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Current Limited Submission Opportunities

The following limited opportunities have been recently announced by the Office of Research Development (ORD).

If you have any questions regarding the following announcements, please contact Fruma Yehiely, Director of ORD. Deadlines are at midnight for LOIs and for internal proposals, unless stated otherwise in the announcement.

For specific application instructions, please refer to the announcement for each program.

You may also find current limited submissions opportunities at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Limited Submissions LOI

The Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust: Searle Scholars Program

Announcement

Two (2) Nominees

06/27/13: Internal LOI due (midnight)

07/15/13: Internal Proposal due (midnight)

07/29/13: Internal notification

09/27/13: Sponsor proposal due

The Pew Charitable Trusts: Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences Program

Announcement

One Nominee

06/13/13: Internal LOI due (midnight)

06/27/13: Internal Proposal due (midnight)

07/13/13: Internal notification

11/01/13: Sponsor proposal due

NSF ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers

Announcement

One (1) Nominee

06/15/2013: Internal LOI due (midnight)

10/04/2013: Sponsor LOI due (required)

11/12/2013: Sponsor proposal due

NEH Summer Stipend Program

Announcement

Two (2) Nominees

06/03/13: Internal LOI due (midnight)

07/01/13: Internal proposal upload (midnight)

07/29/13: Internal notification

09/27/13: Sponsor proposal due

The Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award

Announcement

Two (2) Nominees

07/02/13: Internal LOI due (midnight)

07/15/13: Internal proposal upload (midnight)

07/29/13: Internal notification

09/16/13: Sponsor proposal due

The following opportunities have been announced and are available to the university community, on a first come, first-served basis. If you are interested, please contact Fruma Yehiely to be granted the required institutional authorization. Sponsor deadlines provided.

September 2013

• NIH NIAMS Skin Diseases Research Core Centers (P30) (Proposal due 9/20/13)

August 2013

• NIH/NIDA Medications Development Centers of Excellence Cooperative Program (U54) (Proposal due 8/15/13)
• NIH NINDS Stroke Trials Network - National Data Management Center (DMC) (U01) (Proposal due 8/14/13)
• NSF Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (ORCEESE) (Proposal due 8/7/13)
• NIH Developing and Improving Institutional Animal Resources (G20) (Proposal due 8/2/13)

July 2013

• NIH Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) Clinical Research Sites (U01) (Proposal due 7/11/13)

June 2013

• NIDDK Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers (P30) ) (LOI due 06/14/13; Proposal due 07/15/13)
• NIH NIAID Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence (ACE), Basic Research Program (U19) (Proposal due 6/13/13)
• NIH NIAID Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence (ACE), Clinical Research Program (UM1) (Proposal due 6/13/13)
• NIH NINDS Stroke Trials Network - National Clinical Coordinating Center (U01) (Proposal due 6/4/13)

May 2013

• NIH Core Centers for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (P30) (LOI due 5/31/13; Proposal due 7/1/13)
• NIH NINDS Stroke Trials Network - Regional Coordinating Stroke Centers (U10) (Proposal due 5/15/13)
• NIH NCI Collaborative Human Tissue Network (CHTN) (UM1) (Proposal due 5/31/13)
• NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering (Proposal due 5/22/13)

The following opportunities are now closed. If you have any questions, please contact Fruma Yehiely:

October 2013

• Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award

August 2013

• American Diabetes Association: Diabetes Research Career Initiator Award / Diabetes Research Accelerator Award
• Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Grants
• NSF Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC)

July 2013

• NSF Critical Zone Observatory National Office (CZO - NO)
• NSF Widening Implementation & Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms (WIDER)

June 2013

• NIH NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (P50)
• NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM)

May 2013

• AMGEN Foundation Grants
• NIH Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence, Clinical Research Program (UM1)
• NIH Director’s Biomedical Research Workforce Innovation Award: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) (DP7)

April 2013

• The Brain Research Foundation 2013 Seed Grant Program
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering
• NIH NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research (P30)
• Next-Generation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NG NNIN)
• NSF High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Building a More Inclusive Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
• NIH Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) (
• DoC NOAA National Ocean Sciences Competition for High School Students

March 2013

• NIH NIEHS Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42)
• NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
• NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE)
• EPA/NSF Networks for Characterizing Chemical Life Cycle (NCCLCs)
• EPA/NSF Networks for Sustainable Molecular Design and Synthesis (NSMDS)
• NIGMS Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) (R25)
• NIH Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers 2013 (U54)
• NSF George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations FY 2015-FY 2019 (NEES2 Ops)

