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Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation: Mallinckrodt Grants

Slots: 1.  Institutions may submit one proposal per session.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, June 10th, 2023

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: August 1, 2023

Award Information

Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: N/A

Anticipated Amount: The grant provides $60,000 annually for a period of up to three years.  Grants are not renewable.  

Who May Serve as PI: The funds are designed to provide to tenure track faculty members in their first to fourth year, at American Institutions, who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, start-up support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained.  Applicants with current R01 funding should not apply.

Link: https://emallinckrodtfoundation.org/guidelines

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://orif.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Please note the difference from our usual instructions below.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) 1-2 page lay summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review. As per the Mallinckrodt foundation, “Proposals must contain an adequately detailed description of the project to be clearly understandable by the scientific members of the Trustees.  They need not be in the detail requested by the NIH for R01 grants…A one-two page lay summary must be provided as part of the proposal. Applicants should bear in mind that our Board includes non-scientist members, making this summary of particular importance. “
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs and Co-PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.

As stated earlier, the funds are designed to provide to tenure track faculty members in their first to fourth year, at American Institutions, who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, start-up support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained.  Applicants with current R01 funding should not apply.

Budgetary Requirements: The Foundation will not fund overhead. 

(CLOSED) Department of Energy DE-FOA-0002717 DOE EXPRESS: 2022 Exploratory Research for Extreme-Scale Science

Slots: Closed.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2022, 5pm PT

LOI: May 12, 2022, 5pm ET

External Deadline: June 23, 2022, 11:59pm ET

Award Information

Award Type: Grants

Estimated Number of Awards: The exact number of awards will depend on the number of meritorious applications and the availability of appropriated funds.

Anticipated Award Amount: $200,000 per year

Who May Serve as PI: Individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as a Principal Investigator (PI) are invited to work with their organizations to develop an application. Individuals from underrepresented groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply.

Link to Award: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2022/SC_FOA_0002717.pdf

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://orif.usc.edu/oor-portal/.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Single Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs and Co-PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in basic research to explore potentially high-impact approaches in scientific computing and extreme-scale science.

Extreme-scale science recognizes that disruptive technology changes are occurring across science applications, algorithms, computer architectures and ecosystems. Recent reports point to emerging trends and advances in high-end computing, massive datasets, scientific machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) on increasingly heterogeneous architectures, including neuromorphic and quantum systems. Significant innovation will be required in the development of effective paradigms and approaches for realizing the full potential of scientific computing from emerging technologies. Proposed research should not focus strictly on a specific science use case, but rather on creating the body of knowledge and understanding that will inform future advances in extreme-scale science. Consequently, the funding from this FOA is not intended to incrementally extend current research in the area of the proposed project. It is expected that the proposed projects will significantly benefit from the exploration of innovative ideas or from the development of unconventional approaches.

Exploratory Research for Scientific Computing (EXPRESS) opportunities exist for the following research topics:
A. Federated Scientific Machine Learning
B. Differentiable Programming
C. Explainable Artificial Intelligence
D. Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
E. Quantum Algorithms and Mathematical Method
F. Quantum Computing at the Edge

Applications submitted in response to this FOA must substantially address one of these six research topics. More information is available in the link award above.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

CLOSED: RFA-RM-22-008: NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program: FIRST Cohort (U54 Clinical Trial Optional)

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Closed.

LOI: 30 days prior

External Deadline: July 12, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards:  4

Anticipated Award Amount:  $70.5 million

Who May Serve as PI: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. See, e.g., Reminder: Notice of NIH’s Encouragement of Applications Supporting Individuals from Underrepresented Ethnic and Racial Groups as well as Individuals with Disabilities, NOT-OD-22-019.

Link to Award: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-22-008.html

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://orif.usc.edu/oor-portal/.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Single Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs and Co-PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The purpose of the FIRST Cohort is to transform culture at NIH-funded extramural institutions by building a self-reinforcing community of scientists committed to diversity and inclusive excellence (defined below). Implementing and sustaining cultures of inclusive excellence within the program has the potential to be transformational for biomedical research at the awardee institutions and beyond. This community will be built through recruitment of a diverse group of individuals who:

  • are competitive for an advertised research tenure-track or equivalent faculty position (positions must be at the Assistant Professor (or equivalent) level,
  • meet the criteria for NIH-defined Early Stage Investigators, and
  • have demonstrated a strong commitment to promoting diversity and inclusive excellence.

