Weekly Funding Opportunities

Tue Jan 21 11:07:01 EST 2020

Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.klingfund.org/index.php__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-Pcup20Y$ >
The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund and the Simons Foundation are inviting applications for the Klingensten-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience, among the nation's oldest and most illustrious fellowships for young investigators in neuroscience research. Through the program, fellowships of $225,000 over three years will be awarded to young investigators in support of basic or clinical research that leads to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Areas of particular interest within the neurosciences include:

  *   Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience — Studies of the mechanisms of neuronal excitability and development, and of the genetic basis of behavior.
  *   Neural Systems — Studies of the integrative function of the nervous system.
  *   Translational Research — Studies designed to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and our understanding of the causes of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Eligibility: The candidate must be an independent investigator at a university, medical center or research institute and be within 4 years of completing postdoctoral training and the start of his/her tenure track or equivalent appointment (between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2020).
Due February 15, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 3.

New York Stem Cell Foundation: Neuroscience Investigator Awards<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nyscf.org/programs/extramural-grants/applicants/neuroscience-investigator-awards/__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-ZGXZrEc$ >
The mission of the New York Stem Cell Foundation is to accelerate cures for major disease through stem cell research. To that end, the foundation welcomes applications for its Neuroscience Investigator Awards. Through the program, grants of $1.5 million over five years will be awarded to early-career investigators in support of bold, innovative research with the potential to transform the field of neuroscience. Applicants need not be working in areas related to stem cells or related areas, and applications are encouraged in all areas of neuroscience.
Due February 19, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 6.

Livestrong Solution Grants<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.livestrong.org/what-we-do/livestrong-solution-grants__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-4eAESyM$ >
The LIVESTRONG Foundation’s LIVESTRONG Cancer Institute works to rethink the full range of cancer care, from prevention to diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life care — all with a focus on the patient’s needs, values, and preferences. To advance this mission, the institute is inviting applications for its LIVESTRONG Solution Grants. Through the program, grants will be awarded in support of inventive, cutting-edge solutions to overlooked problems in cancer. Funding priorities include post-treatment care; patient and caregiver education; comprehensive quality-of-life services; and streamlining systems and care. The foundation provides two levels of funding: grants of up to $20,000 through its Acceleration Grants program, and grants of up to $100,000 through its Transformation Grants program.
Letters of intent due February 21, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 10.

AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation: Connections for Cardiovascular Health (CCH)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.astrazeneca-us.com/sustainability/healthcare-foundation/connections-for-cardiovascular-health.html*overview--0__;Iw!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-DDPb8zI$ >
CCH provides grants to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations engaged in charitable work at the community level in the United States in support of the program’s mission. Since its inception in 2010, the Foundation’s CCH program has funded programs providing innovative, community-based approaches to improving cardiovascular health across the United States. CCH-funded programs use culturally appropriate approaches with measurable outcomes to address specific unmet needs of communities across the country, especially underserved communities. Through the program, grants in the amount of $125,000 to $150,000 over one year will be awarded to eligible organizations that have never been funded by the foundation through the CCH program.
Due February 21, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 10.

U.S. NAM Catalyst Award Competition: Healthy Aging<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.afar.org/research/funding/us-nam-catalyst-award/?utm_source=NASEM*News*and*Publications&utm_campaign=8ed0d14b05-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_13_10_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_96101de015-8ed0d14b05-104314885&mc_cid=8ed0d14b05&mc_eid=ffb2694dd6__;Kysr!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-oaPkHeI$ >
As part of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (“NAM”), with support from Johnson & Johnson Innovation, will issue up to 24 Catalyst Awards per year between 2020 and 2022. Each Catalyst Award includes a $50,000 cash prize as well as travel costs to attend an annual Innovator Summit, beginning in summer 2021. The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)  will collaborate with the NAM on the application and scientific review process.
Catalyst Awards will reward bold, new, potentially transformative ideas to improve the physical, mental, or social well-being of people as they age, in a measurable and equitable way. In particular, we seek ideas that aim to extend the human healthspan through innovative approaches. Applications may originate from any field or combination of fields (e.g., biology, chemistry, medicine, engineering, infrastructure, behavioral and social sciences, technology, and policy). Ideas may focus on any stage of life, as long as they ultimately promote health as people age. Examples of topic areas include but are not limited to:

  *   Biology of aging and molecular pathways
  *   Physical health (e.g., mobility and functionality)
  *   Built environment and urban planning
  *   Disease prevention, including biomarkers and indicators of disease
  *   Health care delivery
  *   Housing (e.g., smart-enabled homes, intergenerational housing models)
  *   Policy (e.g., economic, health, and science policy)
  *   Behavioral health (e.g., social connectedness, engagement, and well-being)
  *   Technology (e.g., artificial intelligence; robotics; medical, assistive, and information-technology)
Due February 24, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 11.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Interdisciplinary Research Leaders<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2020/interdisciplinary-research-leaders.html__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-c4r2toY$ >
Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) is a three-year national leadership development program that aims to foster and support new interdisciplinary, action-oriented research collaborations that will help build the evidence base for effective community interventions to improve health for all. The 2020 cohort will focus on either of these two themes: Community Environment and Health or Families and Child Health. We’ll support teams of mid-career individuals who come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds or scientific perspectives. The community-engaged partner on the team may work in a variety of organizational settings and have relevant expertise in the proposed research project. For the 2020 cohort, we will select up to 15 teams of three mid-career individuals each (two researchers and a community partner per team). The applicant organization will receive up to $350,000, including $25,000 per year per fellow, and a portion of the $350,000 to the team toward research activities.
Those selected to participate in IRL can expect to:

