UPDATES
NIH
REVISED POLICY ON REVIEW OF UNSOLICITED APPLICATIONS
THAT REQUEST $500,000 OR MORE IN DIRECT COSTS: Collaborative
Interdisciplinary Research Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology
and Metabolic Diseases (R24). Budget cap of $750,000
eliminated.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-004.html
MANDATORY
USE OF THE ELECTRONIC FINANCIAL STATUS REPORT SYSTEM
IN NIH eRA COMMONS: Beginning October
1, 2007, NIH will require all Financial Status
Reports (FSRs) (domestic and foreign) to be submitted
using the electronic FSR system located in the eRA Commons.
This includes all initial FSRs being prepared for submission
and any revisions being submitted or re-submitted to
NIH.
DID
YOU KNOW?
CAMPUS
FACTS:
Total awards for IUPUI in FY 06-07 was
approximately 295 million, which is an increase of 12.8%
compared to last year. Total awards for IUB in FY 06-07
was approximately 117 million, which is a decrease of
6.1% compared to last year.
Total awards for all of the IU campuses
combined in FY 06-07 was approximately 433 million.
Total awards for all of the Purdue campuses combined
in FY 06-07 was approximately 301 million.
Awards to IUPUI
investigators in FY 06-07 from the Department of Defense
totaled approximately 1 million.
IDENTIFYING
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Several
on-line search tools are available to IUPUI investigators
who are interested in identifying funding opportunities
in their areas of interest. Several are listed below:
Community
of Science (COS): COS is a primary on-line
search tool for identifying funding opportunities. To
take advantage of this powerful tool, register at http://www.cos.com/login/join.shtml.
Once you have completed the short registration process,
you can personalize your search by selecting the option
entitled “launch your workbench”. You can
access federal, local, corporate, foundation, nonprofit
and other funding opportunities using key terms and
save the results of up to 20 searches and have them
delivered to you weekly via email.
National
Institutes of Health (NIH) “NIH Guide”:
To take advantage of this search tool, register at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm.
It allows you to receive discipline specific funding
opportunities that are delivered to you weekly via email.
National
Science Foundation (NSF) “MyNSF”:
To take advantage of this search tool register at http://www.nsf.gov/mynsf/.
It allows you to receive discipline specific funding
opportunities that are delivered to you weekly via email.
Federal
Business Opportunities “FedBizOpps”:
FedBizOpps is the single government point-of-entry for
Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.
To take advantage of this search tool, visit http://vsearch1.fbo.gov/servlet/SearchServlet.
Opportunities found at this site include, but are not
limited to, presolicitations and special notices for research
and service contracts for specific projects and some national
centers and surveys that would not be found in Grants.gov
and may not be found in the Community of Science.
Limited
Submission Funding Opportunities : Occasionally
a funding agency places a limitation on the number of
proposals that can be submitted from a campus or university
system. For a description of the upcoming “limited
submission” funding opportunities, as well as
guidelines and application forms, go to:
http://www.srs.indiana.edu/LimSub/LimSub.asp. Questions
can be directed to Etta Ward in the IUPUI Office of
Research and Sponsored Programs emward@iupui.edu
or 317.278.8427.
CURRENT
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Funding
opportunities in this section include selected current
grant announcements from federal agencies for new
initiatives and changes to existing programs. Announcements
with limited scope are not listed here but are, instead,
sent directly to IUPUI School Deans. For comprehensive
coverage of funding opportunities please use the on-line
search tools listed above.
NATIONAL
INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Director’s
Pioneer Award: Designed to support individual
scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering
– and possibly transformative – approaches to major
challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. Application
deadline is January 16.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-08-013.html
National
Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders
(NIDCD) research grants for Translating Basic
Research into Clinical Tools for Human Health: Focus is on translating
basic research findings into clinical tools for better
human health in the NIDCD mission areas of hearing,
balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. Application
deadline is February 14.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-017.html
Ethical,
Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Human Genome
Research: Standard application dates apply (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm).
For the complete announcement see: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-012.html
Partners in Research Program: Focus is on supporting two-year
pilot and/or feasibility research studies of innovative
activities designed to improve public understanding
of biomedical and behavioral science, develop strategies
for promoting collaboration between scientists and the
community to improve the health of the public, and to
identify the conditions (e.g., settings and approaches)
that will enhance the effectiveness of such activities.
Application deadline is January 11. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-07-001.html
Network for Translational Research (NTR):
Optical Imaging in Multimodal Platforms: Focus is on accelerating the translational research of in vivo multimodal imaging
and/or spectroscopic platforms from the laboratory and
pre-clinical level to the clinical level. Applications
are sought from multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional
research teams. Application deadline is January
24
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-08-002.html
Genetic Susceptibility & Variability
of Human Structural Birth Defects: Focus is on innovative investigator-initiated
applications designed to study fundamental developmental
processes using animal models in conjunction with translational/clinical
approaches with the goal of advancing our understanding
of the etiology of structural birth defects. Standard
application deadlines apply.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-011.html
NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Interpreting
America's Historic Places Planning Grants:
Focus is on support
for public humanities projects that exploit the evocative
power of historic places to address themes and issues
central to American history and culture, including those
that advance knowledge of how the founding principles
of the United States have shaped American history and
culture for more than two hundred years. Application
deadline is January 23.
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IAHP_Planning.html
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning Grants: Focus is
on support of traveling or long-term museum exhibitions,
library-based projects, interpretation of historic places
or areas, interpretive web sites, or other project formats
that creatively engage audiences in exploring humanities
ideas and questions. Application
deadline is January 23. http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_PlanningGuidelines.html
