Inaugural Pathway to Stop Diabetes Research Awards

Additional Information:

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=416800041

Description:

Deadline: August 16, 2013
The American Diabetes Association is accepting nominations of outstanding investigators from academic and nonprofit research institutions for its 2013 Pathway to Stop Diabetes Research initiative. Grants of up to $1.62 million over five to seven years will be awarded to support investigators with an innovative basic, clinical, translational, epidemiological, or health services research initiative relevant to any diabetes type, diabetes-related disease state, or diabetes complication. The program seeks to bring new perspectives to diabetes research by offering three types of funding: support for the transition from trainee to independent investigator, support for early-career diabetes investigators, and support for established investigators new to diabetes research.

 

Limited Competition: Revision Applications for Basic Social and Behavioral Research on the Social, Cultural, Biological, and Psychological Mechanisms of Stigma (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-13-005.html

Description:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued as part of the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet), encourages revision applications to incorporate basic research on behavioral and social mechanisms underlying stigma into active R01 research projects. For this initiative, projects may focus on stigma processes and mechanisms from the perspective of stigmatized individuals or groups and/or of individuals or groups holding stigmatizing beliefs. Projects may examine stigma in the context of specific health conditions; however, the focus of the work must be on the underlying mechanisms of stigma rather than on condition-specific manifestations of stigma.  

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity - Round 8

Deadline:

   
July 10, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Program Area:

   
Childhood Obesity


Additional Information:
 http://pweb1.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21417&cid=XEM_A6972

Purpose:
  
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

This call for proposals (CFP) is for two types of awards aimed at providing advocates, decision-makers, and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. The award types are: Round 8 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. The two funding opportunities are described in more detail in the CFP.

Round 8 grants represent the majority of RWJF's investment in research through the Healthy Eating Research program.

Washington University Nutrition Obesity Research Center Pilot & Feasibility Program

Purpose: The major objective of this program is to provide research support to test innovative hypotheses involving nutrition and obesity in the prevention, pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and therapy of disease. It is hoped that a Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Award will generate enough preliminary data for the investigator to obtain research funding from extramural sources (e.g., R01).

Eligibility Criteria:
1) New investigators without current or past NIH research project support (R01, P01 or R24) or other large extramural research support as a Program Director/Principle Investigator.
2) Established, funded investigators who are proposing new studies for a new hypothesis or direction in nutritional science or obesity, which are not directly related to previous or currently funded research, and need pilot data to justify further funding for this new idea.
3) Postdoctoral trainees are eligible for P&F funds who are in their last year of training, have suitable expertise and independence to design and carry out the planned experiments, and can provide documentation that they will be faculty members at Washington University at the time of the initiation of the award.

• Faculty who have received a previous P&F award from the NORC or another center may submit an application; however, priority will be given to those who have not had a previous P&F award.
• There is no citizenship requirement for P&F applicants.
  

Awards: The NORC will fund at least four awards of up to $25,000 for one year. A second year of funding is available, but is a competitive process, and will depend upon progress during the first year of funding and promise of adequate data to support further grant applications. No more than two years of funding will be awarded.

Deadline and Review Process: Applications must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, June 3, 2013. Awards will be announced September 1, 2013, and funding will begin October 1, 2013. All applications will be reviewed by the NORC Internal and External Advisory Committee members for scientific merit, originality, relevance of the work to nutrition and obesity, the potential for the project to generate data for a successful peer-reviewed grant application, and the potential for the PI to develop into an independent investigator.

Terms of Awards: All awardees must have appropriate institutional regulatory approvals (Human Research Protection Office-HRPO, Animal Studies, etc.) before funds will be released. Grantees will be required to meet with NORC Co-Director and to submit an annual progress report describing the results of their work, related publications and funding. If applying for a second year of funding, a full progress report on NIH 398 forms is required. All publications should acknowledge the Washington University NORC (P30 DK56341).

For questions contact:
Stephanie Paton,
NORC Research Program Administrator
314-362-2632; spaton@dom.wustl.edu

David Alpers, MD,
NORC Pilot and Feasibility Program Director
314-362-8943; dalpers@dom.wustl.edu

To learn more about the Nutrition Obesity Research Center, go to the Center for Human Nutrition website (http://chn.im.wustl.edu/).

Please see attached document for detailed P&F application instructions.

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Addressing Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (R01) PA-13-183

Addressing Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (R01) PA-13-183

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-183.html

Deadline: Standard dates http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks research to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the United States and to develop and test more effective interventions for reducing/eliminating health disparities. Research is encouraged in the following high priority diseases within the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK: diabetes, obesity, nutrition-related disorders, hepatitis C, gallbladder disease, H. Pylori infection, sickle cell disease, kidney diseases, urologic diseases, hematologic diseases, metabolic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV. 

