Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
March 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 in this newsletter, click on the link below and search for your competition listed 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 current grant level is $300,000; $75,000 per year for a four-year period. For the 2023 award, one nomination will be invited from each of the participating institutions listed on the funder's website.
Candidates must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:
- Hold a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine, or a related field.
- As of Sept. 8, 2022, hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor. (Appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible).
- Must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 13, 2018, whether or not such an appointment was on a tenure track. Time spent in clinical internships, residencies, in work toward board certification, or on parental leave does not count as part of this four-year limit. Candidates who need an exception on the four-uear limit should contact Pew’s program office to ensure that application reviewers are aware an exception has been given.
- May apply to the program a maximum of two times. All applicants must be nominated by their institution and must complete the 2023 online application.
- If applicants have appointments at more than one eligible nominating institution or affiliate, they may not reapply in a subsequent year from a different nominating entity.
- May not be nominated for the Pew Scholars Program and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research in the same year.
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: April 8, 2022 4:45 pm
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6th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium - Virtual
April 22, 2022 8:00 am - 5:00 pm CT
Sponsored by the Informatics Institute and the Center for Clinical Translational Science (CCTS), this year’s event will be held virtually and will offer faculty, postdoc trainees, and graduate students an opportunity to report progress on the latest informatics research and applications in biomedical sciences.
Keynote speakers for this year’s event will be Dr. Roel Veerhaak, Professor and Associate Director of Computational Biology at The Jackson Laboratory, and Dr. Ting Wang, Professor of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis.
Scientific talks, flash informatics tool presentations, educational panels, single-cell analysis and data science toolkit tutorials, poster presentations, and informatics gateways will additionally be offered. The themes of this year’s symposium include: bioinformatics methods, genomics, cancer genomics, single-cell genomics, clinical genomics, epigenomics, cloud computing, bioinformatics education and relevant applications.
For more information, visit the event website: https://attis2022.ubrite.org. Registration for the event closes March 31, 2022. At the conclusion of the symposium, there is an in-person networking event at Tinsley Harrison Tower, Room 142, 1900 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35233.
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April 3-4, 2022 Downtown Little Rock, Arkansas
This workshop will bring researchers together to discuss current frontier AI research, as well as potential applications and limitations of AI in addressing science challenges from other domains in STEM, statistics, business, art, law, journalism, social science, linguistics, and history. Researchers from any domain who are interested in applications of AI, machine learning, and creative problem solving/problem defining should attend.
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The FY22 Defense Appropriations Act has not been signed into law. Although FY22 funds have not been appropriated for the JWMRP, the program is providing the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY22 funding opportunities. The mission of the JWMRP is to accelerate research and development projects that have the potential to close high-priority DOD medical requirements and capability gaps. Within this context, the JWMRP is interested in supporting research and development efforts that address overarching and Service-specific priorities; therefore, applications are required to address one or more of the following FY22 JWMRP Focus Areas:
- Endemic and Emerging Disease Threats
- Operational Medicine and Readiness
- Environmental Medicine
- Combat Casualty Care
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Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability
Dates available after May 9, 2022
In order to provide resources for faculty and staff, Auburn University has partnered with Hanover Research for a number of grant development solutions including: Pre-proposal Support; Proposal Development; and Capacity Building. Their full-service grant development solutions are available to set goals, build strategies to achieve key grant-seeking objectives, and develop grant proposals that are well-planned, researched, and written. For information regarding Hanover’s core capabilities and project time lines, click here. If you are interested in a slot in the queue, please e-mail Tony Ventimiglia ( ventiaf@auburn.edu ).
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Hanover Research Funding Calendars
Hanover Research has put together several specialized funding calendars that include federal funders, foundations, descriptions of the programs and the associated deadlines.
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Auburn subscribes to several training modules via the CITI Program website that may be of interest to researchers and research administrators. Each module is self-paced and can be finished in one or multiple sessions. Click on the link above to read descriptions.
- Essentials of Grant Proposal Development
- Essentials of Research Administration
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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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Federal Agency Coronavirus Resource Hubs |
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Future computing systems with ultra-low energy storage can be built on principles derived from organic systems that are at the intersection of biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, computer science and engineering. Next-generation information storage technologies can be envisioned that are driven by biological principles with use of biomaterials in the fabrication of devices and systems that can store data for more than 100 years with storage capacity 1,000 times more than current storage technologies. Such a research effort can have a significant impact on the future of information storage technologies. This focused solicitation seeks high-risk/high-return interdisciplinary research on novel concepts and enabling technologies that will address the fundamental scientific issues and technological challenges associated with the underpinnings of synthetic biology integrated with semiconductor technology. This research will foster interactions among various disciplines including biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, computer science and engineering that will enable in heretofore-unanticipated breakthroughs.
Proposals Due: April 25, 2022 5:00 pm
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The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. The program also supports research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, and philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society.
DHAG applicants must respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:
- research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
- enhancement or design of digital infrastructure, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms, that contribute to and support the humanities
- research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, or philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society, including racial, religious, and/or gender biases
- evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement
Draft Proposals (Optional) Due: April 25, 2022 11:59 pm ET
Full Proposals Due: June 24, 2022 11:59 pm ET
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The Bats for the Future Fund provides grant funding to slow the spread of white-nose syndrome disease (WNS) in North America and promote the survival and recovery of WNS-affected bat populations and species. Objectives are to implement field treatments, management tools and conservation strategies that help WNS-affected bat populations to recover from the impacts of WNS, and support innovative and collaborative research leading to development and deployment of treatments and management tools or strategies for WNS that will perpetuate viable populations of bats.
Proposals Due: April 28, 2022 11:59 pm ET
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The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities related to NIAID's mission areas with a primary focus on:
- Courses for Skills Development
- Research Experiences
- Mentoring Activities
Proposals Due: May 25, 2022 5:00 pm
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The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, X-ray diffractometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, and biomedical imagers.
Proposals Due: June 1, 2022 5:00 pm
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This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is part of a suite of FOAs to support the development of safe, effective, and non-addictive therapeutics to treat pain. The goal of this FOA is to support team-based research projects to develop assays, screening and early optimization work to develop a non-addictive therapeutic to treat pain. Discovery and validation of pharmacodynamic markers efficacy and pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) studies are also responsive.
This FOA is not specific for any one or group of pain conditions. Projects to develop therapeutics for acute pain, chronic pain, painful neuropathy, musculoskeletal pain, headache disorders, osteoarthritis, diabetic neuropathy, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, eye pain, sickle-cell pain, post-surgical pain, cancer pain, visceral pain, post stroke pain, myofascial pain, painful disorders of the orofacial region and other conditions will be considered. Projects to develop analgesics for a combination of chronic overlapping pain conditions or for specific disease or pathological conditions will also be considered.
Proposals Due: June 9, 2022 5:00 pm
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Funding Opportunity Reminders |
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This solicitation focuses on encouraging these activities by supporting and advancing research and development in Alabama to improve employment opportunities and products and services available to the citizens of Alabama.
Successful applicants will describe in detail research and development activities to be performed and potential impacts in terms of job creation and economic development.
Application Window: March 1, 2022 - July 29, 2022 11:59 pm CT
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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 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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Subscription-based service that Auburn University provides faculty to find funding opportunities pertinent to their research.
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