Funding Resources and
Research Development at UCI
UCI Department of Education
January 8, 2010
Simple as Pie:
Universities Grow
+ Flat Budget
Tougher Competition
How can an institution get a bigger
slice of the funding pie?
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More competitive proposals
Larger proposals
More collaborative proposals
Greater persistence – resubmissions
Research Development at UCI
• RD Offices are distributed around the
campus and UCIMC
• Not all have “Research Development” in
the name
• Not all do the same things; not all do RD
full time
• The UCI RD Professionals Group shares
information and collaborates on projects
What does Research Development in
the Office of Research do?
• Writing and editing proposals
Before . . .
… After
How much writing and editing?
Proposals Edited in 2009
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$787,590/3 years: (RB) Wrote and edited proposal for LifeChips GAANN, G.P. Li, PI (December
2009)
$787,590/3 years: (BR, RB) Edited proposal for Physics GAANN, Asantha Cooray, PI (December
2009)
$50,000/1 year: (BR) Edited proposal for CRCC, Novel Liposome Nanocarriers for Targeted
Cancer Therapy, Young Kwon, PI (December 2009)
$536,052/3 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NSF, Development of an Uncertainty Model for NMQ
Rainfall Products in Regions with Poor or Nonexistent Coverage, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Amir
AghaKouchak) (December 2009)
$2 million/5 years: (RB) Wrote proposal for NIH Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center, Ed
Nelson, Greg Weiss, Kumar Wickramasinghe, PIs (November 2009)
$800,000/4 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NIH Eureka program, Targeted Delivery and
Controlled In Vivo Differentiation of Stem Cells, Young Jik Kwon, PI (November 2009)
$136,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal for DOE graduate fellowship, Multidentate
Hydrazone Ligands: Potential Redox-Active Ligands, for Janice Wong: (November 2009)
$136,500/3 years: (RB, BR) Commented on proposal for DOE graduate fellowship, Detailed
Molecular Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol Generated from the Photochemical
Aging of Anthropogenic Primary Emissions using Methods of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry,
for Tran Nguyen (November 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, micelles, Andrew Maycock
(October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, solar energy, Jeremy Pearson
(October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, Web architecture, for Kyle
Strasser (October 2009)
Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)
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$121,500/3 years: (RB) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, cell type-switching in Candida
albicans, for Melissa Bilbao (October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB, BR) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, Formation and Time
Evolution of Molecular Orbitals, for Alejandro Rodriguez Perez (October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB, BR) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, Machine Learning
Techniques for Analyzing Data from Sky Surveys, for Darren Davis (October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB, BR) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, computational model of part
of brain involved in spatial learning, for Marianne Case (October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (RB, BR) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, Everett, Quantum
Mechanics, and Information Theory, for Sam Fletcher (October 2009)
$121,500/3 years: (BR) Commented on proposal for NSF GRFP, Environmental Engineering, for
Mani Firouzian (October 2009)
~$60,000/2 years: (BR) Commented on proposal for Soros Fellowships for New Americans, for
Mani Firouzian (October 2009)
$25,000/1-2 years: (BR) Commented on proposal for Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, The
Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America, for
Jessica Collier (October 2009)
$574,178/5 years: (RB, BR) Edits, bio sketches, upload for NSF REU, IM-SURE, G.P. Li, PI (Said
