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December 2005 Funding News
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding/funding_news
New Graduate Programs
United Negro College Fund: UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships
The College Fund/UNCF and The Merck Company Foundation have collaborated to bring a new initiative to colleges and universities across the country. This program is designed to increase the number of African Americans in the pipeline of biomedical science education and research. Twelve awards will be made in 2006. Each award of up to $40,000 consists of: -Fellowship stipend up to $30,000 -Department grant up to $10,000
Deadline: December 15, 2005
United Negro College Fund: UNCF-Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowships
The College Fund/UNCF and the Merck Research Laboratories have collaborated to bring a new initiative to colleges and universities across the country. This program is designed to increase the number of African Americans in the pipeline of biomedical science education and research. Ten awards will be made in 2006. Each award of up to $70,000 consists of: -Fellowship stipend up to $55,000 -Department grant up to $15,000
Deadline: December 15, 2005
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Developing Methodologies to Determine the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Early Childhood and Young Adult Population Organization Name: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
The purpose of this program is to design or enhance methodologies for identification of early childhood and young adult populations with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) as a prototype for other developmental disabilities (DDs). Total amount to be awarded: $600,000. Anticipated number of awards: four under this announcement. Within the competition, four awards will be made; to the two highest ranked applications in each of the two age groups (i.e., early childhood or young adult) Type of mechanism: cooperative agreement. Eligible organizations: see eligibility section of announcement. Applicants may submit more than one application, provided they are scientific distinct. See Section IV.1 for application materials. CDC telecommunications for the hearing impaired is available at: TTY 770-488-2783.
Deadline: January 5, 2006
Alzheimer's Association: Investigator Initiated Research Grant
The Investigator-Initiated Research Grant is the backbone of the Alzheimer's Association grant program. To be considered responsive, the research grant application must address a question or questions relevant to the fiscal year 2006 areas of focus or a compelling issue in Alzheimer research pertinent to the applicant's special interest or expertise.
Deadline: January 6, 2006
Alzheimer's Association: New Investigator Research Grant
The program formerly known as the "Pilot Research Grant Program" has become the "New Investigator Research Grant Program." This title change is designed to reinforce the historical emphasis of this competition-to fund investigators who are no more than 10 years past their doctoral degree. The purpose of this program is to provide new investigators with funding that will allow them to develop preliminary or pilot data, to test procedures, and to develop hypotheses. The intent is to support early-career development that will lay the groundwork for future research grant applications to the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies and groups, including future proposals to the Alzheimer's Association. All applications submitted to the New Investigator Research Grant program must target defined areas of focus for fiscal year 2006 in order to be considered responsive to the program announcement.
Deadline: January 6, 2006
Alzheimer's Association: Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer's Care (ETAC) Research Grant
ETAC is seeking proposals on personalized diagnostics, preventive tools and interventions for adults coping with the spectrum of cognitive aging and neurodegenerative disease, particularly Alzheimer's disease. We are interested in groundbreaking studies on emerging technologies as well as their clinical and social implications. Mobile computing, high bandwidth sensing, robotics, imaging, face recognition, natural language processing, statistical modeling and a host of other technology advances allow unprecedented opportunities to study disease progression and therapeutic strategies in the contexts of everyday life. ETAC supports research that integrates such emerging technology capabilities with leading directions in behavioral science and biomedical research. Grants that merely create internet-based versions of existing paper tools or services will not be considered.
Deadline: January 6, 2006
Alzheimer's Association: The Senator Mark Hatfield Award for Clinical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
When Senator Mark Hatfield announced his retirement from the United States Senate in 1996, the Alzheimer's Association established the Hatfield Award for Clinical Research to honor his long commitment to Alzheimer's disease research, especially clinical investigations. The award is designed to focus on the Senator's interests - clinical research and support of new investigators. In 1996 and 1997, the Association selected a recipient of the Hatfield Award from among those investigators who had submitted an application to another Association program announcement. In 1998, it was decided to announce the program and seek applications specifically for the Hatfield Award. This is the eight competition for the Hatfield Award. To be considered responsive to the program announcement, the research grant application must focus on a clinical question or questions in interventions for Alzheimer's disease.
