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Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Phase III: Transitional Centers [P30]

Description: The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) of the NIH invites applications for Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) infrastructure support grants. The objectives of this FOA are to continue … more »support of infrastructure at COBRE that have received 10 years of funding from NCRR. This FOA is supported through the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program at the NCRR of NIH.

Restrictions: Applicant institutions may submit only one application in response to this FOA.

Internal Deadline: 5/20/2012
Agency Deadline: 7/20/2012

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Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR)

Description: The CSBR program provides funds for improvements to secure, improve, and organize collections that are significant to the NSF/BIO-funded research community. Support is also provided to secure collections-related … more »data for sustained, accurate, and efficient accessibility of the collection to the biological research community. Supplemental funding is also available to transfer collection ownership responsibilities or consolidate or combine existing collections.

Restrictions: In a single round of the CSBR competition, only one proposal may be submitted from any individual collection within an organization.

Internal Deadline: 5/27/2012
Agency Deadline: 7/27/2012

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Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Description: The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program provides funding for new, mid-level and senior-level alliances, the Bridge to the Doctorate (LSAMP-BD) Activity, and knowledge generation activities … more »in broadening participation, e.g., research on topics in STEM education related to retention and persistence of students from populations underrepresented in STEM majors and careers

Restrictions: For LSAMP and LSAMP-BD, only one proposal may be submitted per alliance

Internal Deadline: 5/28/2012
Agency Deadline: 7/28/2012

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Educational Administration Scholarships

Description: These scholarships were created in 1949 to provide incentive, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding graduate students in school administration who intend to make the school superintendency a career.

Restrictions: Only one candidate may be submitted by each college or university campus.

Internal Deadline: 5/30/2012
Agency Deadline: 7/30/2012

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Biomedical/Biobehavioral Research Administration Development (BRAD) Award [G11]

Description: This FOA encourages applications from eligible domestic and foreign institutions that propose to build capacity in their research administration infrastructures. The program promotes the establishment of rigorous and … more »externally supported biomedical and biobehavioral research and/or research-related training programs by providing support for strengthening institutional research administration infrastructures.

Restrictions: Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique DUNS number or NIH-IPF number) is allowed.

Internal Deadline: 5/31/2012
Agency Deadline: 7/31/2012

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Student Community Engaged Service Awards

Description: This awards competition recognizes student-led community engagement projects conducted either as a component of the curriculum or as an extracurricular program. The most outstanding student-directed program at a college or school of pharmacy should be submitted. The project submitted for the awards competition must be fully implemented and can be an ongoing initiative. Service learning is included in pharmacy college and school curricula and identified as a needed curriculum component by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). Because it is a structured learning experience, often experiential in nature, it lends itself well to a wide range of community-connected projects and outcomes evaluation

Restrictions: Participating pharmacy colleges and schools are to submit no more than one team entry for the national competition. Participating pharmacy colleges and schools might hold a local competition to select one winning project team to enter into this national awards competition

Internal Deadline: 6/1/2012
Agency Deadline: 8/1/2012

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Diversity-Promoting Institutions Drug Abuse Research Program (DIDARP) (R24)

Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Resource-Related Research Project Grant (R24) applications from institutions that serve economically disadvantaged students and communities. Applications should propose to develop or strengthen the drug abuse research infrastructure at the institution and foster the research career development of a diverse cadre of faculty, students and staff who are currently underrepresented in drug abuse research.

Restrictions: One application per institution is allowed.

Internal Deadline: 6/10/2012
Agency Deadline: 8/10/2012

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NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)

Description: This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate; baccalaureate; or graduate-level degree in science and engineering disciplines.

Restrictions: An Institution may submit one proposal from each constituent school or college that awards degrees in an eligible field.

Internal Deadline: 6/14/2012
Agency Deadline: 8/14/2012

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Planning Grant for Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Planning Award (NCD-LIFESPAN) (D71) PAR-10-277

Description: The Fogarty International Center (FIC), together with the Office of Dietary Supplements (OD/ODS) encourages new applications for the: Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Planning Award (NCD-LIFESPAN) (D71). The application must propose a plan to develop the components necessary for the(D43) application, including the objectives and special requirements as defined in the Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN) (D43) FOA .The NCD-LIFESPAN D43 program supports research training that will strengthen the capacity of institutions in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), defined by the World Bank classification system, to conduct non-communicable disease (NCD) research. The planning grant application should be developed and implemented collaboratively with all designated participating institutions.

