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The following grant opportunity postings were made on the Grants.gov
Find Opportunities ("FedGrants") service:
Agriculture (USDA)
Small Minority Producer Grant
Provides funds for cooperatives or associations of cooperatives
whose primary focus is to provide assistance to small minority
producers and whose governing board and/or membership is comprised
of at least 75 percent minority members
Deadline – July 28, 2006
Small Business Innovation Research
The purpose of the SBIR program is to provide an opportunity for
US-owned, for-profit small business firms to submit innovative,
applied, research and development projects that address important
problems facing American agriculture and have the potential to
lead to significant public benefit if the research is successful.
Research proposals are accepted in any of the following topic
areas: 1) Forests and Related Resources; 2) Plant Production
and Protection - Biology; 3) Animal Production and Protection;
4) Soil and Water Resources; 5) Food Science and Nutrition; 6)
Rural and Community Development; 7) Aquaculture; 8) Industrial
Applications; 9) Marketing and Trade; 10) Animal Manure Management;
11) Small and Mid-Size Farms; and 12) Plant Production and Protection
- Engineering.
Deadline – September 1, 2006 (Phase I); February 1,
2007 (Phase II)
McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition
Program
Grants are only awarded, under this program, for projects carried
out in foreign countries. The key objectives of the FFE program
are to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education
in foreign countries, especially for girls. By providing school
meals, teacher training, and related support, FFE projects will
help boost school enrollment and academic performance in foreign
countries. At the same time, nutrition programs will be offered
for pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, and pre-school youngsters
to sustain and improve the health and learning capacity of children
before they enter school, in foreign countries.
Deadline – August 31, 2006
Rural Initiative for New American Farmers Partnerships Program
RMA has annually offered partnerships to provide education to producers
of crops currently no insured under Federal crop insurance, specialty
crops, and underserved commodities, including livestock and forage
(priority commodities). Even though these partnerships have been
very successful, there is a segment of producers that have not
been reached with these education programs—refugees and
low income individuals who produce, or who are undertaking to
establish a business producing, priority commodities (target
producers). The purpose of this cooperative partnership agreement
program is to deliver risk management training and information
to these producers.
Deadline – July 17, 2006
Air Force (USAF)
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
Army (USA)
Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
(CCFF)
Commerce (DOC)
FY2007 Community-based Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants
The NOAA Restoration Center (RC) invites the public to submit applications
requesting funding to establish multi-year national and regional
habitat restoration partnerships for up to three years. Partnerships
are expected to catalyze the implementation of locally-driven,
grass-roots habitat restoration projects that will benefit living
marine resources, including diadromous fish.
Deadline – September 25, 2006
FY2007 Community-based Habitat Restoration Project Grants
NMFS is inviting the public to submit proposals for available funding
to implement grass-roots habitat restoration projects that will
benefit living marine resources, including anadromous fish, under
the NOAA Community-based Restoration Program.
Deadline – September 28, 2006
FY2007 Community-based Marine Debris Prevention and Removal Project
Grants
NMFS is inviting the public to submit proposals for funding available
through the NOAA Marine Debris Program (MDP) to implement grass-roots
projects to prevent or remove marine debris that will benefit living
marine resource habitats.
Deadline – October 30, 2006
Cooperative Research Program
The NMFS is inviting the public to submit research and development
projects that seek to increase and improve the working relationship
between researchers from the NMFS, state fishery agencies, universities,
and fishermen. The program is a means of involving commercial
and recreational fishermen in the collection of fundamental fisheries
information.
Deadline – August 11, 2006
Climate and Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment
NOAA invites applications to establish a cooperative agreement
with the agency under the Climate and Weather Impacts on Society
and the Environment (CWISE) program.
Deadline – August 28, 2006
Coastal Hypoxia Research Program (CHRP)
NOAA, National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal
Ocean Science(NCCOS), Center for Sponsored Coastal Oceans Research
(CSCOR) is soliciting proposals for projects of 2 to 5 years
in duration that advance understanding, predicting, and managing
the causes and ecological and economic impacts of hypoxia in
representative coastal ecosystems. The program priorities for
this opportunity support NOAA's mission support goal of: Ecosystems
- Protect, Restore, and Manage use of Coastal and Ocean Resources
through Ecosystem-Based Management.
Deadline – September 11, 2006
Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors (MultiStress)
NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CSCOR is soliciting proposals for projects of up
to 5 years in duration to investigate the impacts of multiple
stressors in coastal ocean ecosystems, including estuaries and
the Great Lakes.
Deadline – October 23, 2006
Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB)
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS), Center for Sponsored
Coastal Oceans Research (CSCOR) is soliciting proposals for two
types of research projects MERHAB-targeted and MERHAB-regional.
MERHAB-targeted proposals will incorporate tools, approaches
and technologies from HAB research programs into existing harmful
algal bloom (HAB) monitoring programs.
Deadline – October 2, 2006
Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR)
Program
The CSTAR Program represents an NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective
transition from basic and applied research to operations and services
through collaborative research between operational forecasters
and academic institutions which have expertise in the environmental
sciences.
Deadline – October 20, 2006
Joint Hurricane Testbed
This notice calls for researchers to submit proposals to test and
evaluate, and modify if necessary, in a quasi operational environment,
their own scientific and technological research applications.
Deadline – July 31, 2006 (Letter of Intent); October
30, 2006 (Application)
General Coral Reef Conservation
The NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program/General Coral Reef Conservation
Grants (GCRCGP) provides funding to institutions of higher education,
non-profit organizations, commercial organizations, Freely Associated
State government agencies, and local and Indian tribal governments
to support coral reef conservation projects in the United States
and the Freely Associated States in the Pacific, as authorized
under the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000.
Deadline – November 10, 2006
Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Program (Treatment Technology
Demonstration Projects)
The Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Program supports projects
to develop, test, and demonstrate technologies that treat ships'
ballast water in order to reduce the threat of introduction of
aquatic invasive species to U.S. waters through the discharge of
ballast water.
Deadline – September 14, 2006 (Letter of Intent); January
10, 2007 (Application)
Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Program Cooperative Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation (RDTE) Facility
The mission of any funded RDTE facility will be to support progress
in the development of commercially viable ballast water treatment
technologies.
Deadline – December 19, 2006
FY07 Ocean Exploration Omnibus
OE is seeking pre-proposals and full proposals to support its mission,
consistent with NOAA’s Strategic Plan, to search, investigate,
and document poorly-known and unknown areas of the ocean and
Great Lakes through interdisciplinary exploration, and to advance
and disseminate knowledge of the ocean environment and its physical,
chemical, biological, and marine archaeological resources.