Shokair Manager) (October 2009)
$2,905,080/5 years: (RB) Edited proposal for NIH CNPP, Dielectrophoretic Nanotweezer (DeNT)
Nanotechnology Platform to Study Tumor Biology, Kumar Wickramasinghe, PI (October 2009)
$300,000/3 years: (BR, RB) Edited proposal for NSF Bayesian Model for Multiple Hypothesis
Testing in Gene Set Analysis, Babak Shahbaba, PI (October 2009)
Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)
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$1.5 million/5 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NIH New Innovators Award, Semi-artificial hybrid vector for multimodal, targeted, and safe gene therapy, Young Jik Kwon, PI (October 2009)
$25,000/1 year: (BR) Commented on proposal for ACLS/Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, Crafted
Abstraction: Three Nisei Artists: Ruth Asawa, Kay Sekimachi, and Toshiko Takaezu, 1942-1972, for Krystal
Hauseur (October 2009)
$3,000/1 summer: (BR) Commented on Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellowship, Changing Traditions: The
Role of Village Women in the Creation of Modern Japan, for Christina Ghanbarpour (September 2009)
$13 million/5 years: (BR, RB) Edited proposal for NIH Conte Center resubmission, to study sleep deprivation and
ketamine’s effects on major depressive disorder, William Bunney, PI (September 2009)
$33,000/1 year: (BR) Commented on ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Woman in Revolution: A
Biography of Rosalie Ducrollay Jullien (1745-1823), for Lindsay Holowach (September 2009)
$24,793/1 year: (BR, RB) Commented on proposal for NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant, Critical Theory
Digital Archive, Erin Obodiac (September 2009)
~$24,000/1 year: (BR) Commented on Fulbright graduate proposal, Designing Development in India, for Lilly Irani
(August 2009)
$540,000/3 years: (RB) Edited proposal for NOAA Climate Prediction program, A framework for improving landsurface hydrologic process representation in CLM over California, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (JiaLun Li) (August
2009)
$450,000/3 years: (RB) Edited proposal for NOAA CCDD, Reconstruction and Analysis of High Resolution
Precipitation Dataset, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Kuolin Hsu) (August 2009)
$540,000/3 years: (RB, BR) Edited proposal for NASA Precipitation Science, Effective Integration of Multi-Satellite
Observations for Precipitation Retrieval, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Kuolin Hsu) (August 2009)
~$24,000/1 year: (BR) Commented on proposal for Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship to Taiwan, for Diana
Yanez (August 2009)
Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)
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$121,500/3 years: (RB, BR) Commented on NSF GRFP, 2-Dimensional Infrared Spectra of Chemical Systems, for
Nick Preketes, (July 2009)
$~500,000/5 years: (RB, BR) Edited NSF CAREER proposal, Bayesian Methods for Probabilistic Graphical
Models, Babak Shahbaba, PI (July 2009)
$522,288/5 years: (BR) Edited NSF CAREER proposal, Acid-transforming Polypeptides as Stimuli-responsive,
Efficient, Biocompatible, and Tunable Nonviral Gene Carriers, Young Jik Kwon, PI (July 2009)
$XX/1 year: (BR) Commented on proposal for Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship program, to Taiwan, for
Diana Yanez (July 2009)
$457,278/5 years: (BR, RB) Edited NSF CAREER proposal, Models of Fermion Masses, Flavor Mixing, and CP
Violation at the Electroweak and Unification Scales, Mu-Chun Chen, PI (July 2009)
$2,385,000/5 years: (BR, RB) Edited proposal for NIH R01 renewal, Mitochondrial RNA processing machinery in
Trypanosomes, Ruslan Aphasizhev, PI (July 2009)
$15 million/1 year: (RB, with Jacob’s group) NIH C06 proposal, for stem cells, Sue Bryant, PI (July 2009)
$6 million/5 years: (RB, BR) Wrote and edited NIST TIP proposal, Robotic Rehabilitation of Aging Water Pipeline,
Heath (industry partner) as PI, for Maria Feng (June 2009) (The proposal is a total of $18 million for 5 years, with
UCI’s portion being $6 million, of which $3 million is from NIST and another $3 million is matching [UCI overhead
plus Fyfe's contribution]).
