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Funding and Grants
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NIH Challenge Grant RFA—New Funding Opportunities
Introducing the NIH Challenge Grant RFA OD-09-003
NIH has received new funds for Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010 as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5. The NIH has designated at least $200 million in FYs 2009.
2010 for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research. (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html)
This new program will support research on topic areas that address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds.
The NIH has identified a range of Challenge Areas that focus on specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. Each NIH Institute, Center, and Office has selected specific Challenge Topics within the broad Challenge Areas related to its mission. The research in these Challenge Areas should have a high impact in biomedical or behavioral science and/or public health.
In addition to the Challenge topics listed in the previous link, NIDA–specific Challenge Topics can be viewed at http://www.drugabuse.gov/Recovery.
NIH anticipates funding 200 or more grants, each of up to $1 million in total costs, pending the number and quality of applications and availability of funds. In addition, Recovery Act funds allocated to NIH specifically for comparative effectiveness research (CER) may be available to support additional grants. Projects receiving these funds will need to meet this definition of CER: "a rigorous evaluation of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients.
Such a study may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or it may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy." Such research may include the development and use of clinical registries, clinical data networks, and other forms of electronic health data that can be used to generate or obtain outcomes data as they apply to CER.
The application due date is April 27, 2009.
AMP Launches 2009/2010 Public Outreach Program Honors Michael D. Hayre, DVM, DACLAM
Americans for Medical Progress is delighted to announce the next step of our latest advocacy initiative, the Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach, designed to inspire and motivate the next generation of research advocates.
We need your help to get word of the Fellowship out to potential candidates for the 2009–10 academic year.
Visit the Web site for more information.
The Fellowship is named in honor of AMP's late former Chairman, Mike Hayre, whom many of you remember from his visionary leadership within the laboratory animal medicine community.
Young adults aged 18–30, whether affiliated with a college or not, are invited to apply. Fellowships include a stipend of $5,000 and some support for educational outreach.
Please consider whether you know someone who might be interested, or who has an idea for public outreach that would fit our criteria. Also, you may wish to post a flier about the AMP/Hayre Fellowship in a public space at your institution. Copies are available via the Web site.
Last year Tom Holder, a leader the UK student-led campaign group Pro-Test, served as the first Hayre Fellow. He travelled throughout the United States, speaking to fellow students and others about the importance of animal research in medicine and the critical need for personal outreach on the issue. Tom also fostered—and remains very active today—in the Speaking of Research advocacy network.
AMP hopes to find at least two new Fellows who in the academic year 2009–10 will continue to build on the tremendous outreach initiatives that Tom began last year.
Please help us by circulating this email to anyone you think could be a strong candidate for the Hayre Fellowship. We will be reaching out to universities, scientific and professional societies, industry and other venues via email, blog postings, etc. If you have a suggestion for such an outlet, or if you would like an icon like the one shown here to advertise the Fellowship on your own Web site or blog, just let us know.
Cheers,
PS—We would also greatly welcome donations from individuals and institutions to help support the Hayre Fellowship. Please contact AMP Vice President Kristen Bocanegra to donate. Thank you!
Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
Children’s health continues to be a high priority for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). More than $12 million will be awarded to researchers to address childhood diseases that may result from environmental exposures. The NIEHS, part of the National Institutes of Health, and the US Environmental Protection Agency have developed a joint program with multiple opportunities to enhance the research in children’s environmental health to meet each agency’s mission as well as fill the identified research gaps. There will be two types of centers funded: The Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (P20) and The Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (P01).
These funding opportunities will serve to create the next phase of the Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (CEHCs). We encourage you to spread the word about these new funding opportunities.
National Institutes of Health Announces New Transformative R01 Funding Program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to invest more than $250 million over the next five years to foster bold and creative investigator-initiated research through a new transformative R01 (T-R01) Program. For more information, see http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2008/od-09a.htm.