Deadline – September 8, 2006
Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors (MultiStress)
NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CSCOR is soliciting proposals for projects of up
to 5 years in duration to investigate the impacts of multiple
stressors in coastal ocean ecosystems, including estuaries and
the Great Lakes.
Deadline – October 23, 2006
FY07 Ocean Exploration Omnibus
OE is seeking pre-proposals and full proposals to support its mission,
consistent with NOAA’s Strategic Plan (http://www.nrc.noaa.gov),
to search, investigate, and document poorly-known and unknown
areas of the ocean and Great Lakes through interdisciplinary
exploration, and to advance and disseminate knowledge of the
ocean environment and its physical, chemical, biological, and
marine archaeological resources.
Deadline – September 8, 2006
Research in Satellite Data Assimilation for Numerical Weather,
Climate, and Environmental Forecast Systems
The goal of the JCSDA is to accelerate the use of observations
from earth-orbiting satellites in operational numerical prediction
models for the purpose of improving weather, ocean mesoscale, and
other environmental forecasts, improving seasonal to interannual
climate forecasts, and increasing the physical accuracy of climate
reanalysis.
Deadline - August 11, 2006 (Letter of Intent); October 2, 2006
(Application)
NMFS-SG Fellowship in Marine Resource Economics
National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) is seeking applications
for one of its fellowship programs to fulfill its broad educational
responsibilities and to strengthen the collaboration between
Sea Grant and NMFS.
Deadline – February 16, 2007
NMFS-SG Fellowship in Population Dynamics
National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) is seeking applications
for one of its fellowship programs to fulfill its broad educational
responsibilities and to strengthen the collaboration between
Sea Grant and the NOAA Fisheries Service (NMFS).
Deadline – February 16, 2007
National Sea Grant College Program Aquatic Invasive Species Research
and Outreach
The National Sea Grant College Program seeks to fund research and
outreach projects addressing the introduction and spread of aquatic
invasive species. The goal of the program is to discover and develop
information and tools that can lead to the prevention, monitoring
and control of aquatic invasive species threatening United States
coastal, oceanic and Great Lakes communities, resources and ecosystems.
Deadline - August 17, 2006 (Pre-Application); December 19, 2006
(Application)
AFWS Grants Fiscal Year 2007
The National Weather Service (NWS) is soliciting requests to provide
capital funds for the creation, renovation, or enhancement of
rain and stream gage networks that are locally operated and maintained
with non-NOAA resources.
Deadline – October 31, 2006
National Techical Assistance Program
EDA is soliciting applications to provide technical assistance
in connection with the following projects: (1) information dissemination
to practitioners serving economically distressed areas and (2)
six regional symposia.
Deadline – August 1, 2006
National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Research Fellowship
Program FY07
The National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Research Fellowship
program is designed to fund high quality research focused on enhancing
coastal zone management while providing students with an opportunity
to contribute to the research or monitoring program at a particular
reserve site.
Deadline – November 1, 2006
Knauss 2008
The Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship matches graduate
students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes
resources, and in the national policy and management decisions
affecting these resources, with hosts in the Legislative and
Executive branches of the Federal government for a one year paid
fellowship. The program priorities for this opportunity support
NOAA's mission support goal of: Ecosystems - Protect, Restore,
and Manage Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources through Ecosystem-Based
Management.
Deadline – April 5, 2007
Hydrologic Research
This program represents an NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective
continuum of basic and applied research through collaborative
research between the Hydrology Laboratory of the NWS Office of
Hydrologic Development and academic communities or other private
or public agencies which have expertise in the hydrometerologic,
hydrologic, and hydraulic routing sciences.
Deadline – September 15, 2006 (Pre-Application); November
15, 2006 (Application)
Administrative Services for the NOAA Graduate Sciences Program
The goal of the Graduate Sciences Program is to provide college
graduates who have received at least a Bachelor's degree in mathematics,
science, economics, law, and engineering, entry-level employment
and hands-on research and work experience at NOAA.
Deadline – December 1, 2006
Administrative Services for the NOAA Undergraduate Scholarship
Program
The goal of the Undergraduate Scholarship Program is to increase
the number of students who undertake course work and graduate with
degrees in the targeted areas integral to NOAA's mission.
Deadline – November 1, 2006
Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
The Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program is announcing funding
availability for graduate students pursuing masters or doctoral
level degrees in oceanography, marine biology, or maritime archaeology.
Deadline – February 9, 2007
Bay Watershed Education and Training
The Chesapeake B-WET grant program is a competitively based program
that supports existing environmental education programs, fosters
the growth of new programs, and encourages the development of
partnerships among environmental education programs throughout
the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Deadline – October 23, 2006
Corporation for National and Community
Service (CNCS)
Defense (DOD)
Information Exploitation Technology
DARPA's Information Exploitation Office (DARPA/IXO) is soliciting
proposals for advanced research and development of enabling technology,
critical subsystems, and full system concepts that will provide
revolutionary improvement to the efficiency and effectiveness
of military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance, Reconnaissance, strike and stability operations
in complex battlespaces. The goal of this procurement is to identify
and develop novel ideas for sensing, signal processing, target
characterization, data fusion, target tracking, predictive awareness,
battle management, collaborative planning, and visualization
that can contribute to future conflict mitigation, warfighting
and peacekeeping effectiveness.
Deadline – September 19, 2006
2006 Centers of Academic Excellence Program
The IC CAE Program in the National Security Studies Program is
established to assist in meeting the nation’s demand for
a cadre of intelligence professionals with critical skills to
carry out America’s national security imperatives over
the long-term and recognizing that accomplishing this goal requires
a competitive, knowledgeable, ethnically and racially diverse
minority workforce with varied cultural backgrounds, regional
and geographical expertise, skills, language proficiency, and
related competencies.
Deadline – July 7, 2006
Navigation and Timekeeping Technology
In accordance with the guidance promulgated by the Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (NII), concerning Navigation Warfare
(NAVWAR), which deals with the mitigation of denial of Positioning,
Navigation and Timing (PNT), this effort is concerned with the
first two of the three elements: Electronic Protection (EP) and
Electronic Support (ES).
Deadline – September 25, 2006
Personnel Security Thesis, Dissertation and Institutional Research
Awards Program
The Department of Defense Polygraph Institute DoDPI began in 1999
an effort to broaden its presence in the scientific and academic
communities in response to the need for more advanced technical
expertise to fulfill DoDPIs research mission. The Personnel Security
Thesis, Dissertation, and Institutional Research Awards Program
seeks to give the DoDPI a research workforce that is competitive
with the best minds from the complex cerebral worlds of academia,
and the emerging technologies.
Deadline – September 30, 2010
BAA05-50, Wireless Network after Next (WNaN)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency¿s (DARPA)
Advanced Technology Office (ATO) is soliciting proposals for the
Wireless Network after Next (WNaN). The WNaN program seeks to develop
and demonstrate technologies and system concepts that will enable
intelligent adaptive wireless networks consisting of densely deployed
low cost wireless nodes.
Deadline – September 30, 2006
Application Communities (AC)
Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches and
techniques that lead to or enable revolutionary advances in the
state-of-the-art.
Deadline – September 5, 2006
BAA06-01 - Mission Adaptable Chemical sensor (MACS) Program
The objective of the program is to successfully demonstrate a portable
(< 1 cubic foot, < 30 lbs), ultra-sensitive (parts-per-trillion
detection capability) chemical sensor based upon submillimeter/terahertz
rotational spectroscopy.
Deadline – October 17, 2006
DARPA SPO Office Wide BAA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Special Projects Office
(DARPA/SPO) researches, develops, demonstrates and transitions
technologies focused on addressing present and emerging national
challenges. SPO investments range from the development of enabling
technologies to the demonstration of large prototype systems.
Innovative concepts are sought for research efforts to enable
U.S. dominance over the proliferating threat posed by our adversary’s
use of underground structures.
Deadline – November 15, 2006
BAA06-12 - Sustained Littoral Presence (SLP) Program
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Technology
Office (ATO) is soliciting proposals under this BAA for the performance
of research, development, design, and demonstration to support
the Sustained Littoral Presence Program. The SLP program objectives
are: (1) to develop sustainable, microbial fuel cells (bottom
mounted and in the water column) to generate continuous, unattended
power for greater than 10 years in both ocean and fresh water
regions and (2) to develop unique mobile surveillance systems
that utilize these novel microbial power plants and operate with
a high degree of autonomy, stealth, and weather tolerance with
minimum cost and manpower risk.
Deadline – November 28, 2006
Strategically Hardened Facility Defeat
The DARPA SHFD program seeks to develop non-nuclear earth-penetrating
systems for the defeat of hard and deeply buried targets with
major strategic capabilities. The Government requests proposals
for the full scope of development (e.g., an end-to-end system
designed by a team of multidisciplinary research organizations,
plus an integrator for coordination and implementation support)
Deadline – February 9, 2007
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s
(DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to identify and pursue
the most promising technologies within a broad spectrum of the
science and engineering research communities and to develop those
technologies into important, radically new military capabilities.
Deadline – February 9, 2007
DARPA Tactical Technology Office (TTO) Aerospace Systems and Tactical
Multipliers
The Tactical Technology Office (TTO) of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting proposals for advanced research
and development of system and subsystem level technologies that
enable revolutionary improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness
of the military. The DARPA/TTO program will consider a broad range
of technologies but focuses on the high risk/high payoff development
and demonstration of complete systems or subsystems rather than
advances in basic sciences.
Deadline – December 31, 2006
Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (ITMANET)
The objective of the Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
(ITMANET) program is to generate and exploit superior theoretical
insights concerning the design, deployment, and operation of
a new generation of wireless mobile networks. To achieve this
objective, a central challenge problem has been devised: to close
a longstanding open problem concerning the capacity limits of
Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs).
Deadline – May 1, 2007
Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks for Young Investigators
The objective of the Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
(ITMANET) program is to generate and exploit superior theoretical
insights concerning the design, deployment, and operation of
a new generation of wireless mobile networks. To achieve this
objective, a central challenge problem has been devised: to close
a longstanding open problem concerning the capacity limits of
Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs).
Deadline – May 1, 2007
Education (ED)
Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems Program (84.215M)
Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems
will provide funds to increase student access to high-quality
mental health care by developing innovative approaches that link
school systems with the local mental health system.
Deadline – July 10, 2006
Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program (84.345A)
The purpose of this program is to provide grants to establish a
facility to house, display, and interpret artifacts related to
the history of the Underground Railroad, and to make the interpretive
efforts available to institutions of higher education that award
a baccalaureate or graduate degree.
Deadline – July 3, 2006
DRRP -- Assistive Technology (AT) Outcomes Research Project (84.133A-8).
DRRP
-- Rehabilitation of Children with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
(84.133A-10)
DRRP
-- Improving Employment Outcomes for the Low Functioning Deaf
(LFD)
DRRP
-- Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) (84.133A-9)
DRRP
-- Reducing Obesity and Obesity-Related Secondary Conditions
in Adolescents and Adults with Disabilities (84.133A-16)
DRRP
-- Mobility Aids and Wayfinding Technologies for Individuals
With Blindness and Low Vision (84.133A-11)
The purpose of the DRRP program is to plan and conduct research,
demonstration projects, training, and related activities to develop
methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize
the full inclusion and integration into society, employment,
independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency
of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with
the most severe disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness
of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
as amended.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
RRTC on Effective Independent and Community Living Solutions and
Measures (84.133B-14)
The purpose of the RRTC program is to improve the effectiveness
of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as
amended.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
RERC for Technologies for Successful Aging (84.133E-1).
RERC
for Wireless Technologies (84.133E-7)
RERC
for Wheelchair Transportation Safety (84.133E-8)
The purpose of the RERC program is to improve the effectiveness
of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
as amended.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
Children with disabilities; personnel development to improve services
and results (84.325L)
The purposes of this program are to (1) help address State-identified
needs for highly qualified personnel--in special education, related
services, early intervention, and regular education--to work with
infants or toddlers with disabilities, or children with disabilities;
and (2) ensure that those personnel have the skills and knowledge
that are required by law and that are needed to serve those children.
Deadline – July 5, 2006
Children with disabilities; personnel leadership preparation to
improve services and results (84.325D)
The purposes of this program are to (1) help address State-identified
needs for highly qualified personnel--in special education, related
services, early intervention, and regular education--to work with
infants or toddlers with disabilities, or children with disabilities;
and (2) ensure that those personnel have the skills and knowledge--derived
from practices that have been determined through research and experience
to be successful--that are needed to serve those children.
Deadline – July 5, 2006
Children with disabilities; personnel preparation to improve services
and results (84.325K)
The purposes of this program are to (1) help address State-identified
needs for highly qualified personnel--in special education, related
services, early intervention, and regular education--to work with
children with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel
have the skills and knowledge--derived from practices that have
been determined through research and experience to be successful--that
are needed to serve those children.
Deadline – July 5, 2006
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (84.120A)
The MSEIP is designed to effect long-range improvement in science
and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions
and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities,
particularly minority women, into scientific and technological
careers.
Deadline – July 24, 2006
Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and
Results for Children with Disabilities Program (84.326D)
The Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services
and Results for Children with Disabilities program promotes academic
achievement and improves results for children with disabilities
by supporting technical assistance, model demonstration projects,
dissemination of useful information, and implementation activities
that are supported by scientifically-based research.
