Household Air Pollution (HAP) Health Outcomes Trial (UM1)
Funding Opportunity RFA-HL-16-012 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks applications from institutions/organizations for a cooperative agreement research grant (UM1) to conduct a clinical trial across three or more Low and Middle Income Country (LMIC) settings to test improved stove and fuel interventions on health outcomes in exposed populations. In addition, each application must include a biomarker center element for the development and validation of clinical, physiological, chemical, biochemical and/or microbiological markers of: a) exposure, and b) pathoph...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - October 2, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: funding
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation for State Food Testing Laboratories (U18)
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FD-15-023 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Consumer ProtectionFood and NutritionCFDA Number: 93.103Eligible Applicants State governmentsAgency Name: HHS-FDAClosing Date: Jul 02, 2015Award Ceiling: $300,000Expected Number of Awards: 10Creation Date: May 27, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The intended outcome of this FOA is for microbiological and chemical food analyses performed on behalf of State manufactured food regulatory programs to be conducted within the scope o...
Source: Grants.gov - May 27, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Consumer Protection Food and Nutrition Source Type: funding
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation for State Food Testing Laboratories (U18)
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-15-023 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The intended outcome of this FOA is for microbiological and chemical food analyses performed on behalf of State manufactured food regulatory programs to be conducted within the scope of an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited laboratory and the goal of achieving a nationally integrated food safety system to be further advanced. This will be accomplished by preparing the primary food testing laboratories for State manufactured food regulatory programs to achieve and maintain ISO/IEC 17025:2005 laboratory accreditation. Currently accredited laborat...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 26, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: funding
FDA FERN Cooperative Agreement Continuation Program (U18)
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FD-15-019 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Food and NutritionCFDA Number: 93.103Eligible Applicants State governmentsCounty governmentsPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Agency Name: HHS-FDAClosing Date: Jun 29, 2015Award Ceiling: $240,000Expected Number of Awards: 5Creation Date: Apr 20, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to soli...
Source: Grants.gov - April 21, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Food and Nutrition Source Type: funding
FDA FERN Cooperative Agreement Continuation Program (U18)
Funding Opportunity RFA-FD-15-019 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications from institutions/ organizations for inclusion into FDA's Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Cooperative Agreement Program for Microbiological, Chemical, and/or Radiological laboratories. The FERN cooperative agreements are intended to target state, local, and tribal FERN laboratories to provide increased analytical capacity and expertise (including method development and validation) in the event of food outbreaks or other large-scale food emergency e...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 16, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: funding
FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreements
Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-FSIS-03102015 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: AgricultureFood and NutritionCFDA Number: Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: USDA-FSISClosing Date: Apr 20, 2015Award Ceiling: Expected Number of Awards: 20Creation Date: Mar 10, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories wit...
Source: Grants.gov - March 11, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Agriculture Food and Nutrition Source Type: funding
Advancing Translational and Clinical Probiotic/Prebiotic and Human Microbiome Research (R01)
Funding Opportunity Number: PA-15-127 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: EducationHealthIncome Security and Social ServicesCFDA Number: 93.21393.27993.32193.39393.865Eligible 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 authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tr...
Source: Grants.gov - February 26, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Education Health Income Security and Social Services Source Type: funding
Advancing Translational and Clinical Probiotic/Prebiotic and Human Microbiome Research (R01)
Funding Opportunity PA-15-127 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is twofold: 1. to accelerate translational and clinical Phase I and II a/b safety and efficacy studies for substantiating measurable functional benefits of probiotic/prebiotic components and/or their combinations; and; 2. to understand the underlying mechanisms of their action(s), and variability in responses to these interventions. This FOA calls for interdisciplinary collaborations across scientific disciplines engaged in microbiome and pro/prebiotic research including, but not limi...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 26, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: International Association for Food Protection Awards Program
The International Association for Food Protection welcomes your nominations for our Association awards. You do not need to be an IAFP Member to nominate a deserving professional or colleague for one of the awards listed below. We also encourage applications for the IAFP Travel Award for State or Provincial Health or Agricultural Department Employees (North America only) and for the IAFP Travel Award for a Food Safety Professional in a Country with a Developing Economy to attend the IAFP Annual Meeting. And Student Members of the International Association for Food Protection are invited to submit their application for ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - November 3, 2014 Category: Research Authors: International Association for Food Protection Source Type: funding
Strengthening High Quality Laboratory Services Scale-up for HIV Diagnosis, Care, Treatment and Monitoring in Malawi under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
The objectives are to provide pre-service and in-service training for various cadre or laboratory staff, and to equip and perform alterations and refurbishments to at least 10 laboratories to perform essential microbiology, mycobacteriology, parasitology, hematology and chemistry. The FOA will also develop laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and improve the use of generated data in decision making, increase quality by supporting laboratories to develop and adhere to quality management systems (QMS), and strengthen quality control and quality assurance.
The activities of the program will include health systems...
Source: Grants.gov - August 28, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding
Call for Proposals: Preterm Birth Initiative
Application deadline: Dec 1, 2014 by 4:00pm EST The Preterm Birth Initiative was created to increase the understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying parturition and spontaneous preterm birth and will provide up to $600,000 over a four-year period ($150,000 per year). The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach the problem of preterm birth using creative basic and translation science methods. Postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independent investigator status through senior established investigators are encou...
Source: ScanGrants feed - August 19, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Source Type: funding
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Funding Opportunity Number: 14-592 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 10.31047.07447.07593.85693.85993.989Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: NSFClosing Date: Nov 19, 2014Award Ceiling: $2,500,000Expected Number of Awards: 9Creation Date: Aug 05, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The Ecology and Evolution of In...
Source: Grants.gov - August 5, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding
Role of the Microflora in the Etiology of Gastro-Intestinal Cancer (R01)
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-14-242 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: EducationHealthCFDA Number: 93.27393.39393.396Eligible 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 authorities/Indian housing authoritiesNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3)...
Source: Grants.gov - June 3, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Education Health Source Type: funding
Role of the Microflora in the Etiology of Gastro-Intestinal Cancer (R01)
Funding Opportunity PAR-14-242 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages innovative multidisciplinary research projects that will advance our mechanistic understanding of microflora influences on Gastro-Intestinal (GI) carcinogenesis. Recent advances in our knowledge of GI microflora composition and function have generated a flood of new information, technologies, and capabilities that may for the first time allow mechanistic investigations of very complex, networked host/microbiome interactions on a systems wide scale.This FOA encourages investigators to ingr...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - June 3, 2014 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Scientific Investigation of Wildlife Disease Outbreaks
Funding Opportunity Number: P14AS00104 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Disaster Prevention and ReliefEducationEnvironmentNatural ResourcesRegional DevelopmentScience and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 15.945Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationAgency Name: DOI-NPSClosing Date: May 30, 2014Award Ceiling: $148,500Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 16, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD
This Fundin...
Source: Grants.gov - May 16, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Disaster Prevention and Relief Education Environment Natural Resources Regional Development Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding
