Grant, Award and Fellowship Opportunities

for the Division of Life Sciences

Announcement: Routing Proposals through OCGA

As announced in the Research Administrator's Forum (RAF) on February 12, 2015, effective immediately, all proposals requiring OCGA review and submission should be routed to the OCGA Proposal Intake Team proposals@research.ucla.edu.

Click above for more information.

UCLA Research Enhancement Series - Upcoming Programs

Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts. Partial list as follows.

Click here for previous event videos and presentation materials.

EPA announces support for Small Businesses to Bring Green Technology, Innovative Research to Marketplace

The Environmental Protection Agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program helps businesses bring innovative green technologies to the marketplace. The next EPA SBIR Phase I solicitation is scheduled to open in Spring 2015.

Research Development & Grant-Writing News

Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.

UCLA Office of Intellectual Property - Upcoming Events

OIP-ISR hosts and co-sponsor seminars, conferences, and networking events designed to help guide UCLA inventors forming startups, protecting intellectual property, and developing collaborations with industry

FirstFridays at OIP-ISR (Theme: Blackstone Launchpad at UCLA) - Apr 3

StartupUCLA- Upcoming Events

Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.

UCLA CTSI - Upcoming Events

View upcoming events hosted by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute by following the link above.

UCLA Center for Education Innovation in Life Sciences - Upcoming Events

UCLA CEILS fosters the professional development and training of faculty who wish to incorporate evidence-based teaching approaches into their courses.

UCLA Code for the Mission Contest

The Office of Intellectual Property and the Office of Information Technology announce the Second Annual UCLA "Code for the Mission" App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty, Staff and Students) to develop mobile apps (both native and web-based) that further UCLA's mission of Research, Education and Service. Each year we will have three contest categories that will match our three tiered mission. Registration deadline is May 29.

Federal Opportunities

Upcoming NIH Opportunities:

Advancing Translational and Clinical Probiotic/Prebiotic and Human Microbiome Research (R01)

Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R01)

Common Basic Sociobehavioral Mechanisms and Processes that Facilitate or Impede Self-Management of Chronic Conditions (Admin Supp)

Developing Paradigm-Shifting Innovations for in vivo Human Placental Assessment in Response to Environmental Influences (U01)

Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Research (R21)

Early-life Factors and Cancer Development Later in Life (R01) Also see: (R21)

Environmental Contributors to Autism Spectrum Disorders (R01)

Epigenetic Inheritance and Transgenerational Effects of Alcohol (R21)

Gene-Environment Interplay in Substance Use Disorders (R01)

Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (U01)

NIA Program Project Applications (P01)

NICHD Research Short Courses (R25)

NINDS Research Education Opportunities (R25)

One-Year Administrative Supplements to NIMH-supported Research (Admin Supp)

Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster (R21)

Role of Exosomes in HIV Pathogenesis (R21)

Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Population Based Studies (U01)

Systems Biology and Antibacterial Resistance (U01)

Upcoming NSF Opportunities:

Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development

Long Term Ecological Research

Science of Organizations

Other Upcoming Federal Opportunities:

DOC - NIST Center for Neutron Research Comprehensive Grant Program

DOD - Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Broad Agency Announcement

DOD - Biological Technologies

DOD - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Broad Agency Announcement

DOD - Young Faculty Award

DOI - California, Nevada and Klamath River Basin Notice of Funding Availability

DOI - Recovery Implementation Fund

DOI - Standard Grants North American Wetlands Conservation

DOI - Wildlife Without Borders - Latin America and the Caribbean (Central America)

NOAA - Broad Agency Announcement

USDA - Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grants Program

USFWS - National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Non-Federal Opportunities

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Alice and C. C. Wang Award & Herbert Taylor Research Award
American Society For Microbiology - Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship
American Society of Hematology - Scholar Awards
American Society of Human Genetics - Genetics & Public Policy Fellowship
BBVA Foundation - Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
Beyond the Box - Digitization Competition
Borchard Foundation Center on International Education - International Colloquium in France Grant
Chanel Research and Technology - Research Awards
Foundation for Child Development - Young Scholars Program
Grand Challenges in Global Health - Addressing Newborn and Infant Gut Health Through Bacteriophage-Mediated Microbiome Engineering
Leakey Foundation - Research Grants
Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education - Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
National Rosacea Society - Research Grants
Panthera, Inc - Kaplan Graduate Awards
Project Management Institute - Sponsored Research Program
Research Corporation For Science Advancement - Cottrell Scholars
University of California, San Diego - Falling Walls Lab

Foundation Opportunities

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

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Awards for Eliminating Health Disparities

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 limitedsubmissions@conet.ucla.edu to indicate interest in applying.

National Science Foundaiton Research Traineeship (NRT) Program #189

NIAMS Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Centers (P30)

NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25)

UCLA Research Links

OVCR - Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

* OCGA - Office of Contracts and Grants Administration - Proposal Preparation Guidelines

* ORA - Office of Research Administration

* OIP - Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research

* CFRR - Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations

* UCLA Graduate & Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database

* UCLA Graduate Writing Center

* UCLA Biomedical Library

* UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute - Open Funding Opportunities

* New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding

* Research Development and Grant-Writing News

*UCLA Software Central - Discounted Software for UCLA Faculty, Staff and Students

Find Funding

* Pivot/COS

* NEA - National Endowment for the Arts

* NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities

* NIH - National Institutes of Health

* NSF - National Science Foundation

* DOD - Department of Defense

* NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

* DOED - Department of Education

* DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services

* DOE - Department of Energy

* DOS - Department of State

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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