Solicitations and Deadlines Fall 2014

Solicitations and Deadlines Fall 2014

January 1 to June 30, 2015

National Science Foundation (NSF)

·  January 5: Required Letter of Intent for Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE:GEOPATHS). NOTE: This is a Limited Submission, with an institution able to submit only one proposal in response to the solicitation. The Department of Geological Sciences will handle any selection processes.

·  January 8: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

·  January 9: Required Preliminary Proposal for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2015 (EFRI-2015: Two-Dimensional Atomic-Layer Research and Engineering (2-DARE)

·  January 12: Target date for Tectonics
January 13: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR), Engaged Student Learning, Design and Development, Levels 1 and 2 projects

·  January 13: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR), Institutional and Community Transformation, Design and Development projects

·  January 14: End of Submission Window for Information and Intelligent Systems Core Programs, Small Projects. Submission window begins January 2.

·  January 14: End of Submission Window for Computer and Network Systems Core Programs, Small Projects. Submission window begins January 2.

·  January 14: End of Submission Window for Computing and Communications Core Programs, Small Projects. Submission window begins January 2.

·  January 14: End of Submission Window for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, Small Projects. Submission window begins January 2.

·  January 14: National Robotics Initiative (NRI): The Realization of Co-Robots Acting in Direct Support of Individuals and Groups

·  January 20: Scalable Nanomanufacturing. NOTE: This is a limited submission with an institution able to submit only one proposal. NOI’s were due Friday, November 7. Two NOI’s were submitted; white papers are due Monday, December 1.

·  January 22: Major Research Instrumentation Program. Note: This is a limited submission with an institution able to submit only three (3) proposals, at least one of which must be for instrument development. Teams led by Devesh Misra (Engineering) and Charles Spencer (Science) were chosen to submit Instrument Acquisition proposal; a team led by Rodrigo Romero (Engineering) was selected to submit an Instrument Acquisition proposal.

·  January 23: Preliminary Proposals for Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)

·  January 23: Required Preliminary Proposals for Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core Programs

·  January 26: Full Proposal for Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF-NCS)

·  January 27: Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS)

·  January 28: Full Proposal for Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC). NOTE: This is a limited submission, with an institution able to submit only two proposals as the lead. NOI’s are due by 5:00 PM on Friday, October 17. No NOI’s were submitted.

·  January 29: End of Submission Window for Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future. The submission window begins January 5.

·  February 2: Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

·  February 2: CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science

·  February 2: Letter of Intent for National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). NOTE: This is a limited submission. A U.S. academic institution may submit or participate in only one individual site proposal submitted in response to this solicitation. NOI’s are due by 5:00 PM on Monday, December 1.

·  February 4: Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects—Accelerator Science

·  February 4: Law and Social Sciences

·  February 6: Required Letter of Intent for Science of Learning: Collaborative Networks (SL-CN)

·  February 17: End of Proposal Submission Window for Systems Science. The window begins on February 1.

·  February 17: End of Proposal Submission Window for Engineering and Systems Design. The window begins on February 1.

·  February 17: End of Proposal Submission Window for Engineering for Natural Hazards (ENH). The window begins on February 1.

·  February 18: Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys—R&D, U.S. S&T Competitiveness, STEM Education, S&T Workforce

·  February 20: NSF/Intel Partnership on Visual and Experiential Computing (VEC)

·  February 24: Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (Cyber-SEES)

·  March 2: Research Coordinating Networks: Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN: UBE) (both full-scale and incubator proposals)

·  March 12: Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE-STEM). Note: This is a limited submission, with an institution able to submit only one proposal. NOIs are due Tuesday, January 20.

·  March 16: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE:GEOPATHS). NOTE: This is a Limited Submission, with an institution able to submit only one proposal in response to the solicitation. The Department of Geological Sciences will handle any selection processes.

·  March 16: Science of Learning: Collaborative Networks (SL-CN)

·  March 17: Roberto Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

·  March 30: Invited Full Proposal for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2015 (EFRI-2015: Two-Dimensional Atomic-Layer Research and Engineering (2-DARE)

·  March 25: Genealogy of Life

·  April 15: Antarctic Research

National Institutes of Health (Note: Approximately 75% of NIH awards go to Investigator-Initiated Research Proposals. Check http://www.nih.gov/icd/ to see if NIH has an Institute or Center that funds your work.)