NIH Seeks Proposals for 2009 Director's Pioneer and New Innovator Awards
NIH is seeking proposals for 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards. Both programs are part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and support scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. The Pioneer Award competition begins with a proposal submission period from November 17 to December 17, 2008. See: Pre-Application for the 2009 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (X02). The New Innovator Award competition begins with a proposal submission period from December 15, 2008 to January 15, 2009. See: Pre-Application for the 2009 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (X02).
Health Effects Institute Issues New RFAs
The Health Effects Institute (HEI) has issued its Fall 2008 Request for (Preliminary) Applications (RFAs) and is still accepting applications for RFA 08-2: Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award; and RFPA 08-3: Health Effects of Air Pollution. Please refer to HEI’s Web site for a description of each RFA, deadlines and contact information, eligibility criteria, and instructions for applying.
NTP & NIEHS announce Request for Information (RFI) on Bisphenol A:
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) and Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) are seeking input on a number of key research areas that have been identified in recent evaluations of bisphenol A (BPA). Information provided will be used to help focus future research and testing activities on BPA. This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and should not be construed as a funding opportunity or grant program. The NTP and NIEHS welcome input from the lay public, environmental health researchers, healthcare professionals, educators, policy makers, industry, and others with an interest in BPA. The deadline for responses is December 1, 2008. Additional information is available at URL: http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/rfibpa
Food and Drug Administration provides research opportunity:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a request for proposals (RFP) for a new project “Scientific Program to Support Epidemiologic Investigations of Safety Related Issues of Marketed Drugs, and Evaluations of Risk Management Programs and Tools.” This RFP is an FDA response to provisions in the FDA Amendments Act of 2007. The RFP is focused on a research area ideally suited for pharmacy faculty engaged in health services research, pharmacoepidemiology, and patient safety research. According to the FDA announcement, this is also an ideal opportunity for interprofessional research with faculty at a school of public health.
Read the entire RFP
The cover letter accompanying the RFP
Completed proposals are due by 1:00 PM on October 14, 2008. This award will be a contract similar to the way AHRQ funds and operates the DEcIDE network.
International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas Foundation
The Foundation is a charitable organization affiliated with the International Pharmaceutical Excipients council of the Americas, which now consists of over 60 members. Globally, IPEC (known as TRIPEC consists of IPEC Americas, IPEC Europe, IPEC Japan (JPEC) and now IPEC China). It presently represents the interests of over 200 companies (www.ipecfoundation.org). Since it’s creation in 1991, the manufacturers and users of pharmaceutical excipients forming TRIPEC, have voluntarily developed high standards of quality and safety.
The purpose of the Foundation is to promote research and education related to excipients, i.e. inactive pharmaceutical ingredients. Excipients are essential to both the creation and function of many pharmaceutical products. Recently, excipients have become even more important due to their increasing role in the functioning of new delivery systems (e.g., nasal and transdermal routes of administration). In these types of products, excipients are often used to ensure that active ingredient is delivered to the appropriate site of action and released in the body of an appropriate rate.
The Foundation is aware that over the years a number of pharmaceutical products moving in global commerce have been accidentally or purposefully adulterated with low quality ingredients and even toxic excipients. Such contamination has resulted in serious injuries and death.
The Foundation has created several prizes to encourage innovation and to reward those individuals and organizations that have promoted research into the area of excipient research and technology.
Marshall Steinberg Memorial Prize—$10,000—As you will see in the attached guidelines, Dr. Steinberg, who served as Chairman of IPEC Americas was responsible for the creation of IPEC’s Safety Guidelines which formed the basis for testing new excipients. These safety guidelines are held in high regard by the FDA and have been adopted by the U.S. Pharmacopia as well as the United Nations (WIIO). The Marshall Steinberg Memorial Prize is to be given to any person that has provided an outstanding contribution in the area of excipient safety and toxicology.