$750,000 [?]/2 years: (RB) Wrote proposal for NCMHD ARRA Health Disparities Research, Community-Based
Health Disparities Research, Al Manetta, PI (June 2009)
$14,999,079/1 year: (RB, with Jacob’s group) Wrote and edited proposal for NIH C06 ARRA construction grant,
Gross Hall basement retrofit, Sue Bryant, PI (June 2009)
$2,596,937/5 years: (BR, RB) Edited proposal for NIH R01, Pinpointed and Targeted Multimodal Theragnostics for
Early-Stage Cancer, Young Jik Kwon, PI (June 2009)
Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)
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$500,000/1 year: (RB, CH, BR) Wrote and edited proposal for NCRR Challenge Grant, PIBS (Procedural, Imaging,
and Behavioral Suites), Jeff Goodwin, PI (May 2009)
$5 million/5 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NIH R24, brain tissue repository for psychiatric illnesses, William
Bunney, PI (May 2009)
$XX/XX years: (RB, BR) Edited proposal for NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant, Stephen Hanessian,
PI (May 2009)
$9,893,395 /5 years: (BR, RB) Edited Admin Core for NIH ADRC grant, Carl Cotman, PI (May 2009) (they didn’t
use it because we got the text too close to their deadline)
$1 million/2 years: (RB) Edited NIH Challenge Grant, Isolation of Intact Protein Complexes for Structural and
Functional Analysis, Young Jik Kwon, PI (April 2009)
Salary and benefits/one year: (CH, BR) Edited proposal for Kauffman Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in
entrepreneurship, for Shinjae Chung (April 2009)
$600,000/2 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NIEHS Challenge Grant, Genome-wide strategies to study genetic
interactions in complex diseases, Guia Guffanti, PI (April 2009)
$600,000/2 years: (BR, RB) Edited proposal for DOE, Enhancing cloud microphysics modeling using the system
theoretic optimization approach, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Xiaogang Gao) (April 2009)
$50,400/1 year: (BR, CH) Edited proposal for NEH Fellowship, Empire and Nation: Culture, Translation, and
Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1920s through the 1960s, Serk Bae Suh, PI (April 2009)
$XX/XX years: (RB) Wrote proposal for ED GAANN, LifeChips, G.P. Li, PI (March 2009) (not funded)
$387,742/2 years: (BR) Edited NIH R21 resubmission, Nanoparticle carries for targeted cancer gene therapy,
Young Jik Kwon, PI (March 2009)
$XX/5 years: (RB, BR, CH) Commented on pre-proposal for NSF IGERT, EARTH Idea, Diane Pataki, PI (March
2009)
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$600,000/3 years: (BR, CH) Edited proposal for NIH RO1, Combined Optical Imaging and Gene Therapy for EarlyStage Cancer by Stimuli-Triggered Transformation of Nanoparticles, Young Jik Kwon, PI (February 2009)
$XX/XX years: (RB) Formatted graphics for NIH RO1, Genetic and Neuroanatomical Abnormalities in Suicide,
William Bunney, PI (Marquis Vawter) (February 2009)
$1.5 million/5 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NIH RO1 renewal, How trypanosomes’ molecular machineries
function together in defining a mitochondrial transcriptome at discrete developmental stages, Ruslan Aphasizhev,
PI (February 2009)
$7,500/1-2 years: (BR, CH) Commented on proposal and formatted bio sketches for UC HRI California Studies
Consortium, “Place-Making:” Mapping Kumeyaay Placenames, Tanis Thorne, PI (February 2009)
$440,000/2 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NOAA/NWS, Understanding and improving California’s river and water
resource predictions using in situ and remote sensing data, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Xiaogang Gao) (February
2009)
$408,000/4 years: (BR, RB) Edited and commented on proposal for FIPSE Atlantis EU-U.S. Academic
Cooperation, DUDECRONO, Dimitris Pavlidis, PI (from Germany), Jean-Luc Gaudiot, UCI Co-PI (February 2009)
(awarded)
$17,494,573/5 years: (BR, RB, CH) Edited proposal for NIH Cancer Center Comprehensive Center designation,
Frank Meyskens, PI (February 2009) Jacquie said these numbers are for Stage 1, while this application is for
Stage 2
$1,240,000/2 years: (RB) Edited proposal for NSF, Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new production in the
Sargasso Sea, Adam Martiny, PI (February 2009)
Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)
