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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of May 13, 2024
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week our report includes
- External funding success for 2 Dornsife faculty membes;
- External funding opportunities including 1 limited submission;
- 2 funding opportunities that will consider cost share funding requests from USC's Research Initiatives and Infrustructure;
- 3 funding opportunities courtesy Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR);
- New layout proposed for the Weekly Report; and
- A reminder of Wednesday Office hours for expert support available from Dornsife Research Administration.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance, and
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist (Administrative), Research Administration
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External Funding Successes
Christian Grose, Political Science and International Relations, Strengthening Democracy and Election Administration, The Election Science, Research, and Administration (ESRA) (co-sponsored by States United Democracy Center).
Hajar Yazdiha, Sociology, Culture(s) of Activism: Investigating Domestic Worker Organizing in India and the US, American Sociological Association
External Funding Opportunity
***Limited Submission***
(Repost from last week, now with time-sensitive limited submission info)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Graduate Education in the Humanities – A National Convening
Funding Opportunity #: 20240806-CHC
Synopsis: Supports projects to assess the current state of
graduate education, explore and discuss current challenges, and disseminate innovative models and methods that meet those challenges. Those models and methods will help graduate programs in disciplines across the humanities expand training opportunities and prepare students for careers in a wide variety of fields and capacities, thereby opening new paths for graduates of humanities programs to help address the most complex problems of our time, such as climate change, racism, inequality, public health crises, the dangers and opportunities of technology, and other urgent issues.
Award amounts: $500K. Grant begins March 1, 2025, for up to 3 years.
USC Internal Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/graduate-education-in-the-humanities-a-national-convening/
External announcement: https://www.neh.gov/program/graduate-education-humanities-national-convening
USC Internal due date: May 31, 2024.
Due date for optional draft: June 26, 2024.
External due date: August 6, 2024.
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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Program: Advancing the Science of Engagement in Research
Synopsis: Supports studies that build an evidence base on engagement in research, including:
- Measures to capture structure / context, process, and outcomes of engagement in research
- Techniques that lead to effective engagement in research
- How effective engagement techniques should be modified and resourced for different contexts, settings, and communities to ensure equity in engagement and research
Methods for engaging and facilitating the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations as study partners is a further critical gap.
Consistent with complex health intervention frameworks and the Donabedian Structure/Context-Process-Outcomes framework, studies must first define the activities and behaviors that engagement entails—and measure them—to understand which components predict success and the causal mechanisms underlying them.
Award details: Category 1 - Development and / or assessment of validity of measures to capture structure/context, process, and outcomes of engagement in research.
Announcement on website: https://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/announcement/advancing-science-engagement-research-pcori-funding-announcement-cycle-2-2024
Letter of Intent due date: June 4, 2024.
Application due date: September 4, 2024.
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Women’s Congressional Policy Institute (WCPI)
Program: 2025 Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports and trains potential leaders in public policy formation to examine issues from the perspective, experiences, and needs of women. Administered by WCPI, this program is unique – it is the only graduate-level fellowship program on Capitol Hill focused on women. Graduate students currently enrolled in a master’s or doctorate graduate program, or who have completed such a program within two years of the fellowship start date, are eligible.
Award details: Fellows will receive a stipend of approximately $4,400 gross per month for seven months (January-July). An additional sum of $1,000 is provided for the purchase of health insurance.
Announcement on website: https://www.wcpinst.org/our-work/congressional-fellows/
Application due date: June 7, 2024.
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Smith Richardson Foundation
Program: Strategy & Policy Fellows Program
Synopsis: Supports young scholars and policy thinkers for research centered on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields. Within the academic community, eligible candidates are program adjunct faculty, research associates, and postdocs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing.
Award details: The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book.
Announcement on website: https://www.srf.org/programs/international-security-foreign-policy/strategy-policy-fellows-program/
Application due date: June 17, 2024.