Restrictions: Only one application for a planning grant may be submitted from an institution in a fiscal year under this FOA.

Internal Deadline: 6/21/2012
Agency Deadline: 8/21/2012

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American College of Surgeons Resident Research Scholarships

Description: These resident research scholarships are intended to encourage residents to pursue careers in academic surgery. Eligibility for these scholarships is limited to the … more »research projects of residents in surgery or a surgical specialty.

Restrictions: Approval of the application is required from the administration (dean or fiscal officer) of the institution. Supporting letters from the head of the department … more »of surgery (or the surgical specialty) and from the mentor who will be supervising the applicant's research should be submitted. Only in exceptional circumstances will more than one scholarship be granted in a single year to applicants from the same institution

Internal Deadline: 7/1/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/1/2012

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Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG)

Description: GEO supports research and education in the Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric, and Geospace Sciences. The Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) Program is designed to address the fact that certain … more »groups are underrepresented in the geosciences relative to their proportions in the general population.

Restrictions: OEDG Track 1 and Track 2 Full Proposals: Institutions are allowed to submit more than one Track 1 proposal

Internal Deadline: 7/3/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/3/2012

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Centers Program for Research on HIV/AIDS and Mental Health (P30)

Description: The NIMH's Division of AIDS (DAR) encourages applications for Center Core grants (P30) to support either HIV/AIDS Research Centers (ARC) or Developmental ARCs (D-ARC). The ARC/D-ARC Program is intended to provide … more »infrastructural support that facilitates the development of high impact science in HIV/AIDS and mental health that is relevant to the NIMH mission.

Restrictions: Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.

Internal Deadline: 7/7/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/7/2012

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Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards Program

Description: The Foundation was incorporated in 1942 to improve the health and quality of life for children throughout New England. Today's research projects encompass many disciplines that have contributed to pediatric discoveries while launching the careers of promising junior faculty.

Restrictions: Hospital divisions may select no more than two Applicants to submit proposals. There are no limitations on departmental or institutional submissions.

Internal Deadline: 7/16/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/16/2012

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Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN) (D43)

Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the Fogarty International Center (FIC), together with the Office of Dietary Supplements (OD/ODS), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), encourages applications for the Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN) D43 program for collaborative research training between institutions in the U.S. and low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), defined by the World Bank classification system. The proposed institutional research training program is expected to sustainably strengthen the research capacity of the LMIC institutions, and to train in-country experts to conduct research on chronic, non-communicable diseases and disorders across the lifespan, with the ultimate goal of implementing evidence-based interventions relevant to their countries.

Restrictions: Applicant institutions may submit no more than two new, scientifically and regionally distinct and non-overlapping, applications (excluding revised resubmission applications) per receipt date under this FOA. No more than three, scientifically and regionally distinct and non-overlapping competing or non-competing continuation awards will be made to a single U.S. or LMIC institution at any given time. A given U.S. institution may only have one active NCD-LIFESPAN award for collaboration with a given LMIC institution.

Internal Deadline: 7/21/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/21/2012

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Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (K12)

Description: The Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) program will support postdoctoral candidates in their research at research intensive-institutions and in teaching assignments at minority serving institutions (MSIs). It is expected that this initiative will provide an important new resource to motivate the next generation of scientists at MSIs.

Restrictions: Internal coordination required. An institution may not submit more than one application.

Internal Deadline: 7/24/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/22/2012

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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)

Description: STEP seeks to increase the number of students receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.

Restrictions: An institution that awards baccalaureate degrees is allowed to submit only one Type 1 proposal, or to be part of only one consortium submitting a Type 1 proposal. An institution that awards associate degrees, and does not award baccalaureate degrees, is allowed to be the lead institution on only one Type 1 proposal, and, in addition, may be a partner on one or more Type 1 proposals. There are no restrictions on the number of Type 2 proposals that an individual or organization may submit.

