Funding Opportunities
The BSD Nomination Process
Internal Funding Opportunities External Nonfederal Agencies
Bulletins
Nomination
Process
Nomination Process begins with special announcements or Bulletins from the Faculty
Awards Committee and an invitation to the chairmen to submit a nomination
for consideration. Some departments announce a competitive process for
deciding their nominations for limited opportunities. As particular
nominations are being planned within the department, chairmen, nominees and
administrators may call Cyndie Shannon at 834-2182 or Aparna Menon at
834-8173 to receive tailored instructions and special materials required for
the nomination packet. Chairs can also review the planning material provided
to them in the notebook, Faculty Awards Committee Nominations Guide, which
also includes the following steps to nomination.
- Use the "Overview
of Limited Opportunities" for annual or periodic planning of
Departmental submissions to the Faculty Awards Committee.
- Review the Bulletin
for updates on special eligibility information or areas of program
interest.
- Confirm deadlines and
program information:
If you would like to nominate a
candidate, please call Cyndie Shannon at 834-2182 or Aparna Menon at 834-8173
to receive the agency's guidelines and a description of the specific
scientific proposal and other materials preferred by the review committee for
the particular limited opportunity of interest.
- Nomination packet: To
be considered complete, proposals must include the following items:
- Letter of nomination
from the department chairperson
- Letter of support
from the applicant's senior faculty sponsor
- Scientific proposal,
written toward program's stated mission (length will vary depending on
agency)
- Candidate's current
curriculum vitae
- Listing of other funding
sources [active, pending, and planned]
- Other materials as
are required by agency
- Number of copies:
Nominees should submit a proposal (pdf format) to Aparna Menon via email
to amenon@bsd.uchicago.edu
, by the internal deadline.
- Notification of
selection outcome:
Nominees and chairs will be
notified in writing of the disposition of candidacies. The selected
candidates will be contacted as soon as possible to receive original program
forms for preparing the final proposal to the funding agency.
- Preparation of
proposal to funding agency:
During the drafting of the final
proposal to the agency, the selected applicant is encouraged to seek the
editorial assistance of the director and staff of the BSD Office of Research
Services, in addition to a scientific review by the chair and/or senior
faculty sponsor. Upon completion, proposals must be routed as usual for
institutional endorsement. Several competitions fund a sufficiently broad
range of disciplines that more than one Division may have eligible faculty.
In such cases, the office of the Vice President for Research will review and
choose from among the Divisions, and the BSD internal deadline is set
accordingly to accommodate this additional step. Please see ORS
Review Procedures for the procedures to submit the final proposal.
Internal Funding
The University and the Division of the Biological Sciences
administer a number of internal grant programs to provide seed grants, study
specific fields in biology and medicine, and encourage collaborative
research. Each program is administered by a specific department, center, or
office with its own application procedures, support categories, and contact
person.
University Programs: The University
of Chicago offers a
number of internal awards to support a variety of undertakings. Announcements
are usually sent directly to eligible faculty. Below is a representative listing
of University opportunities:
BSD ProgramsThe Biological Sciences Division is fortunate to have a
number of special opportunities available to its faculty. Many provide seed
funds for new projects, while others are specifically for junior faculty.
Some are funded by center grants in specific topical areas; others are
supported from divisional funds and are more broadly defined.
AMERICAN CANCER
SOCIETY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH GRANT
Applications are being accepted for $20,000 awards from
the University
of Chicago American Cancer Society Institutional
Research Grant.
The one-year awards provide seed money to junior faculty so they can
obtain preliminary results from cancer-related research that will enable them
to compete for national peer-reviewed research grants. Only individuals who
are University
of Chicago junior
faculty without other peer-reviewed funding are eligible to apply. Five projects
will be funded. There are specific funds set aside for at least one of these
to be in the area of population sciences research (e.g., cancer prevention or
control, epidemiology, health services research). Previous awardees
(investigators) are now eligible to apply for a second IRG pilot project
award for the same project.
The deadline for applications is Thursday, November 1, 2007.
Contact: Lee Baksas, Program Administrator, University of Chicago Cancer
Research Center at 4-3091 or by E-mail: lbaksas@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER
(COMBINED ADULT AND PEDIATRIC)
The General Clinical Research Center (CRC) at the University of Chicago provides the means for faculty
to conduct clinical research of the highest scientific merit. The CRC, which
is supported by a grant from the National
Center for Research
Resources of the NIH, is directed by Dr. Roy Weiss. The facility includes a
dedicated eight-bed inpatient, three-bed outpatient unit and nursing,
technical, and administrative staff experienced in the conduct of clinical
protocols. The CRC may also support the cost of bed days and ancillary
services. As part of its educational mission, through the parent grant, young
faculty investigators may apply for a Clinical Associate Physician (CAP) or
Minority Clinical Associate Physician (MCAP) award that provides three years
salary support plus supplies and travel. The CRC can match funds from the
Dean's office to support medical students working on summer projects with CRC
investigators and sponsors a postgraduate biomedical research symposium each
spring at which graduate students and fellows present the results of their
work. Each year the CRC biostatistician offers a 10-week mini-course in the
use of statistics in biomedical research.
Clinical research proposals are reviewed on a monthly basis by the CRC's
standing Scientific Advisory Committee. Institutional Review Board (IRB)
review may be conducted simultaneously; full IRB approval is required before
study subjects can be enrolled in any protocol. Post-doctoral fellows,
graduate students, nurses, and other professionals may conduct CRC research
under a faculty member's oversight.
Contact: Bushra Rehman, Administrative Director, at 702-6980, or by
E-mail: brehman@bsd.uchicago.edu
DIABETES RESEARCH CENTER PILOT AND
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
The Diabetes Research and Training Center
is a NIH-funded program that supports research and training activities
related to diabetes. The center, one of six across the country, supports four
multi-user core laboratories and offers funds for research grants called
Pilot and Feasibility Studies.
Pilot and Feasibility Studies fall into three categories: 1) attracting
junior members of the faculty into the multiple areas of diabetes research
and training; 2) allowing established faculty members who are not currently
engaged in diabetes research to extend their studies into an important area
of diabetes investigation; and 3) encouraging all faculty members, including
those who are established in diabetes research, to test a novel
diabetes-related hypothesis that might not yet meet NIH requirements for
funding.
Research topics cover many aspects of basic and clinical biomedical
research, of educational development and testing, and of psychosocial
investigation. Funds may be requested for personnel, equipment, supplies,
service or other costs; applications simply involving requests for items of
equipment are not appropriate. Awards are granted from one to two years and
are limited to a maximum of $40,000 per year.
Contact: Dr. Donald Steiner, Director, MC1028, at 702-1334, or by E-mail: dfsteine@uchicago.edu
External Funding to Nonfederal Private
Agencies
Nonfederal Private (Includes foundations, corporate
contribution programs, associations, societies, and all other nonfederal
private agencies.)
Note that some foundations are considered "sensitive", and
proposals to these sponsors must be cleared by the Office of Foundation
Relations. The Office publishes a list of sensitive foundations each year.
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