Federal Surplus Property Available for Public Use
Property that is no longer needed by the federal government that has been made available for public use. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- U.S. General Services Administration (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - March 23, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Cooperative Agreement to Support the Western Center for Food Safety (U19)
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-18-008 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. FDA is announcing its intention to receive and consider a single source application for the award of a cooperative agreement in fiscal year 2018 to the University of California-Davis (UC Davis) to support the Western Center for Food Safety (WCFS). The purposes of this continued support are to: 1. Carry out multidisciplinary applied research that addresses "real world" issues related to food safety and food defense, agricultural practices, and the impact of agricultural practices on subsequent food processing associated with FDA-regulated pro...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - March 15, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Nurse Scholar Program
A free distance learning opportunity available to rural nurses working for nonprofit organizations, government agencies, or educational institutions designed to increase knowledge base in prevention, identification, and assessment of diseases related to agricultural work exposures. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- AgriSafe Network (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 20, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Assuring the Integrity of Peer Review
Eight months ago, CSR Director Dr. Richard Nakamura and I posted a blog on “A Reminder of Your Roles as Applicants and Reviewers in Maintaining the Confidentiality of Peer Review.” We asked you to imagine a scenario: you are a reviewer for an upcoming panel meeting, and shortly before the meeting an investigator associated with an application communicates with you, asking for a favorable review in exchange for an academic favor. We asked what you would do – accept the offer, ignore it, or report it?
We used the blog as an opportunity to remind all of us how important it is that we all do our utmost to assure the inte...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 22, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike General Peer review Source Type: funding
Microphysiological Systems Data Center U24 (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-TR-18-005 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite cooperative agreement applications for the Tissue Chip Testing Center (TCTC) Microphysiological Systems (MPS) Data Center (MPS DC), which supports the NIH Tissue Chip Consortium. The Consortium facilitates the development, validation and dissemination of tissue chip (TC) technology through support for collaborative research in 1) development of tissue chips for toxicity and safety testing of promising therapeutics (RFA-RM-11-022); 2) development of tissue chips for diseas...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - December 20, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding
When a Country is Open, Do They Have Strong Science Too?
As no scientist is an island, the overall scientific enterprise grows stronger when people work together. But, an interesting question emerges from this concept for us to explore: how can we quantify the effect of collaboration on productivity and impact on science?
In the October 5 issue of Nature, Caroline Wagner, Ph.D. of the Ohio State University and Koen Jonker’s, Ph.D. of the European Commission Joint Research Center
published an interesting analysis of the association of a country’s “openness” and its scientific productivity. The authors assembled data from the Scopus database—a wealth of information on ci...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 11, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike bibliometrics publications Source Type: funding
Continuing steps to Ensuring Credibility of NIH Research: Selecting Journals with Credible Practices
The scientific community is paying increasing attention to the quality practices of journals and publishers. NIH recently released a Guide notice (NOT-OD-18-011) to encourage authors to publish in journals that do not undermine the credibility, impact, and accuracy of their research findings. This notice aims to raise awareness about practices like changing publication fees without notice, lacking transparency in publication procedures, misrepresenting editorial boards, and/or using suspicious peer review.
This may not be a big problem for NIH-funded publications now; our colleagues Jennifer Marill, Kathryn Funk, and Jerry...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - November 8, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Peer review publications rigor Source Type: funding
Affordable Housing Loans for Low-Income Rural Communities
Short-term loans at below market interest rates to local nonprofits, for-profits, and government entities developing affordable housing for low-income, rural communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Housing Assistance Council (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - October 24, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes to Advance Big Data Applications (BD Spokes)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 18, 2017 Program Guidelines: NSF 17-546NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) initiated the National Network of Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) program in FY 2015. Four BD Hubs Midwest, Northeast, South, and West were established to foster multi-sector collaborations among academia, industry, and government, both nationally and internationally. These BD Hubs are serving a convening and coordinating role by bringing together a wide range ...More at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505264&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.m...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - August 19, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Global Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (U18)
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-17-014 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The goals of this program are to support the development of the scientific infrastructure needed to plan and execute pediatric clinical trials through collaboration with stakeholders from academia, industry, parent/patient advocacy groups, and government agencies. The Global Pediatric Trial Network should be a coordinating resource for pediatric product development with sustainable global infrastructure to plan, start up, conduct, and close out pediatric clinical investigations. There should be an emphasis on operational efficiency and networ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - June 26, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Food Safety Preventive Controls and Produce Safety Standards: Building Competency in Latin America in Support of the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-17-011 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Given the importance of the region in exporting human food to the United States, FDA proposes working with a multilateral institution in the region, specifically the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), to develop an expert cadre to foster FSMA standards implementation. IICA has been a strong U.S. government partner in Latin America and the Caribbean and can effectively play a pivotal role in FSMA training in the region. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 24, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (PS DDRIG)
Full Proposal Target Date: June 15, 2017 Program Guidelines: NSF 15-571The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political ...More at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505214&WT.mc_id=US...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - May 16, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: funding
A Reminder of Your Roles as Applicants and Reviewers in Maintaining the Confidentiality of Peer Review
Dr. Richard Nakamura is director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review.
Imagine this: you’re a reviewer on an NIH study section, and receive a greeting card from the Principal Investigator (PI) on an application you are reviewing. A note written inside the card asks that your look favorably upon the application, and in return, the PI would put in a good word with his friend serving on your promotion committee. Do you accept the offer, or just ignore it? Or, do you report it?
Or this: a reviewer on an NIH study section finds that one of his assigned applications contains an extensive statistical analysis that he doe...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer and Richard Nakamura Tags: blog Open Mike Peer review Research integrity Source Type: funding
Maryland Conservation Innovation Grants
Funding Opportunity ID: 293009 Opportunity Number: USDA-NRCS-MD-CIG-1701 Opportunity Title: Maryland Conservation Innovation GrantsOpportunity Category: DiscretionaryOpportunity Category Explanation: Funding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: AgricultureEnvironmentNatural ResourcesCategory Explanation: CFDA Number(s): 10.912Eligible Applicants: State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status wi...
Source: Grants.gov - April 5, 2017 Category: Research Tags: Agriculture Environment Natural Resources Source Type: funding
Resource Centers for Minority Aging (RCMAR) Coordinating Center (R24)
Funding Opportunity ID: 293004 Opportunity Number: RFA-AG-18-004 Opportunity Title: Resource Centers for Minority Aging (RCMAR) Coordinating Center (R24)Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryOpportunity Category Explanation: Funding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCategory Explanation: CFDA Number(s): 93.866Eligible Applicants: State governmentsCounty governmentsCity or township governmentsSpecial district governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Public housing authori...
Source: Grants.gov - April 5, 2017 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding
