EVENTS 
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TODAY!
Thursday, November 8
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Ford Auditorium,
University Hospital
Room 2054
Forum Hall
FREE Lunch Provided!
Thursday, December 13
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
THSL, Room
2903
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RESEARCH NEWS
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QUICKLINKS
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Training & Professional Development
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Select Research Funding &
Award Opportunities
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Award
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Deadline
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| MICHR - Pathway to First Grant Award |
Wednesday,
November 14
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Wednesday,
November 14
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Friday,
November 30
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Friday,
November 30
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Thursday,
December 6
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Thursday,
December 6
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Monday,
December 31
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External Limited Submissions
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Award
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Deadline
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Friday,
November 16
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Monday,
November 19
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Monday,
November 19
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Wednesday,
December 5
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Bridging Support
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Award
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Deadline
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Saturday,
December 15
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Other Opportunities
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Award
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Deadline
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Friday,
November 30
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Friday,
December 7
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Tuesday,
February 5, 2019
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Featured Foundation Grants
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Award
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Amount
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Deadline
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$495K
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Wednesday,
November 28
(Pre-Proposal)
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$460K
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Monday,
December 3
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$225K
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Wednesday,
December 19
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$590K
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Wednesday,
January 9,
2019
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$450K+
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Friday,
February 1,
2019
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$157.5K
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Friday,
February 1,
2019
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$500K
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Wednesday,
February 6,
2019
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2.5M
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Friday,
February 15,
2019
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$500K
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Thursday,
February 28,
2019
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$250M
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Friday,
March 1,
2019
(Pre-Proposal)
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1.25M
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Friday,
March 1,
2019
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$231K
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Friday,
March 15,
2019
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The Michigan Medicine Corporate and Foundation Relations team can assist in the funding process, including providing direct communication with the funding entity to obtain guidance on project appeal/applicability to the funder, providing examples of previously funded U-M proposals, and answering general faculty questions. For a wide range of Foundation and Corporate funding opportunities, please visit their
Funding Portal.
Questions about these foundation grants should be directed to Joe Piffaretti by
email
or by phone at 734-763-1318.
Reminder: A faculty member's research administrator will serve as the liaison on all aspects of the internal application process. If you are unsure of whom to talk to, your department contact can be found here. If you pursue any grant opportunity featured in this edition of Research News, please contact your research administrator first to formulate a submission plan and timeline.
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Steve Kunkel, Ph.D., Appointed to Interim Executive Vice Dean for Research & Chief Scientific Officer
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Currently the Senior Associate Dean for Research, Endowed Professor of Pathology Research, and the Peter A. Ward Distinguished University Professor, Dr. Kunkel has a long and robust history with U-M.
Effective October 1, 2018, Steve Kunkel, Ph.D., has been appointed by the Board of Regents as Interim Executive Vice Dean for Research and Chief Scientific Officer.
Please welcome and support Dr. Kunkel in his new role!
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K12 Career Development Program in Emergency Critical Care Research
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Thanks to NIH funding, MCIRCC offers a three-year, multidisciplinary training program in emergency critical care research. Scholars may choose mentoring teams led by nationally known senior clinician-scientists in Emergency Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Neurology, General and Trauma Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease, Biomedical Engineering, and Biostatistics. This gives trainees an understanding of all phases of emergency critical care research.
Currently accepting applications for a flexible start date.
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New DIAMOND Portal Allows Researchers to Access, Share Training & Assessment Materials
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The new portal serves as a sustainable, federated database for members of clinical and translational research study teams to share and access training and assessment resources.
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Celebrate Bob Lyons, Ph.D. at his Retirement Symposium
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All are welcome to attend the retirement symposium to honor DNA Sequencing Core Faculty Director Bob Lyons, Ph.D., and his stellar 23-year career at the University of Michigan on Thursday, November 8 with a symposium featuring scientific talks and a strolling reception.
The reception will take place throughout the symposium in the Taubman Lobby. Refreshments will be served.
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MICHR Seeks Mentor Program Faculty Lead
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The Faculty Lead will assist the Faculty Director and the Administrative Program Director with the development and review of mentoring and career development programs and initiatives for faculty, scholars, and trainees both across EMG programs and across the university.
Applications are due on November 15.
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Sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, Presented by Nicholas Bagley
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The topic of the November IHPI Seminar Series is Sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, presented by Nicholas Bagley, J.D., Professor of Law, University of Michigan.
When the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act faltered in Congress, the Trump administration embarked on an extensive campaign to dismantle and undermine the law. Supporters of the legislation have tried to fight back in the courts. Where do the never-ending battles over health reform stand today? What changes are we likely to see?
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Geisinger's Marc Williams to Discuss Patient-Centered Precision Health
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LHS Collaboratory and U-M Precision Health presents Marc Williams, MD, FAAP, FACMG, FACMI, Director of Geisinger's Genomic Medicine Institute.
On November 29, Dr. Williams will discuss the implementation of a precision health program in an integrated healthcare delivery system aspiring to become a learning healthcare system.
