Rutgers Successfully Hosts 2018 Regional Academic Drug Discovery Conference
The New Jersery Academic Drug Discovery Consortium successfully hosted its 2nd annual meeting at Rutgers University on November 15 with more than 200 attendees. The conference brought together leaders from universities and biopharma companies from the tri-state region to explore how to collaboratively build an academic drug discovery ecosystem and accelerate drug development research.
Announcements
RAPSS Activity Matrix Recently Updated
The Research Administration and Proposal Submission System (RAPSS)
Activity Matrix has recently been updated. Please contact your Grants Specialist at the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs or your Corporate Contracts Manager if you have any questions.
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Resources for Researchers
Access Caliburn Supercomputing Resources
The Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute invites applications for the allocation of computing resources on Caliburn, New Jersey's largest academic supercomputing facility. Caliburn provides high-performance computing capabilities to academic researchers across the state to accelerate research programs that use or develop highly scalable computing applications.
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Training for Human Subject Researchers
This week, the Rutgers Human Subjects Protection Program is offering training sessions focusing on important topics that will impact current and future human subjects research projects, including the revised common rule, single IRB regulations, and AAHRPP accreditation. Registration not required.
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Funding Spotlight
Limited Submission Opportunities
Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. Proposals are limited to one per Chancellor and pre-proposals must be submitted through the Rutgers' Limited Submission process. The internal application deadline is December 10, 2018.
CSL Behring Research Award
The University City Science Center, global biotechnology leader CSL Behring, and Rutgers University are partnering to identify and help commercialize potential new life science technologies. The award is for up to $150,000 to support qualifying one-year research projects in the areas of Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, Hematological and coagulation disorders, Transplantation, Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, Respiratory diseases, and Neurological disorders. Deadline for white paper submission: Sunday, December 9th. Learn more
Collaborative Alliance on Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel Groups (STRONG)
The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) released a funding opportunity announcement for the Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel Groups (STRONG) program. STRONG seeks to develop the foundational sciences for the Army that will enable teaming between future warfighters and intelligent agents, "and specifically, on influencing individuals team members, human or agent, to enhance positive team properties and performance." The Cycle 1 topic for FY 2019 is Theory Development and Team-Level Process.
Cycle 1 Deadline: December 21, 2018. Learn more
Training for Human Subject Researchers