The overall goals and specific measurable objectives that the program expects FIRST Cohort awardees to accomplish are:

Goal 1: Demonstrate institutional support and develop or modify a strategic plan with specific goals and strategies, interventions, and organizational policies that will be implemented to achieve significant systemic and sustainable institutional culture change over baseline toward inclusive excellence (at the faculty, department, and institution level). FIRST Cohort awardees are also expected to develop an evaluation plan to assess the impact of actions taken towards these goals at their institution.

Goal 2: Conduct recruitment activities for new faculty, outline institutional commitment, and develop recruitment committees based on past interests and commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. FIRST Cohort awardees are also expected to establish a supportive environment for new faculty.

Goal 3: Develop strategies to establish individual research and career development plans and mentorship and sponsorship plans for all new faculty hired under this award. The applicants must describe how the program will reduce isolation, increase community building, foster career development, and ensure retention of the new faculty.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Department of Energy DOE BER DE-FOA-0002581: Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (IFL)

Slots: 1.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Monday, April 4th, 2022, 5pm PT

LOI: April 19, 2022

External Deadline: June 16, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Grants / Cooperative Agreements

Estimated Number of Awards: 3 – 5

Anticipated Award Amount: It is anticipated that award sizes may range from $2,000,000 per year to $5,000,000 per year. The amount requested for each year of the five-year project may vary within these limits.

Who May Serve as PI: Individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as a Principal Investigator (PI) are invited to work with their organizations to develop an application. Individuals from underrepresented groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply.

Link to Award: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2022/SC_FOA_0002581.pdf

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://orif.usc.edu/oor-portal/.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Single Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)
  • If submitting on behalf of a multi-institutional team, please use the ‘Letter of Support/Other’ field at the end to upload a document listing collaborators and their affiliated institutions.

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs and Co-PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The DOE SC Program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Earth and Environmental System Sciences Division (EESSD) hereby announces its interest in applications from the scientific community for Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (Urban IFLs) that will improve the science underpinning our understanding of climate and environmental predictability across complex and variable urban regions. EESSD supports fundamental systems level research aimed at identifying the foundational principles of dynamic physical, biogeochemical, and human processes and interactions and advancing fundamental understanding of the predictability of the climate and broader Earth system. EESSD develops the science, technology, and knowledge base that is necessary to inform actions to enable the resilience of natural-human systems that are exposed to climate trends, variabilities, and extremes. 

The objective of the Urban IFL program is to advance the science underpinning our understanding of the predictability of urban systems and their two-way interactions with the climate system, in order to provide the knowledge and information necessary to inform equitable climate and energy solutions that can strengthen community scale resilience across urban landscapes. The Urban IFLs will pursue the fundamental scientific understanding necessary to inform the design, development, financing, and deployment pathways of technical solutions that promote social equity and enhance urban resilience in response to the climate crisis. 

An Urban IFL must be focused on an urban region within the United States or one of its territories and must have all the following characteristics: 

• The Urban IFL emphasizes the basic sciences of climate, environmental, ecological, and urban change affecting heterogeneous urban regions, yet with a view towards informing  sustainable, resilient, and equitable solutions. The program will give special consideration to science that addresses the climate change impacts affecting under-represented and/or disadvantaged communities. 

• The proposed urban region is unique yet exhibits some climatic, demographic, or other similarities to other US urban regions, i.e., such that other similar urban regions will be able to learn from science success stories from the urban region that contains an IFL. 

