Current Funding Opportunities
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Unsolicited Proposals at the Interface of the Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering
NSF 12-057
Application Due Dates: Proposals must be submitted in accordance with the deadlines and proposal submission windows specified for unsolicited proposals for the respective programs.
Purpose: Divisions within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) have seen increasing numbers of proposals in recent years that focus on biological systems at all levels of biological organization, ranging from the sub-cellular level to the environment. Additionally, the Directorate of Engineering (ENG) seeks to contribute to the understanding of biology using engineering tools to exploit unique aspects of biological systems in applications that are useful in industrial, environmental, and health care arenas. At the same time, divisions in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) are receiving more proposals that incorporate approaches and address questions that have traditionally been the domain of the mathematical and physical sciences and engineering. This letter is to remind our research communities that BIO, MPS and ENG strongly encourage proposals from interdisciplinary research teams that involve collaborations among investigators from the biological, mathematical, and physical sciences and engineering to support new interactions that span interfaces between BIO, ENG, and MPS. [
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Transforming Biomedicine at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences (R01)
PAR-10-141
Application Due Date(s): May 18, 2012
Purpose: The goal of this funding opportunity announcement, issued by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, is to stimulate quantitative and physical scientists to work with biomedical scientists to transform technological innovation and basic knowledge in the quantitative sciences into new or improved devices or systems for health care. [
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New Biomedical Frontiers at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences (R01)
PAR-10-142
Application Due Date(s): May 18, 2012
Purpose: The goal of this funding opportunity announcement, issued by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, is to encourage grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose discovery research that may create entirely new areas of biomedical investigation through bridging the physical and life/behavioral sciences. [
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Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25)
PAR-10-140
Application Due Date(s): May 18, 2012
Purpose: This FOA, issued by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the Eunice K. Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), encourages applications from institutions that propose to establish new or to enhance existing team-based design courses in undergraduate Biomedical Engineering departments or programs. [
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Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Cancer Research (R21)
RFA-CA-12-002
Application Due Date(s): May 21, 2012; September 18, 2012
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on the inception and development of early stage, highly innovative, technologies or emerging technologies with significant transformative potential that has not yet been explored in a cancer-relevant use. [
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Validation and Advanced Development of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R33)
RFA-CA-12-003
Application Due Date(s): May 21, 2012; September 18, 2012
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), solicits grant applications proposing research projects on the advanced development of emerging molecular and cellular analysis technologies through technical/analytical validation in an appropriate cancer-relevant biological system or context. [
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Innovative and Early-Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Biospecimen Science (R21)
RFA-CA-12-004
Application Due Date(s): May 21, 2012; September 18, 2012
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), solicits grant applications proposing technically innovative feasibility studies focused on early stage development of technologies that address issues related to pre-analytical variations in the collection, processing, handling, and storage of cancer-relevant biospecimens or their derivatives. [
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Validation and Advanced Development of Emerging Technologies in Biospecimen Science (R33)
RFA-CA-12-005
Application Due Date(s): May 21, 2012; September 18, 2012
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), solicits grant applications proposing technically innovative feasibility studies focused on the advanced development and validation of cancer-relevant technologies that address issues related to pre-analytical variations in the collection, processing, handling, and storage of biospecimens or their derivatives. [
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Cancer Education Grants Program (R25)
PAR-12-049
Application Due Date(s): January 25, May 25, September 25
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to support innovative educational efforts that would help to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and that would improve the quality of life of cancer patients. [
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Genomic Characterization of PS-OC Cell Line Panel
Solicitation #: s12-432
Response Due Date: June 1, 2012 12PM EST
Purpose: The goal of this project is the genomic and molecular characterization of the PBCF cell line panel and the deposition of the data and information into PS-OC DCC in formats usable to all members of the PS-OC Network and the scientific community at large. [
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Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG)(R01)
PA-10-009
Application Due Date(s): February 5, June 5, October 5
Purpose: Participating Institutes and Centers of the NIH invite applications for R01 awards to support Bioengineering Research Grants (BRGs) for basic and applied multi-disciplinary research that addresses important biological, bioengineering or medical research problems. [
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Integrative Omics Data Analysis for Discovery in Lung Diseases (R01)
