Grant Information

Granting Agency Policy and Program Information

Other good grants sites

• University of Utah Health Science grant page
• College of Engineering grant information
• SCI Internal Grant Tracker

NIH General Information

• NIH Grant Submission Dates
• NCRR P41 submission dates: January 25, May 25, September 25.
• NIH Electronic Grant submission information.
• RO1 Parent RFA, the RFA to refer to for any unsolcited application in the RO1 format.
• NIH Intramural Nexis newsletter on electronic grant submission
• ERA Commons for tracking grants.
• NIH BISTI Consortium information
• NIBIB Home page
• NIH BECON information
• NHLBI Clinical Research Guide website.
• NIH Roadmap the new plan for the future of NIH funding.
• Erik Jakobsson slides on CS people getting money from NIH
• NIH CRISP database for searching all present NIH grants.
• NIH 2007 Stipend levels
• NIH Grants by State.
• NCI Small Animal Imaging Research Program
• Success rates by NIH Institute
• Medical Research with Animals, an information site for researchers.

NIH Study Section Information

• Master Study section list
• Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging, and Bioengineering IRG [SBIB] , which includes the following sections:
  • Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences [BTSS] Applications reviewed by the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences Scientific Review Group integrate physical, chemical, or mathematical sciences and engineering principles to study physiology, medicine, behavior, or health.
  • Biomedical Imaging Technology [BMIT] reviews grant applications involving basic, applied, and pre-clinical aspects of the design and development of medical imaging systems, their components, software, and mathematical methods; as well as related technologies, for studies at the organ, small or large animal, and human scale.
  • Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics [BCHI]reviews grant applications involving both basic research and applications of computational science to knowledge and information in biomedicine, healthcare and their integration. The focus is on the development and application of computational modeling and computational sciences to biomedical and clinical problems.
• Cardiovascular sciences list: a set of individual study sections for cardiovascular science.

NIH Grant preparation

• NIH Dates/Deadlines and the NIH policy on grant application delivery dates, including delays for weather.
• Change of PHS 398 forms.
• NIH downloadable forms, of special importance the new PHS 398 forms

American Heart Association Information

• Applications and forms
• AHA Grant Writing Tips

Other agencies

• The Whitaker Foundation
• NSF Bioengineering
• Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation and the IHC site for sudden death.

Specific Grant Programs

NIH

• Programs web page a good starting point for searching for suitable RFAs and grant programs.
• Software/Computation type grants:
  • Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) a joint initiative, Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS), among four National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorates and seven participating National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes Submission dates: February 26, 2008, October 30, 2008, and October 30, 2009.
  • Predictive Multiscale Models of the Physiome in Health and Disease (R01) The goal of this solicitation is to move the field of biomedical computational modeling forward through the development of more realistic and predictive models of health and disease. Note: FAQs to be published by Nov 15.
  • Sharing Data and Tools: Federation using the BIRN and caBIG Infrastructures (R01) proposal linked to CaBIG Community for cancer institute and the BIRN project.
  • Update to Data Sharing grants for NHLBI and the CVRG CardioVascular Research Grid.
  • NHLBI Exploratory Program in Systems Biology (R33) a reissue of RFA-HL-07-005 . These projects will combine computational modeling and simulation approaches with experimental validation of model predictions to advance understanding the normal physiology and perturbations associated with heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) disorders. There will be three such grants issued in each of 2007/8 and each cluster must be a combination of experimental and simulation. R33 with up to $600k per year in direct costs. Next letter of intent: August 24, 2007, submission September 25, 2007.
  • Neuroimaging Informatics Software Enhancement for Improved Interoperability and Dissemination available both as Adminstrative Supplement and as a RO3 grant.
  • Neuroimaging Informatics Software Enhancement for Improved Interoperability and Dissemination (R03) a continuation of the RO3 program, above. Total costs $100,000 for one year.
  • Continued Development and Maintenance of Software
  • Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01) "...promoting research and developments in computational science and technology that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research."
  • NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Bioinformatics (R01) Very broadly scoped program for biomedical information management. E.g., High-performance computing and communications relating to biomedical applications, including efficient machine-machine interfaces, transmission and storage, real-time decision support.
• Sharing Data and Tools: Federation using the BIRN and caBIG Infrastructures (R01) This FOA invites applications to make either data or tools more broadly available to the research community by making use of the BIRN and/or the caBIG infrastructure.
• Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG)(R01) for basic and applied multi-disciplinary research that addresses important biological, bioengineering or medical research problems. Standard application dates.
• Bioengineering Research Partnerships. RO1 mechanism and standard submission dates. "... to encourage collaborations and partnerships among the allied quantitative and biomedical disciplines. A BRP must bring together the necessary physical, engineering, and computational science expertise with biological or clinical expertise and resources to address a significant area of bioengineering research within the mission of the NIH. "
• Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01)
• CTSA Web site for the Clinical And Translational Science Awards program.
• NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program (DP2) 2008 edition Application deadline March 31, 2008.
• NCBC Program Note: all collaborative mechanisms with NCBCs have expired!
  • Main Portal to NCBC Centers
  • Simbios: Stanford Center for Biomedical Computation headed by Russ Altman.
  • National Alliance for Medical Image Computing at Harvard, Ron Kikinis.
  • Center for Computational Biology at UCLA, Art Toga.
  • Informatics for Integrated Biology and the Bedside Partners Health Care, Boston
  • National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics Brian D. Athey.
  • National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks Andrea Califano, Columbia University.
  • National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks Andrea Califano, Columbia University.

