May 21, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Academy for Global Engagement Fellowship Program
The Academy will be hosting a two day campus convening for the Global Fellows
and their mentors. There will be two public sessions held Wednesday, June 03,
2015 at Brody Auditorium.
Understanding Federal Funding: Congressional Appropriations & Agency
Priorities 8:30-9:45am
Establishing Relationships with Funders: How do you talk about your work in a
compelling and intriguing way so that funders listen and remember? 10:0011:30am
SPA (OSP|CGA) Federal Uniform Guidance
Stay up to date with grant regulation changes resulting from Uniform Guidance.
Automated Compliance Checking of NSF Proposals
Page Count: Page count rules will be enforced on the following proposal sections:
o Project Description: 15-page limit [exceptions: 8-page limit for Early-Concept
Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER), and 5-page limit for Rapid Response
Research (RAPID)]
o Budget Justification: 3-page limit for the proposing institution and a separate,
3-page limit for each sub-recipient organization
o Mentoring Plan: 1-page limit
o Data Management Plan: 2-page limit
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Budget: Budget-related checks will focus primarily on proposal duration and
requested amount. For example, the system will enforce a maximum requested
amount of $200,000 for a RAPID proposal and $300,000 for an EAGER proposal.
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Proposal Section: Proposal sections will be enforced by their funding
mechanism for Program Announcement, Program Description and other GPGtype funding opportunities. For example, an error message will appear if a Project
Description was not provided for an EAGER proposal.
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Budget Justification Upload: Budget justification can no longer be entered as
text. Awardees will be required to upload a budget justification for each
organization added to the budget via an upload screen. Already, 95% of proposers
take advantage of the upload option.
Reminder: NIH Policy on Application Compliance NOT-OD-15-095
Be mindful that non-compliance can have serious consequences. NIH may
withdraw any application identified during the receipt, referral and review
process that is not compliant with the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application
Guide, the Funding Opportunity Announcement, and relevant NIH Guide Notices.
Frequently Asked Questions on the National Science Foundation’s
Implementation of 2 CFR § 200 (Uniform Guidance)
Energy Department Launches Competition to Drive Innovations in Wave Energy
The Energy Department announced the opening of the registration period for the
Wave Energy Prize competition that aims to double the state-of-the-art
performance of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices over the next two years.
Teams must be registered by June 15, 2015.
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
Completed proposals must be provided to OSP at least three full business days
prior to the sponsor's deadline to be considered on time. On-time proposals will
take precedence over those considered late. Thank you for your continued
cooperation and commitment to improving the process of proposal review,
approval and timely submission.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
1) FY 2015 Rapid Innovation Fund (541712) HQ0034-15-BAA-RIF-0001B
2) Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R01) PAR-15-093
3) Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research
in Cancer Health Disparities (R21) PAR-15-092
4) Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies for Cancer Research (R21)
RFA-CA-15-002
5) Innovative Technologies for Cancer-Relevant Biospecimen Science
(R21) RFA-CA-15-004
6) Developing and Improving Institutional Animal Resources (G20) PAR13-219
7) Data Synthesis Grants – Award Year 2015
8) Phased Innovation Award for Exploratory Clinical Trials and Studies of
Natural Products in NCCIH High Priority Research Topics (R21/R33)
RFA-AT-16-001
9) Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) NSF 15-562
10) Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSI (SI2 - SSE&SSI)
NSF 14-520
11) Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA) W911NF-13-R-0006
12) Biological Technologies DARPA-BAA-15-35
FY 2015 Rapid Innovation Fund (541712) HQ0034-15-BAA-RIF-0001B
The goal of the Rapid Innovation Fund is to transition innovative technologies that
resolve operational challenges or save costs into acquisition programs. The DoD
seeks mature prototypes for final development, testing, evaluation, and
integration. Those selected for award may receive up to $3 million in Rapid
Innovation Funding and will have up to two years to perform the work.
Deadline: June 15, 2015
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Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R01) PAR-15-093
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications
from investigators interested in conducting basic, mechanistic research into the
biological/genetic causes of cancer health disparities. These research project
grants (R01) will support innovative studies designed to investigate
biological/genetic bases of cancer disparities, such as (1) mechanistic studies of
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biological factors associated with cancer disparities, including those related to
basic research in cancer biology or cancer prevention intervention strategies, (2)
the development and testing of new methodologies and models, and (3)
secondary data analyses.
Deadline: June 17, 2015
Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research in
Cancer Health Disparities (R21) PAR-15-092
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications
from investigators interested in conducting basic research studies into the
biological/genetic causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities. These
awards will support pilot and feasibility studies designed to investigate
biological/genetic bases of cancer disparities, such as (1) mechanistic studies of
biological factors associated with cancer disparities, (2) the development and
testing of new methodologies and models, and (3) secondary data analyses.
