National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship 2020 Solicitation Webinar

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This webinar will provide information about the National Institute of Justice’s Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program to potential applicants.

Previously, NIJ offered two separate funding opportunities: GRF-Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) and GRF-STEM. Beginning this year, NIJ invites applications from Ph.D. students in ALL science and engineering fields under a single solicitation.

The presenters will discuss eligibility, application requirements, and answer frequently asked questions. A live Q&A session will conclude the webinar.

The webinar will occur on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 from 1:00-2:00 pm EST.

Learn more about the GRF program and download the solicitation PDF.

You can register for the webinar here.

NineSigma – Transforming the Future of Self-Care Challenge

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare is on a mission to “Transform the Future of Self-Care” to enable consumers to do more, feel better and live longer.  We are actively seeking to establish strategic partnerships with start-ups and entrepreneurs who are equally passionate about delivering against this mission.  The way consumers treat, diagnose and engage with their health is dramatically shifting and we want to partner with breakthrough thinkers so that we can jointly improve lives. 

To drive this mission to enhance our current key, over-the-counter and consumer product brands, we are currently seeking new opportunities in the following three Challenge Topics:  Digital Health, At-Home Diagnostics, and Formulation Technologies.

Click links below to view detailed descriptions about each topic:

There is a maximum of US$50,000 available for cash prizes.  The Competition will award up to five (5) US$10,000 prizes to the winners across the three Topics.  The Challenge sponsor may also explore funding or other support of an Entry for further development and/or commercialization.

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2020 by 5:00 PM EST

Additional information can be found on the NineSigma web page.

Army Research Lab – Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) Funding Opportunity

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Key Dates:

  • Opportunity Webinar – January 24, 2020
  • Deadline for Questions on Funding Opportunity – January 31, 2020
  • Proposals due for Cycle 1 – February 14, 2020

Program Description

Future Army forces will need to conduct cross-domain maneuver (CDM) and at times, operate semi-independently, disbursed, and while communications and infrastructure such as Global Positioning System (GPS) are disrupted or denied. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) will play a key role in expanding the operational reach, situational awareness, and effectiveness of maneuver forces in CDM. The Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is focused on developing fundamental understanding and informing the art-of-the-possible for warfighter concepts through research to greatly improve air and ground based autonomous vehicle perception, learning, reasoning, communication, navigation, and physical capabilities to augment and increase the freedom of maneuver in complex and contested environments. The Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) program is focused on developing and experimentally accelerating emerging research in autonomous mobility and maneuverability, scalable heterogeneous and collaborative behaviors, and human agent teaming to realize adaptive and resilient Intelligent Systems that can reason about the environment, work in distributed and collaborative heterogeneous teams, and make optempo decisions to enable Autonomous Maneuver in complex and contested environments. In order to achieve this vision, advancements are needed in following:

  • Novel methods for all-terrain ground and aerial maneuver to interact with and move through complex environments.
  • Methods for scalable and heterogeneous collaborative behaviors in support of collaborative air and ground manned-unmanned teaming operations.
  • Techniques for improved perception, decision-making, and adaptive behaviors for fully autonomous maneuver in contested environments.
  • Methods, metrics, and tools to facilitate, simulate, and enable testing and evaluation of emerging approaches for intelligent and autonomous systems under Army relevant constraints and environments.
  • Experimental testbeds to develop and refine knowledge products to inform and transition technology to Army stakeholders.

Additional information, including the solicitation, can be found on the SARA webpage or on grants.gov.

Ohio Occupational Safety and Health Research Program

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Proposal Deadline: February 28, 2020

Overview of Program

The Ohio Occupational Safety and Health Research Program, hereafter the “Program,” is administered by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). It is a competitive research program with an emphasis on maximizing the impact of research efforts in the areas of occupational safety and health on the overall safety, health, productivity, and competitiveness of Ohio’s workforce. BWC has modeled the program, with minor modifications, after the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). The program provides funding for research projects up to $250,000 per project. The duration of each research project is limited to 12 to 24 months. The program is an open competition for researchers in Ohio’s not-for-profit higher education institutions and research organizations.

Priority research focus areas include:

  • Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders
  • Prevention of injuries/illnesses/fatalities
  • Use of technological interventions to improve occupational safety and health
  • Reduction of injury rates and duration of disability using health and wellness program interventions
  • Integration of workers’ health and wellness into occupational safety and health programs
  • Prevention of suicide and assisting the mental health of workers
  • Prevention of long-term disability among injured workers after their injury
  • Prevention of injuries related to lack of awareness or impairment due to prescription medication, drugs of abuse, or other causes
  • Prevention of opioid abuse among injured workers and/or at-risk populations in the workforce

While the above list represents the program priorities, other types of proposals addressing occupational safety and health, reducing accidents and injuries, and disability prevention among injured workers will be accepted for review and evaluation.

Additional information can be found the OH Bureau of Worker’s Compensation.

Department of Defense United States Army Medical Research Materiel Command Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs CDMRP – Research Funding for 2020

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The Fiscal Year 2020 Department of Defense Appropriations Act provides research funding for the following peer reviewed programs managed by the Department of Defense office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP):

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program
  • Autism Research Program
  • Bone Marrow Failure Research Program
  • Breast Cancer Research Program
  • Chronic Pain Management Research Program
  • Combat Readiness Medical Research Program
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program
  • Epilepsy Research Program
  • Gulf War Illness Research Program
  • Hearing Restoration Research Program
  • Kidney Cancer Research Program
  • Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program
  • Lung Cancer Research Program
  • Lupus Research Program
  • Melanoma Research Program
  • Military Burn Research Program
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Program
  • Neurofibromatosis Research Program
  • Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program
  • Ovarian Cancer Research Program
  • Pancreatic Cancer Research Program
  • Parkinson’s Research Program
  • Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program
  • Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (14 Topics)
  • Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (44 Topics)
  • Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program
  • Prostate Cancer Research Program
  • Rare Cancers Research Program
  • Reconstructive Transplant Research Program
  • Scleroderma Research Program
  • Spinal Cord Injury Research Program
  • Tick-Borne Disease Research Program
  • Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program
  • Vision Research Program

Pre-announcements and comprehensive Program Announcements will be forthcoming. The pre-announcements will provide a general overview of the anticipated funding mechanisms. The Program Announcements will include detailed descriptions of funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, submission requirements, and deadlines. Each Program Announcement may be downloaded from the Grants.gov website http://www.grants.gov, or the CDMRP website https://cdmrp.army.mil upon its release.

For email notification when pre-announcements and 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 CDMRP, our research programs, previous awardees, as well as research highlights and videos, please visit the website at https://cdmrp.army.mil.