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Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)

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As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) J9, Research and Development Directorate, manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The managing agent for the Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

All applications for PRMRP funding must specifically address at least one of the Topic Areas as directed by Congress and must be directly relevant to the healthcare needs of military Service members, Veterans, and/or beneficiaries.  If the proposed research does not specifically address at least one of the FY18 PRMRP Topic Areas, the Government will administratively withdraw the application.  The Government reserves the right to reassign the application’s Topic Area if submitted under an inappropriate Topic Area.  The FY18 PRMRP Topic Areas are listed below.

  • Acute Lung Injury
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Arthritis
  • Burn Pit Exposure
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Cerebellar Ataxia
  • Chronic Migraine and Post-Traumatic Headache
  • Chronic Pain Management
  • Congenital Heart Disease
  • Constrictive Bronchiolitis
  • Diabetes
  • Dystonia
  • Eating Disorders
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Endometriosis
  • Epidermolysis Bullosa
  • Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
  • Fragile X
  • Frontotemporal Degeneration
  • Guillain-Barré Syndrome
  • Hepatitis B and C
  • Hereditary Angioedema
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Immunomonitoring of Intestinal Transplants
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Interstitial Cystitis
  • Lung Injury
  • Malaria
  • Metals Toxicology
  • Mitochondrial Disease
  • Musculoskeletal Disorders
  • Myotonic Dystrophy
  • Non-Opioid Pain Management
  • Nutrition Optimization
  • Pancreatitis
  • Pathogen-Inactivated Blood Products
  • Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
  • Pressure Ulcers
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Respiratory Health
  • Rett Syndrome
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Scleroderma
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  • Sustained-Release Drug Delivery
  • Tinnitus
  • Tissue Regeneration
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vaccine Development for Infectious Diseases
  • Vascular Malformations
  • Women’s Heart Disease

The mission of the PRMRP is to encourage, identify, and select military health-related research of exceptional scientific merit. Relevance to the healthcare needs of military Service members, Veterans, and their family members is a key feature of each FY18 PRMRP award mechanism.

http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prmrp

Discovery Award – Letter of Intent due June 14, 2018

  • Postdoctoral fellow or clinical fellow (or equivalent) and above.
  • Supports the exploration of a highly innovative new concept or untested theory in the Topic Area(s) of interest.
  • Not intended to support the logical progression of an already established line of questioning.
  • Clinical trials will not be funded.
  • Reviewers will be blinded to the identity of the Principal Investigator (PI), collaborator(s), and their organization(s).
  • Maximum of $200,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs)
  • Maximum period of performance is 18 months

Focused Program Award – Preproposal due June 19, 2018

  • Lead PI: Full Professor level or above (or equivalent)
  • Project leads: Assistant Professor level or above (or equivalent)
  • Preproposal submission is required; application submission is by invitation only.
  • Supports a synergistic, multidisciplinary research program of at least four distinct but complementary projects addressing an overarching goal in the Topic Area(s) of interest.
  • Projects should work together to answer critical questions, resolve differing hypotheses, and translate laboratory findings to clinical applications.
  • Projects may range from exploratory/hypothesis-developing through small-scale clinical trials that together will address the overarching goal/question.
  • Research team of highly qualified, multidisciplinary project leaders should be led by a PI with demonstrated success in directing large, focused projects.
  • Maximum of $10 million for total costs (includes direct and indirect costs)
  • Maximum period of performance is 4 years

Investigator-Initiated Research Award – Preproposal due June 12, 2018

  • Assistant Professor level or above (or equivalent)
  • Preproposal submission is required; application submission is by invitation only.
  • Supports research that will make an original and important contribution to the field of research or patient care in the topic area(s) of interest.
  • Partnering PI Option available.
  • Clinical trials will not be funded.
  • Maximum of $1.2 million for direct costs (plus indirect costs)
  • Maximum of $1.5 million for direct costs (plus indirect costs) for applications including a Partnering PI Option
  • Maximum period of performance is 3 years

Technology/ Therapeutic Development Award – Preproposal due June 12, 2018 

  • Assistant Professor level or above (or equivalent)
  • Supports the translation of promising preclinical findings into clinical applications for prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, or quality of life in the Topic Area(s) of interest.
  • Product-oriented (e.g., device, drug, clinical guidelines). The product(s) to be developed may be a tangible item such as a pharmacologic agent (drugs or biologics) or device, or a knowledge-based product.
  • Clinical trials will not be funded.
  • Preproposal submission is required; application submission is by invitation only.
  • Maximum of $3.0 million for direct costs (plus indirect costs)
  • Maximum period of performance is 3 years

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions that are available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website. The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov. A listing of all CDMRP funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.

Applications must be submitted through the federal government’s single-entry portal, Grants.gov. For email notification when Program Announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under “Email Subscriptions” on the eBRAP homepage at https://eBRAP.org. For more information about the PRMRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org

I-Corps @ DoD Pilot Program

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The I-Corps @ DoD pilot program is an entrepreneurial education program that teaches DoD-funded researchers how to commercialize the results of their work. The program is a partnership between the Defense Department and the National Science Foundation and funded teams will attend the NSF program. Teams in the program must conduct 100 customer discovery interviews. Quite often, teams learn through interviews that their idea has unanticipated flaws, and the I-Corps instructors – who are usually experienced entrepreneurs themselves – help guide them in how they might change or pivot to more successful applications. At the end of the program, teams make a go/no-go decision on whether to move forward with the commercial idea based on the feedback they have received from the interviews as well as the instructors.

