September 11, 2015

New Funding Opportunities

Cindy Dickson

Here are new funding opportunities that may be of interest to our research community.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting applications that address specific challenges defined in the grant programs below. For details and application instructions, please visit the new Grand Challenges website. Please note that descriptions of the challenges will soon be available on the website in Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

1) Grand Challenges Explorations is seeking innovative global health and development solutions and is now accepting proposals for its latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies. Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.

Proposals are being accepted online until November 11, 2015 for the following challenges: 

2) New Interventions for Global Health: Vaccine Manufacturing. This challenge focuses on innovations in vaccine manufacturing platforms designed to lower production cost for vaccines that target diseases of great global burden and that are among the most costly to produce with current technologies.

Letters of Intent will be accepted until November 5, 2015.

3) In addition, the African Academy of Sciences and the New Partnership for African Development have launched Grand Challenges Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. This program joins others within the Grand Challenges family of grant programs supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners. Grand Challenges Africa will build on the global success of Grand Challenges programs in India, Brazil, and South Africa, as well as the strong base of Africa Grand Challenges grantees already funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and USAID.

For additional information:
www.grandchallenges.org

 

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces 2016 Clinical Scientist Development Award Competition

Pre-proposals are being sought from junior physician-scientist faculty conducting clinical research in any disease area. It is recommended that applicants have significant research experience and strong publication records consistent with the rank of assistant professor. 

The Clinical Scientist Development Award does not require institutional nomination. 
This competition employs a two-stage process.

 

Pre-proposals will be reviewed and up to 50 applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal. 


In keeping with the wishes expressed in Doris Duke's will, experiments that use animals or primary tissues derived from animals will not be supported by this program.

For complete details, visit the (right click-open hyperlink)
Clinical Scientist Development Award web page.

Application Deadlines

Pre-Proposals Due:                              October 30, 2015
Invitation to Submit Full Proposal:    December 22, 2015
Full Proposals Due:                             February 23, 2016
Award Start Date:                             July 1, 2016

 

American Heart Association Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome Study (CVGPS)

New CVGPS funding opportunities will be announced soon!

The Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome Study (CVGPS) is a collaborative effort, spearheaded by the American Heart Association (AHA), to accelerate the future of cardiovascular medicine. CVGPS combines the power of long-term population studies with the precision of molecular analysis to unravel key distinctions between and within subgroups of patients. The discoveries it generates will point the way toward better-targeted, safer, and more effective treatments, based on a deeper understanding of patients’ characteristics, including e.g. risk profiles and therapeutic needs.

For more information:

http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/CardiovascularGenomePhenomeStudyCVGPS/AHA-Cardiovascular-Genome-Phenome-Study-CVGPS_UCM_461668_SubHomePage.jsp


Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)

All pre-applications must be submitted electronically to the Electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) https://ebrap.org. Full applications must be submitted electronically to the Grants.gov website http://grants.gov.

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Autism Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Breast Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) Defense Medical Research and Development Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Epilepsy Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Gulf War Illness Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Lung Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Military Burn Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Multiple Sclerosis Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Alzheimer's Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Prostate Cancer Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Reconstructive Transplant Research Program

Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Spinal Cord Injury Research Program

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