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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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| NIH’s Adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support by May 25, 2025 (NOT-OD-24-163) | This Guide Notice informs the extramural community of NIH’s adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support to be used with all applications and Research Performance Progress Report(s) (RPPRs) by May 25, 2025. Review the notice.
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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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| Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) Mentorship, Education and Training (MET) Program | The year-long Mentorship, Education and Training (MET) Program offers junior and mid-career faculty (mentees) in basic, clinical and population sciences the opportunity to engage with senior CFCCC members (mentors) to overcome career and scientific challenges.
Target applicant: Must be a junior or mid-career academic faculty pursuing careers with a substantial cancer research component in basic, clinical or population sciences. Must be a CFCCC member or become a CFCCC member by November 2024. Apply here.
Deadline: Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 |
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| Not A Blank Space: Policy Considerations for AI in NIH Research | The NIH Office of Science Policy recently released a centralized NIH policy resource illustrating the applicability of existing policies to artificial intelligence (AI), including policies related to participant protections, intellectual property, peer review, and many other topics. Read more.
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| Request for Information (RFI) on the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Strategic Directions for Research (NOT-AG-24-028) | The purpose of this RFI is to invite feedback on topics the NIA should consider as it formulates its strategic directions document for 2026–30. Review the RFI.
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| Adolfo Sequeira, Firoza Mamdani, William Bunney, Rimal Bera, Adrian Preda (Psychiatry & Human Behavior) and Wei Li (Biological Chemistry) received a $1.5 million award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for their project, “Identification and validation of brain relevant blood-based biomarkers for suicide in major depressive disorder.” Despite progress in understanding the neurobiology of suicide, predicting suicide risk remains challenging. This innovative study will analyze blood samples from both post-mortem cases and living MDD patients to identify molecular markers associated with suicide risk. Using advanced molecular techniques and machine learning, the team hopes to create a reliable tool for clinicians to better identify and support at-risk individuals. This collaborative effort involves experts in clinical medicine, molecular biology and computational science, working together to improve suicide prevention strategies and save lives. 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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| All Faculty Funding Opportunities |
| Newly released ARPA-H funding announcements | 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:
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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| 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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| Campus-Community Research Incubator Program RFA | The Campus-Community Research Incubator Program (CCRI) is a small funding mechanism designed to foster collaborative, research-oriented projects between university researchers and community organizations. There are two levels of grant funding available: 1. Exploratory CCRI funds $8,000–$10,000 (for research, QI and evaluation-based applications) and 2. Mini CCRI $3,000–$5,000 (for capacity- and partnership-building applications). Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to attend a workshop to understand new funding requirements. Apply here for the award.
Workshop: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, 11 a.m. Register here.
Deadline: Monday, Sept. 16, 2024
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| Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations (S15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-24-259) | This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites eligible academic or research institutions to apply for funding support to purchase latest scientific equipment that will enhance and modernize research-supporting operations of existing shared biomedical research facilities. Targeted are laboratory research core facilities, animal research facilities and other similar shared-use research spaces. The goal of this NOFO is to strengthen research-auxiliary activities of biomedical research facilities and to enhance the efficiency of their operations. Review the NOFO.
Earliest Available Deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
Expiration Date: Sept. 26, 2026
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| 2024 DataWorks! Prize | The DataWorks! Prize recognizes the impactful role of data reuse on human health. Through the 2024 Prize, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will recognize and reward research teams who propose and execute innovative secondary analysis and data reuse to generate novel scientific findings and create a valuable set of case studies and examples that can be used by the broader research community.
Participants will participate in a two-phase challenge. In the first phase, research teams will submit a proposal for a secondary analysis research project that can be completed within a 6-month period and incorporates data from one or more generalist repositories participating in the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI); data from other repositories can be combined. In the second phase, selected teams will complete their reuse/secondary analysis research projects and share their findings publicly. Read more.
Phase 1 Deadline: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
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| Upcoming Seminars & Events |
| 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.
Sept. 6–7
Location: The Beckman Center, 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617 |
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| Monthly on Mondays | Faculty Development Series | Mid-Career and Leadership Opportunities, featuring panelists Coleen Cunningham, MD, Peter Kaiser, PhD, and Megan Osborn, MD. Monthly on Mondays, presented by Nimisha Parekh, MD, and Brian J. Cummings, PhD, associate deans of faculty development, is a monthly seminar series covering a wide range of topics focused on faculty development.
Monday, Sept. 9, 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Via Zoom
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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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| Does My Clinical Research Involve an Existing Dataset or Resource? | If you are proposing a clinical research study to NIH, you will need to specify whether your research involves an existing dataset or resource as part of the PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form Inclusion Enrollment Report. NIH has updated its FAQ and glossary to clarify an existing dataset or resource. Read more.
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| Learn About Research Misconduct Through NIH’s Revamped Webpage | The Research Misconduct webpage has been updated as part of NIH’s continued efforts to ensure integrity throughout NIH supported research activities. Read more.
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| School of Medicine Research Development Unit Resources |
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