Grant, Award and Fellowship Opportunities 
for the Division of Life Sciences

Volume 3, Issue 10, May 2014
News & Events    |     Funding Opportunities     |     Resources
NewsNews & Events

  
Check out a highlight of these upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts. Click here for a full listing of events. 
OIP-ISR hosts and co-sponsors seminars, conferences, and networking events designed to help guide UCLA inventors forming startups, protecting intellectual property, and developing collaborations with industry:
Click here for a complete listing of upcoming events sponsored by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.
These grants seek to support innovative campus efforts to enhance UC's ability to advance scholarship, student training and knowledge, particularly in areas of importance to the university and the state.

UCLA_IDRE is pleased to announce upcoming summer courses: Harness the Power of GPU's: Intro to GPGPU Programming (June 16-20, 2014) and Data Intensive Summer School (June 30 - July 2, 2014). These courses, hosted virtually by UCLA-IDRE, are free for UCLA researchers/students.

Click here for a complete listing of upcoming events sponsored by CEILS.
Federal Opportunities

Upcoming NIH Funding Opportunities:

Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) (RM1) 

Dimensional Approaches to Research Classification in Psychiatric Disorders (R01)

Environmental Contributors to Autism Spectrum Disorders (R01) Also see (R21)

Special Topic Research Education Course:  Exploring Auditory and Vestibular Biology (R25)

Unconventional Roles of Ethanol Metabolizing Enzymes, Metabolites, and Cofactors in Health and Disease (R01) 

Undiagnosed Diseases Gene Function Research (R21)

 

Other Federal Opportunities:

DARPA - Biological Technologies  

DOD - Autism Clinical Trial Award

DOD - Autism Idea Development Award

Fish and Wildlife Service - Fiscal Year 2014 Candidate Conservation Action Funds

Fish and Wildlife Service - Fiscal Year 2014 Recovery Implementation Fund

NSF - Biological Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

NSF - Dear Colleague Letter - I/UCRCs in Areas Relevant to the Forensic Sciences
NSF - Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)

 

SBIR and STTR Opportunities:
Please note: These opportunities are open to Small Business concerns, and while UCLA is not eligible to lead, we may be able to partner with eligible entities. Please carefully review all eligibility requirements. 

Complex Technologies and Therapeutics Development for Mental Health Research and Practice (R41/R42) Also see (R43/R44)

Reagents for Glucagon and Incretin Research (R41/R42) Also see (R43/R44)

 

Non-Federal Opportunities

American Association of Immunologists - AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship Program

American Heart Association - National Innovative Research Grant  

American Society of Human Genetics - Genetics Education Research Program

International Life Sciences Institute - Future Leader Award  

Science - Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology

UCLA CTSI - Funding Opportunities

University of California Office of the President - Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI)

 

 

Foundation Opportunities
Interested applicants: please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for information or assistance regarding these opportunities.

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation - 'A' Awards

Fulbright Canada - Carlos Rico Award for North American Studies

Fulbright Canada - Distinguished Chairs Award

Fulbright Canada - NEXUS Research Awards

Fulbright Canada - Postdoctoral Research Awards

Fulbright Canada - Traditional Fulbright Scholar Award

Fulbright Canada - Visiting Research Chairs

Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Basic Biomedical Research Investigator Program 

Lung Cancer Research Foundation - 2014 Grants

Michael J. Fox Foundation - Target Validation Program

Limited Submission Opportunities

Please note: All Limited Submissions Opportunities are announced through our LSO newsletter. Please click here for archives of our most recent announcements.

 

The designation of a number (#xxx) below, provides detail about which newsletter features the applicable LSO announcement. For those LSOs without a number, it is likely that the internal process has not yet been announced.

 

To receive LSO announcements routinely, please subscribe to the Limited Submissions listserv. It is also advisable to promptly email [email protected] to indicate interest in applying.

ResourcesResearch & Funding Resources

 

This newsletter provides summarized information about selected opportunities as a resource to the UCLA campus research community. Please be sure to carefully review any announcement before commencing an application. 

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