• The Urban IFL research combines new observations with high resolution and highly detailed urban modeling, where data generated by observations and models are used for scientific analysis. 

o While the new observations will be expected to improve understanding of atmospheric, ecological and/or environmental processes unique to urban region(s), the applicants will also be encouraged to leverage federal, state, and other existing observations and observing networks, including crowd-sourced information. 

o The modeling component must be at a high enough resolution and detail to adequately represent distinguishing features and changing dimensions of heterogeneous communities (e.g. the people, built and natural environment, infrastructure, resources, and socioeconomic components) across the urban region. The modeling component must furthermore be capable of being nested within and/or forced by a regional to global climate system model, in order to adequately represent future climate variability and change across urban regions. 

• The IFL provides opportunities to inspire, train, and support leading scientists from a variety of institutions, including minority-serving institutions, who have an appreciation for the global climate and energy challenges of the 21st century. 

• The Urban IFL science plan includes significant research efforts addressing all three required Research Focus Areas (defined below) and integrates knowledge and effort across them. 

An Urban IFL must have significant research efforts addressing multiple science themes and is expected to be structured around the three specific Research Focus Areas 

Research Focus Area 1: Spatial variabilities across the greater urban regions and how the variabilities exert influences on local micro-climates and micro-environments affecting urban communities. 

Research Focus Area 2: Observing and modeling biogeochemical cycling and atmospheric composition in urban systems. 

Research Focus Area 3: Towards quantifying the benefits of equitable solutions that are applied to heterogeneous urban regions in addressing the climate crisis. 

An Urban IFL research team should be comprised of diverse institutions, which could include DOE/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) National Laboratories1, academic and non-profit research institutions, other federal agencies, and/or the private sector. However, the lead organization must be an academic institution or a National Laboratory. 

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

(CLOSED) The Lego Build A Word of Play Challenge

Slots: 1.

An organization can submit only one application as the Lead Organization. An organization can also serve as a partner on a team for multiple applications provided that each application proposes a separate, distinct solution. Each application must be submitted by a different team member using a unique email address. Organizations who are current grantees or have previously received funding from the LEGO Foundation are welcome to apply, as long as they meet all eligibility criteria.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Closed.

External Deadline: May 17, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards and Award Amount: There will be three grants awarded for DKK 200 million (approximately USD 30 million) each and two grants awarded for DKK 100 million (approximately USD 15 million) each.

Who May Serve as PI: 

Proposed ideas must be submitted by:

  • An entity that is registered and recognized under the law of the applicable jurisdiction as a non-governmental organization, an educational organization, a charitable organization, a social welfare organization, a not-for-profit organization, or similar-type entity that is not a for-profit organization or agency.
  • A for-profit entity qualified to do business and in good standing under the laws of the local jurisdiction in which it operates.

Link to Award: https://learningthroughplay.com/build-a-world-of-play/the-challenge

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://orif.usc.edu/oor-portal/.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Single Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs and Co-PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

In honour of the LEGO ® brand’s 90th anniversary, the LEGO Foundation, together with Lever for Change, have launched a 900 million DKK challenge (approx. 143 million USD) to fund bold ideas that will help build a world where every child has the chance to play and learn.

The Challenge will center on children from birth to six years old and focus on the intersection of early childhood with other social issues. It will enable any organization who can make a positive impact on the youngest children anywhere in the world, to bid for a proportion of the DKK 900 million (USD 143 million) grant. The LEGO Foundation and Lever for Change welcome bold solutions that address children’s well-being and holistic development and invite applicants to articulate how their proposals fit within and build upon the efforts of other organizations in the early childhood development sector.

Ideas can come from any partner; NGO; civil society; or non-profit that will transform early childhood development and help build a brighter future for the builders of tomorrow. Grants will be awarded to evidence-based innovative solutions to the problems that hinder early childhood development. These include, but are not limited to, access to early childhood care and education, adequate nutrition, eradication of toxic stress in homes and communities, reduction of violence in homes and communities, protection from pollution, and supporting the social and emotional well-being of the whole family.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

(CLOSED) NSF-22-574: Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) – CI Professionals Category ONLY

Slots: Institutions are limited to one CIP (CI Professionals) proposal per CyberTraining program competition only. The other two categories are not institutionally limited. Only apply to the ORIF portal if you plan on applying to the CI Professionals category of this solicitation.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Contact ORIF.

