Announcements
Office of Grants & Research-Funding Opportunities Volume 25 - February, 2018
ACTIVATING GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF GLOBAL CITIZENS FOR THE GLOBAL GOALS
Agency: Misk Grand Challenges
Purpose: Investigators are invited to propose innovative and creative solutions that uses new knowledge to positively engage young people in one or more of these goals in both scale and depth. The focus can be local, but to support Global Citizenship for the Global Goals they must also link in a clear way to efforts elsewhere – at a regional, national or global level. The initial phase, which would be funded under this initiative, must demonstrate a path to a more sustainable and scalable program. It must collect quantitative data to inform decision making for follow‐on funding…
Deadline: 2 May 2018 ‐ 11:30am PDT
REINVENTING TEACHING AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: PREPARING THE YOUTH WITH THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS NEEDED FOR A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Agency: Global Grand Challenges
Purpose: The Misk Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aim to empower the youth and prepare them for success in the future knowledge economy. Great opportunities exist as technologies and industries advance faster than ever before. But disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, also present challenges. Industries will undergo major transformations and according to the McKinsey Global Institute, approximately half of all jobs today may be lost to automation across the developing and developed world. Moreover, major societal issues that face humanity, such as inequality and climate change, continue to spread in a complex manner…
Deadline: 2 May 2018 ‐ 11:30am PDT
SAVING LIVES AT BIRTH (ROUND 8)
Agency: Grand Challenges for Development
Purpose: The goal of this program is to find the tools and approaches to help mothers and newborns during their most vulnerable hours. This program seek groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in poor, hard‐to‐reach communities around the time of delivery. This is the period when the majority of maternal and newborn deaths occur and the population that has been the most difficult to reach…
Deadline: 28 Feb 2018 ‐ 11:00am PST
ADVANCED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
Agency: Dept. of Genetics & Cell Biology – Molecular Cell Biology Maastricht University,
Purpose: The Maastricht University has opened positions via Trialect, for either a 6‐week or 12‐week experimental period on Advanced Optical Microscopy in Biomedical Research. Students can do this internship either alone or as a group of 4. In the first week of the project, the candidates will engage into literature on the various advanced microscopy techniques available in our lab (Nuance spectral microscopy, super‐resolution STED microscopy, Two‐photon microscopy) and the specific biomedical topic. If the students arrive before 11th of June, they can follow a dedicated course on these imaging techniques, given in week June 11 to 15. In the first and second week, we will also teach them to handle the microscopes and do experiments on their own. Since obtaining ethical protocols for animal experiments is not feasible within the short period for the project, we will refrain from in vivo animal projects. We have several ongoing projects that could be interesting for the candidates, but of course projects will be selected ad hoc and in agreement with the learning goals of the students Program
Duration: 6 weeks/ 12 weeks
6 week traineeship + Advanced optic course ‐ $1500 USD
12 week traineeship + advanced optic course ‐ $2500…
Program duration: 4 weeks Trialect Service fee: $300 USD
NB: Contacting host directly is a violation of contract with Trialect and your application will not be accepted. All correspondence with the host mentor has to go through Trialect including verification of authenticity of the host, program details, etc.
