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Research Funding Opportunities Chris Bonner, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations Sponsor: International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF) Amount Available: $100,000 IRSF announces the availability of Post-doctoral Fellowships for international biomedical research to promote the understanding of MeCP2 in the pathogenesis of the neurobehavioral phenotype of Rett syndrome (RTT). The fellowships are designed to assist postdoctoral researchers establish careers in fields relevant to RTT research. IRSF seeks to gain a better understanding of the underlying pathology of the disorder leading to an amelioration of the symptoms and a cure for RTT. IRSF seeks to encourage research that encompasses innovative therapeutic approaches and state of the art diagnostic techniques. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/48774?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=3d6ea2b07e9d0379972831a9b96a4fd4&_srExpires=1339545600 Sponsor: International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF) Amount Available: $100,000 Grant Program: Basic Research Grant Program: Regular Research Grants IRSF announces the availability of Regular Research Grants for international biomedical research to promote the understanding of MeCP2 in the pathogenesis of the neurobehavioral phenotype of Rett syndrome (RTT). These grants are designed to assist investigators establish hypotheses relevant to RTT research and obtain future funding from other agencies. IRSF seeks to gain a better understanding of the underlying pathology of the disorder leading to an amelioration of the symptoms and a cure for RTT. IRSF seeks to encourage research that encompasses innovative therapeutic approaches and state of the art diagnostic techniques. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/135060?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=d8d1ec5781ea1535010ba5f15832acea&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: $180,000 Grant Program: Postdoctoral Fellowship Award The Foundation encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. The proposed investigation must be conducted at a university, hospital, or research institution. Postdoctoral training in the same institution in which the applicant received their degree is discouraged, particularly if it was in the same department. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/7716?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=4473875958e87e279319265589567e47&_srExpires=1339545600 _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $750,000 Grant Program: Development of Tools and Technologies for Site-Targeted Delivery of Therapeutics to Pancreatic Islet Endocrine Cell Types –Target Identification and Validation JDRF is soliciting Expressions of Interest (EOI)s for projects addressing the need for validated islet endocrinecell specific targets that could ultimately be useful in the development of cell site-targeted delivery for therapeutics or imaging. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/137938?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=730b7d7ccd8857be8a01223aa9da30cb&_srExpires=1339545600
_____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $1,500,000 Grant Program: Investigator-Initiated Research Grants The Foundation supports high-quality research that addresses its Current Research Interests: enhancing our understanding of how youth settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/115586?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=e77d41744db910817873c8d563683389&_srExpires=1339545600 _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $100,000 Grant Program: Legacy Program Research Grants Uniting Against Lung Cancer announces funding opportunities for research aimed at improved treatment and a cure for lung cancers. The Foundation is prioritizing novel ideas with potential to make a significant impact on current treatment of lung cancer and patient survival, adding years rather than months. The Foundation has placed high priority on funding research that has a clear path to clinical application and/or therapeutic development. Proposals for basic science are greatly aided by a forward-looking research plan outlining clinical potential. UALC funding is intended primarily as seed money for promising and potentially transformative new projects, rather than funding projects that already receive considerable support. Cross discipline collaborations are strongly encouraged. Proposals do not require large amounts of preliminary data, but must have a clear hypothesis and research plan to be completed within the two-year grant term. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/98529?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=061fc1dab34e055ec6398e913a862c86&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: $150,000 Grant Program: Research Grants he mission of the BEBRF is to undertake, promote, develop, and carry on the search for the cause and a cure for benign essential blepharospasm and other related disorders and infirmities of the facial musculature. Funds are available for support of research directly related to blepharospasm or Meige's Syndrome, both forms of cranial dystonia. Research proposals must relate specifically to benign essential blepharospasm and Meige to include new treatments, pathophysiology and genetics, photophobia, and dry eye. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/20319?