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| U.S. Government Sanctions and UCI Activities | The Office of Research has issued a reminder that UCI is required to comply with the U.S. government restrictions applicable to comprehensively sanctioned countries. The comprehensively sanctioned countries are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. The sanctions prohibit most activities with these countries, entities associated with these countries, and individuals from these countries unless authorized by the U.S. government through a license. The U.S. government does not guarantee that it will issue a license. Therefore, it is important to immediately contact the Export Control Office (ECO) at exportcontrol@uci.edu when you anticipate engaging with one of these countries. The ECO will work with the individual to assess the engagement and submit a license application, as appropriate.
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| School of Medicine Dean's Research Council Meeting | School of Medicine Dean Michael Stamos and Associate Dean for Research Administration William E. Bunney invite you to attend this quarterly meeting featuring two distinguished research presentations:
Cutting-Edge Laser Scanning Technology for Advanced Skin Diagnosis and Monitoring Therapies by Mihaela Balu, PhD, associate professor, Dermatology & Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic
Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) Early Insights by Shlomit Radom-Aizik, PhD, professor, Pediatrics
Tuesday, August 13, 5 to 6 p.m.
Via Zoom
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| Accepting Applications: Physician Scientist Pathways Certificate Course | The School of Medicine Office of Research is excited to announce the Physician Scientist Pathways Certificate Course! This course will prepare physician scientists by enabling them to combine their clinical knowledge with skills in scientific investigation.
This course will commence in September 2024 and run for six weeks, two hours/week. It is a hybrid course, which includes three in-person sessions and three online sessions.
Target applicant: Residents, fellows and junior faculty physicians interested in pursuing a career path that includes basic, translational, clinical and/or epidemiology research. This course is designed to not only provide a basic level of knowledge but for attendees to develop an individual development plan for further research training.
Deadline: Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
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| Registration for Ethics in Clinical Research | ICTS is pleased to invite a larger audience to attend one of the MS-BATS summer courses, BATS 296 titled “Ethics in Clinical Research” which runs from June 25 to Aug. 27. The course is on Tuesdays from 3 to 5:50 p.m. in the College of Health Sciences (COHS) building, Room 2110.
If you are interested in attending one or more of the lectures, register here for the MS-BATS 296 Lectures.
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| School of Medicine recipients of the UCI Beall Applied Innovation Proof-of-Product (PoP) grant:
- Rongsheng Jin, PhD & Kevin T. Beier, PhD (Physiology & Biophysics): Novel botulinum neurotoxins with high potency and selectivity towards autonomic and sensory neurons
- Shivashankar Othy, PhD (Physiology & Biophysics): Novel Combination of Biologics for Multiple Sclerosis
- Ralph Clayman, MD (Urology): A single-use treatment for all kidney stones: Development of a disposable flexible aspiration ureteroscope with multiple laser working ports to allow for simultaneous laser lithotripsy, irrigation and fragment aspiration
Have you or someone on your research team received research funding or an award? The School of Medicine Office of Research would like to know! Please fill out this short New Research Funding or Award Survey form. |
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| Find funding opportunities for trainees, postdocs and early career faculty, and all faculty.
For more funding opportunities and resources to help in your funding search, visit the Funding Opportunities page.
For a curated, searchable and filterable list of funding opportunities announced by NIH in their weekly NIH guide listserv, check out the School of Medicine Funding Search Tool.
Considering applying for a Limited Funding Opportunity? Typically, you submit a pre-proposal to the Office of Research via UCI Review. If the opportunity is not listed, email the Research Development Unit (RDU). |
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| Postdocs & Early Career Faculty Funding Opportunities |
| Limited: 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships | The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study. Nominated candidates are normally several years past the completion of their PhD in order to accumulate a competitive record of independent, significant research. Candidates must be assistant professors (i.e., untenured but tenure-track faculty) as of Sept. 15, 2024. Each year, the Sloan Foundation awards approximately 120 $75,000 grants in seven research areas: chemistry, computer science, physics, mathematics, earth system science, neuroscience and economics.
