Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
August Funding Focus Newsletter #2
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What is a Limited Submission?
A limited submission solicitation (RFA, RFP, etc.) places a cap on the number of proposals that Auburn may submit to a sponsor. Auburn coordinates limited submissions by sending out a notification via this newsletter and creating competitions in the Auburn University Competition Space (also known as InfoReady).To apply to any limited submission posted below, click on the link and search for your competition reflected on the page. Please refer to the Limited Submission Procedures page for a list of requirements.
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Limited Submission Announcements |
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The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition or development of a multi-user research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.
MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to develop next-generation research instruments that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.
An MRI proposal may request up to $4 million for either acquisition or development of a research instrument. Beginning with the FY 2018 competition, each performing organization may submit in revised “Tracks” as defined below, with no more than two submissions in Track 1 and no more than one submission in Track 2.
Track 1: Track 1 MRI proposals are those that request funds from NSF greater than or equal to $100,0001 and less than $1,000,000.
Track 2: Track 2 MRI proposals are those that request funds from NSF greater than or equal to $1,000,000 up to and including $4,000,000
Consistent with the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-69), cost sharing of precisely 30% of the total project cost is required for Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education and for non-degree-granting organizations. Non-Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education are exempt from the cost-sharing requirement and cannot include it. National Science Board policy prohibits voluntary committed cost sharing.
Institutional Limit: 3 Proposals (2 in Track 1, 1 in Track 2)
Internal Deadline: Sept. 17, 2021 4:45 pm
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Alabama State Council on the Arts
Virtual Drop-In Office Hours
Alabama State Council on the Arts is now offering virtual drop-in hours leading up to the September 1 grants application deadline. Bring questions on the programs and application process or take advantage of the small group setting to learn from the questions asked by other applicants. Join anytime. The session is free to attend; however, registration is required.
Drop-in hours occur on August 25 from Noon until 1:00 p.m. CT
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CCTS Telehealth Network
Spark Funding
Multi-institutional, multidisciplinary partners interested in working toward shared telehealth projects are invited to consider applying for Spark Funding. Each application must have two (2) faculty leads – one located at UAB and one at Auburn. Additional collaborators from across the CCTS Partner Network may also be included. Multidisciplinary collaboration and prior Lightning Session participation is strongly encouraged. The maximum award is $750. Examples of allowable costs include mileage, parking, food, event room rental, and publication costs.
Proposals Due: August 27, 2021 5:00 pm
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Federal Unique Entity Identifier replaces DUNS Number
The Federal government will stop using the DUNS number to uniquely identify entities in the System for Award Management (SAM) by April of 2022. The U.S. General Services Administration is assigning Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) numbers to replace the DUNS number. The Auburn University number is DMQNDJDHTDG4. When prompted for specific proposal systems (especially within Grants.gov/workspace) this is the new UEI to be used in place of the DUNS number. In addition, information that had been previously reflected on the AU Fact Sheet (providing information for proposals and awards) is now available directly on the Office of Sponsored Programs webpage. The UEI information is now included with this information (which includes updated fringe benefit rates for FY 2022, F&A rates, travel rates, contact information, etc.).
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Auburn University Libraries subscribe to over 250 databases to help faculty, students and staff with their research needs. Library databases allow users to search for citations and references to articles, book chapters and books, many of which may be full-text. The libraries will upgrade the current SciFinder Classic to SciFinder-n on September 1, 2021. Embase and Reaxys are now accessible. For more information, contact George Stachokas, Collections Strategist and Acquisitions Librarian.
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Tiger Tips is a series of short articles that provide guidance on a specific topic of interest related to sponsored projects. These articles are intended to serve as a resource for Auburn project directors, administrators and departmental staff who are involved in the management and/or administration of sponsored projects. This month's article is about the AU Limited Submissions Process.
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Best Practices for Competitive NIH Grant Applications Webinar
October 20, 2021
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
$99 Registration Fee
Columbia University, Department of Medicine is organizing this NIH webinar that will include discussion of the following:
- Federal funding agencies including the NIH and the other Dept. of Health and Human Services Public Health Service agencies, as well as other agencies that support biomedical research (e.g., the Dept. of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).
- Different types of research funding mechanisms, including grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and the different types of grants, e.g., those that provide comprehensive costs for the research project (e.g., R01), as compared to those provide funding for pilot projects (e.g., R03).
- Mission and the different types of career development programs (e.g., K01, K08, K23, K24) will be provided.
- NIH review process specific for career development grant applications, including the role of NIH Institutes and Study Section review panels, deadlines, scoring system, Impact Scores, review criteria, and the allowed number of applications.
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Auburn maintains an annual subscription to this monthly newsletter published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC. Access is available only for Auburn University faculty, staff and students with a valid user ID.
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Hanover Research Grants Calendars
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Federal Agency Coronavirus Resource Hubs |
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Funding Opportunity Reminders |
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for the creation and utilization of Patient Safety Learning Laboratories (PSLL). These learning laboratories are places and networks where transdisciplinary teams identify closely related threats to diagnostic or treatment efforts associated with a high burden of harm and cost. Following a systems engineering methodology, the learning laboratories stretch professional boundaries, envision innovative designs, and take advantage of brainstorming and rapid prototyping techniques that other leading industries employ. Promising prototypes undergo further develop-test-revise iterations, and subsequent integration as a working system. After further improvements are made to the integrated working system, its efficacy is evaluated in a realistic simulated or clinical setting.