Also, We have the following additional prizes available for 2008:
Ralph Shangraw Memorial Prize—$10,000—The Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award is to be given to any person that has provided an outstanding contribution in the study of excipients or excipient- related technology. (See attachment guidelines for further information)
The Foundation also hopes to contribute to efforts to improve excipient safety by working with governmental organizations as well as private organizations to reduce or eliminate the global production and/or movement of toxic excipients though its Strategic Excipient Initiatives Award. With the increased reliance on the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals in foreign facilities without adequate chain of custody monitoring and with the threat of purposefully contaminated excipients by bioterrorism, the Foundation has resolved that its first strengthen supply chain integrity and help solve these problems.
Strategic Excipient Initiative Award—$20,000—The first Strategic Initiative Prize will be given to the person or organization that develops the first low-cost portable test kit that can be used to audit the quality of excipient products in the supply chain. The winning device or devices should be able to authenticate certain excipients on-site and be able to test the most widely-used excipients. Any technology that could be eligible to win the prize must be available for purchase for any manufacturer and the U.S. Government. (See attachment guidelines for further instructions)
Attached you will find further details on these prizes. Anyone interested in applying for a prize or nomination an individual for a prize should contact Kimberly Beals (1655 N. Fort Myer Drive, #700, Arlington, VA 22209—telephone (703) 875-2127) for a copy of an application. (www.ipecamericas.com)
All prize applications are due by September 30, 2008. These applications will be reviewed for the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee (“SAC”) (consisting of Professor Emeritus, Larry L. Augsberger, Professor Bozena Michniak-Kohn, and Professor Michael Pikal) and final winners will be selected by the Foundation. Winning individuals will be announced at the annual American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) annual meeting in November.
NIGMS has renewed a Request for Applications for Short Courses in
Integrative and Organ Systems Pharmacology (R25) (RFA-GM-08-010). The
application receipt date is February 26, 2008. For details, visit:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-08-010.html
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications for Education
Projects to develop and deliver short courses that will provide students
with a 2–3 week intensive research education and training in the area of
Integrative and Organ Systems Pharmacology. These courses will
introduce students to the knowledge and skills needed for studies of
integrative organ system and whole organism biological responses to
drugs and other physiological perturbations. The research education and
training should foster ability of scientists at various career levels in
academic, industry, and government to assume leadership roles in all
three sectors. The goal of these Education Projects will be to
strengthen the research personnel base in the United States by
broadening the exposure of students to training in integrative and organ
systems sciences.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research funds highly qualified individuals to undertake broad studies of the most challenging health ploicy issues facing America. Approximately 10 grants of up to $335,000 each will be awarded to investigators from a variety of disciplines to support projects that combine creative and conceptual thinking with innovative policy-relevant approaches.
Applications are welcomed from investigators in the health, social and behavioral sciences and well as other fields. We seek a diverse group of applicants including minorities and individuals from nonacademic settings such as research firms and policy organizations. Applicants must be affiliated either with educational institutions or with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in the United States or its territories. Past awardees are not eligible to apply.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund's (BWF) new institutional training program—Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences–in the house that you will help us develop a new cadre of scientists work at the connections between population approaches to human health and basic biomedical research.
The awards will provide $500,000 a year for five years in order to stimulate institutional training
programs that partner researchers working in school of medicine and schools (or academic divisions) of
public health.
Apply for an NIH Director's Pioneer Award. If you're a new investigator,
you're also eligible for an NIH Director's New Innovator Award.
Both programs are part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and
support exceptionally creative scientists who propose highly
innovative-and often unconventional-approaches to major challenges in
biomedical or behavioral research.
Women and members of groups that are underrepresented in NIH research
areas are especially encouraged to apply.