Field of Interest: microscopy, Optical Microscopy, Confocal microscopy, microscopy‐ electron,
microscopy‐ confocal, Super‐resolution microscopy, Nuance Spectral microscopy
Deadline: 15th March, 2018
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INTERNATIONAL BIOETHICS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM (D43)
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: The overall goal of this initiative is to support the development of a sustainable critical mass of bioethics scholars in low and middle income country (LMIC) research intensive institutions with the capabilities to conduct original empirical or conceptual ethics research that addresses challenging issues in health research and research policy in these countries as well as provide research ethics leadership to their institutions, governments and international research organizations…
Deadline: May 17, 2018, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization
HIV/AIDS
Agency: Child Family Health International (CFHI)
Purpose: The Child Family Health International (CFHI) provides community‐based Global Health Education Programs for students and institutions. It has a unique model fosters reciprocal partnerships and empowerment in local communities, transforming perspectives about self, healing and global HIV/AIDS and Healthcare. Experience Durban, the heart of Kwa‐Zulu Natal province in South Africa, and the heartland of Zulu culture. This dynamic city of over 3 million people is South Africa’s second most populous city, as well as the preferred destination for warm subtropical weather and beaches. South Africa has made great strides towards improving the lives of the black population by focusing funds and effort in improving sanitation, education, employment and access to quality healthcare. Despite great efforts, the repressive legacy of Apartheid and the HIV/AIDS and
TB pandemics have continued to overburden the fledging healthcare system… Field of Interest: HIV, Aids, Public health, infectious diseases
Deadline: 31st March, 2018
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER
Agency: The Stanley Medical Research Institute
Purpose: The Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) is a nonprofit organization supporting research on the causes of, and treatments for, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Since it began in 1989, SMRI has supported more than $550 million in research in over 30 countries. The purpose of this program is to support the testing of medications to assess their efficacy for treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. At any given time, SMRI is supporting 50‐60 treatment trials, the majority of which are generic and/or off‐label medications…
Deadline: 15th March, 2018
ORTHOPAEDICS
Agency: British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to develop Trauma and Orthopaedic leadership capability Demonstrate self‐awareness and enhanced leadership presence and impact to lead multidisciplinary teams as Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeons.To accelerate service transformation and quality improvement within and across Trauma and Orthopaedic services: Deliver and share quality improvement project outcomes demonstrating tangible results through proactive clinical leadership using core skills in improvement methodology and knowledge from improvement science… Field of Interest: Orthopaedics Deadline: 1st June 2018
RADIATION ONCOLOGY ‐ RESIDENT/FELLOWS SEED GRANT
Agency: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
Purpose: This grant is designed to support residents or fellows who are planning a career focusing primarily on basic science or clinical research. It is designed for the exceptional trainee and implies dedication to a career in research…
Field of Interest: Radiation Oncology, oncology
Deadline: Applications are due on April 8, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
THE MWALIMU NYERERE AFRICAN UNION SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME
Agency: African Union STEM
Purpose: The Mwalimu Nyerere African Union Scholarship Scheme aims at contributing to the production and retention of high caliber African human capital for sustainable development of the continent in critical development areas while promoting regional integration through intra‐Africa mobility of students. This is to encourage the participation of young African female students at postgraduate level, for Masters and PhD programmes in the fields of Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the African Union Commission is offering a Call for
Scholarship Applications (For Female Applicants Only).
Fields of study: Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
The Masters programme should be of two years duration; while the PhD programme should be of three years duration.
Deadline: 30th April, 2018
INVESTIGATOR AWARDS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: Investigator Awards enable humanities and social science researchers with a compelling
research vision to tackle the most significant questions in human health.
Deadline: 23 March 2018, 17:00 GMT
COLLABORATIVE AWARDS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and bring disciplines together to speed the pace of discovery. This scheme funds teams who are tackling major healthrelated questions in the humanities and social sciences that require a collaborative approach.
Deadline: 23 March 2018
UNIVERSITY AWARDS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: University Awards enable humanities and social science researchers to gain permanent positions at academic organizations. Deadline: 29 March 2018, 17:00 BST
FOOT AND ANKLE ADULT RECONSTRUCTION
Agency: The University of British Columbia (UBC)
Purpose: The UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Orthopaedics has an international reputation for excellence in teaching, research and patient care. Its mandate is to create knowledge, advance learning, and improve the musculoskeletal health at the community, provincial, national, and international levels… Deadline: 02/28/2018
INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICES
Agency: Benin USAID‐Cotonou
Purpose: This activity is expected to strengthen the delivery high‐impact malaria, family planning, maternal and child health, and gender‐based violence (GBV) services in the public sector in four departments in Benin. Deadline: Mar 23, 2018
Field of Interest: International Opportunities, Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical
Science, Social Sciences
PARTNERING FOR PROSPERITY (P4P) ANNUAL PROGRAM STATEMENT ‐USAID/GUATEMALA
Agency: Guatemala USAID‐Guatemala City
Purpose: The goal of this APS is to identify partner organizations and institutions that bring innovative ideas and new and additional resources of at least a 1:1 match (meaning that for every $1 in USG contribution the alliance partner/s should be able to contribute at least $1 of cash or in‐kind) to address jointly defined development challenges.
