors has been to create infrastructural barriers that impact the number of women entering, persisting and advancing in STEM careers. Thus, the goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE also has as its goal to seminally contribute to and inform the general knowledge base on gender equity in the academic STEM disciplines
Award Amount: $ 4,000,000
Website: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: 10/7/2013 (land/water); 11/11/2013 (air/climate)
Agency: Lexus and Scholastic
Program: Lexus Eco Challenge
Description: The Lexus Eco Challenge is an educational program and contest designed to inspire and empower middle and high school students in the United States to learn about the environment and take action to improve it. In its seventh year, the program will award a total of $500,000 in grants and scholarships. Middle and high school teams of five to ten students and a teacher-advisor are invited to participate in one or both of the two initial challenges, each addressing different environmental elements: land/water and air/climate. In early January, the winning teams from the first two challenges will be invited to participate in the program's final challenge (deadline: January 17, 2014). Teams will be asked to reach beyond the local community and inspire environmental action around the world through innovative ideas that are communicated to a wide audience. From the final challenge entries, eight first-place teams and two grand prize-winning teams will be selected.
Award Amount: $10,000 - $30,000
Website: http://lexus.scholastic.com/
Eligibility: The competition is open to students in grades 6-12, who are either registered and home-schooled or enrolled in a public or accredited private school, and who are legal residents of the U.S. or the District of Columbia. Teams of students can enter if they are part of an afterschool science or environmental club; the challenge is not open to clubs outside of school.