Deadline – July 24, 2006
Comprehensive Program (84.116B)
The Comprehensive Program supports grants and cooperative agreements
to improve postsecondary education opportunities.
Deadline – July 10, 2006
Disability Business Technical Assistance Center Coordination,
Outreach, and Research Center (DBTAC CORC) (84.133A-13)
The purpose of the DRRP program is to plan and conduct research,
demonstration projects, training, and related activities to develop
methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize
the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent
living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency
of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the
most severe disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness of services.
Deadline – July 18, 2006 (Pre-Application Meeting); August
8, 2006 (Application)
Disability Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) (84.133A-15)
The purpose of the DRRP program is to plan and conduct research,
demonstration projects, training, and related activities to develop
methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize
the full inclusion and integration into society, employment,
independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency
of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with
the most severe disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness
of services
Deadline – July 18, 2006 (Pre-Application Meeting);
August 8, 2006 (Application)
Reading First Program (84.357)
We award Targeted Assistance Grants to State educational agencies
(SEAs) that demonstrate an increase in student achievement in
schools and districts participating in the Reading First program.
Deadline – July 31, 2006
Children with disabilities; personnel development to improve services
and results (84.325F)
The purposes of this program are to (1) help address State-identified
needs for highly qualified personnel--in special education, related
services, early intervention, and regular education--to work with
infants or toddlers with disabilities, or children with disabilities;
and (2) ensure that those personnel have the skills and knowledge--derived
from practices that have been determined through research and experience
to be successful--that are needed to serve those children.
Deadline – July 19, 2006
IDEA General Supervision Enhancement Grants (84.326X)
This program promotes academic achievement and improves results
for children with disabilities by supporting technical assistance,
model demonstration projects, dissemination of useful information,
and implementation activities that are supported by scientifically-based
research.
Deadline – August 7, 2006
Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
Energy (DOE)
Request for Information: Production Incentives for Cellulosic
Biofuels, under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), Public Law
109-58, Section 942
The Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking information from industry,
academia, and producers of cellulosic biofuels regarding the most
beneficial and efficient way to consider implementation of Section
942 of EPAct. The information will be used by DOE for internal
planning and decision making purposes relative to directing DOE
to support such a program. The purpose of this Request for Information
is solely for consideration in determining the most beneficial
and efficient way to implement Section 942 of EPAct which authorizes
a reverse auction to incentivize the production of cellulosic biofuels.
Deadline – July 14, 2006
Solar America Initiative (SAI) Technology Pathway Partnerships
(TPP), Phase 1
To implement the SAI, the SETP will pursue an R D strategy that
is segmented into three manageable three-year phases. These phases
will progressively reduce the cost of commercially-available PV
systems and components, and will ultimately yield commercial products
and production processes that achieve the LCOE and support installed
capacity targets in 2015.
Deadline – October 2, 2006
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Cooperative Agreement for Integrating Clean Water, Drinking Water
and Land Use Planning Efforts
This funding opportunity seeks to demonstrate methods of integrating
drinking water protection into land stewardship/conservation and
water programs at the local level. In the first 18 months of the
project, the successful applicant will work with four to five demonstration
states to foster integration of water quality management, drinking
water protection and land use planning efforts at the state level
that will enable source water protection at the local level.
Deadline – July 24, 2006
Pollution Prevention Information Network Grants: Request for Proposals
2006
Under the authority of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, approximately
$700,000 will be available to support grants to States, Tribes,
and Intertribal Consortia in FY 2006 for programs to promote the
use of successful source reduction techniques by businesses.
Deadline – July 28, 2006
Office of the Science Advisor Office of Research and Development
Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting applications
from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering,
and conducting of conferences in the areas of (1) EPA mission related
issues connected to protecting, human health and safeguarding the
natural environment; (2) advancing the scientific and technical
research that promotes environmental protection; (3) exploring
current and emerging issues of importance to environmental protection;
and/or (4) encouraging collaboration among the nation’s best
scientists and engineers in academia, business and nonprofit research
institutes.
Deadline – January 18, 2007
2006 Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Pollutants
Funds Solicitation
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits application
packages for Asthma, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools
(TfS), Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), mold, and general IAQ
projects from eligible entities. Proposed projects must support
demonstration, training, outreach and/or education grants that
reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants and yield measurable environmental
outcomes.
Deadline – August 9, 2006
Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative
Agreement Program
The purpose of this announcement is to award eligible organizations
that plan to utilize the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving
Model and partner with other stakeholders to address the affected
community’s environmental and/or public health issues.
Deadline – October 23, 2006
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
The EJSG Program is a multi-statute program designed to help communities
understand and address their exposure to multiple environmental
harms and risks. The project's primary purpose must be: (1) to
build the collaborative partnership; (2) to identify the local
environmental and/or public health issues to be addressed; and
(3) to envision solutions and empower the community through education,
training, and outreach.
Deadline – October 23, 2006
Northeast Diesel Collaborative Emissions Reductions: Clean School
Bus USA and Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program (NEDC Emissions Reductions)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regions 1 and 2,
as part of the Northeast Diesel Collaborative, are soliciting proposals
for projects to reduce diesel emissions in EPA Region 1 and Region
2. The Northeast Diesel Collaborative (NEDC) combines the expertise
of public and private partners in a coordinated regional initiative
to significantly reduce diesel emissions and improve public health
in the eight northeastern states.
Deadline – July 13, 2006
Interpretation of Biomarkers Using Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic
Modeling
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications
proposing the development and/or use of physiologically based pharmacokinetic
modeling for the interpretation of biomarker data.
Deadline – September 26, 2006
FY 2006 Assessment and Watershed Protection Program Grants (AWPPGs)
Some awards under this announcement made involve or relate to geospatial
information. EPA is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants
to support the watershed approach and build the capacity of all
levels of government to develop and implement effective, comprehensive
programs for watershed protection, restoration, and management.
Deadline – August 15, 2006
Health & Human Services (HHS)
Healthy Start Leadership Institute
The purpose of this grant announcement is to enhance Healthy Start
Project Directors' knowledge of and their Healthy Start program's
capacity to address key maternal and child health care issues
related to infant mortality and improving perinatal outcomes.
Deadline – July 15, 2006
National Center on Elder Abuse
This effort is aimed at creating a national clearinghouse of information
on elder abuse, enhancing the effectiveness of state and community-based
elder abuse prevention and intervention programs, and building
and strengthening state and community-based elder rights networks
Deadline – July 14, 2006
Senior Medicare Patrol Integration Grants
AoA will further strengthen the SMP program through the integration
of SMP program materials, outreach, and message to: 1) reach
targeted populations, and 2) address targeted areas of health
care fraud, error or abuse.