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Announcing Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Awardee,
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On Wednesday, December 12, Dr. Thomas W. Glover, Ph.D. will be honored as the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award in Biomedical Research. The event will be hosted by Marschall Runge, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the Medical School and Meredith A. Morgan, Ph.D., Chair of the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC).
Dr. Glover is being recognized for his fundamental discoveries in human genetics, including as the defining scientist of the field of human common fragile sites - a pervasive feature of human chromosomes that has become increasingly important to our understanding of critical molecular mechanisms and related human genomic disorders. He is an outstanding cytogeneticist who routinely applies his unique research insights in the clinical laboratory, and he is widely known as a dedicated mentor and generous collaborator.
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U-M now has 58 members of the NAM on its active and emeritus faculty
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National Academy of Medicine (NAM) membership is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
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Central Biorepository Announces New Recharge Rates
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The Central Biorepository receives and distributes biospecimens and data from University of Michigan contributors across the spectrum of medical research. They have recently added biospecimens from two studies at U-M: Pregnancy Biobank and Preconception Study.
The team is also introducing several new services, including isolation of plasma or serum and long-term storage of frozen tissue in cassettes, FFPE blocks, and stained glass slides. Other new services will be added in the next few months.
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New Discounts Offered on Chemicals From MilliporeSigma
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A cross-functional team comprised of representatives from the University's research community and Procurement Services has secured new and significant discounts on chemicals from the University's strategic supplier, MilliporeSigma. These discounts average 18%-28% on many of the commonly bought chemicals and greater than 75% on solvents. MilliporeSigma is committed to providing the lowest pricing on solvents.
Achieving these benefits began when the team analyzed the overall use of common items, sources, customer satisfaction, technical support, and shipping rates. The team requested proposals from a panel of suppliers, and reviewed and evaluated discount structures on products and shipping costs to campus and the Biomedical Research Store. After reviewing and evaluating the supplier proposals, the team then selected MilliporeSigma as the supplier that could best meet the needs of the University's research community by providing not only same item savings, but category-wide discounts and free shipping.
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Learning Health Systems Journal
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The Learning Health Systems journal seeks to advance the interdisciplinary area of learning health systems by promoting research, scholarship, and dialogue focused on theory, complex issues, conceptual syntheses, educational models, solution designs, and system evaluations designed to achieve continuous rapid improvement in health and healthcare and to transform organizational practice.
The October issue includes:
- "Desiderata for Computable Biomedical Knowledge for Learning Health Systems" by Harold Lehmann & Stephen Downs
- "Ethics and Learning Health Care: the Essential Roles of Engagement, Transparency, and Accountability" by Nancy Kass & Ruth Faden
- "Data and Knowledge Standards for Learning Health: A Population Management Example Using Chronic Kidney Disease" by Blake Cameron, Brian Douthit, & Rachel Richesson
- "Using a Health System Learning Community Strategy to Address Cancer Disparities" by Ronald Myers et al.
- "Learning from Implementation Setbacks: Identifying and Responding to Contextual Challenges" by Michael Harrison & Susan Grantham
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Biomedical Research Store Successfully Launches MiCores
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 On Monday, October 8, the Biomedical Research Store transitioned to MiCores, an online system from Agilent Technologies designed to streamline the process of ordering and billing for core purchases. The Store uses the system for billing purposes only.
What does this mean for you?
- All users will need to be registered in MiCores in order to purchase products from the Biomedical Research Store.
- Most current users have been preloaded into the system. PIs, please note that these users will already be affiliated with your lab and respective shortcodes that you have approved for their usage.
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Good Habits for Early Success
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Sharpening the Focus: Tips on Grant Proposal Preparation
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By Jill Jividen, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Research Development, U-M Medical School Office of Research
(One in a
series
of tips published in UMMS Research News about writing proposals.)
A recent study from NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) followed first-time R01-equivalent grantees (between 2003-2010) to gauge how successfully they obtained new funding in subsequent years. Of the cohort of 1,496 investigators who received R01-equivalents during that time, 57% were successful in getting a new R01-equivalent award, despite highly competitive conditions (the report includes application submissions through 2016).
Among successful investigators, some commonalities include:
- Better scores on their first R01-equivalents grants, and an ability to write applications that were scored, not triaged
- Consistency in quality and frequency of applications submitted after the first award
- Demographics, such as likelihood of an awardee coming from an institution with a density of other awardees
Establishing good habits early in your career pays off:
- Plan ahead.Take advantage of U-M resources, such as MICHR's Research Development Core, who will consult with you on study design and project plans. Look at examples of successful proposals. Take advantage of programs like the R01 Boot Camp and frequent grant writing workshops around campus.
- Get feedback.Your Study Section should never be the first readers of your proposal, and you need more objective feedback than just showing it to proposal collaborators. Reach out to mentors or department colleagues, or use Michigan Research Experts to find other campus peers who will offer a thoughtful critique before submission. Use free editing services at MICHR or the OoR. (And leave plenty of time to revise!)
- Propose early and often.Even after you've been funded, you should always be planning your next proposal. The riskiest strategy is to wait until you're running out of money before you start thinking about your next proposal. Seek out new sources of funding. Explore funding.research.umich.edu for help.
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