Application Deadline: 5:00 PM on Friday, February 15, 2019

Program Summary 

The SIDS Research Fund, which awards grants for the benefit and support of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) or related research, is now open for applications.

Eligibility

All UNMC faculty members are eligible to apply.

Award

Up to $25,000 for a one-year period (April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020)

• Indirect costs are unallowable
• Faculty salary is not allowed

The SIDS Research Fund will grant one or two awards. 

Application Submission Requirements

The proposal must be submitted in accordance with NIH application standards.  Applications should include:

• Face Page – does not need to be signed (PHS 398 Form Page 1, 01/2018 revision)

• Research Plan (PHS 398 Continuation Format Page, 01/2018 revision)
  • Limited to five pages
  • Specific Aim(s)
  • Rationale
  • Brief Experimental Design
  • References (not included in the five-page limit)
  • Preliminary data is not required and appendices will not be accepted
• Biosketch for Key Personnel (NIH Biographical Sketch Format Page, 09/2017 revision)
  • More information on the current NIH biosketch format can be found here.
• Budget (PHS 398 Form Page 4, 01/2018 revision)

• Budget Justification (PHS 398 Continuation Format Page, 01/2018 revision)

Applications may be submitted to SPAdmin in one of two formats: 1) PDF emailed to spadmin@unmc.edu or 2) one original (unstapled) hard copy.

Timeline

Friday, February 15, 2019 ……………. Applications due to SPAdmin no later than 5pm

Monday, April 1, 2019 ……………….. Awards announced by Review Committee

For more information:

• SIDS Research Fund 2019 Program Guidelines
• Scientific questions: please contact Dr. Chris Kratochvil at 402-559-8490 or ckratoch@unmc.edu
• Administrative questions: please contact Laura Wise at 402-559-2051 or wise@unmc.edu

The Great Plains IDeA-CTR is soliciting applications from clinical and translational researchers for vouchers to be used to access core facilities and/or fee-for-service resources to augment their current research, or to prepare pilot data for research applications. Applications for vouchers will require an abstract of the proposed project, information on the relevance of the request to the project, and a detailed budget. Awards are anticipated to range between $4,000 and $10,000 per application. A total of approximately $20,000 will be granted to investigators for this fiscal year which ends on June 30, 2019.

Deadlines

Due February 4, 2019; Review: February 5, 2019

Due March 4, 2019; Review: March 5, 2019

Due April 1, 2019; Review: April 2, 2019

Due May 6, 2018; Review: May 7, 2019

Eligibility

Full-time faculty members from UNMC, UNL, UNK, UNO, Boys Town National Research Hospital, University of South Dakota, University of North Dakota or North Dakota State University may apply. The funds cannot be used to replace costs included in existing grants, and proposals must indicate how the results will be used to support new grant applications. The application form is attached. All applications must also be signed by the core director/service provider to indicate that the protocol has been reviewed and/or usage is feasible. Applicants are also required to submit a current NIH biosketch, a description of the relevance of the project to clinical and translational research and a description of the project that includes methods, measures and outcomes (maximum 2 pages). As part of the outcome, information on sustainability of the research (e.g. support of grant submissions, please indicate type and agency) is expected.

All funds must be expended by June 30, 2019.

Post Award Reporting: The PI will be required to submit a brief impact report by June 30, 2019, to include information on core facility use and grants/publications submitted, and general impact of the project on the PI’s research. These grants/publications must acknowledge support from the Great Plains IDeA-CTR (unless the award letter indicates funding from an alternate source or the grant application/publication does not allow such acknowledgements). Campus research offices will be responsible for providing any requested financial data; core facilities will report use-data in conjunction with their normal reporting cycle.

To apply, please click the request form.

For additional information contact:

Pamela Laws 
402-559-4749 
email

Deadline:  5:00 PM, Friday, February 22, 2019

Program Summary

The Developmental Core program is designed to mentor and support new investigators and new ideas in
HIV/AIDS research related to effects of chronic HIV infection, co-morbidities, and aging on the central
nervous system (CNS) including sex differences and viral reservoirs. 