Deadline – July 19, 2006
Human Biospecimen Resources for Aging Research (R03)
The purpose of this announcement is to disseminate information
about available human biospecimen resources for age-related studies,
and promote independent use of existing human biospecimen resources
through collaborative and other arrangements with the studies
that collect biospecimens.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program
ACF will award funds to build the organizational capacity of experienced
organizations and their partnering faith-based and community
organizations to better meet the needs of America's disadvantaged
youth.
Deadline – July 10, 2006
Text Mining Search for Human Gene Epidemiology (HuGE) Published
Literature
The purpose of the program is to apply the support vector machine
(SVM) method of supervised learning to the problem of classifying
Pub Med abstracts to identify those that meet the definition of
human genome epidemiology (HuGE). This application will demonstrate
new opportunities for the use of SVM methods and will make the
Human Genome Published Literature database more reliable and useful
to the public.
Deadline – July 31, 2006
National Fatherhood Capacity-Building Initiative
ACF will award funds to an experienced national organization to
deliver organizational capacity-building services to community-based
organizations.
Deadline – July 14, 2006
Services to Unaccompanied Alien Children
One of the functions of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS) is to provide
temporary shelter care and other related services to children
in ORR custody. Shelter care services will be provided for the
period beginning when DUCS accepts the child for placement and
custody and ending when the child is released from custody, a
final disposition of the child's immigration case results in
removal of the child from the United States, or the child turns
18 years of age.
Deadline – July 10, 2006
Grants for Outreach to Target Populations under the Trafficking
in Persons Program
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR), announces a grant opportunity under its Trafficking
in Persons Program for projects to expand existing outreach activities
to identify and counsel victims of a severe form of human trafficking,
as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
USC 7101).
Deadline – July 3, 2006
Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) [P20]
The objective of COBRE initiative is to strengthen an institution's
biomedical research infrastructure through the establishment
of a thematic multi-disciplinary center and to enhance the ability
of investigators to compete independently for complementary National
Institutes of Health (NIH) individual research grant or other
external peer-reviewed support.
Deadline – February 27, 2007
Developmental/Exploratory Alcohol Research Centers (P20)
The NIAAA Alcohol Research Center program provides leadership in
conducting and fostering interdisciplinary research on a wide
variety of topics including, but not limited to: the nature,
causes, consequences, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of
alcohol abuse and alcoholism; and in developing new topics, approaches
and methodologies to pursue these areas of research.
Deadline – December 21, 2006
Comprehensive Alcohol Research Centers (P60)
RFA uses the NIH Comprehensive Research Center (P60) mechanism
to support an integrated, broad-based multidisciplinary, multi-investigator,
long-term program of research and research support activities
planned around a specific major research theme and to develop
an effective research translation / information dissemination
component to help accelerate the use of research findings for
the benefit of public health.
Deadline – December 21, 2006
Children's Safety Network National Resource Center
The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to demonstrate the
effectiveness of a Childrens Safety Network National Resource
Center in assisting State and localities to plan, implement,
strengthen, and evaluate injury and violence prevention programs
that improve health services delivery and risk reduction, as
well as public health and safety.
Deadline – July 3, 2006
Research On The Reduction And Prevention Of Suicidality (R01)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to
invite grant applications for research that will reduce the burden
of suicidality (deaths, attempts, and ideation). The intent is
to intensify investigator-initiated research on the topic, to
attract new investigators to the field, and increase interdisciplinary
approaches to developing effective strategies to reduce suicidality.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Risk Factors For Psychopathology Using Existing Data Sets (R01)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to
invite grant applications involving extensive and innovative
use of existing data sets to study the development of psychopathology,
including alcohol and drug abuse, in order to guide the development
of preventive and treatment intervention strategies.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
CDC Public Health Research: Health Protection Research Initiative
Graduate Training Program Grant
The purpose of this program is to continue existing Graduate Training
Program grants (T01) that are focused on health protection and
support Master’s and Doctoral level training. Health protection
should be interpreted to include activities that 1) promote health
and/or prevent disease, injury, or disability or 2) protect people
from health threats including infectious, environmental, and terrorist
threats.
Deadline – July 28, 2006
National Minority Aging Organizations Technical Assistance Centers
The Administration on Aging (AoA) plans to award cooperative agreements
to National Minority Aging Organization Technical Assistance
Centers (NMAOs) for the development of culturally competent and
linguistically appropriate front line health promotion and disease
prevention strategies for racial and ethnic minority older individuals.
Deadline – July 14, 2006
Bioterrorism- Hospital Preparedness Program
The purpose of the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness
Program (NBHPP) is to improve the capacity of the Nation's health
care system to respond to biological, chemical and radiological
terrorist attacks, infectious disease epidemics and acute mass
casualty events. The primary focus of NBHPP is to develop, implement
and intensify regional terrorism preparedness plans and protocols
for hospitals, outpatient facilities, Emergency Medical Service
(EMS) systems and poison control centers in collaborative statewide
or regional models.
Deadline – July 10, 2006
Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment,
Services, and Women and Sex/Gender Differences (R36)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to
invite applications for support of drug abuse doctoral dissertation
research in epidemiology, prevention, treatment, services, and
women and sex/gender differences.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Grants to Establish Programs Coordinating Organ Donation Activities
of Hospitals and OPOs
The intent of the program is to provide funds to Organ Procurement
Organizations (OPOs) and hospitals to establish programs coordinating
organ donation activities to increase the rate of organ donations
for participating hospitals. This grant program is aimed at strengthening
and increasing the effectiveness of hospital organ donation coordinators
by assisting OPOs and hospitals with activities to increase the
availability of transplantable organs.
Deadline – July 7, 2006
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Community Access Program
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family
Assistance (OFA), announces the availability of competitive grant
funds to support the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Community
Access (FCA) Program. These grants (in the form of cooperative
agreements) are for innovative, well-designed projects that promote
the objectives of the ACF Fatherhood Initiative.
Deadline – July 17, 2006
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) International
Activity
The purpose of the PEHSU is to (1) reduce environmental health
threats to children, (2) improve access to expertise in pediatric
environmental medicine, and (3) strengthen public health prevention
capacity.
Deadline – July 6, 2006
Family Planning Clinical Training Cooperative Agreement
This announcement seeks applications from public and nonprofit
private entities for one cooperative agreement grant to establish
and operate one family planning clinical training project to
serve Title X service delivery projects nationally. The project
will include two components: (1) Training of clinical preceptors
to work in Title X family planning service projects; and (2)
conducting a national clinical training meeting every other year
of the project.
