Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research Research Funding Opportunities – deadlines JANUARY 2015 Listed in alphabetical order, the following private organizations are offering one or more funding opportunities. For details on a specific opportunity click on the corresponding hyperlink below: American Heart Foundation American Institute for Cancer Research ** American Otological Society American Pain Society American Roentgen Ray Avon Foundation for Women ** Bay Area Lyme Foundation Craig Neilsen Foundation ** Gates Foundation Iacocca Family Foundation McKnight Endowment Fund for Neurosciences Radiological Society of America Research to Prevent Blindness ** Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Whitehall Foundation William T. Grant Foundation ** Dates not confirmed by the funding organization at the time of compiling this information. Always check foundation website for updated RFP. American Heart Association National Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award (FTF) This program provides funding for trainees with outstanding potential for careers as physician-scientists in cardiovascular or stroke research during the crucial period of career development that spans the completion of research training through the early years of the first faculty/staff position. The award provides a supportive mentored experience during this period of transition. Amount: $593,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 22, 2015 URL: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/ForScientists/Winter-2013--National-Fellow-to-Faculty-Transition-Award_UCM_431606_Article.jsp Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/66897 TOP Scientist Development Award This award supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funds research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator. Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems. Amount: $308,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015 URL:http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Scientist-Development-Grant_UCM_443318_Article.jsp Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/2135 TOP Founders Affiliate – Grant in Aid This program encourages and adequately funds the most innovative and meritorious research projects from independent investigators. Science focus: Research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems, 1 Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research including multidisciplinary efforts Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems Amount: $198,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015 URL: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Grant-in-Aid_UCM_443304_Article.jsp Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140523 TOP National Mentored Clinical and Population Research Award To encourage early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring relationships to engage in high quality introductory and pilot clinical studies that will guide future strategies for reducing cardiovascular disease and stroke while fostering new research in clinical and translational science, and encouraging community- and population-based activities. Amount: $154,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015 URL: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Clinical-Research-Program_UCM_443302_Article.jsp Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/114200 TOP Founders Affiliate Clinical and Population Research Award This program encourages early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring relationships to engage in high quality introductory and pilot clinical studies that will guide future strategies for reducing cardiovascular disease and stroke while fostering new research in clinical and translational science, and encouraging community- and population-based activities. Funding is available for research related to cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention or treatment, or to related clinical and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts. Amount: $150,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2015 URL http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Winter2013---Clinical-Research-Program_UCM_443302_Article.jsp Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/140527 TOP American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Investigator-Initiated Grants The AICR Grant Program is dedicated to funding research on cancer prevention, treatment and survival through food, nutrition, physical activity and weight management. (Check website for 2014 RFP) Amount: $247,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 27, 2015 ** URL: http://www.aicr.org/research/grant/research_funded_grant_programs.html PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/12129 2 Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research TOP American Otological Society Clinician-Scientist Award The AOS Society is committed to advancement of knowledge and science and to a free exchange of medical education in otology and neurotology. This award is meant to provide salary and research support for a new academic clinician-scientist to facilitate his/her development into an independent otologic investigator. Amount: $240,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2015 (LOI DECEMBER 31) URL: http://www.americanotologicalsociety.org/images/forms/FY16%20Clinician%20Scientist%20Award.pdf PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/66622 TOP American Pain Society 2015 Rita Allen Award in Pain The Rita Allen Foundation and the American Pain Society are accepting applications for the 2015 Rita Allen Award in Pain. Proposed research projects should be directed toward the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to the development of new analgesics for the management of pain due to terminal illness. Amount: $150,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 16, 2015 URL: http://www.americanpainsociety.org/about-aps/awards/rita-allen-foundation-award-in-pain.html TOP American Roentgen Ray Foundation 2015 Neuroradiology Scholarship The American Roentgen Ray Society, in partnership with the American Society of Neuroradiology, is accepting applications for its 2015 ARRS/ASNR Scholarship program. The annual scholarship is designed to establish the recipient as an independent investigator in the field of neuroradiology and to stimulate the collection of preliminary data that could result in further funding through established mechanisms such as the National Institutes of Health. Amount: $150,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 11, 2015 URL: http://www.arrs.org/RoentgenFund/Scholarships/ARRS_ASNR.aspx TOP Avon Foundation for Women Supporting the Safety Net Program The Avon Safety Net Program supports institutions and organizations that have traditionally cared for uninsured, at-risk, low-income and minority patients to enable medically underserved women and men to access postscreening diagnostics and care. Amount: $250,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 6, 2015 (LOI DUE) ** URL: http://www.avonfoundation.org/grants/breast-cancer/safety-net-guidelines/ 3 Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/30093 TOP Bay Area Lyme Foundation 2015 Emerging Leader Award This annual award program recognizes up-and-coming researchers bringing new approaches and creative thinking to the field of Lyme disease. The $100,000 grant is designed to support innovative projects and attract aspiring new scientific talent to the field. Amount: $100,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 16, 2015 URL: http://www.bayarealyme.org/our-research/emerging-leader-award/ Craig Neilsen Foundation Neilsen SCIRTS Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants The Neilsen Foundation sponsors two cycles per year of Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) conducted by non-profit institutions in the United States or Canada. The scope of this program is broad, but emphasizes work whose purpose is to fill gaps in the field and to further new strategies to restore function SCI. Amount: $150,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 15, 2015 ** URL: http://chnfoundation.org/ PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/149996 TOP Gates Foundation Grand Challenges: New Interventions for Global Health This challenge focuses on innovative concepts for vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics with the potential to be translated into safe, effective, affordable, and widely utilized interventions to protect against the acquisition, progression, or transmission of infectious diseases, or to provide a cure for infectious diseases, in resource‐ limited settings. Amount: $10,000,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 13, 2015 URL: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/NewInterventions.aspx PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/155846 Grand Challenges: Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development Amount: $2,500,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 13, 2015 URL: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/WomenandGirls.aspx PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/155843 Grand Challenges: Creating and Measuring Integrated Solutions for Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development Amount: $2,500,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 13, 2015 4 Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research URL: http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/AllChildrenThriving.aspx PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/155845 TOP Iacocca Family Foundation Type1 Diabetes Research Grants The Foundation will accept novel projects which directly accelerate a cure for type 1 diabetes or inform the understanding of the disease by a related or complementary mechanism of action. Investigators in traditional type 1 diabetes research, as well as investigators currently working on other autoimmune diseases are encouraged to apply, provided that the proposed project focuses directly on Type 1 diabetes and supports the mission of the Foundation. Amount: $160,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2015 ** URL: http://www.iacoccafoundation.org/diabetes-research/grant-guidelines TOP McKnight Endowment Fund for Neurosciences 2015 McKnight Scholar Awards These awards were established to encourage emerging neuroscientists to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Applicants for the McKnight Scholar Awards must demonstrate interest in solving important problems in relevant areas of neuroscience, including the translation of basic research to clinical neuroscience. Amount: $225,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 7, 2015 URL: http://www.neuroscience.mcknight.org/ TOP Radiological Society of North America Research Scholar Grant The purpose of this grant is to support junior faculty members who have completed the conventional resident/fellowship training program(s); but have not yet been recognized as independent investigators. The purpose of the funding is to help establish the recipient as an independent investigator, and to collect preliminary data that could lead to further funding through established mechanisms such as the NIH. Recipients will devote a minimum of 40% of their time in the approved research project. Amount: $625,000-1,025,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2015 URL: http://rsna.org/Research_Scholar_Grant.aspx TOP Research to Prevent Blindness Jules & Doris Stein RPB Professorships Jules and Doris Stein RPB Professorships help attract exceptionally talented basic scientists to devote their careers to eye research. RPB Grantee department heads may recruit from basic science departments outside of or within their own institution. The nominee must be recruited into a primary appointment in the ophthalmology department, with a secondary appointment in a basic science department (which must provide a 5 Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research small portion of salary support) Amount: $625,000-1,025,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2015 ** URL: http://www.rpbusa.org/rpb/grants/grants/#stein_professorships PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/132753 TOP Society for Surgery of Alimentary Tract Career Development Award This award was created for young faculty members who have not yet been funded by a NIH R01 award, in order to further their career goals in becoming established (basic or clinical) investigators in digestive diseases. Amount: $100,000 DEADLINE: JANUARY 16, 2015 URL: http://www.ssat.com/cgi-bin/awards_Career_Development.cgi TOP Whitehall Foundation Research Grant Programs The Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not … more »heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the changing environment, the Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various fields of biological research. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior. Amount: $225,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 15, 2015 URL: http://www.whitehall.org/grants/ Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/3561 TOP William T Grant Foundation William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Program The William T. Grant Foundation's Distinguished Fellows Program creates bridges between the research, practice, and policy communities. The program is designed to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of high-quality research to improve the lives of youth. Amount: $175,000 DEADLINE: LOI JANUARY 4, 2015 URL: http://www.liverfoundation.org/2015_research_awards/ PIVOT: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/111359 TOP 6 Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research For more information contact: Bettina Durkop, Executive Coordinator Office of the Associate Provost for Research Boston University Medical Campus 617-638-4292 | [email protected] Boston University Medical Campus Office of the Associate Provost for Research 72 E Concord Street Boston, MA 02118 [email protected] TOP 7
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