February 2013

• The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
• American Honda Foundation Grants
• Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grants Program
• The Ellison Medical Foundation - New Scholar Award in Aging
• NIH NIMHD Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (T37)
• NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant Program (MRI)
• NSF Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office for the Division of Earth Sciences (CSDCO)

January 2013

• Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program
• NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC)
• NIH Director's Early Independence Award
• NIH Advancing Clinical Research in Primary Glomerular Diseases (UM1)
• NSF Critical Zone Observatories (CZO)

2012

• NIH Limited Competition: Framework Programs for Global Health Innovation (D43)
• NSF Climate Change Education Partnership Alliance Office (CCEPA Office)
• NIH NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research [U54]

• NIH Expansion of Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN) (U01)
• HRSA Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Grant Program
• US-India Educational Foundation (USIEF): Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative
• The Pew Charitable Trusts Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
• US-India Educational Foundation Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, Round 3

• NSF Science Support Office for the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)
• NSF Operations and Management of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution for the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)

• NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)
• NSF Innovation Corps-Regional Node Program (I-Corps Node)
• NIH Centers of Excellence for Research on CAM (P01)
• Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Program
• NIH George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Core Centers (P30)
• NSF Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ABDC)
• NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
• NIH Pilot Studies of Candidate Therapies for Chronic Kidney Diseases (CKD) (U01)
• NIH Novel Interventions to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality of Hemodialysis Patients – Safety and Other Early Phase Studies (U01)
• NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (R25)
• NIH Bridges to the Doctorate Program (R25)

• The Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust Searle Scholars Program
• NEH Summer Stipend Program
• NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI BIC)
• NIH Career Development Program in Omics of Lung Diseases (K12)
• NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
• NSF Construction of Regional Class Research Vessels (RCRV)
• NSF EarthScope SAFOD Management Office (SMO)

• NIH NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research (U54)
• NIH Centers for Accelerated Innovations
• Edward Mallinckrodt Jr., Grants Program-August 2012 Round (RETRACTED-internal process)
• NIH Center for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders (U24)
• NIH Core Clinical Centers for the Cardioothoracic Surgical Trials Network, CTSN (UM1)
• NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT): CIF21 Track
• NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM) Program
• NIH NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities: Planning Phase (R24)
• NIH Centers for AIDS Research and Development Centers for AIDS Research (P30)
• The NEI Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award (K12)
• NIH Framework Programs for Global Health Innovation
• NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT)
• NIH Jointly Sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neuorsciences (T32)
• NSF Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE) Program
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering Program
• NIH NIDDK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (IBDGC) Genetic Research Centers (GRCs) (U01)
• NIH NINR Centers of Excellence in Symptom Science (P30)
• NIH NINR Centers of Excellence in Symptom Science: Building Research Teams for the Future (P20)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Identifying Reasons for Racial/Ethnic Disparities with
  Completing the HPV Vaccine Series among Adolescent Females
• USAID Higher Education Solutions Network
• NIH Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics II (T15)
• NIH Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42)
• Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers (P30)
• The Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program in Aging
• NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) Program
• NIH Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) (R25)
• NIH Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN) (U01)
• NIH Career Development Programs in Diabetes Research for Behavioral Scientists (K12)
• NIH Rheumatic Diseases Research Core Centers (P30)
• NSF Sustainable Energy Pathways (SEP) Program
• NIH Diabetes Research Centers (P30)
• NIH NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research (P30)
• NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)

2011

• NIH NIGMS Centers for HIV/AIDS-Related Structural Biology (P50)
• The NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN)
• NSF Sustainability Research Networks (SRN) Competition
• NIH Research Infrastructure for Demographic and Behavioral Population Science (R24)
• NIH Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30)
• NSF Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE)
• NSF Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR)
• NIH George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Core Centers (P30)
• NIH Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) (P30)
• NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
• NIH Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology (P50)
• Proctor and Gamble Fund Higher Education Grant Program
• NIH Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars (R25)

• NSF Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships

• NIH NIMHD Resource-Related Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (U24)

• NIH NLM Institutional Training Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics (T15)

• NIH Shared Instrumentation Grants Program (SIG) (S10)

• NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (U13)
  
  

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