·  January 2: Food Specific Molecular Profiles and Biomarkers of Food and Nutrient Intake , and Dietary Exposure (R01)

·  January 3: Letter of Intent for Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Vascular Contributions to Alzheimer’s Disease (R01)

·  January 5: Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research across the Lifespan (R01); (R21)

·  January 7: AIDS Deadline for Developing Interventions for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (R21/R33)

·  January 20: System-Level Health Services and Policy Research on Health Disparities (R01)

·  January 29: Aging and Neuromuscular Junctions (R01)

·  January 27: Letter of Intent for Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award (R01)

·  January 29: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13). NOTE: This is a Limited Submission, with an institution able to submit only one proposal in response to this PAR. NOI’s are due by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 21.

·  February 2: NIDCD Research Career Transition Award for Nurturing Clinician-Investigators (K22)

·  February 3: Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Vascular Contributions to Alzheimer’s Disease (R01)

·  February 5: Understanding Factors in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 25 Months) That Influence Obesity Development (R01)

·  February 10: BRAIN Initiative: New Technologies and Novel Approaches for Large-Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (U01). Letters of Intent are due January 10.

·  February 10: BRAIN Initiative: Optimization of Transformative Technologies for Large Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (U01). Letters of Intent are due January 10.

·  February 10: BRAIN Initiative: Integrated Approaches to Understanding Circuit Function in the Nervous System (U01). Letters of Intent are due January 10.

·  February 18: NHLBI’s Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research (R25)

·  February 18: Letter of Intent for BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Analyze Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (U01)

·  February 18: Letter of Intent for BRAIN Initiative: Short Courses in Computational Neuroscience (R25)

·  February 18: Letter of Intent for BRAIN Initiative: Short Courses in Research Tools and Methods (R25)

·  February 27: Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award (R01)

·  March 18: BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Analyze Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (U01)

·  March 18: BRAIN Initiative: Short Courses in Computational Neuroscience (R25)

·  March 18: BRAIN Initiative: Short Courses in Research Tools and Methods (R25)

·  May 27: Food Specific Molecular Profiles and Biomarkers of Food and Nutrient Intake , and Dietary Exposure (R01)

·  NOTE: Many NIH Program Announcements (PAs) use the standard dates for parent grants listed above. Some PAs that may be of interest include:

Basic Biological and Ethics Issues

ü  Research on Ethical Issues in Biomedical, Social and Behavioral Research (R01);( R03); (R21)

ü  Biomarkers: Bridging Pediatric and Adult Therapies ( R01); (R03); (R21)

ü  Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Research (R21)

ü  Resource-Related Research Projects for Development of Animal Models and Related Materials (R24)

ü  Synergizing Omic and Symptom Science (R01); R15

ü  Support of NIGHS Program Project Grants (P01)

ü  NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics (R01)

ü  NHLBI Program Project Applications (R01)

ü  Development of Assays for High-Throughput Screening for Use in Probe and Pre-therapeutic Discovery (R01)

ü  NINDS Program Project Grants (P01)

ü  Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genomic Research (R01); (R21): (R03)

Bioinformatics and Big Data

ü  Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics, and Big Data Science (R01)

ü  Extended Development, Hardening, and Dissemination of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics, and Big Data (R01)

ü  Spatial Uncertainty: Data, Modeling, and Communication (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01); (R21)

Bioengineering and Technology Transfer

ü  Bioengineering Research Grants (R01)

ü  Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (R01); (R21)

ü  Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (R21)

ü  Reissue of PHS 2013-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, FDA, and ACF for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44])

ü  Reissue PHS 2013-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Applications (Parent STTR [R41/R42])

ü  mHealth Tools for Individuals with Chronic Conditions to Promote Effective Patient-Provider Communication, Adherence to Treatment and Self-Management (R01); (R21)

Allergy and Infectious Diseases

ü  NIAID Investigator Initiated Program Project Applications (P01)

ü  Small Grants on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (R03)

ü  Exploratory/Developmental Investigations on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (R21)

ü  High Priority Immunology Grants (R01)

Health Disparities

ü  Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children (R01); (R21)

ü  Addressing Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (R01)

