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| Application Deadline Extended! How to Draft and Publish Scientific Papers | The School of Medicine Office of Research is pleased to announce a two-day, in-person workshop, “How to Draft and Publish Scientific Papers,” conducted by Dr. Randy Levinson. Dr. Levinson brings extensive experience as a former scientific manuscript editor for Nature Research.
The workshop is organized in three separate but interrelated modules: (1) general concepts underlying effective scientific communication, (2) Method and Logic, or how to optimize the content and structure of a scientific paper, and (3) an explanation of the peer review and publication process. The workshop includes instruction, practical exercises, peer-to-peer interactions, and feedback on participants’ drafts.
Applicants must be members of the School of Medicine community (junior faculty, postdocs, research staff, clinical fellows and senior graduate and medical students). Attendance is limited to 24 individuals. Learn more and apply here.
Jan. 30 & 31, 2024
Location: College of Health Sciences Building & Irvine Hall on Main Campus
NEW Application Deadline: Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
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| School of Medicine Applications for Bridge Funding Due Jan. 25 | | Please note that the next UCI Office of Research Deadline for Bridge Funding is Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Complete applications must include a signed letter of support by your department chair showing financial commitment. Applications are due to the School of Medicine Office of Research via this form by Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. |
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| Accepting Applications for the School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) | The Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) is a two-year structured program providing physician-scientists with intensive mentorship and opportunities to apply for their first independent, federally funded awards (K08, K23) or other equivalent external career development awards. A detailed program description and application requirements can be found under the School of Medicine Physician Scientist Resources.
Deadline: Friday, Jan. 26, 2024
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| UCI NIH Boot Camp Informational Sessions – Applications due Feb. 5 | The School of Medicine Research Development Unit will be hosting virtual informational sessions about the UCI NIH Boot Camp — a comprehensive, multifaceted mentoring program designed to help faculty and career researchers apply for their first research grants from NIH. Attend a session to learn more about this program and how to apply for the upcoming 2024 UCI NIH Boot Camp!
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| Save the Date: Joint Faculty Research Retreat | The UCI School of Medicine is excited to announce a joint retreat with the UCI Samueli School of Engineering.
Date: Monday, March 11, 2024
Please plan to join us for this first-time-ever event! Registration and location details will be sent to your inbox soon. Please contact Emily Dawidoff if you have any questions.
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| Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp | The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) is now accepting applications for the Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp – a 16-week program that guides clinical faculty and fellows in systematically designing and writing cancer-related investigator-initiated clinical trial protocols, with the goal of submitting a written protocol by the program's conclusion. Learn more about the program and eligibility requirements. For questions, email Kimberly Castellanos.
Program Dates: Feb. 28–June 5, 2024, every other Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m.
Application Deadline: Jan. 16, 2024
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| NIH Training Grant Incentive Program | Training Grants (e.g., NIH T32) play a key role in supporting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and increases our ability to recruit the best among them. The School of Medicine Office of Research appreciates the time commitment required to prepare and direct training grants and has the Training Grant Incentive Program for first-time submissions of new or competing renewal applications. Read the guidelines on the intake form.
Also, the School of Medicine Research Development Unit supports the preparation of training grant proposals; email somrd@uci.edu to get started. View current UCI Training Grants. View active NIH T32 funding calls. |
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| Interested in submitting for an NIH multi-component grant? | If you are interested in submitting for an NIH multi-component grant, such as the P or U mechanism, please remember to reach out to Dr. Al La Spada, Associate Dean for Research Development (alaspada@uci.edu). He can guide you through the process and connect you with potential collaborators.
Also, remember that the Research Development Unit (RDU) provides project management support for these mechanisms. To request RDU services, submit this Grant Support Request intake form. There is also an incentive program for these submissions, with more details in this Incentive Program intake form. |
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| We have been collecting information about new awards sent in by the School of Medicine research community and have created this space to share the news.
Bharath Chakravarthy, MD, Lindsey Spiegelman, MD, (Emergency Medicine) and Catherine Diamond, MD (Medicine) received a grant from the Public Health Institute with their project, “Emergency Department Syphilis HIV HCV Screening Program.” This project establishes screening, treatment, and navigator linkage of care for patients with syphilis HIV and HCV.