NIH Training Awards

• Permitted stipend levels for 2004
• General information about NIH training grants.
• NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants (T32)
  • Application deadlines are January 25, May 25, and September 25. However, different institutes have different dealines so see the link above for details.
  • NHLBI Supplemental T32 guidelines
  • NHLBI Tabular forms for required T32 data
  • NIBIB information borrowed from NIGMS
  • NIBIB forms from NIGMS
  • NIBIB RFA
  • NIBIB Policies and Procedures
• Short term training grant (T35) for supporting programs such as summer training of students in biomedical research techniques.
• NHLBI Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30) Note: students have to be in or applying for an MD/PhD program to qualify.
• F32 Postdoctoral fellowships
• Career Development (K) Awards
  • NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)
  • K-25: Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award
  • Independent Scientist Award (K02)
• Training in Computational Neuroscience: From Biology to Model and Back Again (T90) Application Receipt Dates: March 13, 2006.
• Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics (T15) Letter of intent, Feb 17. Grant submission, March 17, 2006.
• NIH Loan Repayment Programs for health professionals who work in research.

NSF and Others

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) November deadlines. Applicants must be United States citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States.
• NSF Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure
• Sixth Framework Programme from the European Union. Note the Networks of Excellence.

American Heart Association

• American Heart Association National Program Deadline: July, 2007.
• Deadline: January, 2008.
• National Scientist Development Grant.
• Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award Program
• Western States Affiliate: Predoctoral Fellowship. Note: open also to students on F-1 (and J-1, H-1B) visas.
• Western States Affiliate: Postdoctoral Fellowship. Note: also open to those with J-1, H-1B visas.
• Western States Affiliate: Beginning Grant in Aid.
• Western States Affiliate: Grant in Aid.

NSF

• Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics (SEIII) from NSF. Full proposal due March 4, 2004, December 15, 2004, and each December 15 after that.
• NSF IGERT program

University of Utah Programs

• The University of Utah seed grant program
• Synergy program
• Conflict of interest declaration for U of Utah grant applications.

Other Sources

• Hertz Foundation Fellowships for PhD students.

Past programs of interest

• 2006 Shared Instrumentation Grant Program from NCRR. Application receipt date: MArch 22, 2006. We got one of these!!! !---
• HHMI-NIBIB Interface Intiative. The two partners are NIBIB and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Letter of intent: January 20, 2005 and proposal deadline: June 15, 2005. RFA in pdf format. Goal is to develop "graduate-level research training programs in emerging interdisciplinary fields." Follow-up announcement from February, 2005. --->

Forms for Grant Applications

• Change of PHS 398 forms.
• NIH Forms page
• memo on new forms for phs398 based applications.
• NIH phs398 forms in a variety of formats.
• NIH Biosketch in the new 4-page format, available in MS Word format and PDF . Both contain an empty form and a sample biosketch.
• Rob's NIH 3-page Biosketch as pdf file and MS Word file.

Grant Writing Tips

Some of these are specific to grants, others simply useful for any writing project.

• Rob's Writing page
• Rob's Latex Page.
• NIH Insider Guide. A set of tips from former NIH study section chairs.
• Proposal Writing: The Business of Science (pdf) by Wendy Sanders. Great advice for any grant writer.
• Grant writing tips from NIH
• RO1 Grant writing tips
• AHA Grant Writing Tips
• Proposal Writer's Guide by Don Thackrey
• The SCI text markup scheme

Links to Specific SCI/CVRTI Grants

• Rob's NCRR site
• SCI Internal NCRR planning site
• SCI Internal NCBC proposal site