Category: Grants

The Institute of Diversity Sciences has announced a new faculty research funding opportunity. The institute will distribute up to $40,000 in seed project funds to teams who apply through a formal RFP mechanism. Funds will go toward supporting new collaborative projects between colleagues from different departments at UMass. Ideal projects will focus on research, involve graduate or undergraduate students in that research (i.e., include an educational component), and have an eye toward social impact.

Description: Grants will range from $5,000 to $12,000. Funds may be used to pay for personnel, equipment, supplies, data collection costs, consultants, compensation of community partners, etc.

The submission deadline is February 1, 2018, 11:59pm ET.

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The LSMF Fund serves to spur inter-campus collaboration and strengthen the University’s research portfolio in clinical and translational research. By providing seed funding to outstanding faculty members, this fund facilitates the development of faculty-to-faculty networks within the University system, thereby leveraging the considerable expertise and resources that exist on the individual campuses. It is assumed that successful projects will attract additional funding from extramural sources.

Projects supported by this fund will advance a therapeutic, device, intervention, approach, etc., under study along the translational pipeline. The intent of the funding is to speed up the rate of progress to move a research project, clinical finding or other discovery into a broader network of activities, while maximizing the breadth of interdisciplinary skills applied to the research question. We are particularly interested in proposals that feature a clinical scientist working with a basic scientist.

More details can be found here.

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is pleased to invite applications for its eighth class of Macy Faculty Scholars.

The Macy Faculty Scholars Program is designed to identify and nurture the careers of promising educational innovators in medicine and nursing. With support from the Macy Foundation, scholars will implement new educational innovations at their home institutions and participate in career development activities that prepare them for leadership roles.

Chosen scholars will receive:

• Salary support of up to $100,000 per year for two years
• At least 50 percent protected time for two years to pursue educational projects
• Active mentorship by a senior faculty member at their institution
• Access to the program’s National Advisory Committee
• Opportunities to participate in the Macy Faculty Scholars alumni network and attend the Annual Macy Faculty Scholars Meeting

The deadline for applications is February 14, 2018. More information can be found here. An informational webinar for applicants will be held on December 14, 2017 at 2:00pm ET. Click here to RSVP.

The National Institutes of Health has announced the publication of the revised NIH Grants Policy Statement.  This revision is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2017. This revision supersedes, in its entirety, the NIH Grants Policy Statement (November 2016) as a standard term and condition of award.  Previous versions of the NIHGPS remain applicable as a standard term and condition for all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods that began prior to October 1, 2017.

The Public Engagement Project at UMass Amherst invites applications from tenure-track faculty for the Spring 2018 Public Engagement Faculty Fellowship.

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The National Institutes of Health has just posted this new Funding Opportunity Announcement: PA-18-285: Addressing Health Disparities through Effective Interventions Among Immigrant Populations (R21 Clinical Trial Optional).

The goal of the Immigrant health initiative is to support exploratory and developmental research to design and test feasibility of effective interventions to reduce the health disparities among immigrant populations (particularly migrant workers, recent and 1st generation immigrants) and address issues that promote health equity.

The earliest submission date for this exploratory/development research grant is January 17, 2018.

You can find the full announcement here.

NIH is launching a series of initiatives that are rolling out in 2017-2018 to enhance the accountability and transparency of clinical research. These initiatives target key points along the whole clinical trial lifecycle from concept to results reporting. To learn more about these changes and how they will affect your research, visit here