Have you or someone on your research team received a new grant, i.e., research funding? The School of Medicine Office of Research would like to know. Please fill out this short New Funding/Grant Survey form. |
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| Limited Opportunity: W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program Grants | The W.M. Keck Foundation focuses on basic research enabling pioneering discoveries that overturn prevailing paradigms or promote new solutions to old problems. They encourage development of new technology, but also want to know what new science it will enable. Competitive LOIs will clearly articulate the specific problem you want to explore and how your approach is unique and new. Make a direct link between the new technology/methodology you are developing and the new questions you can ask with that technology. Keck does not want projects that reflect the “next logical step” in your research, but rather encourages out-of-the-box thinking. If your project would be competitive at NIH or NSF, it is not going to be of interest to the Keck Foundation.
Budget requests may be for up to $1.3 million and may be expended over three years. The Keck Foundation does not pay indirect costs, nor does it allow for tuition and fees for graduate students.
Interested applicants are asked to submit a preliminary concept paper to the VCR’s office by Jan. 4, 2024, via UCI Review.
Deadline: Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 |
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| DOE ARPA-E-Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) | ARPA-E IGNIITE will make awards (20 total and $10M in total funding) to support a new cohort of early-career innovators to develop the most disruptive and unconventional ideas into transformative new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. Read the funding announcement.
Deadline: Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 |
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| 2023–24 UCI Center-scale Multi-Investigator Research Seed Funding Program | | The 2023-24 UCI Center-Scale Multi-Investigator Research Seed Funding Program is aimed at investing in promising convergent research directions where internal seed level investment can lead to externally funded “center-scale” research programs. The UCI strategic plan identifies convergence research as one of the keys to achieving the vision of research growth that makes a difference. Here convergence refers to deep integration of knowledge bases, tools, techniques and ways of thinking from physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, computing and social sciences, humanities, arts, business and law to address major societal challenges. View the proposal guidelines.
Deadline: Monday, Jan. 15, 2024
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| Faculty Seed Grants in Cancer Research Funding Opportunity | The Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is pleased to issue a Request for Proposals (PDF) for the 2024–25 Faculty Seed Grants. The CRCC is a systemwide, faculty-directed cancer research program that provides one-year seed grants for topics in any discipline that address any aspect of cancer, including its origins, prevention and cure. CRCC funds support meritorious research spanning all areas from basic research to applied clinical and community-based research in any field relevant to cancer. Eligible PIs must be members of the Academic Senate at one of the 10 UC campuses.
Please view the Request for Proposals (PDF) for other eligibility and submission requirements. Access additional links and more information on the “How to Apply” page.
Recommended applicant webinar: Register here for Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, 1:30 p.m. PT
If you are a first-time applicant and/or new to SmartSimple, attendance is highly recommended.
Required Letters of Intent Due: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, noon |
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| Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on the Health of Women of Understudied, Underrepresented and Underreported (U3) Populations (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional) (NOT-OD-24-032) | The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) announces the availability of administrative supplements to support research highlighting health inequities among women in the United States who are understudied, underrepresented and underreported (U3) in biomedical research. Review the NOSI for eligibility requirements and more information.
Deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 |
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| Limited Opportunity: 2024 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering | The Packard Fellows program is for highly creative young faculty researchers in the natural, physical sciences and engineering during their first three years as faculty. According to The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers who take a creative approach to their research, dare to think big, and follow new ideas wherever they lead. The foundation emphasizes support for innovative PI-led research rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs. Up to 20 recipients will receive individual grants of $875,000 over five years.
Workshops for Interested Applicants: Packard Fellowship proposals are only two pages and must be able to communicate big ideas to a broader audience of scientists than is typical. For these reasons, they are difficult to write. These workshops will help you hone your idea and present it in accessible, compelling language. Previous attendees have found that the exercise of preparing a Packard Fellowship proposal improved their ability to conceptualize and communicate research in other settings. Letters of recommendation are required, and the best letter writers can evaluate the future potential of the applicant, rather than just review past successes. The internal process will take these concerns into account; the workshop can help you determine your best referees as well as how to best frame your research to appeal to the Packard Foundation. Prof. Arthur Lander, past Packard Fellow; and Prof. Chang Liu, Beckman Young Investigator and Moore Inventor Fellow, will lead the workshops.
