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Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts.
Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.
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.
View upcoming events hosted by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute by following the link above.
Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.
CEILS creates a collaborative community of instructors committed to advancing teaching excellence, assessment, diversity, and scholarship, resulting in the enhancement of student learning experiences in the life sciences at UCLA.
UCLA OIP-ISR wants to help you license research tools you've created to assist in conducting your research. This usually results in money going right back to your lab! See the flyer for more information.
NCFDD is an organization that provides professional development and mentoring opportunities for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs. UCLA's institutional membership allows access to various webinars, slides and transcripts of workshops, and the organization's online career center as well as numerous other professional resources.
The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge ("SLA") is pleased to announce our first call for applications for policy fellowships. The purpose of these fellowships is to support graduate students whose research and scholarly activities align with the policy-related research objectives identified in the Work Plan. Deadline is
November 30, 2015.
You have an opportunity to submit and/or vote for ideas to reduce compliance burden related to grants and contracts through an on-line survey initiated by the Federal Government. 
To participate, log in to the website established for grantee responses and register. You can vote for existing ideas by clicking the "UP" arrow above the number of votes for each entry. Clicking the "DOWN" arrow reduces the number of votes. Please note that votes cannot be changed, and exercise caution when clicking. You can also submit new ideas of your own.

In a world where a growing number of people lack food, water and sources of energy, providing these resources has become a challenge. To find new answers, the NSF has funded 17 grants, totaling $1.2 million, to support workshops on the interactions of food, energy and water, or FEW. Additionally, $6.4 million will supplement existing grants, enabling scientists to conduct additional research.
October is National Energy Action Month (EAM), and showcases a national effort to underscore how critical energy is to our national prosperity, security, and environmental well-being. In commemoration of National Energy Action Month, the DoD is hosting a month of energy events and activities. More information in the link above.

On November 3, the Council for Watershed Health will host 7th Environmental Funders and Media Forum at the California Endowment. Featuring panels of local grantmakers and media representatives, these forums connect sustainability nonprofits with the resources that help make them successful.
Join Climate Resolve, ecoAmerica, and leaders from across Los Angeles on November 6 in drafting a Los Angeles Declaration on Climate Change. More information and registration in the link above. 


FundingOppsBasic Research
Federal Opportunities
Upcoming NIH Funding Opportunities:

Other Upcoming Opportunities:

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.
Non-Federal Opportunities
Foundation Opportunities
If you have questions or need assistance in applying to these organizations, please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations.
McKnight Foundation - McKnight Scholar Awards
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.
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Scholar Award Program #204 AHA Winter 2016 Strategically Focused Heart Failure Research Network
clinicaltranslationalClinical and Translational Research
Federal Opportunities
Upcoming NIH Funding Opportunities:

Upcoming DOD Funding Opportunities: 
Other Upcoming Funding Opportunities:
Non-Federal Opportunities
American Academy of Periodontology Foundation - Richard J. Lazzara Fellowship in Advanced Implant Surgery
American Gastroenterological Association - 16th AGA-June & Donald O. Castell, MD, Esophageal Clinical Research Award
American Gastroenterological Association - AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn & Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer
American Neurotology Society - Herbert Silverstein Otology/Neurotology Research Award
American Rhinologic Society - New Investigator Research Grant
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Endoscopic Research Awards
American Society of Hematology - Research Training Award for Fellows
Autism Speaks - Meixner Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Research
Bayer HealthCare - Bayer Hemophilia Awards Program: Early Career Investigator Award
Bayer HealthCare - Bayer Hemophilia Awards Program: Fellowship Project Award
Bayer HealthCare - Bayer Hemophilia Awards Program: Special Project Award
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation - Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award
Foundation Fighting Blindness - Individual Investigator Research Grant Awards
International Association for the Study or Lung Cancer - Joint Fellowship Award for the Early Detection of Lung Cancer
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Immune Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - Discovery and Development of Immune Tolerance Delivery Systems for Antigen Specific Therapies in Type 1 Diabetes
National Kidney Foundation - NKF Young Investigator Grant Program
Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation - Research Grants
Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation - Michael Geisman Fellowships
Pediatric Endocrine Society - Research Fellowship Awards
Radiological Society of North America - Research Scholar Grant
Radiological Society of North America - Research Resident/Fellow Grant
Transverse Myelitis Association - James T. Lubin Clinician Scientist Fellowship Award
University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation - NHLBI/NIDA Technology Development Award
Foundation Opportunities
If you have questions or need assistance in applying to any of these organizations, please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations.
McKnight Foundation - McKnight Scholar Awards
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.
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Scholar Award Program #204 AHA Winter 2016 Strategically Focused Heart Failure Research Network
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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