PAR-12-155
Application due date(s): June 19, 2012; June 19, 2013; June 19, 2014
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) invites applications to: (1) generate systems-level models of pulmonary pathobiology through integrative analyses of existing omics (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) data; and (2) experimentally test novel predictions of these models using human tissues/cells and/or mammalian animal models. [
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Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R01)
PA-12-136
Application Due Date(s): February 5, June 5, October 5
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages translational research proposals in the overlapping areas of human aging and cancer, linking basic and clinical research relevant to the care of older cancer patients through both bench-to-bedside and bedside-to-bench approaches. [
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Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R21)
PA-12-135
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages translational research proposals in the overlapping areas of human aging and cancer, linking basic and clinical research relevant to the care of older cancer patients through both bench-to-bedside and bedside-to-bench approaches. [
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Pilot studies in Pancreatic Cancer (R21)
PA-11-297
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages the submission of Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions and organizations that propose to promote innovative research across multiple disciplines for a better understanding of the biology, etiology, detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer. [
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Pilot studies in Pancreatic Cancer (R03)
PA-11-298
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages the submission of Small Research Grant (R03) applications from institutions and organizations that propose to promote innovative research across multiple disciplines for a better understanding of the biology, etiology, detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer. [
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Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) [R21]
PA-10-010
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to encourage innovation and high risk/impact bioengineering research in new areas. [
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Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21)
PAR-09-219
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: The NIH is interested in promoting research and developments in biomedical informatics and computational biology that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. [
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Exploratory Studies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis (R21)
PA-08-267
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), invites grant applications from institutions and organizations that are interested in developing and testing innovative methods in cancer detection, diagnosis, and prognosis. [
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Developmental Research in Cancer Prognosis and Prediction (R21)
PA-09-158
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages research applications from institutions and organizations to evaluate the utility and pilot the application of new strategies for determining prognosis or predicting response to therapy for cancer. [
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Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R21)
PAR-12-094
Application Due Date(s): June 20, 2012; November 20, 2012; June 20, 2013; November 20, 2013; June 20, 2014; November 20, 2014
Purpose: Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) and the Division of Cancer Biology (DCB), at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), invite grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic research studies into the biological causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities. [
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Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (U01)
PAR-12-095
Application Due Date(s): June 20, 2012; November 20, 2012; June 20, 2013; November 20, 2013; June 20, 2014; November 20, 2014
Purpose: Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD), the Division of Cancer Biology (DCB) and Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourage grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic, mechanistic research into the biologic/genetic causes of cancer health disparities. [
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NHLBI Systems Biology Collaborations (R01)
PAR-12-138
Application Due Date(s): September 14, 2012; January 14, 2013; September 13, 2013; January 13, 2014; September 15, 2014; January 13, 2015
Purpose: This FOA issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose collaborative systems biology research projects by multi-disciplinary teams to advance our understanding of normal physiology and perturbations associated with heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) diseases and disorders. [
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Biophysical and Biomechanical Aspects of Embryonic Development (R01)
PAR-10-221
Application Due Date(s): September 20, 2010, September 20, 2011, September 20, 2012
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) (
http://www.nibib.nih.gov), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), (
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/), and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), (
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov), encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from Institutes/ organizations that propose to advance our knowledge in the area of the physics and mechanics of embryonic development. [
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Biophysical and Biomechanical Aspects of Embryonic Development (R21)
PAR-10-222
Application Due Date(s): September 20, 2010, September 20, 2011, September 20, 2012
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) (
http://www.nibib.nih.gov), and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), (
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov), is intended to encourage innovative and high risk/impact research in the area of physics/mechanics of embryonic development to be explored in model organisms. [
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