Deadline: January 6, 2006
Alzheimer's Association: The Zenith Fellows Award Program
The Zenith Fellows program was initiated in 1991 to provide a vehicle for research support for donors with a substantial personal commitment to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease research. The awards are made possible by the generosity of a group of individuals and organizations (Zenith Fellows) who have each committed $1 million to the Alzheimer's Association for support of the program. The objective of the Zenith Awards program is to provide major support for investigators who: Have contributed significantly to the field of Alzheimer's disease research; Have made significant contributions to other areas of science and are now beginning to focus more directly on problems related to Alzheimer's disease; Are likely to make substantial contributions to Alzheimer's research in the future. The proposed research must be "on the cutting edge" of basic, biomedical research and therefore may not fit current conventional scientific wisdom or may challenge prevailing orthodoxy. The proposed research should address fundamental problems related to early detection, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
Deadline: January 6, 2006
National Institutes of Health/NIH: Mechanisms Linking Short Sleep Duration and Risk of Obesity or Overweight (R01)
The purpose of this RFA is to stimulate studies that will elucidate cause-and-effect relationships and mechanisms to explain associations between short sleep duration and increased risk of obesity or overweight due to altered metabolism, appetite, or inflammation. The effects of short (or long) sleep duration on mechanisms underlying weight gain and obesity are of primary interest.
Deadline: January 25, 2006
Columbia University Medical Center: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Each year, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize has been awarded by Columbia University for outstanding basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry. The purpose of this prize is to honor a scientific investigator, or group of investigators, whose contributions to knowledge in either of these fields are deemed worthy of special recognition The Prize Committee recognizes no geographical limitations. The prize may be awarded to an individual or a group. When the prize is awarded to a group, the honorarium will be divided among the recipients, and each member will receive a citation. Preference will be given to work done in the recent past. The Prize consists of an honorarium and a citation which are awarded at a special presentation event. Unless otherwise recommended by the Prize Committee, the Prize is awarded annually.
Deadline: January 21, 2006
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Coastal Management Fellowship
The Coastal Management Fellowship was established in 1996 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to state coastal zone management programs. The program matches postgraduate students with state coastal zone programs to work on projects proposed by the state and selected by the fellowship sponsor, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center. This two-year opportunity offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement.
Deadline: January 30, 2006
Harvard School of Public Health: Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is intended to expand the diversity of those entering academic public health. Ultimately the program seeks to position minority scientists to be successful public health academics. Each fellow is matched with a faculty mentor who assists in the transition to an academic career. Under the guidance of their faculty mentor, fellows establish their own research agenda, present their research in school and national settings, gain experience in publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals and in obtaining grant support, participate in teaching, and learn to develop their own courses. Fellows also participate in other activities designed to involve them fully in the formal and informal life of the academic community.
Deadline: January 15, 2006
National Institutes of Health/NIH- National Cancer Institute: Training in Translational Research in Neurobiology of Disease (T32)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to eligible institutions to support research trainees in translational neurobiology of disease. Four types of full-time trainees may be supported: 1) Predoctoral Trainees in a neuroscience-oriented PhD or equivalent doctoral degree program; 2) Trainees in an accredited MD/PhD program at a medical school who will receive both an MD, DO, DDS, or equivalent professional degree and a PhD; 3) Short-Term Research Training for Health-Professional Students; and 4) Postdoctoral Trainees with research or clinical doctoral degrees to prepare for a research career in translational neuroscience.
Deadline: February 22, 2006
National Institutes of Health/NIH: Social Neuroscience
The purpose of this RFA is to stimulate investigations of the cognitive/behavioral processes and neurobiological mechanisms of social behavior relevant to alcohol and drug abuse (NIDA/NIAAA) and decision making and judgment over the life course (NIA). Clinical and preclinical research will be supported by this initiative. NIAAA is only interested in applications that address, in a developmental framework, the behavioral/cognitive/emotional processes and neurobiological mechanisms of social behavior as they relate to preadolescent and adolescent drinking pathways including the development of abuse and dependence.
Deadline: February 23, 2006
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports young physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented cancer research. The goal is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient's bedside in search of breakthrough treatments.
Deadline: March 1, 2006
University of California: Community Collaborative Research Awards
These awards support HIV/AIDS prevention intervention, policy and health services research collaborations between or among community-based organizations or AIDS service organizations and scientific investigators. The purposes of the collaborative awards are to encourage partnerships that will address important and timely research questions and to strengthen research infrastructure within service settings. While collaboration with community organizations is the intent of the mechanism, health services and health policy research applicants may instead wish to propose partnerships with care service delivery sites or other nonprofit organizations.