Research must fall into NIMH Division of AIDS Research high priority categories – we suggest applicants
review the NIMH DARS web site): 

• Expand approaches to integrate behavioral science with effective biomedical strategies for HIV prevention. 
• Advance the development and testing of interventions delivered beyond the individual level, by
  incorporating appropriate context into intervention development and testing. 
• Increase intervention potency and long-term maintenance of effects, with an emphasis on targeting high-risk vulnerable populations. 
• Develop strategies to increase HIV testing, ensure timely treatment initiation, and improve linkage to care. 
• Develop and test interventions to improve HIV treatment outcomes through optimal treatment adherence and sustained engagement in care. 
• Support implementation science and operations research to enhance dissemination strategies and public health impact of effective interventions. 
• Examine evolving pathophysiologic mechanisms of HIV-induced CNS dysfunction in the setting of long-term antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression, and develop novel therapeutic approaches to mitigate CNS complications of HIV infection. 
• Support the use of state-of-the-art (epi)genetic approaches to identify and validate viral and host genetic factors that influence the pathophysiology and manifestations of HIV-induced CNS dysfunction. 
• Define and characterize HIV persistence in the CNS in the context of suppressive highly active antiretroviral therapy, and foster translational research to enable eradication of HIV from the brain. 

Applications are accepted from junior investigators and from established investigators in other fields applying their expertise to HIV/AIDS. Post-doctoral scholar applications are encouraged; however, the submission must be as co-investigator with his/her mentor. Applicants must have faculty-level
appointments within the University of Nebraska Medical Center and/or current subcontracting institutions
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln or Scripps Research) included in the CHAIN award. Applications must
adhere to several criteria and will undergo a rigorous, objective review process. 

Developmental grant recipients gain rapid financial support for their studies and access to many CHAIN
Center core resources. The success of the Developmental Core, and continued National Institute of
Mental Health funding, depends on subsequent grants and publications arising from work supported by
the CHAIN Center Developmental Grants (Chronic HIV and Aging in NeuroAIDS (CHAIN) NIH P30 MH062261).

Deadline for Applications 

5:00 p.m., Central Time, Friday, February 22, 2019 

For complete instructions, guidelines, and links to forms visit: 
Chronic HIV and Aging In NeuroAIDS 2019 Request for Applications 

Contacts

Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.
email
402-559-3165 

Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D.
email
402-559-4821 

Susan Swindells, M.B.B.S.
email
402-559-8650

Deadline:  March 1, 2019

The Nebraska Center for Nanomedicine, a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) is soliciting applications for vouchers to be used to access core facilities supported by the Center.

The goals of this voucher program are to encourage and support usage of the various imaging modalities and nanomaterial characterization methods by investigators for projects to help acquire preliminary data for external grant applications that would use the core facilities and to promote utilization of imaging methods in their research by users who are new to the technology.

Supported Core Facilities

• Bioimaging (small animal MRI)
• Ultrasound/Photoacoustic Imaging
• Intravital Microscopy
• Nanomaterial Characterization

Description

Vouchers in amounts up to $5,000 per project will be made on a competitive basis. Funds must be billed by December 31st, 2019. These funds will not be allocated directly to the investigators’ laboratories but would instead be held in an account by the Core Facility to be expended as needed to subsidize usage fees for the Cores for the applicable projects.

Download the RFA for proposal requirements and eligibility.

Deadline for receipt of proposals:  March 1, 2019.  All apllications must be submitted as pdf files via email to Tammy Slachetka (email).  Earliest possible date vouchers would be available: March 15, 2019.

The Center for Neurosensory Systems, a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) is soliciting applications for vouchers to be used to access core facilities and stimulate new research directions.  Applications can request up to $5,000 to fund projects in one of the core facilities supported by the COBRE. Faculty members from UNMC, Creighton University, or Boys Town National Research Hospital may apply.

Eligible Core Facilities:

Genomics, including DNA and RNA Sequencing (UNMC)

Mouse Genome Engineering (UNMC)

Tissue Science Facility (UNMC)

Integrated Biomedical Imaging Facility (Creighton University)

Auditory Physiology (Creighton and Boys Town) Contact Dr. David He, davidhe@creighton.edu for ABR and DPOAE measurements on mice. Testing for Creighton researchers will be at Creighton, and testing for BTNRH and UNMC researchers will be at BTNRH.

The funds cannot be used to replace costs included in existing grants, and proposals must indicate how the results will be used to support new grant applications.  Download the application form here.  All applications must also be signed by the core director to indicate that the protocol has been reviewed.

Applications will be reviewed monthly, and can be received by the following dates:

• March 6, 2019
• April 3, 2019
• May 1, 2019
• June 5, 2019

Funds must be billed by August 31^st, 2019.

We anticipate funding 4-5 vouchers.

For additional information please contact:

Shelley D. Smith, Ph.D. 
402-559-5314 
shelley.smith@unmc.edu

Deadline:  February 25, 2019

Reducing health disparities is one of UNMC’s primary goals. Often health disparities are complex and require larger teams with a variety of skills to identify novel strategies to address them. This RFA has been developed to support new or expand existing teams for the development or study of innovative strategies for reducing health disparities.

