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| Reminder – School of Medicine’s Incentive Programs | The School of Medicine Office of Research has multiple incentive programs to acknowledge the following research and training grant submissions and awards. To be eligible for any incentive payment, you must complete the corresponding form prior to submission.
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| NIH T32 graduate student training slots - MAXImizing Training in MUScle Research (MAXIMUS) | The Muscle Biology and Disease Research Center (MBDRC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new NIH T32 training grant: MAXImizing Training in MUScle Research (MAXIMUS). The goal of MAXIMUS is to enable PhD graduate students to become translational researchers who seek to understand muscle biology and decipher the mechanisms of its dysfunction in order to develop innovative strategies for effective diagnosis and treatment of muscular dystrophies. There are two open graduate student positions with support beginning Oct. 1, 2024. Review the application requirements and apply here.
Application deadline: Monday, July 8, 2024
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| Tomorrow! School of Medicine Informational Seminar – NIH New Innovator (DP2) Awards | This expert panel will discuss the Director’s New Innovator and NIAID New Innovator award applications and review processes. There will be a Q&A where we welcome your specific questions.
Speakers: Dequina Nicholas, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry; Xiaoyu Shi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology; Evgeny Kvon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Wednesday, June 12, noon to 1 p.m.
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| Announcing Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications and Required Data Tables | | The NIH announced updates to Institutional Training Grant applications and required data tables, beginning with submissions due on or after Jan. 25, 2025. The changes are intended to reduce applicant and reviewer burden, and further support the development of a biomedical research workforce that will benefit from the full range of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds needed to advance discovery. Read more. |
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| Attention Early Career Researchers! Register for Research!America's Science & Technology Early Career Summit | The future of public and private sector-funded R&D hinges on developing a robust and diverse pipeline of talented early-career scientists, researchers and engineers who can drive innovation and positive societal change. The objective of the Early Career Researcher Summit is to bring together a diverse group of early career researchers from across the medical, health and science arenas to:
- Gain insights into the range of careers available to them
- Empower them to secure and thrive in the career path they choose
- Provide communication tools they can use for advocacy and other forms of civic engagement
- Network with others across the R&D ecosystem
Session 2: Crafting A Winning Resume – Wednesday, June 12, 9 to 10:30 a.m. PT
Session 3: Science Policy & Advocacy; A Primer – Tuesday, June 18, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. PT
Session 4: The Creative Art of Science Communication – Wednesday, June 26, 9 to 10:15 a.m. PT
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| Rémi Buisson (Biological Chemistry) received an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant titled, “Deciphering DNA Damage Response-Mediated Translation Regulation to Prevent Cancer Initiation.” He also received the 2024 Athalie R. Clarke Achievement Award for Medical Research and was honored at the 41st Annual Athalie R. Clarke Awards Ceremony on June 4. 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 |
| Searle Scholars Program | UCI has the opportunity to nominate two candidates for the 2025 Searle Scholars Program, which recognizes outstanding new faculty with the potential to make innovative and high-impact contributions to research in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology and related areas in chemistry, medicine and the biological sciences. To be eligible, the candidate’s first appointment to an assistant professor, tenure-track position must have begun on or after May 1, 2023.
UCI may nominate only two candidates; therefore, interested applicants are asked to submit a preliminary application to the Office of Research via UCI Review.
Deadline: Thursday, June 20, 2024
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| 2024 NIH Director's Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional) | The NIH Director's Early Independence Award supports exceptional junior investigators who wish to pursue independent research soon after completion of their terminal doctoral degree or post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. To be eligible, investigators, at the time of application, must have received their most recent doctoral degree or completed clinical training within the previous 15 months or expect to do so within the following 12 months.
UCI may submit no more than two applications to this competition. Therefore, interested applicants are asked to submit a preliminary application to the Office of Research via UCI Review.