Internal Deadline: 7/25/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/25/2012

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Institutional Training for a Dental and Craniofacial Research Workforce (T90/R90)

Description: The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) will award T90/R90 grants to eligible institutions that are committed to supporting predoctoral and postdoctoral research training as a means to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to address the nation's health related needs in dental, oral, and craniofacial research.

Restrictions: Applicant institutions may submit only a single application and may have only a single training program supported by this funding opportunity.

Internal Deadline: 7/25/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/25/2012

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Institutional Training for a Dental andRuth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Training for a Dental and Craniofacial Research Workforce (T32)

Description: The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) will award T32 Institutional Training grants to eligible institutions that are committed to supporting predoctoral and postdoctoral research training as a means to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to address the nation's health-related needs in dental, oral, and craniofacial research.

Restrictions: Applicant institutions may submit only a single application and may have only a single training program supported by this funding opportunity.

Internal Deadline: 7/27/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/25/2012

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NEI Center Core Grants for Vision Research (P30)

Description: An NEI P30 Center Core Grant combines one or more research modules for a group of R01 investigators to enhance their research, consolidate resources, avoid duplication of efforts, and/or contribute to cost effectiveness by providing a service with lower cost or higher quality than could be attempted for independent projects by several individual PIs. Shared resources and facilities that are accessible to a group of independently funded investigators lead to greater productivity for the separate projects, and can provide instrumentation and facilities that are too costly to be maintained by an individual investigator. The design and purpose of each P30 Center Core Grant may vary in how it serves its users. This program is designed to enhance an institution's environment and capability to conduct vision research and to facilitate collaborative studies of the visual system and its disorders.

Restrictions: Internal coordination required. Only one P30 Center Core Grant award is allowed per institution.

Internal Deadline: 7/29/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/27/2012

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Funding Opportunity: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends 2012

Description: The Humanities Institute will again be processing the USF applications for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends (2012). The Summer Stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.

Restrictions: As you probably know, each university can only nominate two applications to NEH. The Humanities Institute is charged with determining which two, of all applicants, will be USF’s nominees. Our internal deadline is Friday, July 22, 2011.

Internal Deadline: 7/29/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/29/2012

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International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

Description: Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklin's x-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history.

Restrictions: Only one entry may be submitted by an individual or a team in each category.

Internal Deadline: 7/30/2012
Agency Deadline: 9/30/2012

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Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science

Description: The Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science program supports the … more »active involvement of K-12 science, technology, engineering, computer and information science, and mathematics (STEM) teachers and community college faculty in engineering and computer science research in order to bring knowledge of engineering, computer science, and technological innovation into their classrooms.

Restrictions: Three site proposals may be submitted per competition by a U.S. academic institution, College/Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Computer and Information Science as the lead institution.

Internal Deadline: 8/1/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/1/2012

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EarthScope National Office (ESNO) - NSF

Description: This solicitation calls for proposals to establish a community-based EarthScope National Office. The office will foster and support integrated science, education, outreach, and related activities for the EarthScope program; facilitate and coordinate EarthScope scientific planning and education and outreach activities; facilitate collaborative research; and when necessary, form scientific responses to "events" in EarthScope topics and/or regions of interest.

Restrictions: Internal coordination required. Each organization is limited to one proposal.

Internal Deadline: 8/2/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/1/2012

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ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) Limited submission

Description: The goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, thereby contributing … more »to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE focuses on ensuring that women faculty with earned STEM degrees consider academia as a viable and attractive career option.

Restrictions: Proposers may submit only one Institutional Transformation proposal or one IT-Catalyst proposal. There is no limit on the number of PAID proposals that can be submitted.

Internal Deadline: 8/3/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/3/2012

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NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Grand Challenge: Discovering Novel Drugs for Disorders of the Nervous System (U01)

Description: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces a unique opportunity for investigators working with small molecule compounds to gain access to a robust virtual pharma network to discover neurotherapeutic drugs. Successful applicants to this FOA will become collaborative participants in this network, receiving both funding and no-cost access to contracted drug discovery services that are not typically available to the academic research community.

Restrictions: Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.