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=261ccbcd188027fef2e7d3662acf9261&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: $600,000 Grant Program: Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Research, Pilot Studies IRSF announces the availability of ANGEL (Advanced Neurotherapeutic Grant of Excellence) Grant Awards to promote the development and testing of therapeutics to treat and reverse Rett syndrome (RTT) and its symptoms. This award mechanism seeks to facilitate the development and testing of novel therapeutics targeting the underlying pathology of the disorder, thereby leading to an amelioration of symptoms or ultimately a pharmacological reversal of RTT. Through this award, IRSF seeks to foster academic and public-private partnerships and further facilitate drug discovery, development and testing. The goal of the ANGEL Grant Award is to provide funding for the later stages of translational research. Proposals must be comprised of very specific programs focused on pre-clinical drug discovery and development or clinical testing of therapeutic candidates. This mechanism requires development of a milestone based research plan, interim reporting on milestones and interaction with IRSF staff prior to and during the award period. The budget and duration of funding are variable and continued funding will be based on satisfactory progress on milestones. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/135061?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=372aa3cbb64bf6377a84c035933aefcf&_srExpires=1339545600 _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $100,000 Grant Program: Innovation Awards The goals of the program are to improve the quality of life for patients with vasculitis and ultimately find the cause/s and cure for vasculitis. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/109667?pool_id=8336&_srTicket=54eff60419a266dcebe4a943f04695d2&_srExpires=1339545600 _____________________________________________________________ Sponsor: American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Amount Available: $180,000 Grant Program: ACR REF Clinician Scholar Education award The intent of this award is to develop and support educational scholars in the field of rheumatology. These unique individuals serve as excellent role models for future rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals and deserve recognition and support. Through this award, applicants should demonstrate their goal of developing a career in medical education and training, with the aim of enhancing education in the musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases, and of attracting the best trainees into a career in rheumatology. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/69153?pool_id=8337&_srTicket=ca403673e331caf530efa9d42657ce07&_srExpires=1339545600 _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $375,000 Grant Program: ACR REF Rheumatology Investigator Award The ACR REF supports programs that promote rheumatology research and training, and that introduce medical students and other health professionals to the field of rheumatology. The purpose of this award is to provide support for basic science and clinical investigators engaged in research relevant to the rheumatic diseases for the period between the completion of post-doctorate fellowship training and establishment as an independent investigator. The award is intended to support junior investigators during the period that they are developing a project that will be competitive for NIH funding. It is not intended to be a second postdoctoral fellowship Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/113811?pool_id=8337&_srTicket=5727f4758fd167525262bfb5a7c7a375&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: $225,000 Grant Program: ACR REF Rheumatology Scientist Development Award (RSDA) The purpose of the award is to provide support for a structured, formal, clinical or basic science research training program for rheumatologists or health professionals in the field of rheumatology. This award is designed for individuals in the early stages of their career or those without significant prior research experience who plan to embark on careers in biomedical and/or clinical research in arthritis and rheumatic diseases. URL: http://www.rheumatology.org/ref/awards/rsda.asp Amount Available: $400,000 The ACS offers a limited number of grants to provide unique research opportunities to foster maximal productivity in clinical and applied cancer research. These grants provide flexible funding for established investigators in mid-career who have made seminal contributions that have changed the direction of clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy, or epidemiologic cancer research. Furthermore, it is expected that these investigators will continue to provide leadership in their research area. The award also may be used to support similarly qualified individuals who are dedicated to bringing advances in basic sciences into the clinical arena and to articulating clinical problems for basic research scientists. An ACS Clinical Research Professor is required to be a spokesperson for the ACS and for cancer research. _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $180,000 Grant Program: Clinical Research Training Grant The CRTG is designed to provide promising young clinicians with the research training opportunities needed to become productive clinical investigators in neuromuscular disease research. This training opportunity is designed to be compatible with the requirements of a traditional clinical fellowship in neuromuscular disease and any forthcoming requirements for certification in neuromuscular disease. Trainees will be expected to design their own educational plans and to participate, under the supervision of a mentor, in the development and/or coordination of a clinical research project. URL: http://www.mda.org/research/trac/trac_grant_clirestraining.html _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $100,000 Grant Program: Funderburg Research Scholar Award in Gastric Biology Related to Cancer (AGA/R.Robert and Sally Funderburg Research Scholar Award in Gastric Cancer) This grant is awarded to an established investigator working on novel approaches in gastric cancer research, including the fields of gastric mucosal cell biology; regeneration and regulation of cell growth (not as they relate to peptic ulcer disease or repair); inflammation (including Helicobacter pylori) as precancerous lesions; genetics of gastric carcinoma; oncogenes in gastric epithelial malignancies; epidemiology of gastric cancer; etiology of gastric epithelial malignancies; or clinical research in the diagnosis or treatment of gastric carcinoma. The overall objective of this award is to support an established investigator in the field of gastric biology whose research will enhance the fundamental