Current Funding Opportunities
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High Content Cellular Characterization of Physical-Based Properties of PS-OC Cell Line Panel
(RFP: #S13-086)
SAIC Frederick, Inc.
Due Date: 3/01/2013
Early-Stage Innovative Molecular Analysis Technology Development for Cancer Research (R21)
(RFA-CA-13-001)
National Cancer Institute
Application Receipt Date(s): February 20, 2013; May 20, 2013; September 20, 2013
Validation and Advanced Development of Emerging Molecular Analysis Technologies for Cancer Research (R33)
(RFA-CA-13-002)
National Cancer Institute
Application Receipt Date(s): February 20, 2013; May 20, 2013; September 20, 2013
Early-Stage Development of Innovative Technologies for Biospecimen Science (R21)
(RFA-CA-13-003)
National Cancer Institute
Application Receipt Date(s): February 20, 2013; May 20, 2013; September 20, 2013
Validation and Advanced Development of Emerging Technologies for Biospecimen Science (R33)
(RFA-CA-13-004)
National Cancer Institute
Application Receipt Date(s): February 20, 2013; May 20, 2013; September 20, 2013
NCI Provocative Questions RFA
RFA-CA-12-015 to RFA-CA-12-022
Application due date(s): December 4, 2012; June 20, 2013
The provocative questions project is intended to assemble a list of important but non-obvious questions that will stimulate the NCI's research communities to use laboratory, clinical, and population sciences in especially effective and imaginative ways. The questions should not be simple restatements of long-term goals of the National Cancer Program, which are to improve the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of all forms of cancer.
Among the questions that could involve a physical sciences approach are:
- PQB – 6: Given the difficulty of studying metastasis, can we develop new approaches, such as engineered tissue grafts, to investigate the biology of tumor spread?
- PQC – 2: How can the physical properties of tumors, such as a cell's electrical, optical or mechanical properties, be used to provide earlier or more reliable cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, or monitoring of drug response or tumor recurrence?
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NHLBI Systems Biology Collaborations (R01)
PAR-12-138
Application Due Date(s): January 14, 2013; September 13, 2013; January 13, 2014; September 15, 2014; January 13, 2015
Purpose: This FOA issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose collaborative systems biology research projects by multi-disciplinary teams to advance our understanding of normal physiology and perturbations associated with heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) diseases and disorders. [
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Cancer Education Grants Program (R25)
PAR-12-049
Application Due Date(s): January 25, May 25, September 25
Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to support innovative educational efforts that would help to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and that would improve the quality of life of cancer patients. [
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Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG)(R01)
PA-10-009
Application Due Date(s): February 5, June 5, October 5
Purpose: Participating Institutes and Centers of the NIH invite applications for R01 awards to support Bioengineering Research Grants (BRGs) for basic and applied multi-disciplinary research that addresses important biological, bioengineering or medical research problems. [
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Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R01)
PA-12-136
Application Due Date(s): February 5, June 5, October 5
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages translational research proposals in the overlapping areas of human aging and cancer, linking basic and clinical research relevant to the care of older cancer patients through both bench-to-bedside and bedside-to-bench approaches. [
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Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) [R21]
PA-10-010
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to encourage innovation and high risk/impact bioengineering research in new areas. [
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Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21)
PAR-09-219
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Exploratory Studies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis (R21)
PA-08-267
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
>Developmental Research in Cancer Prognosis and Prediction (R21)
PA-09-158
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI) (R21)
PA-12-135
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages translational research proposals in the overlapping areas of human aging and cancer, linking basic and clinical research relevant to the care of older cancer patients through both bench-to-bedside and bedside-to-bench approaches. [
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Pilot studies in Pancreatic Cancer (R21)
PA-11-297
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages the submission of Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions and organizations that propose to promote innovative research across multiple disciplines for a better understanding of the biology, etiology, detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer. [
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Pilot studies in Pancreatic Cancer (R03)
PA-11-298
Application Due Date(s): February 16, June 16, October 16
Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages the submission of Small Research Grant (R03) applications from institutions and organizations that propose to promote innovative research across multiple disciplines for a better understanding of the biology, etiology, detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer. [
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NIGMS National Centers for Systems Biology (P50)
PAR-12-187
Application due date(s): October 23, 2013; October 23, 2014
The purpose of this funding opportunity (FOA) is to promote the use of Systems Biology approaches for studying complex biological phenomena, where these phenomena are relevant to the NIGMS mission. The Centers of Excellence mechanism (P50) is intended to facilitate pioneering research, research training, education, and outreach programs in this emerging area and therefore stimulate the field as a whole. The NIGMS mission includes research portfolios in the areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, molecular and cell biology, biophysics, genetics and developmental biology, biological chemistry, pharmacology, anesthesiology, basic social and behavioral sciences, and human physiology in the areas of shock, trauma, burn, wound healing, inflammation, and multi-organ system failure (
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/About/). NIGMS does not support research focused on diseases or organ systems that are the domain of other Institutes and Centers within the NIH (
http://www.nih.gov). The modeling of emergence of infectious diseases, a systems-related area, is the subject of another NIGMS program (
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Initiatives/MIDAS). [
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Unsolicited Proposals at the Interface of the Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering
NSF 12-057
Application Due Dates: Proposals must be submitted in accordance with the deadlines and proposal submission windows specified for unsolicited proposals for the respective programs.
Purpose: Divisions within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) have seen increasing numbers of proposals in recent years that focus on biological systems at all levels of biological organization, ranging from the sub-cellular level to the environment. Additionally, the Directorate of Engineering (ENG) seeks to contribute to the understanding of biology using engineering tools to exploit unique aspects of biological systems in applications that are useful in industrial, environmental, and health care arenas. At the same time, divisions in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) are receiving more proposals that incorporate approaches and address questions that have traditionally been the domain of the mathematical and physical sciences and engineering. This letter is to remind our research communities that BIO, MPS and ENG strongly encourage proposals from interdisciplinary research teams that involve collaborations among investigators from the biological, mathematical, and physical sciences and engineering to support new interactions that span interfaces between BIO, ENG, and MPS. [
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Integrative Omics Data Analysis for Discovery in Lung Diseases (R01)
PAR-12-155
Application due date(s): June 19, 2013; June 19, 2014
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) invites applications to: (1) generate systems-level models of pulmonary pathobiology through integrative analyses of existing omics (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) data; and (2) experimentally test novel predictions of these models using human tissues/cells and/or mammalian animal models. [
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Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R21)
PAR-12-094
Application Due Date(s): November 20, 2012; June 20, 2013; November 20, 2013; June 20, 2014; November 20, 2014
Purpose: Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) and the Division of Cancer Biology (DCB), at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), invite grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic research studies into the biological causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities. [
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Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (U01)
PAR-12-095
Application Due Date(s): November 20, 2012; June 20, 2013; November 20, 2013; June 20, 2014; November 20, 2014
Purpose: Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD), the Division of Cancer Biology (DCB) and Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourage grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic, mechanistic research into the biologic/genetic causes of cancer health disparities. [
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