Proposals Due: September 25, 2021 5:00 pm
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The AHA will offer training grants and early career funding programs this fall. Upcoming deadlines for programs include:
- Sept. 9: Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
- Sept. 14: Predoctoral Fellowship
- Sept. 15: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Sept. 21: AHA-CHF Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards
- Sept. 30: Enduring Hearts Research Awards in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications for funding to conduct Large Research Projects (R01) that propose to advance the base of knowledge for detection, prevention, and reduction of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs).
Proposals Due: October 5, 2021 5:00 pm
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New Funding Opportunities |
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The Diagnostics Accelerator challenges the research community to develop cutting-edge biomarkers and explore novel diagnostic technologies that will aid in Alzheimer’s diagnosis and clinical trial design. Research funded to date focuses on various methods and targets including blood tests in various stages of development, as well as eye scans and digital tools. The following programs are accepting applications on a rolling basis:
The RFP is open to all biomarker categories that will advance drug development for Alzheimer's and related dementias. The expected context of use, which defines a biomarker's intended use clinically as a diagnostic or in drug development, should be described in the application. These categories, as defined by the FDA, include diagnostic, monitoring, predictive, prognostic, pharmacodynamic/response, safety, and susceptibility/risk biomarkers. Additionally, the applicant should articulate where in the path to commercialization the study falls and what is the proposed plan forward.
A variety of digital platforms such as portables, sensors, or software are encouraged. The proposed platform should have the potential to be easily deployed at scale. Passive approaches to data collection are encouraged. The DxA is currently developing a speech and language biomarker consortium. Proposals outside this effort will not be considered at this time.
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The TBIPHRP vision is to optimize psychological health and reduce or eliminate the effects of TBI and traumatic stress. The program seeks to fund research to understand, prevent, and treat TBI and psychological health conditions that accelerates solutions to improve the health, well-being, and healthcare of Service Members, Veterans, military beneficiaries, and the American public. The proposed research must be relevant to active-duty Service Members, Veterans, military beneficiaries, and/or the American public.
Pre-Application Submission Deadline: September 8, 2021 5:00 pm ET
Application Deadline: September 30, 2021 11:59 pm ET
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The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The award supports research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
Research institutions will need to address four important goals:
- Build a sustained institutional partnership with a public agency or nonprofit organization
- Pursue a joint research agenda to reduce inequality in youth outcomes
- Create institutional change to value research-practice partnerships within research institutions
- Develop the capacity of both partners to collaborate on producing and using research evidence
Proposals Due: September 14, 2021 3:00 pm ET
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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) invites submission of investigator-initiated Program Project (P01) applications. The proposed programs may address scientific areas relevant to the NHLBI mission including the biology and diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders. Programs may also include implementation science, health disparities, and translation research that addresses the mission of the Institute. Each application submitted in response to this FOA must include at least three related research projects that share a common central theme, focus, and/or overall objective. Higher budgets may be requested for applications that include at least four projects, one of which includes an Early Stage Investigator as Project Leader.
Proposals Due: September 25, 2021 5:00 pm
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The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program makes awards to institutions and organizations conducting empirical field research to answer significant questions in the humanities. Archaeology and ethnography are important methodologies utilized by many disciplines across the humanities and social sciences that provide observational and experiential data on human history and culture.
Archaeological methods may include field survey and field-based remote sensing, documentation or visualization, and/or excavations in support of answering research questions in all aspects of the human past, including but not limited to ancient studies, anthropology, art history, classical studies, regional studies, epigraphy, and other related disciplines. Ethnographic methods may include participant observation, surveys and interviews, and documentation or recording in pursuit of research questions in anthropology, ethnolinguistics, oral history, ethnomusicology, performance studies, folklore studies, and related disciplines.
Proposals Due: September 29, 2021 11:59 pm ET
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The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites new or competing applications for Clinical Research Center Grants (P50). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) targets applicant institutions with demonstrated ability to conduct clinical research in human communication disorders. Applications are encouraged in the seven scientific programs of the NIDCD: hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. The Clinical Research Center Grant (P50) supports a research program in which an interdisciplinary team of investigators works in a clearly defined central theme of mutual scientific interest. This mechanism facilitates economy of effort, space, and equipment, and accelerates the acquisition of knowledge by stimulating cooperation among clinical investigators whose projects are directed toward a common goal. For this announcement, Clinical Research is defined as research involving individuals with communication disorders or data/tissues from individuals with a communication disorder. Examples include (but are not limited to) studies of prevention, pathogenesis, pathophysiology, detection, diagnoses or epidemiology of a disease or disorder of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, or language.
Proposals Due: October 6, 2021 5:00 pm
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Don't see a grant that fits your research area? Contact Proposal Services and Faculty Support to set up an appointment for a one-on-one or small group Pivot training session. |
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Reserve the Corner today for collaborative meetings, proposal development or to learn more about AU research resources.
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The monthly flights on the AU shuttle connect faculty to other researchers or agencies to further their research goals.
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Auburn University PI Handbook, agency guides and more to help you write a successful proposal.
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