Informational Webinar: Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, 3 p.m. Register to join via Zoom. - In-person Workshop 1: Pitching your idea, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, 1 to 3 p.m., ISEB 4020
- In-person Workshop 2: Feedback on LOI, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., includes lunch, ISEB 4020
UCI may submit only two nominations; therefore, interested applicants should apply via the UCI Review application system by Feb. 15, 2024.
Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 |
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| DoD-DARPA-Young Faculty Award (YFA) | DARPA YFA program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s mission. Read the funding announcement.
Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
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| For More Funding Opportunities | For more funding opportunities and resources for your funding search, visit the Funding Opportunities page on the new and updated website for the UCI School of Medicine.
For a curated, searchable and filterable list of funding opportunities by NIH in their weekly NIH guide listserv, check out the School of Medicine Funding Search Tool. |
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| Upcoming Seminars & Events |
| NSF Biosketches required to use SciEncv (for all proposals due after 10/23/23) | The National Science Foundation (NSF) will require biographical sketches and current and pending support to be generated using the online platform, SciENcv, for all NSF proposals due on or after Oct. 23, 2023. In preparation for complying with this requirement, UCI libraries has provided information on their websites and office hours on Wednesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. to assist with SciENcv questions, NIH and NSF documentation for Biosketches and current & Pending/In-Kind reporting.
Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2 to 3 p.m.
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| All of Us Researcher Workbench Support: Train-the-Trainer Sessions | Train-the-Trainer sessions are for researchers interested in learning to proficiently use the All of Us Researcher Workbench. Sessions include Introduction to the Workbench, Creating a Dataset: Workspaces, Phenotypes and Cohorts, and Genomic Analysis: Genome-wide association study (GWAS) and phenome-wide association study (PheWAS).
Attendees must be registered to use the Workbench. Visit ResearchAllofUs.org to register. Train-the-Trainer, an 8-week training course, is hosted by Baylor College of Medicine’s All of Us Evenings with Genetics Research Program. Sessions build on one another, but you can join sessions at any time.
Fridays in December, noon PT
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| Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Seminars | Transcriptional control at coding and non-coding RNA loci, by Karen Adelman, PhD, professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 4 p.m. Location: Hybrid event at Plumwood House / Showa Denko Lecture Hall and via ZoomContact Shanti Iyer to join via Zoom. |
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| Genetics, Biomedical Computing and Genomics Monthly Meeting | What's New in Genomic Technologies?, by the Genomics Research and Technology Hub (GRT Hub) staff, including Melanie Oakes, PhD, manager of GRTH, Quy Nguyen, PhD, project scientist, Jenny Wu, PhD, director of the Chao Family Cancer Center Bioinformatics Shared Resource, and Ivan Chang, PhD, bioinformatics engineer Tuesday, Jan. 9, 10 to 11 a.m. PT
Location: Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 980 4294 1324
Passcode: 251322
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| Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Seminars | Splicing Dysregulation and Antisense Targeting in Cancer, by Adrian R. Krainer, PhD, St. Giles Foundation Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 4 p.m. PTLocation: Hybrid event at Plumwood House / Showa Denko Lecture Hall and via ZoomContact Shanti Iyer to join via Zoom. |
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| UCI Conte Center Seminar Series | Functional Implications of Developmental Heterogeneity by Pat Levitt, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President and Director, The Saban Research Institute, Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, WM Keck Provost Professor of Neurogenetics, Keck School of Medicine of USC. Hosted by the UCI Conte Center.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 4 to 5 p.m. PT
Location: Hybrid event at Plumwood House lecture hall and via Zoom
Passcode: 764583 |
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| Neurodegeneration & Neurotherapeutics Collaboratory Symposium | | Join us for this symposium in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the La Spada Lab! Speakers include: Harry Orr, PhD, University of Minnesota; Kenneth (Kurt) Fischbeck, MD, NINDS / NIH; Jessica Young, PhD, University of Washington; Constanza Cortes, PhD, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology; Helen Miranda, PhD, Case Western Reserve University; and UCI faculty. Registration for this event is not required.
Thursday, Jan. 18, 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Location: Sue Gross Auditorium, 854 Health Sciences Quad, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, UCI Medical School Campus
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| Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience / Conte Center | Wish to manipulate new stress-sensitive projections? Discover how early-life stress/adversity impacts brain maturation? Postdoc in amazing South California? Join the team!
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