Ever Wondered What Happens During the Scientific Review of an NIH Grant Application?
Understanding how peer review works is key to writing a good grant application. In this 44-minute video, NIH Peer Review: “Live” Mock Study Section, scientists have gathered virtually to review three fictional applications in response to a fictional Request For Applications (RFA).
Watch their discussion to learn how applications are scored, what questions are commonly asked, and what mistakes to avoid in your application.
This video was originally recorded on October 28, 2020 during the 2020 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration. Find other presentations from the Seminar here. (Sou...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 23, 2021 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources Peer review virtual seminar Source Type: funding
California MAT Access Points Project Learning Community: Tribal and Urban Indian Medications for Addiction Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder and Psychoactive Stimulant Use Disorder
Learning community for Tribal and urban Indian health programs in California to develop, operate, enhance, and sustain Medications for Addiction Treatment and/or stimulant treatment services. Focus will be on the healing role of culture in engagement, treatment, and recovery. Geographic coverage: California -- California Department of Health Care Services, The Center at Sierra Health Foundation (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 22, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Stimulating Collaborative Advances Leveraging Expertise in the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning (SCALE MoDL)
Available Formats: HTML: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21561/nsf21561.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=clickPDF: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21561/nsf21561.pdf?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=clickDocument Number: nsf21561Public Comment: This is an NSF Program Announcements and Information item. (Source: NSF Program Announcements and Information)
Source: NSF Program Announcements and Information - February 17, 2021 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Progress Towards a Modernized ClinicalTrials.gov
Guest post by Rebecca Williams, PharmD, MPH, acting director of ClinicalTrials.gov at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Originally released on the Musings from the Mezzanine blog.
Rebecca Williams, PharmD, MPH
In 2019, NLM introduced a multi-year effort to modernize ClinicalTrials.gov, the world’s largest publicly accessible database of privately and publicly funded clinical trials. This effort was launched with a commitment to engage with and serve the millions of users who rely on this essential resource — with a focus on delivering an improved user experience on an updated platfor...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 16, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Rebecca Williams Tags: blog Open Mike Clinicaltrials.gov NLM Source Type: funding
Help Us Understand How You Use Common Data Elements in NIH-Supported Research
The NIH Data Science Strategic plan drives us towards having accessible, well-organized, secure, and efficiently operated data resources to maximize the value of data generated from NIH funding. To meet the mark as we move forward, data need to be interoperable, interconnected, harmonized, standardized, and shared where and when appropriate. One way we hit the mark is through encouraging researchers to adopt Common Data Elements (CDEs).
CDEs foster rigor, facilitate data sharing, and allow multiple datasets to be integrated. They also help make data more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Many diff...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 8, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike COVID 19 data data management Data sharing Request For Information (RFI) Source Type: funding
Aligning Systems for Health Rapid-Cycle Research and Evaluation Grants
Grants for research projects that focus on learning about effective ways to align healthcare, public health, and social services to better address health equity and the goals and needs of communities. Funds will support rapid ‐cycle research and evaluation projects that examine cross‐sector alignment efforts already underway. In this funding round, research projects that explore how cross‐sector alignment and its constructs might be measured are considered a priority. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Georgia Heal th Policy Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship
A year-long leadership training program for osteopathic physicians and other associated health professionals who would like to learn about and implement health policy at local, state, and national levels. Rural health and other related topics are policy areas that will be studied. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - February 1, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Writing An Effective “K” Application: A Video Guide
Do you need some guidance on preparing a K Award application for the NIH? Dr. Kay Lund, Director of Division of Biomedical Research Workforce, gives some great tips in a 25-minute YouTube video, “Writing an Effective ‘K’ Application.” It is designed for junior investigators and those who assist in the preparation of the scientific portions of an application.
The video covers points including:
Currently active K award funding opportunity announcements & where to find them
A breakdown of the different K awards
Planning tips
Application requirements
Review criteria
You will also learn how to avoid the most commo...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Tips Before You Submit career development award K award video Source Type: funding
Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program: Artificial Intelligence for Multimodal Data Modeling and Bioinformatics Center (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-RM-21-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this FOA is to invite applications for the Artificial Intelligence for Multimodal Data Modeling and Bioinformatics (AIMDMB) Center to join the Nutrition for Precision Health consortium (https://commonfund.nih.gov/nutritionforprecisionhealth). Awards made through this FOA will generate actively learning algorithms to predict human response to different foods, nutrients, food components, and dietary patterns as well as advance understanding, from the individual and population level, of longitudinal dynamics from multimodal data w...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 21, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding
What You Read in 2020
Looking back on 2020 includes seeing how well we have done to capture your interest with our Open Mike blog posts. Did we hit the mark?
Here we analyze page views on the Open Mike blog. Similar to what we did for 2018, below we show the top ten blog posts from 2020 based on overall page views pulled from Google Analytics. We issued 43 blogs last year on many different subjects. Posts on topics that are directly related to grant funding were the ones that were viewed the most.
Rank
Title
Page Views
1
COVID-19 Funding and Funding Opportunities
51,295
2
COVID-19 Resources for Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding
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Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: funding
Biomedical Research Facilities (C06 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAR-21-139 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites qualified academic institutions to apply for funding to modernize existing or construct new biomedical research facilities. Applications will be accepted from public and nonprofit private institutions of higher education. Applications from both research-intensive institutions and Institutions of Emerging Excellence in biomedical research from all geographic regions in the nation are strongly encouraged. NIH recognizes the importance of all institutions of higher learning in contributing to the ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 19, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Explore RePORTER ’s State Map Visualizations
Ever find yourself wondering what and how much research NIH supports near you? Check out what the modernized RePORTER site has to offer in three easy steps!
RePORTER’s main search page offers a new map visualization, highlighting active NIH projects by state. As first mentioned in this NIH Open Mike post from October, these maps are fast and interactive so you can dive into the results in your local area. Let’s take Texas as an example. Hovering your mouse cursor over the state, it shows 3,948 projects are active, totaling $1,976,727,849 in funding (Figure 1).
Figure 1
Going deeper, if you click on Texas, you can filte...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources Funding data RePORTER Source Type: funding
Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT)
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: January 25, 2021 Preliminary Proposal Program Guidelines: NSF 21-521The Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division supports enabling and transformative research that fuels progress in engineering applications with high societal impacts. ECCS programs encompass novel electronic, photonic, and magnetic devices; communication systems, novel integrated circuits, antennas, sensors; machine learning, control, and networks, to name a few. The fundamental research supported by ECCS impacts a wide range of applications such as communications, energy ...More at https://www.nsf.go...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - December 26, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 25, 2021 Deadline for FY 2021 competition Program Guidelines: NSF 20-612The purpose of the Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) program is to fund exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (to include, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning in the future. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad, with ...More at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - December 26, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Music and Health: Understanding And Developing Music Medicine (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity PAR-21-100 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This FOA is intended to: (1) increase our understanding of how music affects the brain when it is used therapeutically and/or (2) use that knowledge to better develop evidence-based music interventions to enhance health or treat specific diseases and disorders. Proposed R01 projects can investigate how music is processed by or modifies the brain, or how it affects specific biological functions during childhood development and learning, adulthood, and aging. Projects can also include preliminary interventions that provide a basis for therapeutic...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - December 23, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: funding
