University
of Minnesota RFPs
1)
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and Life Sciences and the
Joint Degree Program offer three types of grants this year:
UMN graduate and professional students are provided a
stipend for research and writing and funding for research supplies, or funding
for a program or colloquia for the upcoming summer and/or academic year.
$32,000 is available for these grants with a maximum award of $7,000. Proposals due 2/18/08 for summer ‘08 or the
2008-‘09 academic year. For more information, contact Audrey Boyle at 6-5624.
Individual UMN faculty members are funded for faculty
research, projects, or curricular innovations for the upcoming summer and/or
academic year. $41,000 is available for these grants with a maximum award of
$40,000, though the Consortium expects to make two awards in the range of
$20,000 each. Proposals due 2/4/08
Consortium member centers and graduate or professional
programs or departments participating in the Joint Degree Program in Law,
Health & the Life Sciences are funded for research, projects, or
colloquia for the upcoming academic year and/or following summer. $55,000 is
available for these grants with a maximum award of $27,500. Proposals due 2/11/08.
2) Graduate School Administered Fellowships
http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/index.html
Torske Klubben Fellowships
are available for both outstanding final-year
Ph.D. candidates who are making
timely progress toward the degree, as well as outstanding graduate students (M.S.
or Ph.D.) currently enrolled in any field in the University of Minnesota Graduate
School (must be a Minnesota resident). Application deadline is March 3, 2008.
Graduate School Fellowships are offered to incoming Ph.D. students with
excellent academic records. Prospective students who will enter the
University of Minnesota Graduate School for the first time in the
upcoming academic year may be nominated by their graduate program.
Approximately 75 Graduate School Fellowships are available annually.
Recipients of the Graduate School fellowship, in 2008-09, will receive
a fellowship stipend of $22,000 for the academic year, plus full
tuition. Eligible recipients are also covered by comprehensive health
insurance, including subsidized dependent and dental care.
National Science Foundation RFPs
1) Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07587
The Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts (CPA) cluster supports basic research and education projects to advance discovery, learning, and application of scientific and engineering knowledge pertaining to the processes and artifacts for building computing systems.
Computing processes and artifacts range from formalisms, methods, models, algorithms and theories to languages, architectures, technology components, and a variety of physical manifestations of computing system software and hardware. Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation should describe transformative research to advance at a fundamental level the design, verification, evaluation, utilization, and understanding of computing systems to meet the future computational needs of our society.
2) Long Term Research in Environmental Biology, due dates: July 9, 2008, and Jan 9, 2009
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07588
The Division of Environmental Biology encourages the submission of proposals aimed at generating extended time series of biological and environmental data that address ecological and evolutionary processes aimed at resolving important issues in environmental biology. Researchers must have collected at least six years of previous data to qualify for funding. The proposal also must present a cohesive conceptual rationale or framework for ten years of research. Questions or hypotheses outlined in this conceptual framework must guide an initial 5-year proposal as well as a subsequent, abbreviated renewal. Together, these will constitute a decadal research plan appropriate to begin to address critical and novel long-term questions in environmental biology. As part of the requirements for funding, projects must show how collected data will be shared broadly with the scientific community and the interested public.
3) Assembling the Tree of
Life Solicitation, due date: March 14, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5129
Currently, single
investigators or small teams of researchers are studying the
evolutionary pathways of heredity usually concentrating on taxonomic
groups of modest size. Assembly of a framework phylogeny, or Tree of
Life, for all 1.7 million described species requires a greatly
magnified effort, often involving large teams working across
institutions and disciplines. This is the overall goal of the
Assembling the Tree of Life activity. The National Science Foundation
announces its intention to continue support of creative and innovative
research that will resolve evolutionary relationships for large groups
of organisms throughout the history of life. Investigators also will be
supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm
development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and
phyloinformatics.
4) Centers for Chemical Innovation Phase I (CCI-I), due date for preproposal April 17, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08536/nsf08536.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
The
CCI Program is designed to support the formation of centers that can address
major, long-term basic chemical research problems that have a high probability
of both producing transformative research and leading to innovation.
Appropriate research problems are high-risk but potentially high-impact and
will attract broad scientific and public interest. Centers are expected
to be agile structures that can respond rapidly to emerging opportunities and
make full use of cyberinfrastructure to enhance collaborations. Center
teams may include researchers from disciplines other than Chemistry and from
academia, industry, government laboratories and international
organizations. CCIs are expected to integrate research, education, and
outreach and to include a plan to broaden participation to under-represented
groups. Proposals should contain a compelling strategy for achieving
demonstrable impact in all of these areas.
National Institutes of Health RFPs
1) Advanced Genomic Data Analysis and Visualization Methods for the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data (R21)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-08-005.html
The purpose of this program is to stimulate the development of new and improved computational and statistical tools for integrative analysis of the The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data sets covering alterations in the cancer genome, epigenome, and/or transcriptome (e.g.,somatic mutations, changes in DNA segment copy number, translocations, loss of heterozygosity, epigenomic modifications, and gene expression profiles from multiple platforms) and linked pathological/clinical information. Of particular interest is the development of tools and methods for analyzing, mining, and visualizing TCGA data to reveal previously unknown associations between genomic alterations, pathways, and cancer.
2) Genome-wide Association Studies in the Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative - Study Investigators (U01)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-07-012.html
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide support for investigative groups to conduct genome-wide association (GWA) genotyping and/or replication studies, using data and specimens from human subjects on whom information is available for conditions/traits of public health importance and relevant environmental exposures. It includes support for sharing the specimens and data and analyzing the resulting data as part of the NIH-wide Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (GEI).
3) NHLBI Resequencing and Genotyping (RS&G) Service
http://rsng.nhlbi.nih.gov/scripts/index.cfm. The purpose of this program is to apply systems biology approaches to innovative, high-risk, high-impact research on heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) physiology and pathophysiology by multidisciplinary teams of investigators. For the purposes of this program, systems biology is defined as an approach to explaining and predicting complex cellular and physiological phenomena of living organisms in terms of underlying physical and chemical processes and accompanying feedback regulations at molecular, cellular, tissue, or whole organ levels.
Other Opportunities
1) Genetics Prize, Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
http://www.petergruberfoundation.org/Nominations/Genetics.php
Nominations for the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Genetics Prize are invited annually to recognize individuals who have made original discoveries in the fields of genetic function, regulation, transmission, or variation or in genomic organization. Nominations may be submitted by individuals, organizations, and institutions that are active in or have an appreciation for contemporary genetic research or problems. Nominees may be individuals who have made original discoveries in the fields of genetic function, regulation, transmission, or variation or in genomic organization. Unrestricted cash prize of $500,000 + gold medal.
2) Association for Women in Science graduate fellowships
http://www.awis.org/careers/edfoundation.html. Four memorial awards are: (1) Joan Wright Goodman Award, for an outstanding graduate student in the life or physical sciences, (2) Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister Award, for an outstanding graduate student in physics (3) Amy Lutz Rechel Award, for an outstanding graduate student in the field of plant biology, (4) the Diane H. Russell Award, for an outstanding graduate student in the field of biochemistry or pharmacology.
3) Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship - Sponsored by Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. Sponsor: Bioversity Int'l. http://www.bioversityinternational.org/About_Us/Fellowships/Vavilov-Frankel_Fellowship/
The aim of the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship Fund is to encourage the conservation and use of plant genetic resources in developing countries by enabling outstanding young scientists to carry out relevant, innovative research outside their own countries for a period of between three months and one year. Applications are invited from nationals of developing countries, aged 35 or under, holding a masters degree (or equivalent) or doctorate in a relevant subject area. Applicants must show in the proposal how the training will be applied after the fellowship in the framework of a national or regional programme or in a developing country.
4) Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) supports awards to members
http://www.sbsonline.org/awards/ ($1,000-5,000 depending on award) to recognize outstanding achievements in research, innovation, ground breaking foundation, or seminal contributions that have proven to be broadly applicable to biomolecular screening or pharmaceutical or agricultural lead discovery.
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