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Selected Funding Opportunities:
Restricted-Access Research Data Centers (RDCs)
This solicitation invites proposals for the establishment of new Research Data Centers (RDCs).
Research Data Centers (RDCs) are secure Census Bureau facilities within which external
researchers are given access to confidential micro data in accordance with specific statutory
requirements.
Deadline: September 30
Networks to Develop Priority Areas of Behavioral & Social Research (R24)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to provide infrastructure support for
advancing development of specific high priority areas of behavioral and social research of
relevance to aging. The infrastructure support will facilitate research networks through
meetings, conferences, small scale pilots, educational opportunities, and dissemination to
encourage growth and development of specified priority areas and of broad community
resources for advancing research in the field. Network applications are limited to the following
areas: the measurement of biological risk in population aging studies, decision neuroscience and
aging, and the harmonization of cross-national longitudinal aging studies to US Health and
Retirement Study.
Deadline: January 16
Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research (P50)
The overarching goal of the specialized Udall Centers program is to establish a network of
Centers that work collaboratively as well as independently to define the causes of and discover
improved treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD). A more immediate goal for each Center is to
rapidly advance synergistic, interdisciplinary research programs while serving as national leaders
in PD research. Udall Centers also serve as local resources by organizing research career
enhancement activities for Center investigators and periodic outreach to the PD
patient/advocacy community. Applicants are expected to identify and address an overall
research theme that defines a critical challenge in PD research.
Deadline: December 15
HIV-infected Adolescents: Transitioning from Pediatric to the Adult Care Setting
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications on
transition of HIV-infected youth to adult care with the goal of developing an evidence base to
support guidelines applicable to low, middle, and high income countries.
Deadline: December 14 – LOI; January 14 – Application.
 R21
 R01
Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) Horizon Award
The Horizon Award supports junior level scientists to conduct impactful research with the
mentorship of an experienced cancer researcher. The Horizon Award challenges junior scientists
to develop and implement research in the cancer field. Preliminary data are not required.
However, logical reasoning and a sound scientific rationale for the proposed research must be
demonstrated.
Pre-application due August 11; Letters of recommendation and applications due September 29.
Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
The mission of the DARPA Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to identify and pursue high-risk, highpayoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines and to
transform these initiatives into important, radically new, game-changing technologies for U.S.
national security. In support of this mission, this Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
invites proposers to submit innovative basic or applied research concepts in one or more of the
following technical areas: Physical Systems; Mathematics, Modeling and Design; and HumanMachine Systems. Executive summaries accepted through 5/12/16; Abstracts accepted through
6/2/16; Proposals accepted through 7/2/16.
Empirical Measurement of the Impact of Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites applications from eligible
applicants to develop a data infrastructure of technology transfer activities across federal
laboratories that can be used as a tool to empirically measure the economic impact of
technology transfer activities from federal laboratories. Specifically, the awardee, in
collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will sponsor
graduate and post-doctoral research; assess, define, and develop the data infrastructure and
tools required to empirically measure the impact of technology transfer across the entire federal
laboratory system; conduct systematic empirical analyses of technology transfer mechanisms
across federal laboratories; conduct analyses to measure the economic impacts of technology
transfer from federal laboratories; identify barriers to effective technology transfer from the
federal laboratory system; and disseminate the data infrastructure, tools, and results of the
analyses. Deadline: August 24.
Digital Humanities Start-up Grant
The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the
planning stages of digital projects that promise to benefit the humanities. The program supports
both new projects in early stages of development and efforts to reinvigorate existing or dormant
projects in innovative ways. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital
initiatives in any area of the humanities.
Deadline: September 16.
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Limited Submissions:
Preproposals and rankings to the EVPRP should be e-mailed to EVPRPlimited@purdue.edu.
Purdue’s open limited submission competitions, limited submission policy, and templates for
preproposals may be found at http://www.purdue.edu/research/funding-and-grantwriting/limited-submissions.php. For any case in which the number of preproposals received is
no more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the EVPRP will notify the PI(s)
that an internal competition will be unnecessary.
Limited Submission: Dialogues on the Experience of War
The program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in
the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others to think more deeply
about the issues raised by war and military service. The humanities sources can be drawn from
history, philosophy, literature, and film—and they may and should be supplemented by
testimonials from those who have served. The discussions are intended to promote serious
exploration of important questions about the nature of duty, heroism, suffering, loyalty, and
patriotism. The program awards grants of up to $100,000 that will support: 1) the recruitment
and training of discussion leaders; and 2.) following the training program, the convening of at
least two discussion programs. For this opportunity, Purdue may submit only three applications.
Internal Deadline: Email EVPRPlimited by July 20.
Sponsor Deadline: September 15
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Anticipated Funding Opportunities:
These solicitations are anticipated to be released soon based on the timing of previous
solicitations for the program or notices of intent to publish. We are posting this information to
help with proposal planning efforts but please keep in mind that the release dates and/or scope
of a solicitation can change from year-to-year so be sure to read the solicitation carefully once it
is released.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Unsolicited Proposals for Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Big
Data (QuBBD)
The National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) aims to foster interand multi-disciplinary, exploratory collaborations by encouraging the submission of unsolicited
proposals for small one-year planning grants (typically less than $100,000 in total costs per
grant). We encourage collaborative proposals from new teams of researchers, representing the
quantitative / computational sciences and the biomedical sciences, pursuing novel approaches
to data challenges in precision medicine.