Deadline – July 31, 2006
Cooperative Research into Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Category
B Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites (U01)
To support cooperative research into developing therapeutics and
diagnostics for Biodefense Category B bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Deadline – November 28, 2006
The Development Of Frontal Cortex And Limbic System And Their
Roles In Drug Abuse Or Mental Health (R01)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits research project
(R01) grant applications to study the development of the frontal
and prefrontal cortices, together with the subcortical areas of
the limbic system, that play significant roles in mediating emotional
and motivated behavior.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
NHLBI Exploratory Program in Systems Biology (R33)
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) invites applications
for collaborative research projects to initiate high-risk, high
impact research by multidisciplinary teams of investigators.
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.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Partnerships to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Selected Drug-Resistant
Healthcare-Associated Infections (U01)
To support the development of rapid diagnostics capable of identifying
specific bacterial strains and drug resistant phenotypes for the
following healthcare-associated pathogens: Clostridium difficile,
Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Serratia,
Proteus, and Stenotrophomonas (Pseudomonas) maltophilia
Deadline – November 28, 2006
Long-Term Weight Maintenance: Basic and Clinical Studies (R21)
The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to invite
research applications investigating basic and clinical aspects
of long-term weight maintenance.
Deadline – March 2, 2007
Exploratory Grant Program in Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism
(R21)
The intent of this initiative is to encourage researchers to apply
novel technologies, develop new tools, biomarkers and model systems,
and test innovative concepts of potential diagnostic and therapeutic
relevance to diseases within our mission including diabetes and
its complications, obesity, endocrine disorders including osteoporosis,
and inborn errors of metabolism including cystic fibrosis.
Deadline – November 2, 2007
Diet Composition and Energy Balance (R01)
The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to invite
research applications investigating the role of diet composition
in energy balance, including studies in both animals and humans.
Deadline – November 2, 2006
Heterogeneity of Fat Depots: Underlying Basis and Association
with Morbidity (R01)
The goal of this initiative is to increase our understanding of
the interactions among the cell populations in order to identify
biomarkers of changes in cellular physiology and metabolism brought
on by the obese state, which are truly associated with the development
of co-morbidities such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and hypertension.
Deadline – March 2, 2007
Exploratory/Developmental Clinical Research Grants in Obesity
(R21)
The goal of this initiative is to encourage exploratory/developmental
clinical studies that will accelerate the development of effective
interventions for prevention or treatment of overweight or obesity
in either adults or children.
Deadline – March 2, 2009
Pilot And Feasibility Clinical Research Studies In Digestive Diseases
And Nutrition
The goal of this initiative is to encourage pilot and feasibility
clinical and epidemiological research studies of new therapies
or means of prevention of digestive and liver diseases and nutritional
disorders associated with digestive and liver diseases.
Deadline – March 2, 2009
Demonstration Project for Identifying Individuals at High-Risk
for Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to initiate the development
of standardized, state-based screening programs for the early detection
and prediction of chronic kidney disease among high-risk individuals
in the United States.
Deadline – July 7, 2006
MCH Research
The Maternal and Child Health Research Program will award grants
to support applied research relating to maternal and child health
services, which show promise of substantial contribution to the
advancement of the current knowledge pool.
Deadline – July 24, 2006
National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers
The purpose of this funding announcement is to award a cooperative
agreement for the creation of a National Quality Improvement
Center (QIC) focused on identifying effective practices that
improve child welfare outcomes by involving non-resident fathers
in their children's cases.
Deadline – July 26, 2006
NIAID Partnerships with Public-Private Partnerships (U01)
This initiative will support collaborative relationships between
the NIAID and established product development Public-Private
Partnerships (PD PPPs) in order to accelerate preclinical research
and development of promising new preventive, therapeutic, or
diagnostic tools that target high priority neglected infectious
diseases of global importance for which commercial markets currently
provide insufficient incentive for corporate investment.
Deadline – December 1, 2006
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
The demonstration program will continue the coordination of services
between the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and
community health centers to improve the prevention, identification,
and support of individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome. In addition,
funds have been included to engage and include maternal child
health sites in this demonstration.
Deadline – July 10, 2006
Mentoring Programs to Diversify the Mental Health HIV/AIDS Research
Workforce through Innovative Educational Initiatives
This funding opportunity was developed in response to: (i) simultaneous
over-representation of racial and ethnic minority (REM) individuals
among those with HIV/AIDS, yet there remains the under-representation
of individuals from REM groups as HIV/AIDS researchers; (ii) insufficient
scientific information about HIV/AIDS disparities experienced by
members of REM groups, and (iii) the paucity of HIV/AIDS mental
health and alcohol abuse research produced by investigators from
REM groups; and (iv) the limited number of REM individuals who
are pursuing careers in HIV/AIDS mental health and/or alcohol abuse
research.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
National Faith-Based and or National Community Cardiovascular
Disease (CVD)
The purpose of the programs is to reduce CVD mortality and morbidity
among high-risk women in the United States through medical screening
and risk behavior modification.
Deadline – July 6, 2006
Joint Degeneration: Mouse Models (R21)
NIAMS, the NIA, and the NIDCR solicit proposals of research employing
genetically defined and genetically modified mouse models to
explore the biological mechanisms underlying non-inflammatory
joint degeneration, or osteoarthritis.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Paul Calabresi Career Development Award For Clinical Oncology
(K12)
The goal of the Paul Calabresi Award for Clinical Oncology (PCACO)
is to ensure a cadre of medical doctors and basic science researchers
who can collaborate with each other to design and implement hypothesis-based
translational therapeutic research.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Quick Trials for Novel Cancer Therapies: Exploratory Grants
This Program Announcement (PA) is intended to provide investigators
with rapid access to support for pilot, Phase I, and Phase II
cancer clinical trials as well as support for patient monitoring
and laboratory studies linked to a cancer clinical trial. Phase
III trials are not excluded but such trials generally require
greater resources and duration than available from an R21 award.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
AHRQ Small Research Grant Program
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA)issued by AHRQ supports
Small Research Grant (R03) applications. The R03grant mechanism
supports different types of health services research projects
including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of
existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development
of research methodology; and, development of new research technology.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Quick-Trials for Novel Cancer Therapies: Exploratory Grants (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is intended to provide
investigators with rapid access to support for pilot, Phase I,
and Phase II cancer clinical trials as well as support for patient
monitoring and laboratory studies linked to a cancer clinical
trial. Phase III trials are not excluded, but such trials generally
require greater resources and duration than available from an
R21 grant award.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Behavioral and Social Research on Disasters and Health (R21)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to
stimulate research in the behavioral and social sciences on the
consequences of natural and man-made disasters for the health
of children, the elderly, and vulnerable groups, with an ultimate
goal of preventing or mitigating harmful consequences.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Efficacy of Interventions to Promote Research Careers (R01)
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support research
that will test assumptions regarding the effectiveness of interventions
that are intended to increase interest, motivation and preparedness
for careers in biomedical research, with a particular interest
in those interventions specifically designed to increase the
number of underrepresented minority students entering careers
in biomedical and behavioral research.
