Grant Funding Opportunities: 11/7/2014
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Upcoming Deadlines
Deadline: 11/12/2014
Agency: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Program: Grand Challenges Explorations
Description: Grand Challenges Explorations seeks innovative global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations as well as for-profit companies.
Two-page proposals are being accepted online from September 4, 2014 until November 12, 2014 on the following topics:
- Surveillance Tools, Diagnostics and an Artificial Diet to Support New Approaches to Vector Control.
- New Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria Transmission
- New Ways to Reduce Pneumonia Fatalities through Timely, Effective Treatment of Children
- Enable Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments to Create an Economic Ecosystem that Will Help Lift the Poorest Out of Poverty
- Explore New Ways to Measure Brain Development and Gestational Age
- New Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based Interventions
Award Amount: $100,000.00
Website: www.grandchallenges.org/explorations/Pages/introduction.aspx
Eligibility: The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Deadline: 11/17/2014
Agency: Department of Energy
Program: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA)
Description: There is an urgent need to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass. Recent technological advancements have now made it possible to extract massive volumes of genetic, physiological, and environmental data from certain crops, but, even with these resources, the data still cannot be processed into the knowledge needed to predict crop performance in the field. The overall objective of the TERRA program is to develop tools that enable an increase in the rate and extent of genetic improvement of the yield of bioenergy crops grown in the field. If successful, the program will enhance land use efficiency, reduce competition between bioenergy and food crops, improve environmental sustainability, and provide a more stable supply of biomass for transportation fuels and bio-refineries. ARPA-E seeks multidisciplinary teams to leverage advancements in automation, sensor technologies, computational analytics and low-cost nucleotide sequencing and develop innovative phenotyping systems that enable (a) new predictive algorithms for plant growth, (b) more detailed measurements for plant physiology, and (c) more sophisticated bioinformatics pipelines for gene discovery and trait association. TERRA will enable breeders to evaluate more individual plants, to select appropriate plants for breeding earlier in the growing season, to capture better information about them during their development, and to associate this information with the best genes to propagate.
Award Amount: Varies
Website: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/#FoaId61790722-d585-40be-8db3-b8b99f025496
Eligibility: Individuals; Domestic entities; Foreign entities; Consortium entities
New Opportunities
Deadline: 11/18/2014
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program for HIV Topical Microbicides and Biomedical Prevention (IPCP-MBP) (U19)
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to solicit applications from single institutions and consortia of institutions to participate in the Integrated Preclinical Clinical Program for HIV Topical Microbicides and Biomedical Prevention (IPCP-MBP).The objective of each IPCP-MBP application is to create an integrated and iterative multi-disciplinary application with the goal of developing a microbicide, PreExposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), or Multipurpose Prevention Technology (MPT) non-vaccine biomedical prevention (nBP) product or strategy, for use in the male and/or female genital and gastrointestinal (GI) tracts to prevent HIV acquisition/transmission. Products and strategies may be delivered by a variety of drug delivery systems (DDS), including gels, films, quick dissolving tablets, intravaginal rings (IVR), implants, oral, and/or injection. This FOA contains significant modifications to previous iterations of the Integrated Preclinical Clinical Program FOA.
Award Amount: $2,600,000
Website: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=256689
Eligibility: State, county or city governments; public and private institutes of higher education; school districts; small businesses; nonprofits; Native American tribal organizations; others
Deadline: 11/20/2014
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Program: Next-Gen Rapid Testing and Point-of-Care Diagnosis for Oral Pathogens (SBIR/STTR)
Description: The goal of this SBIR/STTR Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research to develop the next-generation of rapid tests and point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices.These tools must use oral biospecimens for detecting oral pathogens and biomarkers of associated oral diseases to facilitate their screening, monitoring and diagnosis.The ultimate goal is to produce highly reliable, reproducible, specific and sensitive tools for early detection and diagnosis of oral diseases, including those associated with HIV/AIDS.These methods must demonstrate superior technical performance compared with current technologies while not increasing costs and minimizing the invasiveness of specimen collection from patients.
Award Amount: $2,000,000
Website: SBIR: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DE-15-001.html
STTR: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DE-15-002.html
Eligibility: Small businesses
Deadline: 12/1/2014
Agency: Gerber Foundation
Program: Pediatric Research Projects
Description: The Gerber Foundation is accepting concept papers for health and/or nutrition-related research projects that promise to have a significant impact on issues affecting infants and young children from birth to age three. Grants of up to $300,000 will be awarded for research projects focused on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition, and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. Projects may include etiologic mechanisms of disease; new, improved, or less invasive diagnostic procedures; reduction or elimination of side effects; alleviation of symptoms; new, improved, or less invasive therapies, care, or treatments; dosage or dosing requirements or mechanisms for drugs, nutrient supplementation, or other therapeutic measures (such as under- or over-dosing); and preventative measures. Priority is given to projects offering the promise of meaningful advances in prevention and treatment of diseases and those with broad applicability to the general population on a regional or national level.
Award Amount: $300,000
Website: www.gerberfoundation.org/pd-research/research-awards/concept-paper-format
Eligibility: Organizations recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code are eligible to apply. Organizations may not be private foundations as defined under Internal Revenue Code Section 509.
Deadline: 12/2/2014
Agency: Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research
Program: Pilot Studies in Ovarian Cancer Research
Description: Through its Pilot Study Program, the center will award approximately ten grants of $75,000 each in support of investigator-initiated projects in all areas of ovarian cancer research. Priority will be given to proposals that are innovative, multidisciplinary, likely to lead to independently funded investigations, and that have translational research potential. Projects designed to analyze data from already funded clinical trials also will be considered.
Award Amount: $75,000
Website: www.marsharivkin.org/research/apply.html
Eligibility: Investigators at all levels are encouraged to apply.