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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. 


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

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.  

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

 

 

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.

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

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

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 NSF Opportunities:

Dear Colleague Letter: I-Corps L - Stimulating Innovation in STEM Education

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships

Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum

Geoinformatics

GeoPrisms Program

Manufacturing Machines and Equipment 

Marine Geology and Geophysics

Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics

NSF/FDA Scholar-in-Residence at FDA

Plant Genome Research Program

                            

Upcoming NIH Opportunities: 

Bioengineering Research Grants (R01) 

Biomedical Technology Research Resource (P41)
BRAIN Initiative:  New Concepts and Early- Stage Research for Large-Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21)

Extended Development, Hardening and Dissemination of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics and Big Data Science (R01)

High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)

NIDCR Small Research Grants for Data Analysis and Statistical Methodology Applied to Genome-wide Data (R03)

NEI Research Grant for Secondary Analysis (R21)

New Computational Methods for Understanding the Functional Role of DNA Variants that are Associated with Mental Disorders (R01)
Pharmacometric Modeling and Simulation for Long Acting Injectable Products (U01)

Revisions for Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technology (U01)

Spatial Uncertainty: Data, Modeling, and Communication (R21)
Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01)

 

Other Federal Opportunities:

AFRL - Modernization of Navy-Grade Alloy Steel Plate Production Project

ARO - Broad Agency Announcement

DARPA - Near Zero Power RF and Sensor Operations

DARPA - Squad X Core Technologies

DOA - Technology Focused Areas of Interest

DOC - Implementation of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System

DOE - Emerging Technologies for Methane Production via Biological In-Situ Coal Conversion and Low Cost Oxygen Production for Gasification

DOE - H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition

DOE - Nuclear Energy University Programs

DOE - U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center: Energy and Water

DOJ - National Prisoner Statistics Program and National Corrections Reporting Program

EERE - Fellowships

FDA - Commissioner's Fellowship Program

NASA - Early Career Faculty

NASA -  Technology Advancing Partnerships Call at JFK Space Center

NIST - Standards Services Curricula Development

NPS - Research Initiatives

ONR - National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
ORAU - Internships & Fellowships

USAFA - Research Interests

USDA - Water for Agriculture Challenge Area

  

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.
NIH - Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics, and Big Data Science (R41/R42)
Non-Federal Opportunities
Foundation Opportunities
Interested applicants: please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for information or assistance regarding these opportunities.
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.

 

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Archiving and Discovering of Data and Metadata Generated through Projects Funded by the NSF Arctic Sciences Section 
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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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