| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of August 26, 2024 | Please share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | | Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The NIH NCI Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) helps outstanding postdoctoral researchers complete needed mentored training and transition in a timely manner to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. NCI accepts K99/R00 applications in all areas of cancer research. Please see NOFO for specific program information (PAR-23-286, PAR-23-287, and/or PAR-23-288)
Limitation: four applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2024
| Description: The Mellon Foundation invites proposals that meaningfully engage faculty, other academic leaders, and visitors from a variety of fields in the study of academic freedom and democracy in the American university. The Foundation seeks to support seminars that demonstrate through humanistic methods the ways in which a higher education system featuring a multiplicity of perspectives, thoughts, and voices is essential to a functional democracy.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal LOI Submission Deadline: Monday, September 16 at 5pm
Internal Full Proposal Deadline: Monday, October 21 at 5pm (by invitation only)
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Please Note: This competition is being run through the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Please contact Erin Hackathorn for questions about the program or how to apply internally. | | Description: This NOFO requests applications for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Core Centers that are designed to support and enhance the national research effort in PKD through developing and broadly sharing innovative research tools and resources (e.g., reagents, data, services, and expertise that would be difficult or impractical to support by individual research project grants or within individual laboratories.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, November 14, 2024 | Description: This NOFO requests applications for the Central Coordinating Site for the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Core Centers. The Central Coordinating Site is expected to work collaboratively with the PKD Core Centers as part of the PKD Research Resource Consortium (PKD RRC) and serve as a national resource for the larger research community.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, November 14, 2024 | | Description: Through this NOFO, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) proposes and will support the Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network (CP-CTNet) sites, for which the goals are as follows: 1) Design and conduct of early phase clinical trials to assess the safety, tolerability, and cancer preventive potential of agents and interventions of varying classes 2) Characterization of the effects of these agents and interventions on their molecular targets, as well as on other biological events associated with cancer development, and 3) Development of further scientific insights into the mechanisms of cancer prevention by the agents examined, including the development of novel potential markers as determinants of response.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024
| Description: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Limitation: two applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, November 14, 2024 | | Description: The purpose of the NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) is to encourage and retain outstanding graduate students recognized by their institutions for their high potential and strong interest in pursuing careers as independent cancer researchers. The award will facilitate the transition of talented graduate students into successful cancer research postdoctoral appointments and provide opportunities for career development activities relevant to their long-term career goals of becoming independent cancer researchers.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | Description: The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress (LOC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions. LOC will permanently maintain this freely accessible, searchable online database (Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers). During its partnership with NEH, LOC will digitize and contribute a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections to Chronicling America.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, January 10, 2025 | | | |