Objectives and Scope:

The overall objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to understand and mitigate health disparities in the development, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of high priority to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is recognized that both biologic and non-biologic factors may be operating in these underrepresented populations.

Research approaches may include metabolic, genetic, clinical, behavioral, and/or epidemiologic studies in representative populations. Advantage might be taken of extant cohort studies that have been established for investigation of diabetes or other diseases. Collaboration among investigators of these established cohorts would be desirable, so that these studies might jointly develop protocols and evaluate findings. Alternatively, investigators may propose to start a new cohort, appropriately powered, to capture the current risks and outcomes in the era of new medications for some of the diseases. Such studies of current risks might appropriately be based in large HMOs or clinical practices with structure and data management practices conducive to efficient and cost-effective analyses.

Appropriate topics for investigation in NIDDK diseases would include but are not limited to:

• Testing approaches that influence healthcare delivery to reduce disparities in prevention and treatment;
• Better understanding of the racial and ethnic differences in screening, diagnosis, incidence, and prevalence of NIDDK diseases and whether there are differences among sub-groups in the rates of progression; with an emphasis on identifying factors that help inform treatment development, practice, or policy designed to reduce or eliminate disparities;
• State-of-the-art, hypothesis-driven mechanistic studies to determine whether there are biological differences that might influence disease outcomes;
• Studies to investigate environmental or behavioral factors, such as medical care, lifestyle, and socioeconomic status that may contribute to risk for development and progression of NIDDK diseases and related complications; and
• Studies of effects of medications or other therapies for prevention or treatment of NIDDK diseases in racial or ethnic minority populations, including differences across the lifespan in these populations. 

University Research Strategic Alliance (USRA)

Call for Research Proposals
Letter of Intent Due May 1, 2013
Full Proposal Due June 3, 2013

The mission of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) is to cultivate innovation and research growth, promote the ethical and responsible conduct of research, and serve the Washington University research community. One goal of the OVCR is to foster new interdisciplinary collaborations that result in innovative research. To further this aim, the Vice Chancellor for Research has initiated the third round of the internal funding program called the University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA).

The URSA Program will provide up to six awards, with a value of up to $25,000 each, for seed funding for new interdisciplinary collaborative research projects to full-time faculty at Washington University. URSA is soliciting proposals that include a new collaboration between two faculty investigators from different disciplines working together to approach a problem in an innovative way. The goal is to promote collaborations that build on different scientific and scholarly backgrounds to facilitate breakthroughs in solving research questions and spawn new research which is competitive for extramural support. Disciplinary diversity and representation from different schools or discipline-disparate departments will be a primary consideration in funding decisions. Faculty from all departments and schools are invited to submit proposals.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
Imaginative and innovative research proposals are sought under the following general guidelines.

1. Novel Collaborative Team: Each proposal must be submitted with two Co-Principal Investigators from different disciplines and departments who have not previously co-authored any publications or had joint funding. Preference may be given to proposals that include PIs from two different schools and proposals that include junior faculty. There may be no more than two PIs per proposal. PIs must be full time faculty at Washington University.
2. Investigative Scope: Identify short and long term aims of the project. How will the investigation broaden understanding of research problems, yield fresh insights, or increase sophistication of theoretical, methodological or analytical approaches of two or more research disciplines?
3. Innovation: Identify how the proposed project represents novel research at Washington University. Explain how disparate research approaches and/or methodologies will be integrated to create innovative or enhanced research outcomes.
4. Sustainability: Show clear plans for sustainability by identifying potential future funding and/or how this seed funding can pave the way to position the team to compete for external funding sources and opportunities.
   

LETTER OF INTENT DUE DATE: May 1, 2013
A letter of intent is strongly advised, but not required. Letters are requested in order to anticipate the number of proposals and to begin to solicit appropriate reviewers. Submitting a letter of intent is not a binding requirement of full proposal submission.

LETTER OF INTENT PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS
This document must be sent elecronically as a single PDF by 11:59 p.m. on May 1, 2013 to: langton@wustl.edu

The letter of intent must include:
1. Proposal Title
2. Two Co-Principal Investigators: name, school affiliation (primary appointment), department (primary appointment), and contact information.
3. Brief description of the proposal (no more than one page, single spaced).

FULL PROPOSALS are due June 3, 2013. Please see the attachment or go to http://research.wustl.edu/PGC/Funding/Documents/URSA_2013_RFA_FINAL.pdf for full proposal insructions and review criteria.

APPLICATION RECEIPT NOTICE: You will receive an e-mail response confirming receipt. If you do not receive it within two business days, contact Laura Langton at: langton@wustl.edu

ANTICIPATED NOTIFICATION OF SELECTED PROPOSALS: Mid July 2013

ANTICIPATED PROPOSAL/RESEARCH START DATE: September 2013

For questions relating to application guidelines and/or programmatic activities, please contact Laura Langton at langton@wustl.edu (314-747-1378).

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