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Health/Biomedical Research

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High Priority Immunology Grants

Deadline: February 5, 2016

The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to augment the maintenance and growth of the NIAID portfolio of investigator-initiated R01 grants in fundamental immunology. It seeks to address a decline in NIAID immunology R01 applications and awards that has occurred in the past several fiscal years. Basic immunology and basic immune mechanisms involved in host defense and immune-mediated diseases are of high programmatic interest in this FOA.

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Neurobiology of Migraine

Deadline: February 5, 2016

National Institutes of Health (NIH) participating Institutes and Centers invite applications from institutions/organizations to perform innovative research that will elucidate the mechanisms underlying migraine, expand our current knowledge of the role of genetic, physiological, biopsychosocial, and environmental influences in migraine susceptibility and progression, and explore new therapeutic targets and therapies for acute migraine management and longer term prevention. This program will use the NIH Research Project (R01) award mechanism.

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Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Consor

Deadline: February 10, 2016

NIAAA seeks integrated, multidisciplinary, collaborative research projects studying neuronal mechanisms of excessive alcohol intake associated with alcohol dependence. One focus of the initiative will be to examine brain immune signaling mechanisms promoting and controlling excessive alcohol consumption. A second focus will be to examine enduring consequences of stress challenges on adaptations in brain circuitry leading to excessive drinking and to altered stress responsiveness.

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NINDS CREATE Bio Development Track: Preclinical and Early-phase Clinical Development for Biotechnology Products and Biologics

Deadline: February 11, 2016

The NINDS Cooperative Research to Enable and Advance Translational Enterprises for Biotechnology Products and Biologics (CREATE Bio) program is dedicated to biotechnology product- and biologics- based therapies, which broadly include modalities such as peptides, proteins, oligonucleotides, gene therapies, and cell therapies. The program includes two tracks: the Discovery Track supports lead optimization in order to obtain a candidate appropriate for entering the Development Track, and the Development Track supports IND-enabling studies for the candidate, as well as early-phase clinical trials.

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Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research

Deadline: February 12, 2016

The program objectives are: to stimulate innovative research relevant to the field of gastrointestinal microbiota in the United States; to impact academic and career development of young investigators in the United States and attract them into the field of probiotics and gastrointestinal microbiota; and to provide preliminary data for future funding from NIH and other funding sources.

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Foundation for Prader-Willi Research

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR) supports research to advance the understanding and treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).

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Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The influence of in vivo mechanical forces on cell and matrix biology in the histomorphogenesis, maintenance, regeneration, and aging of tissues is an important concern. In addition, the relationships between mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization are of interest. Funded projects may include theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches. The program encourages the consideration of diverse living tissues as smart materials that are self-designing.

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Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants

Deadline: February 16, 2016

NIH and it’s participating Institutes and Centers invite applications which establish the feasibility of technologies, techniques or methods that: 1) explore a new multidisciplinary approach to a biomedical challenge; 2) are high-risk but have high impact; and 3) develop data that may lead to significant future research. An EBRG application may propose hypothesis-driven, discovery-driven, developmental, or design-directed research and is appropriate for evaluating unproven approaches for which there is minimal or no preliminary data.

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Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Bioinformatics Center

Deadline: February 18, 2016

The overall goals of the Bioinformatics Center are to provide a database and associated tools for storage and integration of clinical physiological and metabolic data along with multiple types of chemical analysis data derived through metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, transcriptomics, or similar technologies.

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Health/Biomedical Research

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Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics, and Big Data Science

Deadline: January 5, 2016

ational Institutes of Health (NIH)and its participating Institutes and Centers invite Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) that propose development of a broad base of innovative technologies in biomedical computing, informatics, and Big Data Science that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. It is expected that this research and development is conducted in the context of important biomedical and behavioral research problems.

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Bioengineering Research Partnerships

Deadline: January 7, 2016

National Institutes of Health (NIH) participating Institutes and Centers invite bioengineering applications that will accelerate the development and adoption of promising tools and technologies that can address important biomedical research problems. The objectives are to establish these tools and technologies as robust, well-characterized solutions that fulfill an unmet need and are capable of enhancing our understanding of life science processes or the practice of medicine.

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Advancing Research in Voice Disorders

Deadline: January 7, 2016

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) invites applications that are focused on advancing our scientific knowledge of the Human Larynx and Human Voice Production in Health and Disease and optimal ways to prevent, evaluate, diagnose and clinically manage voice disorders.

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NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health

Deadline: January 22, 2016

National Library of Medicine (NLM) invites applications for Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health, which are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other scholarly works of value to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences.

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Engineering & Technology

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Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The purpose of this award is to recognize and honor a woman engineering educator who has an outstanding record in teaching engineering students, and reasonable performance histories of research and service within an engineering school.

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Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)

Deadline: January 19, 2016

DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. MGI recognizes the importance of materials science to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to “deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost.”

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Check out all the  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awards coming up in January 2016. Visit SPIN to view the awards and find out if you are eligible to nominate or be nominated! Just click on the link above and enter “ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” into the search bar. Then scroll through the pages of award opportunities.

Math & Science

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Division of Environmental Biology

Deadline: January 25, 2016

The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patterns and processes at all spatial and temporal scales. Areas of research include biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics, molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem structure, function and services, conservation biology, global change, and biogeochemical cycles.

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Petrology and Geochemistry

Deadline: January 11, 2016

The Petrology and Geochemistry Program supports basic research on the formation of planet Earth, including its accretion, early differentiation, and subsequent petrologic and geochemical modification via igneous and metamorphic processes. Proposals in this program generally address the petrology and high-temperature geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks (including mantle samples), mineral physics, economic geology, and volcanology.

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Focused Research Hubs in Theoretical Physics

Deadline: January 22, 2016

Focused Research Hubs in Theoretical Physics (FRHTP) are designed to enhance significant breakthroughs at an intellectual frontier of physics by providing resources beyond those available to individual investigators, so as to promote a collaborative approach to a focused topic while promoting the preparation of scientists at the beginning of their independent scientific careers.

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Social Sciences & Humanities

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Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context

Deadline: January 7, 2016

National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for innovative, hypothesis-driven R01 research grant applications that can expand understanding of the role and impact of families and interpersonal relationships on health and well-being in midlife and older age.

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Modeling Social Behavior

Deadline: January 7, 2016

NIH participating Centers and Institutes invite applications for developing and testing innovative theories and computational, mathematical, or engineering approaches to deepen our understanding of complex social behavior.

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Sociology

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes.

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Social Psychology

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The sponsor provides support for basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span. Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.

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Political Science

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.

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Developmental and Learning Sciences

Deadline: January 15, 2016

DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children’s and adolescents’ development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, social functioning, and productive lives as members of society.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) of the American Psychological Association (APA) has created the Postdoctoral MHSAS fellowship to support the specialized training of early career doctoral recipients who have primary interests in services or policy related to the behavioral health or psychological well-being of ethnic minorities.

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The Midlife in the United States Study

Deadline: January 25, 2016

National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for the next 5-year cycle of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Study, a National Longitudinal Study of Health and Well-being. The goals of this next phase are to complete the third wave of longitudinal data collection and enhance content in the area of daily stress; complete the second wave of data collection of clinical biomarkers and affective neuroscience assessments; continue innovative sub-studies such as how psychosocial influences affect gene expression and novel methods to track and reinstate non-responders; connect these content areas through innovative analyses to data on health, functioning, personality, cognitive status, affective functioning, economic well-being, social relationships, and well-being; and maintain and enhance data distribution and user support.

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