Funding: pending government grants
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NIH Director's New Innovator Award
The NIH Director's New Innovator Award will support research by new investigators who propose highly innovative projects with the potential for exceptionally great impact on biomedical or behavioral science. NIH expects to make at least 14 awards in September 2007. Each grant will be for 5 years and up to a total of $1.5 million in direct costs plus applicable facilities and administrative costs. Women and members of groups that are underrepresented in biomedical or behavioral research are especially encouraged to apply.
Open to New Investigators Who
--Have not yet obtained an NIH R01 or similar grant
--Hold an independent research position at an institution in the United States
--Received a doctoral degree or completed medical internship and residency in 1997 or later
--Propose research in any scientific area relevant to the NIH mission
Apply Electronically
--Get instructions at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-07-009.html
--Prepare the short application; preliminary data allowed, but not required
--Submit the application through Grants.gov between April 25 and May 22, 2007
More Information
--See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/innovator_award/
--E-mail questions to newinnovator@nih.gov or call 301-594-4469
NIH Director's Pioneer Award (NDPA) Program
This program, a High-Risk Research initiative of Research Teams of the Future, is meant to complement NIH's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research. First announced in 2004, the NDPA program resulted in nine awards in the first year. NIH has announced a second NPDA competition in 2005 for approximately five to ten new awards of up to $500,000 direct costs per year for five years. The program is not intended to support ongoing research projects or simply to expand the funding of persons already well supported for a particular project. The program is targeted to investigators at the early to middle stages of their careers. Awardees are expected to commit the major portion (at least 51 percent) of their research effort to activities supported by the NDPA.
Ethics Education in Science and Education
NSF announces a new funding competition, on the subject of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering. The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program considers proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports. For this year, proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields, and on ethical issues that arise in research or graduate research education in those fields, particularly in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts.
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health, National Institutes of Health
Deadline for Applications: the first of February, June and October
of each year
In cooperation with the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research,
14 NIH institutes invite qualified researchers to submit research grant
applications on the social and cultural dimensions of health. This announcement
calls for research to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural constructs
and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and cultural factors
in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c) link basic research
to practice for improving prevention, treatment, health services and dissemination,
and (d) explore ethical issues in social and cultural research. The overall
goal is to encourage further development of health-related social sciences
research relevant to the missions of the NIH Institutes and Centers. For
a full announcement, go to http://grants.nih.gov/
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