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Internal Funding Announcements

Deadline	Title/Emphasis	Sponsor	Amount/Eligibility
2/23/2012	NU Foundation Grant Program Funding targeted to global engagement projects and equipment	NU Foundation Past Recipients	Planning grants limit $30,000 Budget Form
3/1/2012	Women Investing in Nebraska Community Needs Grant	University of Nebraska Foundation	$65,000/year
1/15/2012	Core Facility User Grant Program Funding for Core Facility services. Full Program Announcement Contact Paula Turpen or Ken Bayles for further information.	UNMC Office of Research	$5,000 for use in UNMC Core Facilities. UNMC Faculty with scored but unfunded proposals
1/20/12	University-Industry R&D Partnership Program link to RFP. Projects that sponsor economic growth of state industries.	Nebraska EPSCoR	varies, cost sharing is required NU System Faculty partnered with an Industry Sponsor
1/9/12	The Trans-Disciplinary Research Cluster Award Basic Science multi-institutional project awards Full Program Announcement	Nebraska EPSCoR	$500,000-$600,000 Letter of Intent Required. Contact Ken Bayles or Paula Turpen for further information.
Annually (April)	Clinical/Translational Research Mentored Scholar Program How do I become a Mentored Scholar?	CTR-MSP Pilot Research Fund	up to $25,000 Graduate Students
rolling	Research Support Fund Program Description Waives hospital-based costs of clinical & translational research.	Center for Clinical & Translation Research	varies UNMC Faculty Members (submissions by 3rd Tuesday month)
Annually (April)	Best New Invention Notification Program Description	UNeMED	$10,000 Fully Completed NIN
Annually (March)	University of Nebraska Foundation Grant Program	University of Nebraska Foundation	varies NU System Faculty
Annually (January)	Nebraska Banker's Association Grant Program Instructions and Application Form infrastructure (equipment) support	Nebraska Banker's Association	$5,000-$15,000 equipment requests

Competitive Distribution of NRI One-Time Equipment Funding

Proposals for equipment with a value greater than $500,000 that enhance the equipment of existing core facilities and enhance research capabilities or infrastructure. . Proposals involving multiple related items of equipment for a single core are eligible. Support for service contracts should not be included, however core operational support may be requested from a subsequent, planned RFP. Letters of support are discouraged. UNMC internal deadline noon, May 9. Awards to be announced in June.

Fourteen proposals were submitted. The following 8 (totaling $5 million ) were forwarded to central administration for further consideration. Abstracts are linked to the titles.

Acquisition of AFM/Raman Instrument for Nanoimaging Core Facility

Advancing Nebraska Research through Mass Spectrometry

Expanding the NRI funded HTS facility to conduct screens and identify small molecule inhibitors against disease relevant molecular targets

Flow Cytometer to Increase Core Laboratory Capabilities.

Laser Capture microdissection: Tissue-based translational research

Nano-Pro Platform for Nano-Scale cellular proteomics analysis

Upgrade of 7 Telsa MRI Research System

Upgrade of Illumina GAIIx Next Generation DNA Sequencing Instrument to an Illumina HiSeq 2000

University of Nebraska Foundation Grant Program Now OPEN; (Deadline February 23, 2012)
The guidelines and procedures established by the University of Nebraska Foundation Grants Committee for the awarding of grants provide for the president to select a common theme or focus for funding each year. RFA and Budget Page for 2012 NU Foundation Grant ProgramFor additional information contact Paula Turpen, pbturpen@unmc.edu; Director of Research Resouces
Prior Award Recipients

Nebraska Banker's Association Grant Program Now OPEN;(Deadline January 11, 2012)
Applications should be targeted toward the purchase of equipment. Historically UNMC receives $30,000 annually for this program. For additional information contact Paula Turpen, pbturpen@unmc.edu
Prior Award Recipients

External Funding Opportunities

NASA Mini-Grant Program The Research Mini-Grant program provides small aerospace-related research grants to Nebraska researchers interested in further developing ties with NASA scientists and conducting research important to NASA. There are two goals of the mini-grant program: 1) To elevate the aerospace-related research being conducted in Nebraska for future infrastructure building and workforce development opportunities; and 2) To result in future proposals to NASA and/or other federal, state, or private organizations for funding. More information can be found at http://ne.spacegrant.org/index.php?page=research-mini-grants Additional Information NASA Mini-grant Flyer.

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