LOI: Not required

External Deadline: January 19, 2023

Recurring Deadlines: Third Thursday in January, Annually Thereafter

Award Information

Award Type: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant or Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 12 to 18

Up to 4 Pilot, 8 Small and 3 Medium Implementation, and 3 CIP awards are anticipated.

Anticipated Award Amount: $21,500,000. Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.

Who May Serve as PI: To ensure relevance to community needs and to facilitate adoption, those proposals of interest to one or more domain divisions must include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to the targeted research discipline. All proposals shall include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to OAC.

Link to Award: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22574/nsf22574.htm

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://orif.usc.edu/oor-portal/.

Materials to submit include:

  • (1) Single Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review.
  • (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs and Co-PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI; (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the Nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials; and (iii) build communities of research CI professional staff to deploy, manage, and collaboratively support the effective use of research CI, as well as establish career paths for those staff within and across institutions and S&E disciplines. In the short term, projects must either catalyze potentially transformative fundamental research in specific NSF-supported disciplines with innovative, scalable, informal/formal training and educational activities; result in curriculum/instructional material that is integrated into undergraduate and graduate courses, serving as templates for adoption by other institutions and informing best practices and institutional and disciplinary curriculum/instructional material; and/or support CI professionals in not only a research support role, but rather in an integral role that centers on partnering with research projects within the institution and across institutions on shared research goals. In the long term, projects should contribute to the larger goals of an educational and research ecosystem that enables computational and data-driven science for all scientists and engineers, with an understanding of computation as the third pillar and data-driven science as the fourth pillar of the scientific discovery process (Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020), in addition to the traditional first and second pillars of theory and experimentation, respectively. Furthermore, in the long term, projects should contribute toward ubiquitous educational infrastructure for online, dynamic, personalized lessons, and certifications in CI and other multidisciplinary areas that enable broad use by the NSF research communities of advanced CI tools and resources and catalyze potentially transformative fundamental research (NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Cyberlearning and Workforce Development Report, Chapter 1, Continuous Collaborative Computational Cloud in Higher Education, 2011), while also helping to create a diverse and sustainable community of skilled CI professionals and broadening CI contributions and adoption from underrepresented groups.

The CyberTraining program focuses on three overlapping scientific communities, and projects should target one or more of these communities. [ORIF is only accepting pre-proposals for the following category]:

  1. CI Professionals: This is the community of research CI and professional staff who deploy, manage, and collaboratively support effective use of research CI. A CI Professionals-related project can address technical and research CI professional skills and more generally career development of current and future CI Professionals, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research scientists. However, a CI Professionals-specific project would target integration of current CI Professionals into research projects and the institutional support of long-term career paths for CI Professionals.

CI Professionals include the information technology professionals, scientists, and engineers who work closely with the computational and data-enabled scientific and engineering researchers at colleges and universities, supercomputing and other centers, and other research institutions. Examples of CI Professionals include CI system administrators, CI research support staff, research software engineers, and CI facilitators, and may also include computational research scientists and engineers and non-tenure-track faculty.

NSF anticipates proposals for informal/formal training and education, including retraining and cross-training, or for curricular activities, on topics related to use of methods and resources for advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven S&E. NSF also anticipates proposals to create or strengthen communities that support CI professionals as they contribute to the research enterprise, providing technical expertise, leadership, and engagement at the institutional level in research and educational pursuits. Training and education proposals are anticipated to span all levels, from basic literacy to advanced, and focus on addressing the emerging needs of fundamental research communities and resolving outstanding bottlenecks, while CIP proposals are anticipated to provide support for CI professionals to participate in the research enterprise and for institutions to establish long-term career paths for those professionals. CIP proposals can engage such professionals within a single institution or across multiple institutions, and/or can focus on a single S&E discipline or span multiple disciplines. The activities can include retraining and cross-training of the faculty mentors and course instructors themselves to keep up with the dynamic knowledge landscape, as one of the ways for obtaining a multiplier effect. For student training and education, a key concern is not to increase the time to degree. For CIP proposals, a key goal is to build long-term sustainable career paths within and across institutions.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.