Internal Deadline: 8/8/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/8/2012

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NIDCR Institutional Career Development Award for Enhancing Research Capacity in Temporomandibular Joint Disorders and Orofacial Pain (K12)

Description: The purpose of this FOA is to expand and strengthen the community of investigators engaged in research on temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJDs) and orofacial pain.

Restrictions: Only one application per institution is allowed

Internal Deadline: 8/12/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/12/2012

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Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program

Description: The BYI Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Restrictions: No more than one candidate from any one institution, or its affiliates, will be selected for the BYI award in any particular funding cycle

Internal Deadline: 8/12/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/12/2012

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Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC)

Description: This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to … more »digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States.

Restrictions: Only one proposal may be submitted by any one organization as the lead organization. Organizations may be involved in more than one collaborative effort as a non-lead proposal.

Internal Deadline: 8/19/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/19/2012

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Champ - A Champion Fur Kids Grants

Description: The program area and priority for this grant is direct support for children in the areas of health and wellness such as childhood disease research foundations, child safety organizations, and organizations that serve children with special needs

Restrictions: Organizations are able to apply only once a year.

Internal Deadline: 8/28/2012
Agency Deadline: 10/28/2012

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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (DDIG)

Description: NSF awards Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in selected areas of the biological sciences. These grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research to improve the overall quality of research.

Restrictions: An organization may submit only one proposal per student in a given year.

Internal Deadline: 9/9/2012
Agency Deadline: 11/9/2012

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Limited Competition: Framework Programs for Global Health Innovation (D43)

Description: The purpose of this FOA is to provide support for the development of broadly interdisciplinary training programs in global health directed towards encouraging innovation in products, processes, and policies.

Restrictions: Only one application per institution is allowed.

Internal Deadline: 9/15/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/15/2012

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Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2012 (STTR) - NSF 11-561

Description: The STTR program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application of … more »federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.

Restrictions: An organization must not submit more than one proposal. If more than one proposal is submitted, the additional proposals will be returned without review.

Internal Deadline: 9/16/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/16/2012

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NINDS Diversity Research Education Grants in Neuroscience (R25) - PAR-11-010

Description: The purpose of the FOA is to invite applications for Diversity Research Education grants whose goals are to support the development and/or implementation of programs to: (1) increase the number of Ph.D.-level research scientists from diverse backgrounds including graduate, post-doctoral and/or junior-faculty career levels; and (2) advance the careers of the participants to the next step in their education. Funding support for the R25 Diversity Research Education Programs should lead to increased recruitment, mentoring, education and retention of researchers from diverse backgrounds in the neuroscience scientific workforce.

Restrictions: Only one application per institution is allowed.

Internal Deadline: 9/26/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/25/2012

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Opportunities for Currently NSF Supported and Self-Sustaining, Graduated Engineering Research Centers to Partner with Small Businesses (ERC & SBIR)

Description: This opportunity aims to enable currently supported NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERC) that are in the Classes of 2003-2008 and recently graduated, self-sustaining ERCs to benefit from the role of small firms … more »in carrying out research to speed the translation of research results into commercial products and for small businesses to benefit from the innovative and leading-edge research performed at Engineering Research Centers (ERCs).

Restrictions: Institutions with eligible ERCs can endorse up to three proposals submitted by ERC faculty.

Internal Deadline: 9/29/2012
Agency Deadline: 11/29/2012

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Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award

Description: The award annually honors a medical school faculty physician (M.D. or D.O. degree) who exemplifies the qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students and possesses the desirable personal qualities necessary to the practice of patient-centered medicine by teaching ethics, empathy, and service by example. The goal of the award is to emphasize, reinforce, and enhance the importance of humanistic qualities among medical school students and faculty. The presence of a caring, compassionate, and collaborative learning environment serves as positive reinforcement to prospective physicians of the desirability of such qualities in the doctor-patient relationship.

Restrictions: Each medical school may nominate one physician faculty member.

Internal Deadline: 10/9/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/9/2012

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Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) - NSF 12-505

Description: Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) are off-campus facilities for research and education pertaining to physical and biological phenomena and organisms in the natural habitats of terrestrial, … more »freshwater, and marine ecosystems.

Restrictions: Only one proposal may be submitted on behalf of any single facility per round of the FSML competition.

