Fiscal Year 2021 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the Fiscal Year 2021 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States (U.S.) institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation. For-profit organizations are not eligible for DURIP funding.
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Deadline: May 15, 2020
Amount: $1,500,000
For more information: Go to grants.gov and search opportunity #FOA-AFRL-AFOSR-2020-0001
Fiscal Year 2021 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)- ARMY SUBMISSION
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the Fiscal Year 2021 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States (U.S.) institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation. For-profit organizations are not eligible for DURIP funding. We refer to eligible institutions of higher education as universities in the rest of this announcement. DURIP is part of the University Research Initiative (URI).
Funding Agency: Dept of the Army – Material Command
Deadline: May 15, 2020
Amount: $1,500,000
For more information: https://www.arl.army.mil/business/broad-agency-announcements/
Sonoran Joint Venture 2020 Awards Program
Proposals for projects that support the SJV mission and objectives and fall into the broad categories of habitat, monitoring, human dimensions, or planning, are eligible for funding. Components of your project may also include outreach, education, community involvement, research, ecotourism, or professional training, but the overall outcome must support habitat, monitoring, human dimensions, or planning.
Funding Agency: Fish and Wildlife Service
Deadline: May 1, 2020
Amount: $15,000
For more information: Go to grants.gov and search opportunity #F20AS00055
Integrated Pathogen Reduction Technologies for whole blood and blood components for transfusion (R01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed
CBER, FDA seeks to support the development of innovative pathogen reduction technologies for whole blood and blood components to prevent transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases.
Funding Agency: Food and Drug Administration
Deadline: April 22, 2020
Amount: $8,000,000
For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-FD-20-027.html
Prodromal ?-Synucleinopathies Consortium (P?SS) (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites applications to develop a multisite, longitudinal, prospective study of idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) as a prodromal phase of ?-synuclein neurodegenerative disorders.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 17, 2020
Amount: $3,000,000
For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-21-013.html
Network for Identification, Evaluation, and Tracking of Older Persons with Superior Cognitive Performance for Their Chronological Age (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications to establish a network to identify, evaluate, track, and conduct research across multiple sites on older adults with superior cognitive performance for their age (“cognitive super agers”). The activity would support aggregation of sufficient numbers of these individuals to advance the fields understanding of factors that promote sustained cognitive health and those that are not of primary importance. Uniform identification and uniform data collection will allow the study of the behavioral, neurological, health, genetic, environmental, and lifestyle profiles that lead to sustained cognitive and brain function in advanced age. Where extant data exists, harmonization protocols would need to be developed in order to make use of all currently available data. Provision of protocols to obtain brain tissue at autopsy would be an important component.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: October 1, 2020
Amount: $2,500,000
For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-21-015.html
Training Modules to Enhance the Rigor, Reproducibility and Responsible Conduct of Biomedical Data Science Research (R25 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on developing courses for skills development – specifically, exportable training modules designed to enhance the rigor, reproducibility, and responsible conduct of biomedical data science research, targeted to trainees and researchers at any career level.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 19, 2020
Amount: $250,000
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-20-001.html
High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Types of instruments supported include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, cell sorters, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 1, 2020
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-114.html
Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-funded investigators to purchase or upgrade scientific instruments necessary to carry out animal experiments in all areas of biomedical research supported by the NIH. Applicants may request clusters of commercially available instruments configured as specialized integrated systems or as series of instruments to support a thematic well-defined area of research using animals or related materials. Priority will be given to uniquely configured systems to support innovative and potentially transformative investigations. This FOA supports requests for state-of-the art commercially available technologies needed for NIH-funded research using any vertebrate and invertebrate animal species. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) does not support requests for single instruments. At least one item of the requested instrumentation must cost at least $50,000, after all applicable discounts. No instrument in a cluster can cost less than $20,000, after all applicable discounts. There is no maximum price requirement; however, the maximum award is $750,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 1, 2020
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-112.html
Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $50,000 of direct costs. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $600,000 of direct costs. Types of instruments supported include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance, spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, cell sorters, and biomedical imagers.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 1, 2020
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-113.html
Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs): Enhancing Capability and Capacity (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to solicit applications for the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs) to implement clinical site protocols (clinical research, clinical trials) for evaluating vaccines, other preventive biologics, therapeutics, diagnostics, including prognostic and predictive markers, and devices for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases as part of NIAID Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC). A companion FOA solicits applications for the Leadership Group for the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium, hereafter referred to as the Leadership Group (LG), which provides for overall administrative and scientific leadership for the clinical research and clinical trials conducted. While the primary scientific focus will be on product evaluation for NIAID priority areas, including malaria/neglected tropical diseases, sexually transmitted infections, respiratory infections, and enteric diseases, the VTEUs must also provide surge capacity to address emerging infectious diseases
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: April 14, 2020
Amount: $400,000
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-20-021.html
2020 Borlaug Fellowship Program World Food Prize Event
The Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program (Borlaug Fellowship Program) advances USDA’s agricultural research goals of promoting collaborative programs among agricultural professionals of eligible countries, agricultural professionals of the United States, the international agricultural research system, and United States entities conducting research by providing fellowships to individuals from eligible countries who specialize or have experience in agricultural education, research, extension, or other related fields. Fellowships promote the expansion of domestic and international markets in eligible countries by educating a new generation of agricultural scientists, increasing scientific knowledge and collaborative research to increase trade and agricultural economic activity by extending that knowledge to users and intermediaries in the marketplace. The collaborative nature of the training and research programs not only benefits the Fellow, his or her home institution, and partner country; the U.S. host institution, its professors, researchers, and students; and the global agricultural sector by improving agricultural productivity, systems, and processes in partnering nations through the transfer of new science and agricultural technologies. As part of the Borlaug Fellowship Program, Fellows will attend the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium (Borlaug Dialogue) hosted by the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa during the week of October 11, 2020. Dr. Norman E. Borlaug envisioned a prize that would honor those who have made significant and measurable contributions to improving the world’s food supply. His vision was achieved in 1986 through the World Food Prize, the hosting organization for the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium each year during October in Des Moines, Iowa. The World Food Prize (WFP) is the foremost international award for the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. The World Food Prize recognizes contributions in any field involved in improving the world food supply, including food and agriculture science and technology, manufacturing, marketing, nutrition, economics, poverty alleviation, political leadership, and the social sciences. The World Food Prize emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people. The World Food Prize also annually hosts the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium to bring the world’s foremost experts and leaders together to discuss cutting-edge issues in food security and multiple youth education programs to inspire the next generation to study and work in fields related to global agriculture. The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) participates in the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium annually. Each year, FAS organizes training and events for Borlaug Fellows and their mentors. Approximately 60 Borlaug Fellows and their Mentors attend the Borlaug Dialogue each year providing opportunities to network with other Borlaug Fellows, scientists and leaders from around the globe on issues related to food security.
Funding Agency: Office of Capacity Building and Development
Deadline: April 9, 2020
Amount: $60,000
For more information: Go to grants.gov and search opportunity #USDA-FAS-10777-0700-10-20-0004
Implementing the HIV Service Cascade for Justice-Involved Populations (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
NIDA is interested in research that addresses research gaps related to the delivery of integrated treatment services for HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) among the justice-involved population in the US, with a goal of improving treatment management and implementation. A quarter of people with HIV pass through the justice system each year, making it an important system for HIV prevention and treatment. Community re-entry from incarceration is a time of heightened risk for opioid relapse, mortality, HIV risk behaviors, and discontinuation of HIV treatment. Given these elevated levels of risk, justice-involved PWID should be prioritized for screening and linkage to the full continuum of HIV prevention and treatment services, including Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). There is a need to better understand the effectiveness of the clinical interventions as received in this population, as well as the methods by which those interventions are delivered (navigation/mobile services).
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: April 30, 2020
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-20-028.html
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Research on Healthcare Policy and Disability
The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP), funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities, to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act). This particular DRRP priority is to generate new knowledge about the effect of evolving healthcare policies on access to health care services, community living or employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
Funding Agency: Administration for Community Living
Deadline: April 20, 2020
Amount: $500,000
For more information: https://www.acl.gov/grants/applying-grants
Great Lakes Restoration, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program 2020
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative targets the most significant environmental problems in the Great Lakes ecosystem by funding and implementing federal projects that address these problems. One objective is to protect, restore and enhance habitats to help sustain healthy populations of native species. Using appropriations from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program anticipates funding wetland (both coastal and interior), associated upland habitat restoration and enhancement projects and early successional forest restoration projects for the conservation of native Great Lakes fish and wildlife populations, particularly migratory birds and, as appropriate, federally-listed species. Restoration projects will be completed on privately owned (non-federal/non-state) lands and must be within the Great Lakes watershed. Emphasis will be placed on, but not limited to, completing projects within the watersheds of Great Lakes Areas of Concern, coastal and interior wetland focus areas and their associated grassland priority projects and early successional forest habitat restoration efforts. The Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program is a voluntary, incentive-based program that provides direct technical assistance and financial assistance in the form of cooperative agreements to private landowners to restore and conserve fish and wildlife habitat for the benefit of federal trust resources. The PFW Program is delivered through field staff active in all eight Great Lakes States with the goal of benefiting the Great Lakes ecosystem by improving habitat for wildlife that reside there and improving water quality. Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program staff coordinate with project partners, stakeholders and other Service programs to identify geographic focus areas and develop habitat conservation priorities within these focus areas. Geographic focus areas define where the program directs resources to conserve habitat for federal trust species. Project work plans are developed strategically, in coordination with partners, and with substantial involvement from Service field staff. Service staff coordinate the development of the plans for the restoration projects and implement the project with assistance from landowners and other partners. The program has been in existence since 1987 and has over 32 years of successful delivery. Project selection will seek to align or support the Secretary’s priorities. The program also advances the Department of the Interior’s mission, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s mission, and PFW’s mission, promotes biological diversity, and is based upon sound scientific biological principles. Program strategic plans inform the types of projects funded under this opportunity.
Funding Agency: Fish and Wildlife Service
Deadline: September 20, 2020
Amount: $100,000
For more information: Go to grants.gov and search opportunity #F20AS00059
Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020
This solicitation seeks applications for funding for research and evaluation projects that expand understanding of the phenomena of elder abuse, in its many forms, and the effectiveness of strategies to prevent such abuse. NIJ anticipates at least $2 million will be available to fund multiple grant awards, with potential funding from the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC) and the USDOJ Civil Division.
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice
Deadline: April 20, 2020
Amount: $2,000,000
For more information: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17328
Research and Evaluations of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020
In collaboration with OVC, NIJ seeks proposals for formative evaluations, evaluability assessments, and/or evaluations of victims of crime service programs. NIJ is interested in evaluations of different types of victim services including, but not limited to, programs embedded in hospitals/trauma centers; umbrella/network organizations; one-stop victim services programs; and/or programs embedded in criminal justice agencies. NIJ recognizes that many victim services programs may not be ready to support rigorous outcome evaluations, and as such, a phased approach is needed. Applicants should plan to conduct a formative evaluation, as well as, an evaluability assessment to determine whether an outcome evaluation of the program or model is possible. Applicants should consider the diverse array of victim service programs.
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice
Deadline: April 20, 2020
Amount: $4,000,000
For more information: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17326