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Healthy Eating Research (HER) (A program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation)
Program: Commissioned Research
Synopsis: Supports small commissioned studies and papers. Commissioned projects should aim to identify and evaluate policies, environmental approaches, and systems changes that advance health and nutrition equity in the areas of healthy food access and security, diet quality, and healthy weight, thus improving inequities in social structures and community conditions that are the main drivers of diet and weight-related health disparities. The goal of Healthy Eating Research is to help all children achieve optimal nutrition and address nutrition-related equity. All commissioned research must have the potential to impact groups at highest risk for poor health and well-being, and nutrition-related health disparities. Proposals must have a clear impact on children from 0-18 and their families. HER commissioned papers include manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, as well as evidence-based reports and briefs published outside the peer-reviewed literature.
Award details: HER Projects: Maximum grant is up to $100K, though most awards fall into $40K to $50K over 1 year. HER Publications: $1.5K to $8K depending on the type of publication and intended audience.
Announcement on website: https://healthyeatingresearch.org/what-we-fund/current-funding-opportunities/
Abstract due date for projects: Rolling — full proposals will be invited after review.
Publication due date: Varies
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American Chemical Society
Program: Women Chemists Committee Rising Star
Synopsis: Recognizes up to 10 outstanding individuals (including women (both cis and trans) and persons assigned female at birth (AFAB)) in chemistry and chemical engineering working in academic, industrial, government, non-profit, or other employment sectors. Appropriate candidates will typically be no more than 15 years from receipt of their terminal scientific degree and have demonstrated outstanding promise for contributions to their respective fields. Applicants can either be self-nominated or can be nominated by another individual for this award. The nominator does not need to be an ACS member.
Award details: $1K stipend to cover ACS Spring Meeting travel expenses. The opportunity to present contributions at a WCC-sponsored symposium at the ACS Spring Meeting; Visibility and networking opportunities at the ACS Spring Meeting—awardees are recognized at the WCC ‘Just Cocktails’ reception and at the WCC Luncheon where awardees are seated at the head tables along with ACS governance, WCC members, and fellow award winners.
Announcement on website: https://www.acs.org/funding/awards/women-chemists-rising-star-award.html
Nominations due date: June 15, 2024.
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When Everyone Survives (WES) Leukemia Research Foundation
Program: Grants
Synopsis: Supports new and established investigators who are requesting funding for laboratory, translational, or clinical research related to acute leukemia that will advance our understanding of the disease and that will result in better diagnosis and treatment.
Award details: $50K for one year. Renewal of initial research support may be considered for one or more additional years based on productivity.
Announcement on website: https://www.wheneveryonesurvives.org/
Application due date: June 1, 2024. Grant starts October 1, 2024.
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National Endowment of the Humanities
Program: Public Humanities Project
Synopsis: Supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation)that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States and employ appealing interpretive formats.
Award details: Planning grants: $60K; Implementation grants: $100K, plus $100K for Positions in the Public Humanities; Chair’s Special awards: $1M.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/public/public-humanities-projects
Optional draft due: July 10, 2024.
Application due date: August 14, 2024.
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National Institute of Justice / Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
Program: Year 2024 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites
Grants.gov Opportunity Number: O-OVW-2024-171935
Synopsis: Supports the priorities listed below, specifically applicable to this program. Applicants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to address a priority area. Applicants who state that they are addressing a priority area and meet the criteria for that priority area will be given special consideration:
1. Advance equity and tribal sovereignty as essential components of ending sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by improving outreach, services, civil and criminal justice responses, prevention, and support for survivors from historically marginalized and underserved communities, particularly those facing disproportionate rates or impacts of violence and multiple barriers to services, justice, and safety.
2. Strengthen efforts to prevent and end sexual assault, including victim services and civil and criminal justice responses.
Award details: Awards, using the cooperative agreement mechanism are up to $1.5M for 5 years. OVW estimates making up to 15 awards.
Announcement on website: OVW 2024 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites
Application due date: June 27, 2024.