UCI may nominate three candidates per department; therefore, interested applicants are asked to submit a preliminary application to the Office of Research via InfoReady.
Deadline: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 |
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| All Faculty Funding Opportunities |
| MacArthur Foundation: 100&Change Competition | Solving society’s biggest problems is not easy, but the MacArthur Foundation believes solutions are possible. 100&Change is their global competition for a proposal that promises real and measurable progress toward solving a critical social challenge. They will award a single $100 million grant to help make that solution a reality. They are open to organizations working in any field, anywhere in the world. Read more.
If you are considering applying, please email somrd@hs.uci.edu and Roxanne Ford (fordmr@uci.edu).
Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024 |
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| NAVREF/AAMC Partnership for Progress in Veterans' Health Award | The National Association of Veterans’ Research and Education Foundations (NAVREF), in partnership with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), is issuing a new award called the Partnership for Progress in Veterans’ Health Awards. The award celebrates and honors excellence in veterans’ research partnerships.
The award recognizes specific research initiatives that have: - Required collaboration across a local VA Medical Center, an academic medical affiliate and a VA-affiliated nonprofit or NPC
- Has significantly advanced veterans’ healthcare and research
Apply for the 9th Annual NAVREF Awards.
Deadline: Friday, August 16, 2024 |
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| UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders and The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement: Call for Pilot Grant Proposals | The purpose of the initiative is to capitalize on the research expertise within UCI MIND and across the UCI campus and to leverage this expertise to accelerate science to understand the role of sex and gender in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. This partnered initiative is now accepting applications for pilot grants of up to $100,000 (direct costs) for the funding period of 10/01/2024–09/31/2025. Read more and apply here.
Deadline: Friday, August 16, 2024, 5 p.m.
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| Limited: NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program | The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions. MRI instruments are, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. Review the guidelines for the three tracks and their respective eligibility requirements.
UCI faculty seeking to submit either a UCI-lead or co-lead NSF MRI proposal, are asked to submit preliminary proposals to the Office of Research via InfoReady.
Deadline: Monday, August 19, 2024
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| Center of Excellence Impact of Cannabinoids Across the Lifespan (ICAL) 2024 Pilot Grant Call for Proposals | The NIH-supported UCI Center of Excellence for studying the Impact of Cannabinoids Across the Lifespan (ICAL) includes a Pilot Grant Program with the goal of fostering independent and collaborative research on the influences of cannabinoid exposure during different life stages. The purpose of the Pilot Grant program is to capitalize on the research expertise within the UCI community to integrate innovative ideas into ICAL research programs and to gain insight into age-specific effects of cannabinoid drugs on the brain and other organ systems.
The center is accepting proposals for Basic Science pilot grants of up to $25,000 total costs for the funding period of 10/1/24–8/31/25. This funding opportunity is open to all UC Irvine faculty members (senate and non-senate) of all ranks. Projects will be selected after review by members of the P50 center based on scientific merit and the anticipated strength of the pilot data to support future research proposal development for external funding.
Submission requirements:
- NIH Biosketch including current and pending “other support”
- Brief proposal (i.e., aims, experimental design, methods and future funding plans) including a maximum 2 pages of text, not counting references and illustrations
- Brief Budget with justification
All materials must be submitted electronically to Janet Hong (janetkh@hs.uci.edu). For scientific questions, contact Dr. Christine Gall or Dr. Daniele Piomelli. For administrative questions concerning this announcement, contact Alexa Torrens (atorrens@hs.uci.edu).
Deadline: Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 |
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| NIH Research Career Development Awards (K) | | The NIH K award mechanism can be a great mechanism for you depending on your research career stage. This mechanism has different types of funding opportunities that provide support at various career stages: early career, physician scientist, predoc, postdoc, midcareer and established. Here’s a list of active NIH funding opportunities, filtered for a subset of the K mechanisms. If you have any questions or are interested, please contact the School of Medicine Research Development Unit (RDU) at somrd@hs.uci.edu. |
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| Upcoming Seminars & Events |
| Launch of the All of Us Southern California Consortium for Precision Medicine Research |
Join the launch of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded All of Us Southern California Consortium, a partnership between UC Irvine, Loma Linda University Health, and MemorialCare, committed to engaging a community of participants that reflect the diversity of Southern California and beyond.