Deadline – September 20, 2006
Cancer Research Network (U19)
The CRN is expected to continue as a cooperative agreement to provide
a resource that will facilitate the conduct of NCI-sponsored
research on prevention, early detection, treatment, long-term
care and post diagnosis monitoring in the context of health care
delivery systems.
Deadline – August 17, 2006
Proteomics in Auditory Developmental and Disease Processes (R01)
This program announcement supersedes the previous National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders NIDCD program announcement,
Proteomic s in Auditory Developmental and Disease Processes.
This Funding Opportunity announcement (FOA) will use the traditional
research project grant (R01) mechanism and runs in parallel with
a FOA of identical scientific scope (PA-06-366) that will utilize
the NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)
mechanism.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Translational Research for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes
and Obesity (R18)
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK), the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Office
of Behavior and Social Sciences Research seeks to develop cost
effective and sustainable interventions that can be adopted in
real world settings, for the prevention and control of diabetes
and obesity. Research should be based on interventions already
proven efficacious in clinical trials to prevent and reverse obesity
and type 2 diabetes, to improve care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
and to prevent or delay its complications.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
The NCI Transition Career Development Award (K22)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) represents the continuation
of an NCI program to facilitate the transition of investigators,
primarily those with clinical doctoral degrees as well as those
with doctoral degrees working in the areas of cancer prevention,
control, behavioral, or population science research, from the
mentored stage of career development in academic cancer research
to the independent stage.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03)
The Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) invites behavioral research applications
in cancer control from new investigators or established scientists
refocusing their research interests to behavioral research in
cancer.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Demonstration Projects in Post-Adoption Services and Marriage
Education
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support continuous
innovation and improvement in the quality of post-adoption services
designed to improve outcomes for adopted children and their families.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
Bioengineering Research Partnerships (BRP) [R01]
This funding opportunity will use the NIH R01 research grant award
mechanism. -Participating Institutes and Centers (ICs) of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) invite applications for R01
awards to support Bioengineering Research Partnerships (BRPs)
for basic, applied, and translational multi-disciplinary research
that addresses important biological or medical research problems.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Specialized Centers Of Interdisciplinary Research (SCOR) On Sex
And Gender Factors Affecting Women s Health (P50)
The ORWH seeks to offer the Specialized Centers of Interdisciplinary
Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health
for the second time. These centers will provide opportunities for
interdisciplinary approaches to advancing studies on how sex and
gender factors affect women's health.
Deadline – September 15, 2006
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
(K12)
The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and its cosponsors
invite institutional career development award applications for
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH)
Career Development Programs, hereafter termed "Programs." Programs
will support mentored research career development of junior faculty
members, known as BIRCWH Scholars, who have recently completed
clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and who will be
engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, behavioral,
clinical, and/or health services research relevant to women's health
or sex/gender factors.
Deadline – September 15, 2006
State Donor Registry Support Program
The intent of this grant program is to enable States that do not
have a statewide donor registry and those States that do have
a statewide donor registry which does not have enrollment capability
through the motor vehicle licensing offices to develop and implement
in collaboration with all organ procurement organizations with
service areas in that State and representatives of the eye and
tissue banks in that State, a statewide registry of residents
who wish to be an organ and tissue donor.
Deadline – July 24, 2006
Rapid Response to Requests for Data Analysis
Funds awarded under this announcement are to be used to: 1) respond
rapidly to requests for rural data analysis from the Office of
Rural Health Policy (ORHP) staff and 2) conduct issue-specific
rural research studies within 9 to 12 months from the date of
request for the study.
Deadline – July 14, 2006
Rural PACE Provider Grant Program
The purpose of the Rural PACE Provider Grant Program is to promote
the development of Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
(PACE) in rural service areas. This will be accomplished by awarding
grantees start up monies and providing cost outlier protections.
Technical assistance outreach and education to State agencies
and provider organizations interested in serving rural areas
will also be provided by CMS as part of this initiative.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
NINDS Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34)
The planning grant is intended to (a) allow for early peer review
for the rationale and design of the proposed clinical trial;
(b) provide support for the development of a detailed manual
of operations and procedures; and (c) provide support to develop
essential elements of a clinical trial, such as the development
of tools for data management and oversight of the research, the
definition of recruitment strategies, the finalization of the
protocol, analytical techniques, facilities, administrative procedures,
obtaining IND/IDE, and the establishment of collaborative arrangements.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Development of Advanced Genomic Characterization Technologies
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome
Research Institute (NHGRI) solicit applications for research
projects to develop highly innovative and novel genomic analysis
technologies to provide new insights and understanding into the
role of genetic alterations in cancer.
Deadline – August 25, 2006
Longitudinal Surveys of the Elderly
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has supported longitudinal
survey data collection efforts and behavioral interventions in
areas such as cognition, genetics, long term care, retirement
and economic status, caregiving, behavioral medicine, and the
dynamics of health and functional change at older ages.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment,
Services, and Women and Sex/Gender Differences
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to invite applications
for support of drug abuse doctoral dissertation research in epidemiology,
prevention, treatment, services, and women and sex/gender differences.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
NIAID International Research in Infectious Diseases (IRID) Program
(R01)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the NIAID
solicits Research Grant (R01) applications from organizations/institutions
in eligible foreign countries that propose research related to
infectious diseases that are of interest to that country.
Deadline – November 28, 2006
The Role of Nuclear Receptors in Tissue and Organismal Aging (R01)
The goals of this funding opportunity announcement is to stimulate
research into underlying biologic mechanisms involving nuclear
receptors, their co-regulators and intracellular signaling systems
in the process of aging and the connections of the aging process
with pathophysiology in middle- and old-age.
Deadline- Multiple (see announcement)
Comparative Biology Elucidation of Environmental Pathways and
Susceptibility (R01)
The aim of this initiative is to integrate the traditional strengths
of the environmental health sciences, alcohol, and the cardiovascular,
lung, and blood research communities with the emerging power of
comparative biology approaches and high information-content techniques
to determine the critical common pathways by which environmental
stressors influence human health as well as the determinants of
individual and population susceptibility to those environmental
stressors.
Deadline – September 19, 2006
Rural Research to Diverse Audiences
Conduct research to design and implement multiple approaches for
targeting rural research to diverse audiences of decision-makers
at national, state, and community levels.