  *   Develop, execute, and disseminate a detailed proposal for the team’s specific research project;
  *   Participate in weekly online learning activities, networking, and occasional in-person meetings (2–3 times per year);
  *   Increase expertise in interdisciplinary research team-building and authentic community engagement;
  *   Enhance competencies in a variety of rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and better interpret findings and leverage them for action;
  *   Have an understanding of the constraints to action (e.g., structural racism in historical and contemporary contexts);
  *   Enhance skills to ensure ethical research and community standards remain a priority;
  *   Understand the policy process and how best to communicate research evidence to inform policy.
Due March 11, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 27.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Clinical Scholars<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2020/clinical-scholars.html__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-Y1is6A4$ >
Clinical Scholars is a three-year, team-based program for a wide variety of health professionals in community, clinical, or academic settings. By the end of the program, fellows will have gained the skills they need to appraise, synthesize, use the best evidence to guide practice and inform policy in addressing complex health problems in their teams, organizations, and communities. We are seeking up to 35 individuals (in teams of three to five) with the potential to become national change leaders in their focus areas and a demonstrated long-term commitment to fostering and achieving health equity.
Those selected for this program will engage in:

  *   Personal, in-depth leadership training in health equity and community engagement
  *   Collaborative work across disciplines and professions to tackle problems that emerge from complex systems in communities
  *   Robust and customizable distance-based learning (8–10 hours/month)
  *   Required in-person team meetings/activities three times per year<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://clinicalscholarsnli.org/about/upcoming-dates/__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-OMDQvTw$ >
  *   Planning and implementation of your team’s “Wicked Problem Impact Project”
  *   Receipt of grant funds based on team size (from up to $315,000 for a three-person to $525,000 for a five-person team)
  *   Mentoring and networking across all Clinical Scholars cohorts, other RWJF leadership programs, and with experts nationwide.
Due March 11, 2020. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: February 27.

NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20532/nsf20532.htm__;!!PhOWcWs!mlB-pjRY5KPIiN9ZGJD16pPG-UdnzmEGxmC-5neMSoYxN89mf6sSTpVtPoN3u_0bLaMlVfAbz_Z-uB0pNOQ$ >
A comprehensive understanding of the functional mechanisms that connect genotype-to-phenotypes is a grand challenge in biology. Support for research on diverse organisms is critical for developing strong inferences about the rules governing the mechanisms that bidirectionally connect genomes and phenomes. The objective of the EDGE program is to provide support for genetic and/or genomic research and associated theory, approach, tool, and infrastructure development that address the mechanistic basis of complex traits in diverse organisms within the context (environmental, developmental, social, and/or genomic) in which they function.
The EDGE program will accept proposals to two submission tracks:
FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC TOOLS TRACK: Proposals submitted to this track should propose to develop and provide proof-of-concept tests of functional genomic tools and infrastructure to enable direct tests of hypotheses about gene function in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses or fungi for which such tools and infrastructure are presently unavailable.
Examples of relevant objectives for plants, animals, microbes, viruses or fungi for which such tools and infrastructure are presently unavailable include, but are not limited to:

  *   Development of mutant libraries and/or high-quality reference genomes
  *   Expansion of the use of gene editing, knock-out, and overexpression approaches for manipulating individual genes or interrogating multiple genes simultaneously in diverse organisms;
  *   Development of approaches to test gene function in a variety of targeted, single cells in organisms;
  *   Generalizable high throughput phenotyping methods;
  *   Innovative approaches for establishing function of single or networks of genes; and
  *   Development and testing of transformation approaches.
COMPLEX MULTIGENIC TRAITS TRACK: Prior investments of the EDGE program have led to more wide-spread examination of genome(s)-to-phenome(s) relationships in many emerging model plants, animals, microbes, viruses and fungi. However, in these systems functional genomics has largely been limited to identifying candidate genes followed by single gene manipulation. Although, single gene manipulation allows interrogation of genes of large effect it does not significantly advance our understanding of complex multigenic organismal traits across a variety of contexts (i.e. environmental, developmental, social and/or genomic). The EDGE program recognizes that many of the traits of interest to biologists are quantitative in nature and are controlled by many genes of small effect and that understanding complex traits requires systems-level analysis of the underlying gene regulatory networks that goes beyond linking individual genes with said traits.
Submissions to this track may include but are not limited to:

  *   Systems-level analysis of the gene regulatory networks underlying complex traits;
  *   Elucidation of the causal connections across levels of biological organization that underlie complex multigenic traits;
  *   New or innovative analytical approaches to linking genes and complex traits; and
  *   Multi-genome/epigenome interactions with the environment towards the goal of predicting complex organismal phenotypes across contexts.
Budget requests should be commensurate with the goals of the project. The EDGE program expects to make awards covering the full range of budget requests commensurate with the size and scope of each project.
Proposals accepted anytime. Med-RA deadline to receive draft documents: 10 business days before submission to sponsor.

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