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HRSA-22-081: Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 3.0

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: February 4, 2022, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: April 6, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 1

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $1,300,000 per year

Link to Award: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334386

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

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network 3.0 (HV CoIIN 3.0).

The goal of this program is to disseminate and scale up the most effective practices and interventions identified under the Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (HV CoIIN) 2.0 and to research the development of specific tools and resources to advance quality improvement practices within the MIECHV Program.

The objectives of this program are to:
1) Plan, manage, and execute the scale up of interventions tested and found to be effective in HV CoIIN 2.0 to at least 30 state recipients and 300 local implementing agencies (LIAs). These interventions include strategies to alleviate maternal depression, support families impacted by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), promote developmental screening and linkage to services, increase breastfeeding initiation and duration, complete age-appropriate well child care visits, improve the recruitment and retention of home visiting staff, and develop parent leadership within continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts;
2) Refine and test a new set of evidence-informed change strategies using accepted evaluation methodologies, such as rapid Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, in alignment with best practices in home visiting implementation, emerging innovations, and the MIECHV Program performance measures; 3) Further refine the health equity framework and parent leadership toolkit8 developed in HV CoIIN 2.0 and support the integration of the health equity and parent leadership in CQI principles across all HV CoIIN 3.0 scale up and new topic CQI activities; and
4) Assist MIECHV recipients and LIAs in building their capacity to use CQI as a tool for ongoing program monitoring and improvement, utilizing coaching and peer-to-peer learning networks to ensure sustainability.

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

PAR-22-088: Biomedical Research Facilities

Slots: One. Moreover, institutions with C06 awards funded under the Biomedical Research Facility Program (FOAs PAR-19-128, PAR-20-086, or PAR-21-139) are not eligible to apply to this FOA, provided the awards are active on the receipt date for this FOA (March 15, 2022). Thus, only one C06 Biomedical Research Facility active award per institution would be allowed at any given time.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, January 21st, 2022, 5pm PT

LOI: February 15, 2022

External Deadline: March 15, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: The number of awards is contingent upon NIH construction appropriation and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.

Anticipated Award Amount: The maximum award budget is $8,000,000. Applications with a budget less than $3,000,000 will not be considered. 

Who May Serve as PI: The PD/PI should hold appropriate stature within the institutional administration structure and be able to oversee various facets of the entire construction/modernization project. The PD/PI should also demonstrate his/her leadership skills to recruit and guide expert Key Personnel with complementary scientific and technical skills to successfully plan, design, and accomplish the construction project.

Link to Award: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-088.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

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites qualified institutions of higher education and research organizations to seek funding to modernize and improve existing shared-use research facilities (e.g., core laboratory space or animal facilities), or to construct new biomedical research space and furnish it with necessary casework or other fixed equipment (subject to requirements described below under Funding Restrictions). The objective of this FOA is to support the development of modern facilities that will enable and enhance the conduct of cutting-edge biomedical research. Any facility supported by this FOA must serve a broad research community, locally at the applicant institution or regionally.

NIH recognizes that modern physical infrastructure is necessary for the conduct of cutting-edge research. As science progresses and new technologies become available, dedicated space is required to house specialized equipment and to carry out novel experimental protocols. Projects will vary and depend on the present institutional infrastructure and long-term institutional strategic plans. Focusing on the advancement of science through the modernization of physical space will be a common and integral feature of all proposed projects. When completed, construction/modernization projects will have a significant institution-wide impact, bringing the research capacities and capabilities to a new level. An institution may request funds to modernize a core facility to create an environment required for research-driven specialized technological services. Likewise, funds may be requested to consolidate space for an institution-wide core which would provide streamlined workflows for contemporary multi-disciplinary investigations. Modernizing laboratory space used on a shared basis to meet the growing needs consistent with an institutional strategic vision for biomedical research is another example of a suitable request. A successful construction/modernization project will serve research teams and a broad range of research efforts. Laboratory space dedicated to an individual PI and their immediate laboratory is not supported under this FOA.

Various factors are typically considered when developing or modernizing research infrastructure. For applications submitted to this FOA, defined research needs will drive the requests for modern engineering solutions. As science progresses and new technologies become available, required dedicated space must comply with relevant technical specifications to provide a well-controlled environment, to enable novel experimental approaches, and to house specialized equipment. It is encouraged that these new spaces adhere to the highest possible standards of green design engineering and operations.

