Office of Research News
RASO is a service office housed in the CCOM Office of Research and is available to all CCOM departments who would like research administration support. Our mission is to provide expertise on pre- and post-award administration for externally funded projects. For more information, visit the RASO website or contact
Erin Brothers, Director, RASO, at erin-brothers@uiowa.edu.
If you are planning a T32, P-, or ARPA-H grant submission and would like assistance with the organization, data collection and/or writing, please reach out to com-lspds@uiowa.edu. Our Large-Scale Proposal Development Service (LSPDS) supports CCOM faculty and staff in preparing, writing, and submitting complex, large-scale grant proposals, with the goal of reducing the administrative burden and enhancing the competitiveness of these applications. Visit our website for more information.
Federal News and Reminders
Updated Due Date to December 4, 2025
NIH Loan Repayment Programs Application Cycle Opened September 1. Awardees can receive up to $100,000 in qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year award. To learn more about eligibility requirements, application dates, and the benefits of receiving an LRP award, be sure to visit the LRP website, and check out our overview video. Please note that the deadline to apply is November 20, 2025
December 4, 2025.
The Research Security Training requirement for principal investigators and co-investigators proposing to NIH, NSF, and/or Department of Energy has been postponed until further notice. However, the Other Support Training requirement was effective October 1, 2025. The Research Security Training and Other Support Training are combined training and is required to be completed before a UI Proposal Routing form can be submitted. The UI Proposal Routing form will check if the training has been complete. Please see the Research Integrity and Security Office website for more information and how to take the CITI training.
This notice informs the community of updates to NIH Frequently Asked Questions for childcare costs for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Awards and Individual Fellowships.
NIH seeks to remind awardees that all changes in scope that were agreed upon by NIH and the Authorized Organizational Representatives (AOR) become new terms and conditions of award, and the recipient must comply with those changes. This includes changes in scope that were renegotiated to align with the agency’s priorities. As such, NIH fully expects recipients to comply with the new terms and conditions, unless otherwise stated in the Notice of Award, or unless NIH has been enjoined by court order from imposing or enforcing such terms while that court order is in effect. If recipients have questions related to the new terms and conditions of the awards, the recipient must seek clarification from the Grants Management Official, prior to drawing down on the funds. Once the funds are drawn down from the HHS payment system, the recipient agrees to the terms and conditions of the award and must fully comply with them.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the award of contracts for launching the Standardized Organoid Modeling (SOM) Center, a national resource that will be dedicated to using cutting-edge technologies to develop standardized organoid-based new approach methodologies (NAMs) that deliver robust, reproducible, and patient-centered research findings. With contracts totaling $87 million for the first three years, the center will be housed at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), a facility supported by NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI). The center’s goal will be to leverage the latest technologies to enable real-time optimization of organoid protocols.
Events
December 4, 2025 | 3:00pm | Prem Sahai Auditorium 1110 MERF | Add To Calendar
"Hippo-Signaling in Heart Regeneration"
January 22, 2026 | 4:00pm | Prem Sahai Auditorium 1110 MERF | Add to Calendar
The Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high-impact research in a variety of areas.
The seminars will be of broad interest and are open to all University of Iowa faculty, staff, students and the public. UI Carver College of Medicine departments, institutes, centers, and programs may nominate speakers.
Open Dates: February 19, 2026 | April 23, 2026 | October 15, 2026 | November 19, 2026
Core Updates
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We are excited to share that the Protein Structure, Analysis & Design Core (Formerly the Protein and Crystallography Core Facility) at the Carver College of Medicine is acquiring a ThermoFisher Scientific Glacios Cryo-EM. This powerful instrument will soon be available to the UI research community for rapid, high-resolution structural analysis and screening of macromolecular complexes. This will substantially enhance the capabilities of our existing structural biology resources and facilitate new structural studies. Installation is expected in Jan/Feb 2026. Future announcements will be provided in the next newsletter!
Contact nicholas-schnicker@uiowa.edu with any questions.
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The SERCC is sponsoring an unpaid Scientific Editing Internship.
More information | To apply
The SERCC is hosting Open Writing Sessions.
More Information | Contact: heather-widmayer@uiowa.edu
The Neural Circuits and Behavior Core (NCBC) in the Iowa Neuroscience Institute has two recent developments that may be of interest to the university community.
First, the NCBC recently launched an in vitro Electrophysiology Service to make electrophysiology experiments in brain tissue accessible to the broader neuroscience community. The Electrophysiology Service is staffed by Dr. Jason Hardie and contains a new state-of-the-art whole-cell patch clamp rig, equipped with a highly-sensitive, high-speed sCMOS camera, DIC visualization, epifluorescence, an LED light source with 16 independent color channels that span the spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared, and an amplifier capable of voltage clamp, current clamp, and dynamic clamp recordings in neurons in acute brain slices and cell cultures.
Dr. Hardie brings years of electrophysiology experience, aiding in the design and execution of critical synapse, cell, and circuit level experiments that bridge the gap from molecules to behavior. The service can validate DREADD or optogenetic manipulations, apply pharmacology and axonal stimulation to probe functional effects at the synaptic and cellular level, measure changes in cellular excitability, probe circuits with dual patch-clamp recordings, perform calcium imaging with subcellular resolution, and even perform voltage imaging using the latest genetically encoded voltage sensors. The electrophysiology rig is highly adaptable and the core has the expertise to help users design the right experiments for their research.
If you are interested in learning more, please reach out to Drs. Shane Heiney or Jason Hardie.
Second, the NCBC recently purchased a state-of-the-art 3i AxL Cleared Tissue Light Sheet (CTLS) for fast volumetric imaging of cleared tissue. The AxL CTLS is capable of imaging fluorescently labeled whole organs and tissue at cellular resolution. The lasers and filter cubes on the system are compatible with green, red, and far red fluorophores and the NCBC can provide guidance on appropriate tissue clearing methods.
If you are interested in learning more, please reach out to Dr. Shane Heiney.
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Dr. Suleyman Ucuncuoglu has joined the Bioinformatics Core as a staff scientist. He will be available for supporting fee-for-service and grant-funded projects in bioinformatics.
Welcome Dr. Ucuncuoglu!
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