Speakers: - Josh Denny, MD, NIH All of Us Research Program CEO
- Michael J. Stamos, MD, Dean of the UCI School of Medicine
- Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD, Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor, Principal Investigator of All of Us Southern California Consortium
Tuesday, August 6, 1 to 4 p.m.
Via Zoom
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| Physiology & Biophysics Special Seminar | The Ca2+-gated channel TMEM16A as a determinant of cerebral microvascular blood flow: implications for therapy of neurological disorders, by Paolo Tammaro, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Friday, August 9, 11 a.m. to noon
Location: Hybrid event at Plumwood House Lecture Hall and via Zoom Contact Claire Chen to join via Zoom. |
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| UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM) 2024 Conference | Brain Cell Types, Circuits and Disorders. Co-hosted with Cajal Club. Learn more about the 2024 CNCM Conference.
August 19–21
Location: Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering, 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617
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| UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute's Research Speaker Series |
Community Based Participatory Research with Minoritized Communities: Developing Interventions with and for Menopausal Women, by Lisa Taylor-Swanson, PhD, LAc, Dipl OM, professor, College of Nursing, University of Utah
Thursday, August 22, 1 to 2 p.m.
Location: Hybrid event. RSVP to SSIHIEvents@hs.uci.edu for in-person location. Zoom link will be sent to those who register.
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| UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute's 18th Annual Colloquium | At the UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, our vision is to advance the global standard for innovative eye care, research and teaching. This two-day colloquium seeks to improve knowledge and current practice guidelines across various ophthalmic subspecialties. We will review common and not-so-common clinical and surgical scenarios to improve patient care. Register now or before August 9 for the early bird rate!
Sept. 6–7
Location: The Beckman Center, 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617 |
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| Postdoctoral Scholar in the Ezzati Lab / Neuroinformatics and Neurological Data Sciences | The Lab of Neuroinformatics and Neurological Data Sciences (Ezzati Lab) is looking for a highly motivated and talented Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team. This individual will become part of a dynamic and innovative research group focused on advancing our understanding of Alzheimer's disease by leveraging big data from cohorts and clinical trials.
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| Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations | Under the general direction of the executive director, the associate director will manage and coordinate funding opportunities from foundations, associations and corporations with a specific focus on the STEM fields with assignments to STEM schools such as engineering or biological sciences. The incumbent will edit proposals, concept papers, case statements and various types of support and inquiry letters generally at the level of $25,000+ for institutional fundraising priorities with an annual fundraising goal of $1 million and will serve as campus liaison with assigned foundations, associations and corporations. View the posting in UCI Careers. |
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| School of Medicine-Samueli School of Engineering (SOM-SSoE) Incentive Program for Grant Submissions | UCI School of Medicine and the UCI Samueli School of Engineering deans’ offices are pleased to support the School of Medicine-Samueli School of Engineering (SOM-SSoE) Incentive Program to promote collaborative grant submissions between our schools. The program is specifically for multi-PI (MPI) research grants with one MPI from the School of Medicine and the other MPI from Samueli School of Engineering at the NIH R01 level or similar (not R03 or R21).
To be eligible for these funds, one faculty member of the team must fill out the SOM-SSoE Incentive Form prior to submission. Review the incentive form for complete program details. |
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| School of Medicine BioRender Group Site License | | To offer the BioRender Software at a reduced cost to the research community, the School of Medicine is facilitating a group site license. For the 2024–25 period, the estimated cost per seat for BioRender is $215.40. A KFS account code is needed. If interested in purchasing a license, please complete this sign-up approval form (requires VPN and UCINetID). |
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| School of Medicine Research Development Unit Resources |
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| School of Medicine Research Collaboration Request Form | | Interested in finding research collaborators but not sure where to start? Complete the UCI School of Medicine Research Collaboration Request Form, and a member of the School of Medicine Research Development Unit will be in touch with you shortly. |
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