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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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| Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series |
Napoleone Ferrara, MD, distinguished professor, Departments of Pathology, Ophthalmology and Pharmacology, Ben and Wanda Hildyard Endowed Chair for Diseases of the Eye, UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Community Lecture - Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. PT: "Preventing Vision Loss due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Progress and Challenges"
- Scientific Lecture - Sept. 18 at Noon PT: "New Insights in the Regulation of Ocular Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications"
Learn more about the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Sept. 17–18
Location: UCI Beall Applied Innovation, Irvine, Calif. (Sept. 17); UCI Medical Center, Orange, Calif. or UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, Irvine, Calif. (Sept. 18)
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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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| Implementation Update for Data Management and Access Practices Under the Genomic Data Sharing Policy (NOT-OD-24-157) | NIH is updating two practices under the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy to continue to promote responsible data management and access. These changes are to ensure GDS Policy implementation continues to evolve alongside changing practices for collecting, sharing and using controlled-access human genomic data and include (1) modernizing security standards provided in the “NIH Security Best Practices for Controlled-Access Data Subject to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy” and (2) establishing minimum expectations for access to controlled-access data by developers. This implementation update will take effect on Jan. 25, 2025. Review the notice.
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| Request for Information (RFI) on Recommendations on Re-envisioning U.S. Postdoctoral Research Training and Career Progression within the Biomedical Research Enterprise (NOT-OD-24-150) | NIH is issuing a follow-up Request for Information (RFI) as part of its effort to gauge feedback from the biomedical research community to inform implementation of recommendations from the Advisory Committee to the Director on re-envisioning NIH-supported postdoctoral training. Review the RFI.
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| UC Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational Science (ICTS) Awarded $28M NIH Grant: The UCI ICTS has been awarded a monumental $28M 7-year NIH Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA) award. The program’s goal is to benefit health through the creation of a center (the Hub) that will catalyze new research, training and community outreach. The first theme, From Lab To Life, highlights their focus on accelerating the translation of basic biomedical discovery to possible clinical application. The second theme, From Hub to Health, reflects their strategy to ensure that Hub innovations are effectively implemented to actually improve public health and reduce health disparities and inequities in the community, region and across the nation. Read more in UCI News. 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: The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation | The mission of The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation is to advance knowledge in the life sciences by sponsoring scientific research that will benefit mankind. Basic scientific research with potential translational application is central to this goal and fundamental to their operating principles. The total funding for this award is $600,000–$700,000 over three years, including 10% indirect costs. Any level faculty are eligible to apply. UCI may submit only three applications for this award opportunity. Interested applicants are asked to submit an intent to apply via InfoReady.
Deadline: Monday, August 19, 2024
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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 |
| Research in Progress Seminar by UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center & Cancer Research Institute | Genetic Diversity and the Changing Landscape of Cancer Etiology, by Nick Pannunzio, PhD, assistant professor, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Chemistry, UCI School of Medicine. Learn more.
Wednesday, August 7, noon to 1 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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| How to Find a Fit for Your Research at NIH | As you begin your search for NIH research funding, it’s important to understand the structure of NIH and to figure out which NIH institutes, centers and offices (ICOs) are most likely to support your project. NIH has a new online resource that can help: Find a Fit for Your Research: NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices (ICOs). It includes newly compiled ICO funding profiles that provide links for each ICO’s funding opportunities, strategies, general information and special initiatives, as well as guidance on using Matchmaker to find a home for your research.
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| Figure It Out: Your Application’s Visuals | Well-designed figures (tables, charts and other visuals) are a great way to enhance your grant applications and manuscripts. To aid your illustrative efforts, check out NIH’s new Tips for Tables, Charts and Figures.
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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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