understanding of gastric cancer pathobiology in order to ultimately prevent or develop a cure for the disease. URL: http://www.gastro.org/aga-foundation/grants/established-investigator-awards/funderburg-research-award-in-gastric-cancer Amount Available: $150,000 Grant Program: Institutional Research Training Grant (IRTG) The IRTG is intended to identify, develop, and fund promising institutions dedicated to providing high quality training to research fellows in emergency medicine. Its specific goals are Pivot: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/fo2/getRec?id=52566&if=search _____________________________________________________________ Amount Available: $172,083 Grant Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships The society welcomes applications for support of training of postdoctoral fellows in studies related to multiple sclerosis that may serve to advance the mission of the society. The society supports fundamental as well as applied studies, nonclinical or clinical in nature, including projects in patient management, care, and rehabilitation. To be considered for funding, all projects must show relevance to the society's mission. The society offers postdoctoral fellowship grants to unusually promising recipients of M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degrees when it appears that the program of training to be supported by the grant will enhance the likelihood that the trainee will perform meaningful and independent research relevant to multiple sclerosis in the future, and obtain a suitable position that will enable them to do so. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/15937?pool_id=8337&_srTicket=f3683c9de834e7567298b51cb76e4a4f&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: unspecified Grant Program: Research Grants The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) welcomes applications for support of studies related to multiple sclerosis which may serve in any way to advance the mission of the society. The society supports fundamental as well as applied studies, non-clinical or clinical in nature, including projects in patient management, care and rehabilitation. To be considered for funding, all projects must show relevance to the society's mission of preventing, treating and curing MS and improving quality of life. Pivot: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/fo2/getRec?id=52566&if=search URL: http://www.mdausa.org/research/guidelines.html _____________________________________________________________
Amount Available: $150,000 Grant Program: Research Infrastructure Awards The AES and the Epilepsy Foundation are partnering to provide an opportunity for scientists to obtain support for nationwide or international networks of clinical or basic science researchers focused on understanding the causes, consequences and treatment of epilepsy. Multicenter research programs are viewed as an important venue through which investigators from around the world can establish centralized databases, common protocols, shared resources, core laboratories and exchange rapidly developing techniques and technologies. Such cooperative efforts are anticipated to hasten the speed of discovery. These funds are meant to be used to support pilot projects and hold organizational and planning sessions with representatives from each center in the planned network. These planning sessions should also be used to develop the research effort and collect results that would be used to prepare and submit a larger application for support from the Federal Government and establish the multicenter research program over the long term. Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/98147?pool_id=8337&_srTicket=cfcf67a971e141355bcdb6ede5cddd5e&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: $150,000 Grant Program: Research Training Grant (RTG) The Research Training Grant (RTG) is intended to provide funding to support the development of a scientist in emergency medicine. Its specific goals are: Pivot: http://pivot.cos.com/funding_opps/35803?pool_id=8337&_srTicket=0b2a4da2b80c700a63ec74f81256a952&_srExpires=1339545600 Amount Available: $150,000 Grant Program: Novel Biomarkers to Accelerate Drug Discovery for Frontotemporal Dementias (ADDF-AFTD RFP) Drug discovery for frontotemporal dementias (FTD) and spectrum disorders has been hindered by the heterogeneity of the disease. FTD-specific biomarkers that reflect pathological and clinical differences are needed to select appropriate patients for clinical trials and monitor responses to investigational treatments. ADDF and The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) challenge scientists to meet this unmet medical need by submitting applications through this Request for Proposals (RFP). URL: http://www.alzdiscovery.org/index.php/research-programs/grant-opportunities Amount Available: $150,000 Grant Program: RFA MD-Scientist Fellowships, PhD Basic Science Fellowships, and Career Development Awards in SLE The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation invites applications for MD-Scientist Fellowships, PhD-Basic Science Fellowships, and Career Development Awards for research projects relevant to Lupus Erythematosus. Applications for the Career Development Award, which is tailored to new investigators, will be evaluated primarily on the researcher's interest and commitment to lupus science and his/her potential for an independent investigative career. URL: http://www.lupusny.org/lupus-research/funding _____________________________________________________________ Sponsor: Arthritis Foundation Amount Available: varies Grant Program: Training Awards RFA for Clinical to Research Transition Awards, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Doctoral Dissertation Awards, and New Pivot: none Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Amount Available: $600,000 Grant Program: Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity 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 key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. The award types are: Round 7 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. Pivot: none
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