  • The I-Corps @ DoD course is a 7 week intensive course that requires a roughly 20 hour per week commitment from team members.
  • Grants are for $45,000 (plus indirect costs) for travel support to program events and interviews as well as follow on commercialization work.
  • PI must have prior 6.1 account basic research support within the last five years.
  • Teams are composed of 3-4 members
    • The PI is considered the Technical Lead for the proposal.
    • One or two Entrepreneurial leads, usually a graduate student of post-doc affiliated with the project.
    • The Industry Mentor will typically be an experienced entrepreneur in an area relevant to the technology being explored.
  • Up to 14 awards are anticipated for the FY18 solicitation.
  • Proposal deadline is July 6; awards will be made on a continuous basis as proposals are received.

Contact: For more information on the program please reach out to Jason Day or Jim Harvey before June 9 at jason.o.day.ctr@mail.mil or James.f.harvey.civ@mail.mil

Solicitation: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=W911NF-18-S-0004

Ray C. Anderson Foundation – Funding Opportunity to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

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The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is a private family foundation committed to advancing the legacy of its namesake by supporting environmental sustainability initiatives. Ray’s five grandchildren, along with their spouses, comprise the NextGen Committee of the Foundation, which makes recommendations to the board of trustees for worthwhile grants and initiatives. In 2018, the NextGen Committee has decided to focus its philanthropic efforts on programs that help reverse global warming.

To advance this mission, the NextGen program has issued a Request for Proposals for a single grant of $90,000 to fund work in the 2019 calendar year by an existing or new program that will measurably reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as measured by metric tons (or “tonnes”) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), either by preventing the emission of those gases or by sequestering gases presently in the atmosphere.

To be eligible, applicants must be considered tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.

Those interested in applying for the grant should visit the grant web page to review the proposal guidelines and submit their proposal.

Application Deadline:  July 11, 2018

For more information, please visit www.raycandersonfoundation.org

Ohio Supercomputer Center Big Data & New User Training Events

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Two-Day Big Data Webcast Workshop

We wanted to notify you of a training opportunity from the HPC community:

On May 1st and 2nd from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., OSC is hosting a two-day Big Data Workshop from XSEDE and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The workshop will focus on Hadoop and Spark and cover Deep Learning with Tensorflow.

This is an in-person webcast, hosted by OSC located on Ohio State’s west campus. You can see the full workshop agenda and register here.

Introduction to Research Computing at OSC

We will hold an introduction to research computing services for new users on May 24, 2018 at 1 p.m. on Ohio State University’s main campus in Research Commons, 18th Ave Library, 3rd floor. New and prospective users of our systems will get an overview of research computing at OSC, try out our web portal, OnDemand, and ask any questions about their work. 

You can see more details and register here.

Big Data at OSC Workshop

We are pleased to announce our own Big Data workshop will be June 6, 2018 at 1 p.m. at OSC on the west campus of Ohio State University. This workshop will begin with an introduction to Big Data. Data analytics capabilities at OSC will be discussed. The workshop focuses on running Hadoop and Spark jobs using OSC resources. Attendees will have an opportunity to run some hands-on exercises using these software packages on the OSC clusters. 

Information and registration can be accessed from our events calendar. 

OSC Office Hours will continue through the summer!

If you have specific questions about your work at OSC or need help getting started, you can talk to an OSC representative in person.

Our office hours are every other Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Research Commons, third floor of the 18th Avenue Library on Ohio State’s main campus. Please sign up for these sessions here: go.osu.edu/rc-osc. If you would like a virtual session, please include that in the session notes.

If you are not available during these times, please contact us at OSC Help to schedule an alternate arrangement.

To stay up to date on system notices, please visit www.osc.edu/events or follow @HPCNotices on Twitter. As always, you can contact us at OSC Help.

Thank you,

Brian Guilfoos

HPC Client Services Manager
(614) 292-2846  |  guilfoos@osc.edu
OSC Help Desk: (614) 292-1800  |  (800) 686-6472  |  oschelp@osc.edu

Limited Submission Opportunity – Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM)

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Internal Limited Submission Deadline to the Office of Research Administration: Monday, January 1, 2019 at 5pm.

NSF Deadline: February 22, 2019

Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports. CCE STEM solicits proposals for research that explores the following: ‘What constitutes responsible conduct for research (RCR), and which cultural and institutional contexts promote ethical STEM research and practice and why?’  Factors one might consider include:  honor codes,  professional ethics codes and licensing requirements, an ethic of service and/or service learning, life-long learning requirements,  curricula or memberships in organizations (e.g. Engineers without Borders) that stress responsible conduct for research,  institutions that  serve  under-represented groups,  institutions where academic and research integrity are cultivated at multiple levels,  institutions that cultivate ethics across the curriculum, or programs that promote group work, or do not grade.  Do certain labs have a ‘culture of academic integrity’? What practices contribute to the establishment and maintenance of ethical cultures and how can these practices be transferred, extended to, and integrated into other research and learning settings?

Successful proposals typically have a comparative dimension, either between or within institutional settings that differ along these or among other factors, and they specify plans for developing interventions that promote the effectiveness of identified factors.

CCE STEM research projects will use basic research to produce knowledge about what constitutes or promotes responsible or irresponsible conduct of research, and how to best instill students with this knowledge. In some cases, projects will include the development of interventions to ensure responsible research conduct.

Proposals for awards from minority-serving institutions (e.g. Tribal Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions), women’s colleges, and institutions primarily serving persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged. Proposals including international collaborations are encouraged when those efforts enhance the merit of the proposed work by incorporating unique resources, expertise, facilities or sites of international partners. The U.S. team’s international counterparts generally should have support or obtain funding through other sources.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

Only one proposal may be submitted by an eligible organization.

For full program details visit NSF’s CCE STEM webpage or the solicitation 18-532.

For details regarding The University of Akron’s limited submission process, visit the ORA Limited Submission webpage.