Deadline: Monday, June 24, 2024
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| All Faculty Funding Opportunities |
| ARPA-H and its Funding Programs | The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) accelerates better health outcomes by supporting high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. ARPA-H awardees are developing entirely new ways to tackle the hardest challenges in health. The FY24–26 Strategic Plan provides a blueprint detailing the agency's approach. Review past and active ARPA-H funding programs to get a sense of this agency’s research interests. Active programs include:
- HEROES (Health Care Rewards to Achieve Improved Outcomes)
Solution Summary Deadline: Friday, June 28, 2024
- LIGHT (Lymphatic Imaging, Genomics and Phenotyping Technologies)
Solution Summary Deadline: Tuesday, June 18, 2024
If you are considering applying, please email somrd@hs.uci.edu. |
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| 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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| 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 Seminar Series | Regulatory interactions between muscle and the immune system in muscular dystrophy, by James G. Tidball, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology, Distinguished Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Wednesday, June 12, 11 a.m. to noon
Location: Hybrid event at Tamkin Hall F114 and via Zoom Contact Claire Chen to join via Zoom. |
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| CHOC Research Seminar: The Patient Voice in Research — Evolution of a Role | The patient as a research partner has evolved to include unanticipated roles and responsibilities; the patient voice can influence the implementation of a research study and provide a model for engaging patients meaningfully.
Wednesday, June 12, noon to 1:15 p.m.
Via Zoom |
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| Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Morning Seminar Series | From Pituitary Past to Present: Pioneering into the Pituitary Immune Landscape, by Dequina Nicholas, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, UCI School of Biological Sciences
Thursday, June 13, 9 a.m. PTLocation: Hybrid event at Plumwood House, Room 166, and via ZoomContact Shanti Iyer to join via Zoom. |
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| UCI Conte Center and CNLM Colloquium Series | Interactive Development of Reinforcement Learning and Episodic Memory, by Catherine Hartley, PhD, associate professor, Department of Psychology, New York University. Co-hosted by the UCI Conte Center and the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM).
Tuesday, June 18, 4 to 5 p.m. PTLocation: Herklotz Conference Center at the CNLM (building 506 on the UCI campus map), and via ZoomPasscode: 764583 |
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| UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM) 2024 Conference | Brain Cell Types, Circuits and Disorders. Co-hosted with Cajal Club. Register by June 19.
Monday to Wednesday, Aug. 19–21Location: Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering, 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617 |
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| Postdoctoral Scholar-Della Martin Fellowship / Psychiatry and Human Behavior | An exciting and unique opportunity to study neuropsychiatric disorders at the molecular level and develop translational research programs in clinical populations using state-of-the art technologies including single cell RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and cellular models derived from patients and controls. Successful candidate will be familiar with molecular and cellular laboratory methods and bioinformatics.
PI: William E. Bunney, MD
View the posting in AP Recruit.
Closing date: Sunday, June 30, 2024
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| Postdoctoral Scholar in the Marazzi Lab / Biological Chemistry | The Marazzi Lab is seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to fill the position of Postdoctoral Researcher. A successful candidate will join a dynamic and innovative research team dedicated to advancing our understanding of epigenetic mechanisms and their role in human health and disease.
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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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| NIH Grants Process for Beginners: Webinar Resources Available | | Did you miss the webinar on the NIH grants process for beginners? Not to worry, the event resources are now available! Read more. |
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| NIH Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program | | The program aims to help early career scientists become more competitive as grant applicants through first-hand experience with peer review and to enrich and diversify CSR’s pool of trained reviewers. Read more about the requirements for the Early Career Reviewer Program and enroll. |
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| Did you know about these UCI-offered resources? | These three books can be downloaded fromUCI Libraries (must be on campus or using VPN): - Designing Science Presentations: A Visual Guide to Figures, Papers, Slides, Posters, and More, by Matt Carter, 2020
- The Physician Scientist’s Career Guide, by Mark J. Eisenberg, 2011
- The Essential MD-PhD Guide, by Eisenberg and Cox, 2021
UCI Apporto Virtual Computer Lab VCL (free)
- Apps available now: Stata, SPSS, Cran R, R Studio and Matlab
- Apps available soon: ArcGIS and Eviews
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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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| 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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| Respiratory infection reminders | - Employees are encouraged to stay home when ill to help reduce the spread of infections.
- Employees, including student employees, are strongly encouraged to report cases of COVID-19 to Contact Tracing and Vaccine Navigation Services at contacttracing@uci.edu or 949-824-2300.
- Free COVID-19 antigen tests continue to be available to employees at various locations on campus.
All employee-related information can be found at Human Resources Working Well webpage. For UCI Health updates, please visit UCI Health's COVID-19 page on SharePoint.
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