Deadline – July 19, 2006
Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (K12)
The Minority Opportunities in Research (MORE) Division of NIGMS
re-announces the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development
Award (IRACDA) Initiative, which seeks to combine mentored postdoctoral
research at a research-intensive institution with an opportunity
for candidates to develop teaching skills through mentored assignments
at a Minority Serving Institution.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Alliance of Glycobiologists for Detection of Cancer and Cancer
Risk (U01)
To stimulate innovative translational research in the field of
complex carbohydrates with the overall goal to uncover and develop
new classes of molecular markers for early detection of cancer,
the National Cancer Institute (NCI) intends to establish a scientific
consortium referred to as the Alliance of Glycobiologists for Detection
of Cancer and Cancer Risk.
Deadline – August 24, 2006
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic Influenza
The purpose of this research is to identify optimal NPIs or combinations
of NPIs that may be implemented during pandemic phases 4, 5,
and/or 6, as defined by the World Health Organization to contain
or reduce the spread of pandemic influenza.
Deadline – July 17, 2006
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
The purpose of this grant is to improve the social and emotional
outcomes and enhance the school readiness of children, birth
to age five, through: (1) analysis of research on evidence-based,
user-friendly strategies and the development and national dissemination
of these strategies for use in early childhood classrooms and
care settings; (2) the creation of partnership networks to build
the capacity and foster the sustainability of Head Start and
Child Care programs; and (3) the implementation of process and
outcome evaluations on the impact of evidence-based, user-friendly
strategies on improving the social and emotional outcomes and
school readiness of children, birth to age five.
Deadline – August 2, 2006
Tobacco Countermarketing Program
The purpose of the program is to implement an enhanced tobacco
countermarketing program to reduce underage tobacco use.
Deadline – July 17, 2006
Improve State and Local Health Information and Data Systems
The purpose of the program is to better enable state and local
health departments to regularly and systematically collect, assemble,
analyze, and disseminate information on the health of their populations
and communities
Deadline – July 17, 2006
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional
Research Training Grants (T32)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award Ruth L. Kirschstein
National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training
Grants (T32) to eligible institutions as the primary means of supporting
graduate and postdoctoral research training to help ensure that
a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume leadership
roles related to the Nation s biomedical, behavioral and clinical
research agenda.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Dental Public Health Residency Training Grants
The purpose of this program is: (1) to plan and develop new residency
training programs and to maintain or improve existing residency
training programs in dental public health; and (2) to provide
financial assistance to residency trainees enrolled in such programs.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
Clinical Studies of Safety and Effectiveness of Orphan Products
The goal of FDA's OPD grant program is to support the clinical
development of products for use in rare diseases or conditions
where no current therapy exists or where the product will improve
the existing therapy. FDA provides grants for clinical studies
on safety and/or effectiveness that will either result in, or
substantially contribute to, market approval of these products.
Deadline – February 7, 2007
Using Metabolomics to Investigate Biological Pathways and Networks
(R01)
This initiative seeks to encourage the use of innovative metabolomics
technologies to establish methods and model systems for advancing
the understanding of biological pathways and networks; their temporal
and spatial resolution; and their regulation in health and disease
states.
Deadline – October 21, 2006
Telehealth Network Grant Program
Telehealth Networks TNGP-TH Grants made under this provision will
support telehealth networks that provide services in different
settings e.g., long-term care facilities, community health centers
or clinics, physician offices, hospitals, schools, assisted living
facilities, homes.
Deadline – July 21, 2006
Initiative to Implement Cancer and Tobacco Control Programs in
Health Centers (ICT)
Section 330(l)of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, authorizes
the provision of technical and other assistance to eligible entities
to assist them in meeting the requirements applicable to Health
Centers.
Deadline – July 28, 2006
Targeting Obesity in Young Women to Prevent the Development of
Type II Diabetes
This cooperative grant announcement focuses on the development
and demonstration of creative and innovative approaches that are
effective in reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity in young
women, ages 16–24, by increasing the number of women who
adopt positive, healthy, lifestyles. Organizations will be provided
with funding that will aid in the development, expansion, or sustainment
of effective obesity-related programs in order to effect lifestyle
changes that will prevent the development of type II diabetes in
the targeted population.
Deadline – July 20, 2006
Cooperative Research Partnerships into Therapeutics and Diagnostics
for Biodefense Toxins (U01)
To support cooperative translational research into developing therapeutics
and diagnostics for certain biodefense toxins: Shiga toxins, ricin
toxin, the Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB), Clostridium perfringens
epsilon toxin, and the botulinum neurotoxins
Deadline – November 28, 2006
Public Health Nursing Continuing Education Grant
The purpose of the Public Health Nurse Continuing Education Grant
is to support schools of nursing and Public Health Training Centers
(PHTCs) in partnerships to provide population-based health care
continuing education to broaden the foundational skills and competencies
of practicing public health nurses and nurses who work in the
public health field but lack formal training.
Deadline – July 24, 2006
Design, Measurement, And Statistics In Community Mental Health
Research (R01)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research
grant applications for work on the design, measurement, and statistical
challenges inherent in conducting mental health services research
in community settings. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
is designed to encourage methodologists from diverse academic backgrounds,
including mathematical and educational statistics, biostatistics,
software engineering, behavioral and social science, and business,
to focus on the challenges inherent in this type of research.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program Cooperative
Agreement
To support activities of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnerships for
Children Program which strives to improve access and delivery of
maternal and child health services through governmental and professional
partnerships. Specifically, this cooperative agreement is designed
to promote problem-solving approaches which enhance community and
provider participation.
Deadline – July 27, 2006
Research on Research Integrity (R01)
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI, DHHS), the National Institute
of Nursing Research (NINR, NIH), the National Institute of General
Medical Sciences (NIGMS, NIH), the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS, NIH), the National Library of Medicine
(NLM, NIH), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ, DHHS) invite applications to support empirical research
on research integrity. Proposals must have clear relevance to
biomedical, behavioral health sciences, and health services research.
Deadline – September 15, 2006
SPNS Evaluation and Support Center for an Initiative on Enhancing
Linkages to HIV Primary Care in Jail Settings
This funding initiative will support one Evaluation and Support
Center (Center) to conduct initial information gathering for a
potential multi-site evaluation of interventions that target HIV
infected individuals transitioning from local jails to the community
using innovative models of care to provide HIV primary care and
social support services.
Deadline – July 27, 2006
Innovative Therapies and Clinical Studies for Screenable Disorders
(R21)
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),
the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
(NIDCD), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) invite applications for research relevant
to the basic understanding and development of therapeutic interventions
for currently screened conditions and high priority genetic conditions
for which screening could be possible in the near future.
Deadline – Multiple (see announcement)
Design, Measurement and Statistics in Community MH Research
This PA replaces PA-01-018.The purpose of this program announcement
(PA) is to encourage research grant applications for work on
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