AWARD DESCRIPTION: $50,000 for one year with potential renewal for an additional year.

ELIGIBILITY: Any UNMC faculty from any college; including faculty who have a signed employment agreement in place with a start date of November 1, 2018 or before.

Download the RFA instructions 

Required Forms:

• UNMC Internal Proposal Front Sheet
• Pilot Grant Budget
• PHS Inclusion Enrollment Report

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Applications must be submitted by 5:00 PM on February 25, 2019.  Applications submitted after the deadline will be returned to the applicant without review.

Applications must be submitted electronically as a single pdf file to Deborah Hawkins at Deb.hawkins@unmc.edu.

For additional information contact:  Paula Turpen, Director of Research Resources (402) 559-6162.

This grant program is aimed at encouraging new users to employ NU core facilities in their research. The program is open to all faculty from any of the NU campuses. Awards are intended to be used to gather new or additional data for strengthening a grant proposal (new or resubmission) or for addressing reviewer concerns associated with a peer-reviewed manuscript.

Eligibility: Any faculty member (Assistant, Associate or Full Professors and equivalent-rank researchers) employed by any University of Nebraska campus is eligible to submit funding applications if they (or students/staff within their research group) have not used a specific core facility (or new technology platform within a core) during the last two fiscal years (2016-2017, 2017-2018) and who require these services to generate data to support new/resubmitted grants or resubmitted/revised manuscripts. Existing core users that request the same technologies/services from other cores (for example, standard electron microscopy on a different campus) are not considered new users.

Application Process:  Applications must be submitted electronically via grants-awards.nebraska.edu. Download RFA information, including restrictions, reporting requirements, and detailed application instructions here.

Amount: The maximum request is $5,000 per core facility and a total of $9,000 per new user if more than one core facility is to be used. 

Deadline: Proposals will be reviewed quarterly during the first 3 quarters of the fiscal year (July/August, October/November, and January/February). Please allow 2 – 3 weeks for review and decision on the proposal. Note that funds must be used by June 30, 2019; no new award will be made after March 31, 2019. 

For more information about the campus cores on any campus or applications for this program, please contact your campus' research office.  (UNMC: Paula Turpen, email or 402-559-6162)

The Buffett Cancer Center is pleased to announce a new FPBCC bridge funding program intended to support the research of Cancer Center members who have received encouraging scores that fell below the funding threshold on recent cancer-focused grant applications. The purpose of this program is to support the efforts necessary to produce additional data for promising cancer research projects, in order to strengthen related proposal resubmissions to federal funding agencies. 

The Buffett Cancer Center is primarily seeking to support proposals submitted after February 2017 that fit within the following criteria:

• New (A0) applications that received priority scores outside of the granting agency's current pay line; or
• Grants that have been submitted for competitive renewal and received a competitive but non-fundable score within two years from the expiration of the current award.

Eligibility for bridge funding extends to all Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Members who are applying for or renewing individual investigator awards, multi-investigator awards, center grants, and program project grants from federal funding agencies and/or nationally peer-reviewed organizations. Funding priority will be given to those who submitted applications to the NCI, followed by those with cancer-focused proposals submitted to other NIH institutes or other federal agencies. 

To be considered for this opportunity, please review the request for applications available at: https://unmc.edu/cancercenter/research/research-funding-opp.html. Applications must be prepared in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the RFA and submitted as a single, complete PDF to both Matt Winfrey (winfreym@unmc.edu) and Kelly Jordan (kjordan@unmc.edu). Proposals requesting bridge funding will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Catalog of DoD Funding Opportunities

The Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR) was conceived to re-accelerate the biomedical research and development enterprise by seeking a larger return on NIH's peer review investment on research proposals evaluated in the top 30% in each NIH Institute and Center.  The goal of OnPAR is to match quality biomedical research projects with priority areas of interest of private foundations, and pharmaceutical and biotech companies and/or other private biomedical research funders.

How to Apply

Leidos has worked with NIH Program Officers to inform applicant Principal Investigators that have scored well, but below the Institute/Center payline, about OnPAR. If an applicant scored in the top 30% and is not funded by NIH, he/she is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. Qualified applicants are invited to register with OnPAR and participate in the submission and review process. It is not necessary to re-write an application. OnPAR will accept the NIH abstract that was submitted by the applicant, and if invited, his/her submitted NIH application and Summary Statement.

Read more about the application process and register for OnPAR