ü  Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01); R21

ü  Health Promotion among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R01); R21

ü  Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children (R01); (R21)

Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Smoking

ü  Screening and Brief Alcohol Interventions in Underage and Young Adult Populations (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Effects of Adolescent Binge Drinking on Brain Development (R01); (R21)

ü  Health Services and Economic Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Alcohol Abuse, Sleep Disorders and Circadian Rhythms (R01); (R21)

ü  Drug Abuse Aspects of HIV/AIDS (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Alcohol Use Disorders: Treatment, Services, and Recovery Research (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientists Development Program Award in Drug Abuse and Addiction (K12)

ü  Drug Abuse Dissertation Research (R36)

ü  Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R01); (R21)

ü  Mechanisms of Alcohol and Nicotine Co-Addiction (R01); (R21)

ü  Stem Cells and Alcohol-induced Tissue Injuries (R01); (R21)

ü  NIDA Program Project Grant Applications (P01)

ü  Secondary Analyses of Alcohol and 7Chronic Disease (R01); R21; R03

ü  Implications of New Digital Media Use for Underage Drinking, Drinking-Related Behaviors, and Prevention Research (R01); R21

ü  Neuroscience Research on Drug Abuse (R01); R21; R03

ü  Mechanisms of Alcohol and Stimulant Co-Addiction (R01); R21

ü  Nutrition and Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Functional Genetics, Epigenetics, and Non-coding RNAs in Substance Abuse (R01); (R21)

ü  Public Health Impact of the Changing Policy/Legal Environment for Marijuana (R01)

ü  Discovering Novel Targets: The Molecular Genetics of Drug Abuse and Related Co-Morbidities (R01)

ü  Basic Mechanisms of Brain Development for Substance Use and Dependence (R01)

ü  Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Substance Use and Abuse, Risky Decision Making and HIV/AIDs (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Neuroimmune Signaling and Function in Substance Use Disorders (R01); (R21)

ü  Alcohol-Induced Effects on Tissue Injury and Repair (R01); (R21)

ü  Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abusing Populations with or at Risk for HCV (R01); (R21); (R34)

ü  Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Alcohol Related Disorders (R01); (R21)

ü  Effects of Cannabis Use and Cannabinoids on the Developing Brain (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Research Aimed at Novel Behavioral Targets to Improve Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention Interventions (R01); (R34)

ü  Unconventional Roles of Ethanol Metabolizing Enzymes, Metabolites, and Cofactors in Health and Disease (R01); (R21)

Aging

ü  Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education (R25)

ü  Mechanisms Mediating Osteoarthritis in Aging (R01); (R21)

ü  Fatigability, Activity Limitations, and Bioenergetics in Aging (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Regional and International Differences in Health and Longevity at Older Ages (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity

ü  Development and Characterization of Animal Models for Aging Research (R01); R21

ü  Secondary Analyses of Existing Data Sets and Stored Biospecimens to Address Clinical Aging Research Questions (R01)

ü  Chronic Inflammation and Age-Related Disease (R01)

ü  Aging Studies in the Pulmonary System (R01)

ü  Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (R01); R21; R03

ü  Translational Research to Help Older Adults Maintain Their Health and Independence in the Community (R01); (R21)

ü  Biobehavioral and Technological Interventions to Attenuate Cognitive Decline in Individuals with Cognitive Impairment or Dementia (R01); (R21); (R15)

ü  Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults (R01); (R21); (R03)

ü  Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context (R01)

Health and Human Development

ü  NICHD Program Project Grant (P01)

Health and Healthy Living

ü  Research on Children in Military Families: The Impact of Parental Military Deployment and Reintegration on Child and Family Functioning (R01); (R21)

ü  Research on Children in Military Families: The Impact of Parental Military Deployment and Reintegration on Child and Family Functioning (R13, Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings)

ü  Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01); (R03); (R21)

ü  Research on the Health of LGBTI Populations (R21); (R03); (R01)

ü  Research on the Health Determinants and Consequences of Violence and Its Prevention, Particularly Firearm Violence (R01); R21; R03

ü  Chronic Illness Self-Management in Children and Adolescents (R01); (R21)

ü  Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01); (R21)

ü  Obesity and Asthma: Awareness and Self-Management (R01)