Six New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of April 22, 2024
Six New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of April 22, 2024

Research Development Office

Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of April 22, 2024

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Funding Landscape

Gerber Foundation invites concept papers for pediatric research projects.

To fund research projects to identify solutions to common issues and problems in the field of children’s health, nutrition, and/or development. Grants of up to $350,000 over up to three years will be awarded. Concept papers are due May 15 and November 15 of each year.

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Spencer Foundation invites letters of intent on Large Research Grants on Education.

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

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Limited Submission Opportunities

ACL: Alzheimer's Disease Programs Initiative (ADPI) - State and Community Grants

Description: The Alzheimer’s Disease Programs Initiative (ADPI) Cooperative Agreements are intended to support and promote the development and expansion of dementia-capable home- and community-based service (HCBS) systems in states, communities, and tribes. Funded grants pilot and evaluate new or expanded community-level, dementia-capable HCBS programs. Recipients of these grants must use at least 50% of total grant funds for direct services. 
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Brain Research Foundation: Scientific Innovations Award (SIA) 2025

Description: Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award Program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, exploratory, cutting edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established investigators.
Eligibility: Associate Professor or Full Professor
Limitation:
one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 @ 4pm
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, October 10, 2024 @ 4pm (by invitation only)

NSF: Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines)

Description: The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program creates regional-scale, technology-driven, inclusive innovation ecosystems throughout the United States by accelerating key technologies, addressing regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategic challenges, driving economic growth, creating and retaining quality jobs, expanding equitable pathways into careers, and strengthening national competitiveness and security.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (Tentative)
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Sponsor Preliminary Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 (by invitation only)

NIH: Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) (K12 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Description: The Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) Program provides support for a mentored postdoctoral research experience at a research-intensive institution combined with an opportunity to develop critical teaching and mentoring skills at a teaching-intensive partner institution with a diverse student population. Accordingly, the IRACDA program requires effective partnerships between a research-intensive institution and a teaching-intensive partner institution that has a historical mission or a demonstrated commitment to educating students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 29, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, October 3, 2024

NSF: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program: Instrument Acquisition or Development

Description: 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. 
Limitation: four applications per institution.  See InfoReady for more details.
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024
UI Information Session: On Friday, July 19 from 11am-12pm, the RDO will host a Zoom information session focused on NSF's MRI Program. During the session, the RDO will give an overview of the program including how to navigate the institutional limited submission process and two successful MRI awardees will discuss their experiences, share their insights, and respond to your questions. To attend, register here.

CDC: National Center for Construction Safety and Health Research and Translation (U54)

Description: NIOSH is seeking applications from qualified organizations for a National Center for Construction Safety and Health Research and Translation (also known as the NIOSH National Construction Center). Applicants are expected to propose multi-disciplinary approaches for impactful applied and intervention research and hazard identification and controls, to develop partnerships for implementing prevention and intervention activities, and to serve as leaders in research translation and research-to-practice for the protection of construction workers in the United States. 
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024

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