Category Archives: Health/Biomedical Research

New NSF Opportunities

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New NSF funding opportunities in social, behavioral, economic and biological sciences.

  1. Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR) NSF 18-517
    1. Due 2/28/18
    2. Program webpage – RIDIR
    3. Synopsis: As part of NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to develop user-friendly large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research in SBE areas of study. Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases and/or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.
  2. SOCIOLOGY PROGRAM – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Soc-DDRI) NSF 14-604
    1. Due 2/28/18
    2. Program webpage – Soc-DDRI
    3. Synopsis: 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. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed…
  3. Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2018 NSF 18-512
    1. Due 2/28/18
    2. Program webpage – Dimensions of Biodiversity
    3. Synopsis: Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet’s biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss of biodiversity across the globe. The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth.  This campaign promotes novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth. It takes a broad view of biodiversity, and focuses on the intersection of genetic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals must integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions and feedbacks among them. While this focus complements several core programs in BIO, it differs by requiring that multiple dimensions of biodiversity be addressed simultaneously, in novel ways, to understand their synergistic roles in critical ecological and evolutionary processes, especially pertaining to the mechanisms driving the origin, maintenance, and functional roles of biodiversity.

Funding Opportunity – Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): Addressing Disparities

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We would like to inform you that the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will be updating the Addressing Disparities Priority Area Research Areas of Interest, within the Broad PCORI Funding Announcement for Cycle 1 2018, with a focus on the following topics:

  • Diagnosis, Initiation of Treatment, and Retention of African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos along the HIV Care Continuum
  • Interventions to Reduce Disparities in Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Insomnia
  • Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Delivery for American Indian/Alaska Native Populations with Opioid Misuse Disorders

The goal of these areas of interest is to support patient-centered clinical effectiveness research (CER) that addresses important questions regarding strategies to improve health and healthcare outcomes for vulnerable populations at risk for experiencing disparities.

Please note that for this Cycle 1 2018 funding announcement, we now have two options for direct costs and maximum project periods. Applicants may submit Letters of Intent for either awards of up to $2 million in direct costs over a maximum period of three years or awards up to $5 million in direct costs over a maximum period of four years.

PCORI’s mission is to improve the quality and relevance of evidence available to help patients, caregivers, clinicians, employers, insurers, and policy makers make informed health decisions. We invite you to review this pre-announcement, available on our website, and share this information with others who may be interested. We also invite you to register for the Town Hall on February 1, 2018. The funding announcement will be released on January 16, 2018. 

New Funding Source for NIH Applicants

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“Last year, U.S. researchers received about 42,500 pieces of bad news from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Their grant proposal had been rejected; they wouldn’t be receiving a piece of the agency’s roughly $30 billion federal funding pie. For many, the next step is to cast around for slices of smaller pies—grants from nonprofit disease foundations or investments from private companies that might keep their projects alive.

Now, a new program aims to play matchmaker between these researchers and second-chance funders. The Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR), a collaboration between NIH and the defense, engineering, and health contractor Leidos, lets researchers upload rejected NIH proposals to an online portal where potential funders can review the scores received from reviewers, and decide whether to put up cash.”

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