UPDATES
REVISED
PHS 398 (DHHS PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE GRANT APPLICATION):
The newly revised “Application for a DHHS Public
Health Service Grant” (PHS 398, rev. 11/07) instructions
and forms are now available and will be accepted for
due dates on or after January 25, 2008. All applications
received for May 25, 2008 and subsequent due dates must
use the new instructions and forms. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-028.html
REVISED PHS 2271, PHS 3734, AND HHS 568: The
newly revised “Statement of Appointment”
(PHS 2271), “Official Statement Relinquishing
Interest and Rights in a PHS Research Grant” (PHS
3734), and “Final Invention Statement and Certification”
(HHS 568) instructions and forms are available for immediate
use.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-029.html
REVISED PHS 2590 (DHHS PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE NONCOMPETING
CONTINUATION PROGRESS REPORT): The newly revised
“Continuation Progress Report for a DHHS Public
Health Service Grant” (PHS 2590) instructions
and forms are now available for immediate use. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-030.html
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM (PCRP) FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES COMING SOON: FY08 PCRP Program Announcements
are expected to be released between January and February
2008. The announcements will describe opportunities
for funding by the nine award mechanisms (Health Disparity
Research Award, Health Disparity Training Award, Clinical
Consortium Award, Clinical Trial Award, Laboratory -
Clinical Transition: Stage 1 Award, Idea Development
Award, Synergistic Idea Development Award, New Investigator
Award, Collaborative Undergraduate Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Student Summer Training Program
Award, Physician Research Training Award, and Prostate
Cancer Training Award). Brief descriptions of each of
these mechanisms are being released in the News Release
on the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed
Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) website at http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2008/08pcrppreann.htm.
Requests for e-mail notification when Program Announcements
are released may be sent to help@cdmrp.org.
NIH
DIRECTOR EVALUATES AGENCY’S PEER REVIEW AND GRANT
PROCESS: Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National
Institutes of Health, discusses the agency’s wide
ranging review, now underway, of how it awards grants.
To listen, go to http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v54/i15/zerhouni/.
CENTER
ON PHILANTHROPY RESEARCH FUND: The Center on Philanthropy
at Indiana University requests proposals from faculty
members from all disciplines for research relating to
issues facing philanthropy and nonprofit organizations.
All proposals must be postmarked by March 21, 2008.
For more information, go to http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/Research/grant-programs.aspx
or contact Reema T. Bhakta at rtbhakta@iupui.edu
or 317-278-8996.
DID
YOU KNOW?
CAMPUS
FACTS:
For
the year-to-date, IUPUI awards are up 29%. The number
of proposals submitted is up 16% and the dollars requested
are up 36%.
For
fiscal year 2006, funding rate for proposals submitted
to NIH from medical schools was 20.9%. For information
on how this rate varies by department go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/success/meddept06.xls
. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the
National Science Foundation give the funding rate as
20% but note a wide disparity between programs. The
Department of Defense data is not available. For competitive
programs in the Department of Agriculture, the funding
rate is 10%.
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
SHARED
INSTRUMENTATION GRANT PROGRAM: National Center for
Research Resources (NCRR) Shared Instrument Grant (SIG)
program solicits applications from groups of NIH-supported
investigators to purchase or upgrade commercially available
instruments that cost at least $100,000. The maximum
award is $500,000. Types of instruments supported include
confocal and electron microscopes, biomedical imagers,
mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell
sorters, X-ray diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers
among others. Application deadline is March 22. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-036.html
BEHAVIORAL
MECHANISMS IN THE TRANSITION TO HABITUAL ALCOHOL SEEKING
AND DRINKING: Focus is on alcohol’s effects
upon neural substrates of learning and memory as they
contribute to behavioral characteristics of alcohol
dependence; and the role of implicit cognitive factors
and their underlying neural substrates in the transition
to impulsive and/or compulsive drinking and to relapse.
Application deadline is March 20.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AA-08-007.html
NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION
COLLABORATIVE
RESEARCH IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (CRCNS): Focus
is on innovative interdisciplinary collaborative research
to make significant advances in the understanding of
nervous system function, mechanisms underlying nervous
system disorders, and computational strategies used
by the nervous system. Application deadline is February
26.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08514/nsf08514.htm
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY
BROAD
AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND/OR
MEETINGS: Focus is on supporting scientific and
technical research conferences that address the following
research program areas: (1) human health; (2) ecosystems;
water and security; (3) economics and sustainability;
(4) air and global climate change; and (5) technology.
Application deadlines are January 7, June 5, and December
9.
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_baa.html
