Deadline: August 1, 2018

The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Nebraska Center for Nanomedicine (NCN) invites investigators at the University of Nebraska to submit an application for pilot research projects consistent with the research objective of this Center. The principal intent of the announced Pilot Project Program is to provide support to the most promising and novel nanomedicine-related research projects and help investigators obtain preliminary data necessary for successful grant applications to external agencies. 

The applications are solicited from individual investigators or teams of investigators in three major categories:

• Forward-Path Pilots (up to $10,000)
• Discovery Path Pilots ( up to $50,000)
• Catalyst Path Pilots (up to $75,000)

Download the RFA for details.

Please direct all questions to Tatiana Bronich, email or 559-9351, or David Oupicky, email or 559-9363. All applications must be submitted as pdf files via email to Tammy Slachetka (email) no later than 4:00 PM, August 01, 2018.

Deadline:  Friday, June 15, 2018

The UNMC SPORE in Pancreatic Cancer will submit a competitive renewal application in September 2018. With this RFP (Request for Projects), potential projects will be accepted for consideration for inclusion in the competitive renewal.

 All applications in response to the RFP must be emailed as a single PDF to Cindy Plate (email), with a cc to Tony Hollingsworth (email) by 4:00 PM on Friday, June 15, 2018. Please see RFP for additional information.

Deadline:  Friday, June 15, 2018

The UNMC SPORE in Pancreatic Cancer will submit a competitive renewal application in September 2018. With this RFP (Request for Projects), potential projects will be accepted for consideration for inclusion in the competitive renewal.

 All applications in response to the RFP must be emailed as a single PDF to Cindy Plate (email), with a cc to Tony Hollingsworth (email) by 4:00 PM on Friday, June 15, 2018. Please see RFP for additional information.

LOI Deadline:  July 16, 2018 or sooner
Full applications: August 20, 2018 (for invited applicants)

The Center for Patient Family and Community Engagement in Chronic Care Management is pleased to announce funding to support pilot projects.  

Competitive Applications will address at least on of these priorities:

• Develop biobehavioral interventions for use in varied clinical and community settings that pilot
  test a self-management intervention for multiple chronic conditions to reduce burden and
  disability, improve functioning and health related quality of life, strengthen patient activation and
  participation in health care, and prevent illness and complications. 
• Design novel interventions, technologies, and social media that assist in monitoring symptom
  status, promoting health behavior modifications, and accessing/imparting health information to
  improve health and self-management outcomes in chronic illness. 
• Incorporate research methodologies to include the use of technology to deliver interventions or
  monitor outcomes for self-management of chronic conditions in individuals, families and
  communities.

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, 2015-2016) 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 on an ongoing basis. Please allow 2 – 3 weeks for review and decision on the proposal. Note that funds must be used by June 30, 2018; no new award will be made after May 1, 2018. 

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)

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