Modern physical infrastructure requires the implementation of advanced engineering designs. Some protocols may only be conducted in designated clean rooms, such as barrier facilities for pathogen-free research or space for synthesis of compounds meeting standards for human subject experiments. Certain equipment requires specially shielded rooms or rigorous control of environmental variables such as temperature or humidity. The shared space also needs to be adequately maintained to serve its desired function over the years. The formal structure of an institutional core typically offers effective oversight to ensure that the required engineering standards of a space it occupies are met and maintained over time. Also, such centralized facilities are organized to provide rigorous scientific support for the conduct of research.

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Agilent Early Career Professor Award (ACA)

Slots: As per Agilent: “We invite many top universities to nominate one candidate. Of course, if your university is so fortunate as to have two world-leading early career professors in the area of this call, please do nominate both.”

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Tuesday, January 18, 2022

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: February 25, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: An unrestricted research award of $120,000 to be distributed in 2 years to university in the professor’s name. (Option to use all or part of award to obtain Agilent products at 50% discount; option to accelerate payments to facilitate procurement of equipment with list price over $120,000).

Who May Serve as PI: 

  • Significant original research contributions enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world
  • Outstanding potential for future research
  • Professor completed Ph.D. (residency in case of M.D.’s or M.D. Ph.D’s) not earlier than January 2012.

Link to Award: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/profaward/index.shtml

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 Agilent Early Career Professor Award is to:
  • Promote and encourage excellent research enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world
  • Establish strong collaborative relationships between Agilent researchers and leading professors early in their career
  • Build the prominence of Agilent as a sponsor of university research
Selection Criteria
  • Significant original research contributions enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world
  • Outstanding potential for future research
  • Professor completed Ph.D. (residency in case of M.D.’s or M.D. Ph.D’s) not earlier than January 2012. See FAQ
  • Alignment with the 2022 Focus: Contributions to the development of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision technologies for intuitive Collaborative Robots (Cobots) to address demands for a flexible next-generation workforce in manufacturing applications.

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

2022 Packard Fellowships for Science & Engineering

Slots: 2 early-career professors

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: February 4, 2022, 5pm PT

Nominations Due: March 15, 2022

External Deadline: April 20, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: 20

Anticipated Award Amount: $875,000 distributed over five years         

Who May Serve as PI:   Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers. Disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates engaged in research in the social sciences will not be considered. The Fellowship Program provides support for highly creative researchers early in their careers; faculty members who are well established and well-funded are less likely to receive the award. Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers who take a creative approach to their research, dare to think big, and follow new ideas wherever they lead. The Foundation emphasizes support for innovative individual research that involves the Fellows, their students, and junior colleagues, rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs.

Link to Award: https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/

PDF of Guidelines: https://www.packard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2022-Packard-Fellowship-Guidelines.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 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering program invests in future leaders who have the freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may lead to groundbreaking discoveries. Recognizing that certain areas of contemporary science and engineering already have access to relatively generous funding (for example, clinical research, research associated with the design and construction of large national facilities such as

accelerators and space stations, and applied research of direct relevance to national security), the Packard Fellowships are directed to other, less generously supported fields.

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

NSF-22-544: Scholarships in STEM Networks (S-STEM-Net)

Slots: 1 slot for S-STEM-REC proposals and 1 slot for S-STEM-HUB proposals.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2022, 5pm PT

LOI: February 2, 2022 (Resource and Evaluation Center only; Research Hub proposals do not require a letter of intent.)

External Deadline: March 22, 2022

Award Information

Award Type: Grant or Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 1 to 11 (One for the cooperative agreement, 10 as standard grants)

Anticipated Award Amount: $45,000,000

Who May Serve as PI: No restrictions or limits on who may serve, but an individual may only serve as PI or Co-PI of one S-STEM-REC proposal or one S-STEM-Hub proposal.

Link to Award: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22544/nsf22544.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

Through this solicitation, NSF seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The ultimate vision of the legislation governing the S-STEM parent program[1] (and of the current S-STEM-Net solicitation) is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, should be able to contribute to the American innovation economy if they so desire.

To support collaboration within the S-STEM network, NSF will fund two types of investments: An S-STEM Resource and Evaluation Center (S-STEM-REC) and several S-STEM Research Hubs (S-STEM-Hub). The S-STEM Network (S-STEM-Net) will collaborate to create synergies and sustain a robust national ecosystem consisting of multi-sector partners supporting domestic low-income STEM students in achieving their career goals, while also ensuring access, inclusion, and adaptability to changing learning needs. The infrastructure formed by the Hubs and the REC will also synthesize current achievements and investigate evolving barriers to the success of this student population. It will also disseminate the context and circumstances by which interventions and practices that support graduation of domestic low-income students pursuing careers in STEM are successful.