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NSF / Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering &
Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Advanced Science and Computing Engineering
Program: Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2)
Solicitation #: 24-571
Synopsis: Supports projects that advance general theories, principles, and methodologies for verified scientific computing. The program addresses challenges that are both core to DOE's mission and essential to NSF's mission of ensuring broad scientific progress. The overarching goal is to elevate correctness as a fundamental requirement for scientific computing tools and tool chains, spanning low-level libraries through complex multi-physics simulations and emerging scientific workflows.
Award details: Projects are limited to $800K total budget, with durations of up to four years, exclusive of funding to participating DOE National Laboratories, that may as proposers or proposed sub recipients, request up to $500K per year. This limit applies to the aggregated total budgets of all participating DOE National Laboratories in each proposed project.
Announcement on website: Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems
Proposal due dates: Annual due dates through 2026. The next due date is August 13, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) / National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) / National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Program: Interventions to Address Disparities in Liver Diseases and Liver (R01)
NOFO #: PAR-24-207
Synopsis: Supports projects that will develop and test multidisciplinary and multi-level and / or multi-domain interventions that will effectively address liver disease and liver cancer disparities, with a focus on improving screening, prevention, treatment, management, and survivorship of liver diseases and liver cancer among populations experiencing liver diseases and cancer disparities. Examples of topics of interest include (partial)
- Projects incorporating inter-generational and interpersonal factors through interventions addressing maternal-to-child transmission and / or family-level influences on liver disease and / or cancer liver cancer risk;
- Intervention research that promotes cancer control leading to equitable outcomes in liver cancer. These studies may include research that spans topics of screening, prevention, treatment, management, and / or survivorship aspects of liver cancer in populations experiencing disparities and may focus on protective and / or upstream factors of liver cancer. -
- Intervention strategies promoting HBV vaccination acceptance and linkage to care, reducing barriers to uptake, and improving successful series completion.
Award details: Requested budgets are not restricted, but must reflect the needs of project of up to 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-207.html
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through 2027. Next due dates for NEW applications are June 5, 2024, and October 5, 2025.
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NIH / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) – Office of Data Science Strategy
Program: Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools to Advance Genomic Translational Research (MAGen) – Development Sites
NOFO #: UG3 / UH3 (Exploratory Developmental Phased Award Cooperative Agreement)
Synopsis: Supports the exploration of the feasibility of developing ML and AI tools that can enhance the accuracy and precision of predicting how individuals with pathogenic genetic variants manifest disease. NHGRI aims to establish a research Consortium, ML / AI Tools to Advance Genomic Translational Research to collaboratively identify both genomic and non-genomic factors influencing disease development in individuals carrying pathogenic genetic variants. The ML / AI tools will leverage existing multimodal genomic and non-genomic data and will be cross-validated in genomic translational research settings to ensure the robustness and generalizability of the tools for translational purposes. In addition, the Consortium will explore the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of integrating ML/AI tools into genomic medicine through the establishment of an ELSI Framework for their development, and through implementation of ELSI research projects.
Award details: Maximum award is $1.6M total cost (direct and indirect) per year for 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-24-004.html
Letter of Intent due date: June 26, 2024.
Application due date: July 26, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Program: NINDS Research Education Opportunities (R25 Education Projects)
NOFO #: PAR-24-200
Synopsis: Supports the initiation or continuation of nationally available neuroscience research education programs that will significantly advance the mission of NINDS. The primary focus of programs submitted under this NOFO should be on intensive hands-on experience that will provide research experience, an in-depth understanding of techniques, analytic approaches and theory, and expertise that is only possible from a nationally organized program.
Award details: Maximum awards are $250,000 direct cost per year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-200.html
Letter of Intent due date: 30 days before submission of application.
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through 2026 for all types of applications (excluding AIDS applications). The next due date is July 15, 2024.
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NIH / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Program: Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research (K01 — Research Scientist Development Award – Research and Training)
NOFO #: RFA-HL-009
Synopsis: Supports the career development of non-tenured science faculty from diverse backgrounds, including individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences. The research development program of the candidate should be based on the candidate's scholastic background, previous research experience, past achievements, and potential to develop into an independent research investigator. Scientists and physicians with some research experience who need guided course work and supervised laboratory experiences, as well as faculty who need intensive research experience under the guidance of an established mentor-scientist, are eligible to work with their institutions to apply.