Deadline: April 4, 2006
University of California: Innovative Developmental Exploratory Awards
IDEAs are intended for: .all nonprofit research, academic, and community-based institutions in California., andnew or more experienced investigators testing new ideas and/or approaches. HIV/AIDS-related pilot studies within and across a variety of biomedical, social/behavioral, epidemiological, clinical, health services, policy and prevention research areas. IDEA research awards provide funds for studies that are innovative, creative, intellectually exciting, and show clear promise to yield findings that have a potential for high pay-off within the grant period or that show clear promise to yield findings that could serve as the basis for well-defined future research in a new area of HIV/AIDS research.
Deadline: April 4, 2006
University of California: Research Training Awards
These awards support dissertation, postdoctoral, and clinical research training. Research Training Awards are intended for accredited nonprofit/community research and academic institutions in California., engaged inHIV/AIDS-related studies within a variety of biomedical, social/behavioral, clinical, health services, epidemiological, policy, and prevention research areas.
Deadline: April 4, 2006
Donaghue Foundation: Donaghue Investigator Program
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation announces a comprehensive, Connecticut-focused program to support particularly promising medical researchers committed to academic and other non-profit research institutions and organizations in the state. The Donaghue Foundation was established to fund research to promote medical knowledge of practical benefit in preserving, maintaining and improving human life. This program will focus on talented investigators who are committed to pursuing their careers in Connecticut for the foreseeable future, have demonstrated exceptional potential for an outstanding independent research career and for leadership in their field(s) of research, are enthusiastic about multidisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration in integrative research and about connecting their work to the public, and have strong support of their institution. Research must be in the areas of pain management, patient safety, injury prevention, the organization of health delivery services, complementary and alternative medicine, ethics of health care or research, or programs that are testing interventions to relieve suffereing or prevent disease.
Deadline: April 20, 2006
Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation: Lindbergh Grants Program
Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation presents Lindbergh Grants for research and educational projects that will improve the quality of life through a balance between technology and nature. Awarded in amounts up to $10,580 each (a symbolic figure representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927), the Grants are made in numerous areas of special interest to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, including aviation/aerospace, agriculture, arts and humanities, biomedical research and adaptive technology, conservation of natural resources, education, exploration, health and population sciences, intercultural communication, oceanography, waste disposal management, water resource management, and wildlife preservation. Applications for Lindbergh Grants are reviewed annually and evaluated by two panels - one consisting of individuals knowledgeable in Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's philosophy of balance and the other made up of technical experts in the various fields in which Lindbergh Grants are awarded. Further evaluations and recommendations to the Lindbergh Foundation Board of Directors are made by the Grants Selection Committee of the Board, with the Board making the final decisions. Unfunded projects judged to be deserving of special recognition are awarded Lindbergh Grant Certificates of Merit.
Deadline: June 8, 2006
Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships: Scholarships in Medical Science
The Charles E. Culpeper Scholarships in Medical Science nurture the career development of exceptionally promising physician scientists. Each year since 1988 the scholarships have provided a three-year award of $324,000 to support the specific research of at least three physician-scientists as they transition to independent researchers at the best academic medical centers.
Deadline: August 16, 2006
University of California Santa Cruz: CBSE Diversity Fellowships in Genomic Science
Each year, UCSC's CBSE and Center for Genomic Sciences awards fellowships to outstanding underrepresented graduate students at UCSC to pursue research projects in areas relevant to the human genome, including the ethical, legal, and social implications of genome research. The fellowship includes one year of tuition, fees, and stipend, plus an allowance for research supplies and travel to one relevant scientific meeting.
Deadline: 2 weeks before each academic quarter
New Undergraduate Programs
National Science Foundation: Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS)
The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program seeks to increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of information assurance and computer security and to increase the capacity of the United States higher education enterprise to continue to produce professionals in these fields to meet the needs of our increasingly technological society.
Deadline: February 2, 2006
University of California Santa Cruz: CBSE Diversity Awards in Genomic Science
Each year, UCSC's CBSE and Center for Genomic Sciences grant 6 quarter-long awards of $1500 each. The awards go to outstanding underrepresented undergraduate students at UCSC to pursue research projects in areas relevant to the human genome, including the ethical, legal, and social implications of genome research. Students who have successfully completed one quarter of research under one of these awards may apply for subsequent quarters.
Deadline: 2 weeks before each academic quarter
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