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| School of Medicine Applications for Bridge Funding Due this Thursday | |
Please note that the next UCI Office of Research deadline for Bridge Funding is Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Complete applications must include a signed letter of support by your department chair showing financial commitment. Bridge Funding applications are due to the School of Medicine Office of Research by this Thursday, July 25, 2024. |
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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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| New NIH Policy on Resubmission Applications (including R and F) | | When resubmitting your NIH application, any changes made should only be outlined in the Introduction attachment. NIH recently released a guide notice to clarify that any type of markups should not be used to identify changes. Read more. |
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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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| Vladimir Kefalov, PhD (Ophthalmology), received an R01 grant from NEI titled, “ Molecular mechanism of the visual disorders caused by G90D and G90V rhodopsin mutations.” The proposed experiments will identify the mechanisms by which two similar rhodopsin mutations, G90D and G90V, cause visual impairment using G90D and G90V knockin mice that they have generated. This proposal seeks to provide full structural and functional photoreceptor analysis of these animals, determine the molecular mechanism by which these rhodopsin mutations cause night blindness and retinal degeneration, and develop therapeutic approaches for reversing their effects. 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 |
| ATTN: Grad Students & Postdocs applying for the NIH F31/F32 (NRSA) Fellowship due Aug. 8, 2024 | | If you are planning to submit an NIH F31 or F32 application for the Aug. 8 deadline, remember that the School of Medicine Research Development Unit (RDU) can help with your application! The RDU can review your grant application, check for sponsor requirements, review biosketches and more. Complete this Grant Support Request, and a member of the RDU will contact you. If you have any questions, email the RDU. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Implementing and Evaluating Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Strategies in Real-World Settings (U18) (RFA-HS-24-003) | The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to conduct research on patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS), a nascent area within the larger field of CDS. Through the AHRQ-funded Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) CDS Initiative and the CDS Innovation Collaborative specifically, PC CDS resources are now publicly available for interested researchers to further build upon, develop and test, in real-world settings. Innovative research is needed to understand how to make traditional, clinician-facing CDS more patient-centered, while also engaging patients, families and caregivers in a co-design process to design and implement these tools. Review the NOFO.
Deadline: Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024
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| Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Related to Neuroethical Considerations for Neurological Diseases | Ethical considerations are intrinsic to the responsible conduct of neuroscience research and the translation of neuroscience advances (scientific and technological) into practice. This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) highlights interest in receiving grant applications to advance research on ethical questions relevant to the NINDS mission of pursuing important work to gain a deeper understanding of the brain and nervous system to develop effective therapies for all people. Review the NOSI.
First Available Due Date: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024
Expiration Date: Oct. 16, 2027
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| NIH All About Grants Podcast – Why Would NIH Withdraw an Application? | | In this NIH All About Grants podcast episode, Dr. Ray Jacobson, the Acting Director of the Division of Receipt and Referral at the Center for Scientific Review, gets into why and how administrative withdrawal of applications happens. Read more. |
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| Prepare for Changes Coming to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications | | With changes on the way for institutional training grant submissions due on or after Jan. 25, 2025, now is the time to familiarize yourself with the key updates as you plan your next application! NIH experts walk through the upcoming changes in this recent webinar. Read more. |
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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 |
| What kind of grant support does the Research Development Unit (RDU) provide? | |
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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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