Pioneer Award
$2.5 million in direct costs over 5 years
5–10 awards expected in September 2008
Open to Scientists Who:
- Are at an institution in the United States
- Are at any career level, including the early to middle stages
- Will commit at least 51% of their research effort to the project
Streamlined Application
Electronic application includes 3– to 5-page essay and 3 letters of reference
Applications accepted December 16, 2007–January 16, 2008
More Information
See Overview Information and NIH Director's Pioneer Award
E-mail questions to pioneer@nih.gov
New Innovator Award
$1.5 million in direct costs over 5 years
Up to 24 awards expected in September 2008
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 within the past 10 year
- Will commit at least 25% of their research effort to the project
Streamlined Application
Electronic application allows preliminary data but does not require it.
Applications accepted March 3–31, 2008
More Information
See Overview Information and NIH Director's New Innovator Award
E-mail questions to newinnovator@nih.gov
Get Pioneer Award, New Innovator Award, and Other NIH Roadmap News Register for the NIH Roadmap LISTSERV
NIH is inviting health professionals engaged in biomedical and
behavioral research to apply online for a loan repayment award. The loan
repayment programs (LRPs) are a vital component of our nation's efforts
to recruit and retain highly qualified professionals to careers in
research.
NIH annually awards loan repayment contracts to approximately 1,600
health professionals with an average award of $52,000. More than 50% of
the awards are made to individuals less than 5 years out of school.
Approximately 40% of all new applicants are funded and 70% of renewals
are funded.
NIH will repay up to $35,000 annually of qualified educational debt for health
professionals pursuing careers in one of the five Loan Repayment
Programs (LRPs). The programs also provide coverage for Federal and
state tax liabilities.
To qualify, applicants must possess a doctoral-level degree, devote an
average of 20 hours per week or more to research funded by a non-profit
organization, university, or government entity (NIH grant support is not
required). Applicants must also have outstanding educational loan debt
equal to at least 20% of their institutional base salary and be U.S.
citizen or permanent resident.
All applications for 2008 awards must be submitted online by 8:00 p.m.
EST, December 1, 2007.
To access the online application or for program information, please
visit the LRP Web site at www.lrp.nih.gov. For assistance call the Helpline at (866) 849-4047 or send email inquiries to lrp@nih.gov.
L'ORÉAL USA Fellowships for Women in Science 2008
Now Accepting Post-Doc Fellowship Applications for L'ORÉAL USA Fellowships for Women in Science 2008
Five $40,000 Fellowship grants are awarded to female postdoctoral researchers who are American born, naturalized citizens or permanent residents and affiliated with a U.S. based academic or research institution. Applicants must be involved in the life and physical/material sciences, engineering & technology, computer science or mathematics Applications close October 31, 2007
Web site: www.lorealusa.com/forwomeninscience
Manganese Health Research Program
The Manganese Health Research Program (MHRP) is funded by the United States Department of Defense. The MHRP Steering Committee is made up of independent scientists, occupational health experts from Mn producer and end-user companies and is chaired by the Secretary General of the International Manganese Institute. Dr. Michael Aschner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the Principal Investigator (PI) and the overall administrative oversight is carried out by his university.
Request for Proposals for Phase III
The Manganese Health Research Program (MHRP) invites preliminary research applications to investigate the relationship between manganese exposure and human health concerns, and to explore mechanisms by which manganese contributes to the development, progression, or exacerbation of human disease. The major purposes of this initiative are to:
- support innovative, multidisciplinary research in humans and animal models on the specific cellular, molecular and physiologic mechanisms by which manganese mediates adverse effects;
- identify and investigate factors, such as age, pre-existing disease, and genetics that make individuals more susceptible to the effects of manganese.
The United Nations Environment Programme Metals Team is currently working
to build up a roster of individual experts that may be interested in
possible consultancy opportunities with UNEP. They are particularly
looking for support in building up a broader base of consultants, i.e.
more local consultants to work in countries and a more equitable gender
balance. If you are interested in possibly doing some very important
global environmental work, please send to me, via email, your name,
contact information, and a short summary of area of the expertise related
to environmental issues and toxics (such as inventory development;
awareness raising/communications; economic incentives; waste management;
toxicology; specific sectors such as mining, coal combustion, health
care, sustainable production and consumption etc.). UNEP would follow-up
to seek more information from those who seem to be a good match for
certain projects. Of course, there are no promises from UNEP in this
exercise.