Internal Deadline: 10/14/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/14/2012

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Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN): A Competition to Reconfigure the NCN - NSF 12-504

Description: NSF's NCN award expires in September 2012. Through this solicitation, NSF provides an opportunity for the broader community to compete to reconfigure the NCN. The configuration of the new Network for Computational Nanotechnology will be restructured as a stand alone Cyber Platform awardee, which will provide computation, simulation and educational services to the nanoscience and engineering communities, including the current nanoHUB tools and educational materials.

Restrictions: A university may submit only one Cyber Platform proposal. A university may submit only one proposal per Node request in this solicitation.

Internal Deadline: 10/16/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/16/2012

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NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5) - RFA-RM-10-019

Description: This FOA issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) solicits applications for the NIH Director's Early Independence Award (DP5) from institutions/organizations that propose to appoint and support exceptional, early career scientists directly following the completion of their Ph.D. (or equivalent) or M.D. (or equivalent) training into an independent academic research position, thereby omitting the traditional postdoctoral training period from their career path.

Restrictions: Internal coordination required. Applicant organizations (identified as having a unique DUNS number) may submit up to two applications in response to this FOA. NIH will not accept any application in response to this FOA that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial peer review unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed.

Internal Deadline: 10/30/2012
Agency Deadline: 12/30/2012

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International Science and Education Grants Program

Description: The purpose of the International Science and Education (ISE) Grants Program is to support the internationalization of food, agriculture, and related programs at United States universities and colleges. It is intended … more »that ISE will improve the ability of American students, business people, and community members to compete more effectively in the global world of agriculture.

Restrictions: Each institution may submit no more than two proposals as the lead institution.

Internal Deadline: 11/19/2012
Agency Deadline: 1/19/2013

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Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) - NSF 11-503

Description: The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in the USA's institutions of higher education, museums, … more »science centers, and not-for-profit organizations.

Restrictions: Organizations are limited to three proposals. If three proposals are submitted, at least one of the proposals must be for instrument development (i.e., no more than two proposals may be for instrument acquisition).

Internal Deadline: 11/24/2012
Agency Deadline: 1/24/2013

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Fundamental Research Program for Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (FRP) - NSF 11-570

Description: NSF encourages the submission of industry-defined fundamental research proposals from NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs). Industry-defined fundamental research broadens the … more »scientific and engineering understanding beyond the more specific applied research interests of the industries traditionally served by the I/UCRC. Industry participation extends the scope and horizon of center research projects so as to drive innovation with industrially relevant fundamental research projects.

Restrictions: The limit on number of proposals per organization is one proposal per center.

Internal Deadline: 12/1/2012
Agency Deadline: 2/1/2013

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Sustainable Energy Pathways (SEP) - NSF 11-590

Description: A sustainable world is one in which human needs are met equitably without harm to the environment, and without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Restrictions: Eligible institutions may submit no more than three proposals as the lead organization in response to this solicitation for FY 2012.

Internal Deadline: 12/1/2012
Agency Deadline: 2/1/2013

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Cancer Research Grant Program

Description: The foundation, a funding source for cancer research, is currently accepting applications for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or cervical cancer.

Restrictions: Only one grant application will be accepted from each school

Internal Deadline: 12/3/2012
Agency Deadline: 2/3/2013

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Brain and Immuno-Imaging Grants

Description: The Foundation's imaging research program focuses on improving human brain and brain-immune functioning in health and disease. Funds support pilot-testing by investigators who are early in their research careers of promising but high-risk innovative ideas that have direct clinical application and that, when successful, are competitive for larger-scale support from other funders.

Restrictions: Each U.S. medical school dean, and the presidents of the few selected biomedical research institutions that have been invited by letter, may nominate one applicant.

Internal Deadline: 12/28/2012
Agency Deadline: 2/28/2013

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Early Stage Investigator Grants

Description: The Early Stage Investigator Grants program is intended to help ensure that a pool of highly trained scientists is available to address the research needs of the field of gambling disorders. This career development award will provide scientists with the mentoring and research experiences necessary for research independence.

Restrictions: Only one application from a division or defined research group within the institution is allowed.

Internal Deadline: 3/1/2013
Agency Deadline: 5/1/2013

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