Deadline: Feb 01, 2019 CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF CONCEPT PAPERS: ● Phase 1: ○
Concept Papers related to Water, Environment, and Youth Employment must be submitted by April
10, 2018 at 2.00 pm (Guatemala time) ● Phase 2: ○ Concept Papers related to Nutri on, Educa on
Technology, and Anti‐Corruption must be submitted by July 18, 2018 at 2.00 pm (Guatemala time)
Field of Interest: Environmental & Life Sciences, International Opportunities, Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Social Sciences
SEED SYSTEMS SUPPORT ACTIVITY
Agency: Agency for International Development
Purpose: This NFO seeks applications from organizations with demonstrated expertise in seed systems and proven management capabilities with the broad range of needed seed‐related support services as well as innovative tools, approaches, information, and methods to develop and deploy those critical support services.
Deadline: Apr 23, 2018
Field of Interest: Environmental & Life Sciences, International Opportunities, Social Sciences
THE USAID GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE BAA
Agency: Agency for International Development
Purpose: This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co‐create, co‐design, coinvest, and collaborate in the development, testing, and scaling of innovative approaches that address critical global health challenges.
Deadline: May 30, 2018
Field of Interest: International Opportunities, Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical
Science, Social Sciences
SERIOUS ADVERSE DRUG REACTION RESEARCH
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement is to support research grants that will advance the state of knowledge of serious adverse drug reactions. Applications across the spectrum of research are encouraged.
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science, Medical ‐ Translational
Deadlines: June 1, 2018; October 1, 2018; February 1, 2019; June 3, 2019
IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY OUTCOMES THROUGH CONTINUITY AND COORDINATION OF CARE IN HOSPICE
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: This FOA seeks to stimulate research that focuses on reducing negative individual and family outcomes related to unwanted transitions at the end of life and optimizing the individual and family outcomes related to high quality coordination of care of care of individuals who are enrolled in hospice.
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science, Social Sciences
Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
SELF‐MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES TO SUSTAIN HEALTH AND OPTIMIZE FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: This FOA seeks clinical research on self‐management interventions and technologies that improve health and quality of life in persons needing assistance to optimize and maintain existing functional capabilities, prevent/delay disabilities and navigate their environment.
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science, Social Sciences
Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE PATIENT OUTCOMES AND PREVENT ILLNESS
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: This FOA seeks clinical research focused on the development and utilization of technologies that can help address patient outcomes.
Field of interest: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science, Medical ‐ Translational Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
REDUCING OVER SCREENING FOR BREAST, CERVICAL, AND COLORECTAL CANCERS AMONG OLDER ADULTS
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to promote research on interventions, based in healthcare settings, designed to reduce over screening for breast, cervical, or colorectal cancers among average‐risk older adults.
Field of interest: Interdisciplinary, Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Social Sciences
Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
ADDRESSING UNMET NEEDS IN PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA TO DECREASE BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate clinical research addressing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) and the association of BPSD with unmet physical, social, or environmental needs in persons with dementia.
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Clinical Science, Social Sciences
Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
EFFECTIVENESS TRIALS FOR POST‐ACUTE INTERVENTIONS AND SERVICES TO OPTIMIZE LONGERTERM OUTCOMES
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: This FOA is intended to support effectiveness trials testing post‐acute phase interventions that are statistically powered to provide a definitive answer regarding the study intervention's effectiveness.
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science, Medical ‐ Translational
Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
ORAL ANTICANCER AGENTS: UTILIZATION, ADHERENCE, AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to encourage research grant applications to: (1) assess and describe the current state of oral anticancer medication utilization, delivery, and adherence; (2) identify structural, systemic, and psychosocial barriers to adherence; and (3) develop models and strategies to improve safe and effective delivery of these agents so that clinical outcomes are optimized
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science
Deadlines: June 5, October 5 2018
ENHANCED SUPERCONDUCTORS FOR FUTURE NAVAL APPLICATIONS
Agency: Office of Naval Research
Purpose: The overall objective of this program is to advance the state of art characteristics of high temperature superconductors to support applications demanding power delivery, pulsed current
delivery, AC and DC magnetic fields, and magnetic energy storage.
