If you are new to writing grant applications, sometimes seeing how someone else has presented their idea can help as you are developing your own application. With the gracious permission of successful investigators, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) makes available examples of funded R01, R03, R15, R21, SBIR/STTR, K, and F applications, summary statements, sharing plans, leadership plans, and more. When referencing these resources, it is important to remember:

• These applications were developed using the application forms and instructions that were in effect at the time of their submission. Forms and instructions change regularly. Read and carefully follow the instructions in the funding opportunity announcement to which you are responding and the current application instructions carefully.
• The best way to present your science may differ substantially from the approach taken by those who wrote the example applications. Seek feedback on your draft application from mentors and others.
• Talk to an NIH program officer in your area of science for advice about the best type of grant program and the Institute or Center that might be interested in your idea.

Check out the NIAID’s Sample Applications and More

Semester-end greetings. I wanted to let you know that the National Endowment for the Humanities will again be receiving applications for the NEH Summer Stipends program. The deadline for this year’s competition is September 25, 2019, for grants for summer 2020. The guidelines will not be posted until early June, but you can start now publicizing this opportunity to your faculty.

Now is also the time to also think about nominations from your faculty. As you may know, this program requires all tenured or tenure-track applicants to be nominated by an official on their campus; each institution is allowed to nominate two people. (Non-tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, retired faculty, community college faculty, and independent scholars are exempt from nomination). We ask that each institution designate one person—usually an academic vice-president or dean—to coordinate the nomination process for its faculty. Please make sure that there is only one nominating official for your institution. We strongly suggest that prospective applicants, the nominating official, and others involved in choosing your institution’s two nominees familiarize themselves with the guidelines and application instructions located on the NEH website. Until the new guidelines are posted you can refer colleagues to last year’s instructions, posted at:

The only substantial difference for this year is clarifying that non-tenure-track faculty are now exempt from nomination.

I will send you another message when the guidelines have been posted. In the meantime, if you or your faculty have questions, please contact a member of the Summer Stipends program staff, at stipends@neh.gov or 202-606-8200.

If you no longer serve as your institution’s nominating official, please forward this message to the appropriate person.

Thank you for your support of the Summer Stipends program.

Daniel Sack

Program Officer, Division of Research Programs

National Endowment for the Humanities 202-606-8459 dsack@neh.gov

Funding Opportunities for Development of Technology and/or Resources – Application elements and key considerations for two types of funding opportunities are presented. Viewers learn about requirements for funding opportunities soliciting applications to support technology/therapeutics development for investigational device exemption and investigational new drug submissions. The webinar also reviews important aspects of funding opportunities that support the development of research resources.

·         Funding Opportunities for Early Career Investigators – The focus of this webinar is an overview of funding opportunities that target early career investigators and some of the unique criteria utilized in these funding opportunities. The target audience for this webinar includes, but is not restricted to, pre-doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, independent investigators (scientists and physician scientists) within 10 years of their terminal degree, and other investigators at comparable levels in their careers.

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All CDMRP funding opportunities, both recently and previously released, are available on the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

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Dear Colleagues:

We wanted to share this exciting opportunity with you. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just launched the second part of the NSF Career Compass Challenge! Five winning concepts from Part 1 of the challenge, that can be seen here, aim to help the NSF workforce, and beyond, plot a path for changing careers or identify how to move forward in their current career path, while also facilitating continuous reskilling. For part 2 of the challenge, NSF is looking for participants to build a working prototype based off these concepts. The winning prototype will receive a one-time prize of $75,000.

NSF is looking to spark the thinking of the best and brightest to co-create a tool that can be tested on a small scale, for NSF, but is intended to be useful to a broad range of employers in both the public and private sectors. Please join this exciting opportunity for the general public, research communities, private sector and other interested stakeholders to assist with building a solution that will invest in the future of the U.S. workforce!

Think you might be interested in participating in Part 2? NSF will host a webinar on April 26 to share more about participation in Part 2 of the challenge. Stay tuned to the NSF Career Compass Challenge page here for details on how to attend.

Questions? For questions about the challenge, please send email to CareerCompassChallenge@nsf.gov.

Best Regards,

NSF ERA Forum Team

National Science Foundation

nsferaforum@nsf.gov

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