Award details: Up to $100K plus fringe benefits per year for up to 5 years toward the salary of the career award recipient. The total salary requested must be based on full-time faculty appointment. Additionally, up to $30K per year for research expenses.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-25-009.html
Application due date: Multiple due dates for all types of proposals through 2027. The next due date for new proposals is October 14, 2024.
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From Office of Research and Innovation - Research Inititiaves and Infrastructure (for cost share request to RII)
NIH / Division of Program Coordination / National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Program: High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 — Biomedical Research Support Shared Instrumentation Grants)
NOFO #: PAR 22-079
Synopsis: Supports groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers. Applications for standalone computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters, and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.
Award details: The minimum award is $750,001. There is no upper limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $2M. NOTE: PIs who are interested in submitting an S10 proposal and requesting cost share from RII must submit their application as an “Instrumentation Award/NSF MRI” through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal.
USC Internal Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/par-22-079/ (for those who request consideration for cost share from USC Research Initiatives and Infrastructure)
External Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-079.html
USC Internal due date: May 21, 2024.
External due date: June 3, 2024.
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NIH / Division of Program Coordination / National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Program: High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 — Biomedical Research Support Shared Instrumentation Grants)
NOFO #: PAR 22-080
Synopsis: Supports groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers. Applications for standalone computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters, and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.
Award details: The minimum award is $50K. There is no upper limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $600K. NOTE: PIs who are interested in submitting an S10 proposal and requesting cost share from RII must submit their application an S10 “Instrumentation Award/NSF MRI” through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal.
USC Internal Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/par-22-080/ (for those who request consideration for cost share from USC Research Initiatives and Infrastructure)
External Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-080.html
USC Internal due date: May 21, 2024.
External due date: June 30, 2024.
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From Dornsife Corporate and Foundation Relations
(if interested please contact Kerri Bennett at <kerriben@usc.edu>
Bayer Pharma - Human stem cells from patients with genetically derived cardiomyopathy - Deadline: Fri, May 31
Bayer Pharma is seeking stem cells from patients with dilated cardiomyopathies (e.g. laminopathy or others). The genetic defect in those patients causing the disease should be known. Further, we would need certain clinical parameters of those patients. We would NOT use the cells themselves for clinical research and development.
Kraft Heinz - Aluminum foil alternatives for sustainable food packaging - Deadline: Fri, May 31
Kraft Heinz is seeking aluminum foil alternative materials for packaging that deliver against structural requirements (ex. dead fold and stiffness at higher temperatures) for food products.
Bayer Crop Science - Automated solutions for open-field plot grid creation (Hi-Res UAV imagery) - Deadline: Fri, May 31
Bayer Crop Science is seeking an innovative and efficient automated workflow or technology that can rapidly generate a geospatially accurate grid for the entire field with minimal manual labor. The proposed solution should eliminate the need for manual GPS measurements and ensure the creation of preiciese and complete as-planted grid, integrating seamlessly with the existing UAV image processing workflow.
Announcements of Interest for Dornsife Investigators
Office of Administration and Finance (OAF)
OAF is considering revisions to the layout of the Weekly Report as we update our software. Readers can anticipate a change in the appearance in the next few weeks, hopefully. Related to this update we also look to develop a survey that will garner feedback from readers of the Weekly Report. Stay tuned.
USC Dornsife Research Administrtion
Office Hours on Wednesdays for help with Research Administration
Dornsife Research Office is offering weekly online office hours on Wednesday afternoon from 3pm-4pm via Zoom. Feel free to drop in with a question and connect with Dornsife research staff.
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Book Cover: Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asisan History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations (Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics) (Columbia University Press, forthcoming August 2024) Xinru Ma and David Kang, International Relations
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