Field of interest: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Deadline: Apr 10, 2018
COMPOSITE AIRFRAME LIFE EXTENSION (CALE)
Agency: Air Force ‐‐ Research Lab
Purpose: The CALE program will identify and develop technology to know and/or predict the residual strength, durability and damage tolerance, and reliability of advanced composite structure
throughout the original, and if required new service life of the airframe. Field of interest: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Deadline: Apr 09, 2018
UNIVERSITY SMALL GRANTS BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Agency: Air Force ‐‐ Research Lab
Purpose: The scope of the research will include the entire spectrum of directed energy technology that is applicable to the Air Force, including all tangentially‐related directed energy research. The research shall include, but not be limited to: lasers; optics and beam control; high power microwaves, and directed energy effects, modeling and simulation.
Field of interest: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Environmental & Life Sciences Deadline: Apr 02, 2018
BRAIN INITIATIVE‐TARGETED BRAIN CIRCUITS PROJECTS‐ TARGETED BCP
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: This FOA solicits applications for research projects that use innovative and methodologically‐integrated approaches to understand how circuit activity gives rise to mental experience and behavior.
Field of interest: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Medical, Medical ‐ Basic Science, Medical ‐ Clinical Science
Deadline: March 15, 2018
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE'S INVESTIGATOR‐INITIATED EARLY PHASE CLINICAL TRIALS FOR CANCER TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to seek research projects that implement early phase (Phase 0, I, and II) investigator‐initiated clinical trials focused on cancer‐targeted diagnostic and therapeutic interventions of direct relevance to the research mission of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI)
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD)
Field of interest: Medical, Medical ‐ Clinical Science
Deadline: March 15, 2018
AEROSPACE MEDICINE, CLINICAL RESEARCH, HUMAN PERFORMANCE, AND EXPEDITIONARY MEDICINE
Agency: Department of Defense
Purpose: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 711 Human Performance Wing in the School of Aerospace Medicine and Human Systems Integration Directorate conducts basic and applied research, advanced technology development
Estimated Program Cost: The total program value is $40,000,000 with multiple awards ranging from
$50,000 to $5,000,000.Deadline: March 1, 2021
Previously Announced
UNIVERSITY AWARDS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: University Awards enable humanities and social science
researchers to gain permanent positions at academic organizations.
Deadlines: 29thMarch 2018, 17:00 BST
Previously Announced
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: Seed Awards help researchers develop novel ideas that will go on to form part of larger grant applications to Wellcome or elsewhere.
Field of interest: Basic, Clinical, Public Health
Deadline: 22 March 2018, 17:00 GMT
Previously Announced
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: This scheme enables researchers to undertake humanities or social science doctoral degrees in any area of health… Deadline: 29 March 2018, 17:00 BST
Previously Announced
BIOMEDICAL RESOURCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
Agency: Wellcome Trust
Purpose: These grants are for researchers who want to establish or maintain resources or technology for the benefit of the wider scientific community.
Where your host organisation is based: UK, Low‐ and middle‐income countries
Field of Interest: Basic, Clinical, Public health
Level of funding: Up to £1.5 million Deadline: 6 April 2018
Previously Announced
Agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Purpose: The APF Div. 49 grants support research and scholarly works that further the advancement of group psychology and group psychotherapy. Field of interest: Psychology, behavioural sciences, Psychotherapy
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Previously Announced
TRANSFORMATIVE CANCER RESEARCH
Agency: American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Purpose: This grant mechanism is intended to promote and support creative, paradigm‐shifting cancer research that may not be funded through conventional channels. It is expected that these grants will catalyse significant scientific discoveries and help talented young investigators gain scientific independence. The grants provide $450,000 over three years for expenses related to the research project, which may include salary and benefits of the grant recipient, postdoctoral or clinical research fellows, graduate students (including tuition costs), and research assistants, research/laboratory supplies, equipment, travel applicable to the research project, publication charges for manuscripts that pertain directly to the funded project, other research expenses, and indirect costs…
Deadline: 1st August, 2018 1:00:00 PM