Chen H. Wen
Pollution Prevention Division
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxics
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Wen.Chen@epamail.epa.gov
The Health
Effects Institute (HEI): Fall 2006 Research
Agenda—www.healtheffects.org
The Robert Wood Johnson
Health & Society Scholars Program—www.healthandsocietyscholars.org
RDFunding—For all health-related research funding. A search
page sponsored by the UK government. They include SOT awards.
Avon Foundation-AACR International Scholar
Awards in Breast Cancer Research—For junior faculty
from countries where opportunities for scientific advancement are limited—such
as those in Southeast Asia, China, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa,
and portions of the Middle East. The awards place scholars in U.S. institutions
for two years and provide $50,000 in salary support per year, in addition
to support for research expenses, income taxes, medical and other benefits,
professional development opportunities, travel grants and more. Deadline:
To be announced.
Burroughs Welcome Fund—Career
Awards in the Biomedical Sciences
Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
of NIH has made available general information about grant submission
and the peer review process, including a video, "Inside
the NIH Grant Review Process" for new applicants and reviewers.
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) grants and fellowship information
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Office of Acquisition Management
GrantsNet from AAAS
In Vitro
Studies of Perfluorinated Chemicals—The National Toxicology
Program (NTP)
The Mickey Leland National
Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) is soliciting research
applications under its Request for Application (RFA 2006-01) for hypothesis-driven,
short-term research studies that examine, among individuals in a defined
subpopulation of the National Health and Nutrition and Examination Survey
(NHANES) population, potential associations between personal exposures
to selected air toxics and individual characteristics or activities.
National
Science Foundation (NSF) grants and awards
NIH
FY 2007 Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards
NIH Seeks Your Input on Shorter Applications
NIH—Inside
the Grant Review Process A video on peer review and other information
about preparing NIH grants. Office
of Extramural Grants home page contains guidelines and a list to
grant opportunities.
- NIH Loan Repayment Application—Researchers
with a doctoral degree can apply for NIH repayment of educational
debt of scientists in biomedical research.
Searchable funding opportunities within the Community of Science
Web Site (COS)
In Other Countries:
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Regulatory Information
- California Proposition 65 Information
- Federal Register (US EPA)—Search the Federal Register for rules, regulations, and notices since
1994.
- FDA Guidance Documents—Guidance documents represent the Agency's current thinking on a particular
subject.
- ICH Guidelines International Conference
on Harmonization files are posted on the Web site of the International
Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations. Also provides
technical requirements for registration of pharmaceuticals for human
use.
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Endocrine Disrupter Links
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Science Policy Information
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Laboratory Animal Resources
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Reference Databases for Toxicology Researchers
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Trade Associations
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Bioterrorism/Chemicals—General Information
Bioterrorism/Chemicals—Other Medical Training
Bioterrorism/Chemicals—Military Sites
Bioterrorism/Chemicals—Government Sites
Bioterrorism/Chemicals—Homeland Defense
Bioterrorism/Chemicals—Health Links
- 1Up Health provides information
and news on diseases, symptoms. tests, surgery, injuries, nutrition,
medications, and poisons. Focuses on family and community health.
- CDC's
Bioterrorism Readiness Plan: A Template for Health Care Facilities,
good medical info and useful contacts (FBI and State Health Departments)
(PDF Format)
- Integrated Medical
Curriculum (IMC) is the first integrated medical curriculum that
links together the study of anatomy, physiology, histology, pharmacology,
immunology and medical ethics via the Internet.
- InteliHealth
is a joint venture of Aetna U.S. Healthcare and Johns Hopkins University
and Health System. Established in 1996, InteliHealth has become one
of the leading health information companies in the world.
- MEDSCAPE—hosted by WebMD
- Virtual Navy Hospital
- World Health Organization
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