November 21, 2025

Researcher's Alert December 1, 2025

Office of the Vice President for Research Affairs


Announcements

Researcher's Town Hall: New AI Tools and Online Appointments

Dear Researchers,

We invite you to join Research Affairs for a virtual Researcher's Town Hall on Friday, December 5, 2025 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. In this session, we will introduce new tools and services designed to support your research. 

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Zoom Meeting Details

https://llu.zoom.us/j/99669982831?pwd=VRVmd6Tfp7G7DYebu6O3s93lRZvQOq.1&from=addon

Meeting ID: 996 6998 2831
 Passcode: 120687

To receive the calendar invitation, please contact Sunny Han at sunnyhan@llu.edu.
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During the Researcher's Town Hall, we will cover the following:

AI Agents for Researchers
We will introduce Microsoft Copilot powered AI Agents that support you in strengthening grant proposals and identifying funding opportunities that match your research goals, including:

  • Funding Finder: Analyzes your project aims or existing proposal to identify active and relevant funding calls.

  • Grant Application Reviewer: Serves as a critical reader, helping you refine your application and strengthen it before submission.

Online Appointments with Research Affairs Personnel
Researchers can now conveniently schedule time with Pre Award, Post Award, IRB, Clinical Trial Center, Contracts and Patents, and Research Safety teams for individualized support.

Please share the flyer with colleagues and fellow researchers: Research Affairs Town Hall_Dec 5.png. Your support helps ensure our research community stays informed and connected. We look forward to seeing you!

 

Funding Opportunities 

If you're considering applying for grants, whether it's research, community-focused, technology-related, or something else, below you will find Funding Opportunity information to help guide you.

 

Mary Kay Ash Foundation

Innovative/Translational Cancer Research Grant- For innovative cancer research, focused on cancers affecting women, including but not limited to breast, cervical, endometrial, ovarian, uterine, and other cancers that affect women.

 

NIH

 Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) PA-25-422-To enable promising Predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields.


Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers (P20 Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-25-439-The purpose of this initiative is to support the development of innovative research centers to foster nursing-led programs that promote community-partnered research to address persistent health challenges.


Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PAR-25-322 provide a new pathway for Early Stage Investigators who wish to propose research projects in a new direction for which preliminary data do not exist. For this funding opportunity, applications including preliminary data will be considered noncompliant with the NOFO and will be withdrawn.

 

NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-AG-26-010- To support educational activities that compliment and/or enhance training opportunities to ensure a workforce that is well prepared to meet the nation’s biomedical. Behavioral and clinical research needs.

For more NIH funding, click on the following link:https://grants.nih.gov/funding/nih-guide-for-grants-and-contracts

 

American Heart Association

Innovative Project Award- Supports highly innovative, impactful research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research.

 

CA Health and Human Services Agency

Doctoral Student Representative Precision Medicine Research-Aims to support doctoral student representative research within California that uses a precision medicine framework, includes underrepresented populations, who have been underrecognized or excluded as research participants, and reduces health disparities.

 

Alkermes Pathways

Research Awards-Opened to early-career investigators committed to advancing research in schizophrenia and bipolar 1 disorder, including sleep and circadian disturbances.

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