The target audience for this dissemination effort is the community of higher education institutions, faculty, scholars, researchers and evaluators, local and regional organizations, industry, and other nonprofit, federal, state, and local agencies concerned with the success of domestic low-income STEM students in the United States.

The primary goal of the S-STEM-REC is to serve as a resource center for S-STEM stakeholders, strengthening the impact of S-STEM investments by disseminating successful practices and the outcomes and achievements of S-STEM program investments as a whole. It will do so by: (1) building, supporting, and expanding the national S-STEM community of stakeholders and, (2) synthesizing and disseminating evidence of S-STEM program outcomes and achievements (including S-STEM core scholarship sites and S-STEM-Hubs).

S-STEM Research Hubs are primarily formed to organize groups of researchers to conduct and disseminate rigorous qualitative and quantitative research on topics related to the S-STEM program and low-income student success. Each Research Hub should have a central focus that intersects a clear group of current and prospective S-STEM institutions. For example, a Research Hub might be organized around research on specific interventions (e.g., impact of math Summer bridge programs) or desirable outcomes (e.g., development of STEM identity) for S-STEM scholars. Other thematic topics that Research Hubs might focus on include research on issues affecting a specific discipline or academic context (e.g., low-income undergraduates in computer science; access to graduate programs for domestic low-income students in strategic disciplines such as quantum science, robotics, or AI; first-generation S-STEM scholars at two-year colleges; low-income veterans pursuing STEM careers). Any other common interests that exist among active S-STEM projects might also be appropriate for development of a Research Hub, including geographic regions with common cultural and other socio-economic factors affecting scholars (e.g., S-STEM Research Hub of the Midwest) or type of institution (e.g., S-STEM Hub for Rural-serving Institutions).

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

RFA-AI-21-079: Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Centers (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, March 4, 2022, 5pm PT

LOI: 30 days prior to the application due date.

External Deadline: June 3, 2022     

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 4-5

Anticipated Award Amount: $7.674 million

Who May Serve as PI:  Note that the multiple PD(s)/PI(s) option may be used only for the Overall Program. Projects are limited to a single project lead per project and a single core lead per core within the multi-component application.

An investigator can serve as a PD/PI on only one AADCRC award or application. This includes all PD(s)/PI(s) of a multiple-PD/PI application.

Note that the current FOA will not allow foreign clinical trial sites. However, foreign components that will be allowed include mechanistic projects, observational studies, specialized assay, etc.

Link to Award: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-21-079.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

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications from single institutions or consortia of institutions to participate in the Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Centers (AADCRC) program. The program will support centers that integrate clinical and translational research to conduct studies on the mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of diseases of interest including asthma, rhinitis (allergic and non-allergic), chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic dermatitis, food allergy, and drug allergy. The overarching goal of the program is to improve the understanding of the pathogenesis of these conditions and to provide a rational foundation for new, effective treatments and prevention strategies.

                                                                The objective of this FOA is to support multidisciplinary research on the following conditions of interest: immunopathophysiology of asthma, rhinitis (allergic and non-allergic), chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic dermatitis, food allergy, and drug allergy. The overall goal of the AADCRC program is to improve the understanding of the pathogenesis of these conditions and to provide a rational foundation for new, effective treatments and prevention strategies.

NIAID programmatic priorities for this FOA are:

  1. The role of innate and adaptive immune functions in the development and pathogenesis of asthma and allergic diseases with a focus on severe asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic dermatitis, and drug allergy;
  2. The impact of the microbiome and of pollution on immune responses as they pertain to the development, prevention and management of asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergy and atopic dermatitis;
  3. The interaction between infections and atopy and the role of immune responses to infections in the development and exacerbations of asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, and atopic dermatitis;
  4. Understanding the mechanisms of allergen immunotherapy-induced clinical desensitization and tolerance for the treatment and prevention of asthma, allergic rhinitis and food allergy and improving the efficacy, safety and ease of use of this therapeutic modality;
  5. Identifying genetic variations and epigenetic alterations affecting host immune responses to aeroallergens, food allergens and drug allergens and patient responses to therapeutic interventions in asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic dermatitis and drug allergy;
  6. Clinical, immunologic and physiologic phenotyping and endotyping of drug allergy, chronic rhinosinusitis and non-allergic rhinitis syndromes that provide mechanistic insights for disease etiology or management.

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