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$752,738 /3 years: (RB) Edited proposal for NSF, Collaborative Research: Evolutionary Ecology of
Marine Synechococcus-Cyanophage Interactions, Jennifer Martiny, PI (February 2009)
$XX/2 years: (CH, RB, BR) Wrote and edited LOI for University of Chicago Arete, New Science of
Virtues, “The Etiology of Altruism, Its Causes and Consequences,” Kristen Monroe, PI (February
2009)
$XX/3 years: (CH, BR) Wrote and edited LOI and proposal for NSF Gender in Science and
Engineering, “Gender Equality: What Works and What Does Not,” Kristen Monroe, PI (February
2009) (LOI turned down)
$60,000-$90,000/2-3 years: (BR) Edited proposal for NASA fellowship, A statistical modelselection approach for daily snow water equivalent estimation using in-site, satellite remote
sensing and other data in California, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Xiaogang Gao) (January 2009)
$1.25 million/5 years: (RB) Edited proposal for NIH RO1, M current regulatory mechanisms’
contributions to neuronal plasticity, Naoto Hoshi, PI (January 2009)
Total = 69 proposals
requesting $108,505,810
Funded Proposals 2009
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$6.2 million/5 years: Maria Feng (Heath [industry partner] as PI), NIST TIP
proposal, Robotic Rehabilitation of Aging Water Pipeline (The proposal is a
total of $18 million for 5 years, with UCI’s portion being $6 million, of which
$3 million is from NIST and another $3 million is matching [UCI overhead
plus Fyfe's contribution].) (December 2009)
$7,500/1-2 years: Tanis Thorne, PI, UC HRI California Studies Consortium,
“Place-Making”: Mapping Kumeyaay Placenames (November 2009)
$1,240,000/2 years: Adam Martiny, PI, NSF, Prochlorococcus and its
contribution to new production in the Sargasso Sea (October 2009)
$408,000/4 years: Jean-Luc Gaudiot (UCI Co-PI), Dimitris Pavlidis, PI (from
Germany), FIPSE Atlantis EU-U.S. Academic Cooperation, DUDECRONO
(August 2009)
$500,000/1 year: Jeff Goodwin, PI, NCRR Rederivation and Quarantine
Suite (RIQS)
$191,198/1 year: Ruslan Aphasizhev, NIH R21, Functions of Nuclear NonCanonical Poly(A) Polymerases in Trypanosomes
$350,000/5 years: Candice Odgers, W.T. Grant Foundation Scholars
proposal, Macro-to-micro contextual triggers of early adolescent substance
exposure, (February 2009)
$144,590/1 year: Dara Sorkin, NIDDK K01 Award, Using Social Ties to
Reduce Disparities: The Coached Care for Diabetes Program (April 2009)
What else does Research
Development do?
• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
UCI Fundopp
• Began as listserv in Contracts and Grants –
focus on NSF opps
• Research Development launches 1994 Fundopp
expands agency coverage; adopts summary
format
• Fundopp edited by grad interns 1995-97
• Quantitative Increase 1996 (Beth Riley 600 ->
800)
• Quantitative Explosion (Beth full time)
• Now more than 1,200/year
Does Research Development
do anything else?
• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
• Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
Is there anything else that
Research Development does?
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Writing and Editing Proposals
Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
Hosts Funding Search Engines
Funding Opportunity Search Engines
Those search engines seem confusing.
Any help for that?
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Writing and Editing Proposals
Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
Hosts Funding Search Engines
(with custom searches available by request)
But does Research Development help
Graduate Students with Proposals?
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Writing and Editing Proposals
Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
Hosts Funding Search Engines
Comments on Graduate Student Proposals
What about faculty collaboration?
Are there any resources for that?
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Writing and Editing Proposals
Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
Hosts Funding Search Engines
Comments on Graduate Student proposals
Support for Faculty Profiles
Research Development in the
Office of Research
• Operating since 1994
• Active Campuswide
• Staff of 2.5: Director, Editor and .5-time
Undergraduate Intern
• Looking for opportunities to increase UCI’s
competitiveness for funding
Thank you for listening.