Deadline: June 17, 2015
3)
Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies for Cancer Research (R21)
RFA-CA-15-002
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits grant applications
proposing exploratory research focused on the inception and early-stage
development of highly innovative molecular or cellular analysis technologies for
basic and clinical cancer research. The emphasis of this FOA is on supporting the
development of novel molecular and cellular analysis capabilities with a high
degree of technical innovation with the potential to significantly affect and
transform investigations exploring the molecular and cellular basis of cancer. If
successful, these technologies should accelerate and/or enhance research in the
areas of cancer biology, early detection and screening, clinical diagnosis,
treatment, epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. Technologies
proposed for development may be intended to have widespread applicability but
must be based on molecular and/or cellular characterizations of cancer.
Deadline: June 17, 2015
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Innovative Technologies for Cancer-Relevant Biospecimen Science (R21)
RFA-CA-15-004
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits grant applications
proposing exploratory research projects on the inception and early-stage
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development of technologies that address issues related to pre-analytical
degradation of targeted analytes during the collection, processing, handling, and
storage of cancer-relevant biospecimens. The overall goal is to support the
development of highly innovative technologies capable of interrogating and/or
maximizing the quality and utility of biospecimens or samples derived from those
biospecimens for downstream analyses. This FOA will support the development of
tools, devices, instrumentation, and associated methods to assess sample quality,
preserve/protect sample integrity, and establish verification criteria for quality
assessment/quality control and handling under diverse conditions. These
technologies are expected to potentially accelerate and/or enhance research in
cancer biology, early detection, screening, clinical diagnosis, treatment,
epidemiology, and cancer health disparities, by reducing pre-analytical variations
that affect biospecimen sample quality.
Deadline: June 17, 2015
Developing and Improving Institutional Animal Resources (G20) PAR-13219
This FOA encourages applications from biomedical research institutions that
propose to renovate, repair, or improve individual animal resources. The major
objective of this program is to upgrade animal facilities to support the conduct of
biomedical and/or behavioral research. Support can be requested to alter and
renovate (A&R) the animal facilities, as well as to improve the animal care
equipment in the facility. It is expected that all award funds will be expended
expeditiously and that applicants will consider the use of sustainable design
technologies and design approaches.
Institutionally Limited: due June 20, 2015
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Data Synthesis Grants – Award Year 2015
The Gulf Research Program seeks innovative ideas on the use of existing data
collected in the Gulf of Mexico and associated coastal communities to advance
understanding of environmental conditions, ecosystem services, and community
health and well-being, including community vulnerability, recovery, and
resilience. The data derived from different sources or collected for different
purposes have the potential to be synthesized and integrated to obtain novel
insights or to increase the generality and applicability of scientific research.
Deadline: full proposal due June 22, 2015
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Phased Innovation Award for Exploratory Clinical Trials and Studies of
Natural Products in NCCIH High Priority Research Topics (R21/R33) RFAAT-16-001
The goal of this funding opportunity is to support pilot testing of natural products
(i.e., botanicals, dietary supplements, and probiotics), which have sufficient earlystage data to justify further clinical testing of the product. Under this FOA, trials
must be designed so that results, whether positive or negative, will provide
information of high scientific utility and will support decisions about further
development or testing of the natural product. The data collected should be used
to fill gaps in scientific knowledge and provide the information necessary to
develop a competitive full-scale clinical trial.
Deadline: June 22, 2015
8)
Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) NSF 15-562
This solicitation is the first of a multi-phase process meant to develop a National
Network of BD Hubs. The first phase will set up the governance structure of each
BD Hub's consortium of members as well as develop approaches to ensure crosshub collaboration and sustainability over the long term. The next phase will focus
on building out various sectors of particular interest to each BD Hub (e.g.,
transportation, smart cities, health, energy, public safety, and education) so as to
advance sector innovation in that region. The final phases will focus on
connecting the BD Hubs and their regional sectors into a national Big Data
innovation ecosystem.
Deadline: June 24, 2015
9)
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSI (SI2 - SSE&SSI) NSF
14-520
NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and
education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the
cyberinfrastructure. SI2's intent is to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help
researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution,
and accuracy by integrating computation, data, networking, observations and
experiments in novel ways.
Deadline: June 26, 2015
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Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA) W911NF-13-R-0006
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) sets forth research areas of interest to
the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA). This umbrella agency serves
as the Executive Agent for Department of Defense (DoD) forensics and biometrics
casework, research, and new capabilities development. The DFBA forensic and
biometric capabilities assist DoD in combating networks that threaten warfighters
by denying criminals and adversaries anonymity.
Deadline: June 30, 2015
Biological Technologies DARPA-BAA-15-35
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative
research proposals of interest to the Biological Technologies Office (BTO).
Proposed research should investigate leading edge approaches that enable
revolutionary advances in science, technologies, or systems at the intersection of
biology with engineering and the physical and computer sciences. Specifically
excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the
existing state of the art. BTO seeks unconventional approaches that are outside
the mainstream, challenge assumptions, and have the potential to radically
change established practice, lead to extraordinary outcomes, and create entirely
new fields.
Deadline: April 28, 2016
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All deadlines listed in this announcement indicate the agency’s due date. Please
adjust your PPF submission to account for the new deadline policies.
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)