OPPORTUNITY FUNDING ALERT

American Lung Association - Awards and Grants Program - 2009 - 2010

Independent Investigator Research Grants

• Biomedical Research Grants: $40,000/yr. Seed monies for investigators researching the mechanisms of lung disease and general lung biology. Duration: up to two years.
• Clinical Patient Care Research Grant: $40,000/yr. Seed monies for investigators working on traditional clinical studies examining methods for improving patient care and treatment for lung disease. Duration: up to two years.
• Social-Behavioral Research Grant: $40,000/yr. Seed monies for investigators working on epidemiological and behavioral studies examining risk factors affecting lung health. This grant includes studies concerning the ethical, legal, and economic aspects of health services and policies. Duration: up to two years.

Career Investigator Grants:  $60,000/yr. Intended to support the career development of established independent investigators who show great promise for a national leadership role in investigative work related to lung disease biology, traditional clinical studies related to patient care, behavioral and psycho-social matters relevant to lung disease. Duration: up to three years.

Also available, awards for lung health research and nursing dissertations, research training and nurse post-doc training. New is the Alliance Award on Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections. Deadlines: Various. Go to: http://www.lungusa.org/site/c.dvLUK9O0E/b.486859/

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research Program
Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research are national programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating, and preventing obesity. Grants of up to $150,000. The programs have issued a Call for Proposals to support time-sensitive, opportunistic studies to evaluate changes in policies or environments with the potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander children between the ages of 3 and 18 who live in low-income communities or communities with limited access to affordable healthy foods and/or safe opportunities for physical activity. Research studies may focus on one or both sides of the energy balance equation -- i.e., on physical activity (including sedentary behavior), healthy eating, or both. Deadline: Rolling (Letters of Intent). Go to: http://www.rwjf.org/

National Science Foundation - Ecological Biology, Ecology Programs
The Ecological Biology Cluster supports research that advances the conceptual or theoretical understanding of species interactions and community dynamics in terrestrial, wetland and freshwater habitats, particularly projects that integrate theoretical, modeling, and empirical approaches, or that promote synthesis, across spatial and temporal scales. The cluster seeks to fund projects that are transformative -- that is those that will change the conceptual bases of ecology and have broad implications for future research. Proposals that develop research questions within the context of existing theory, consider alternate mechanisms, and design critical tests to distinguish among mechanisms are particularly encouraged, together with those that use contemporary approaches to develop new paradigms. Inter- and multi-disciplinary proposals that cross traditional programmatic boundaries are welcomed in the Ecological Biology Cluster.

The Ecology Program supports studies of interspecific interactions and species diversity at diverse spatial and temporal scales, including (1) food-web structure and trophic dynamics, (2) biotic interactions, including mutualism, competition, predation and parasitism, (3) mechanisms of coexistence, community assembly and the maintenance of species diversity, (4) co-evolution and (5) landscape ecology, habitat fragmentation and macroecology. Ecology particularly encourages studies that can be applied to a wide range of habitats and taxa across multiple scales.

The deadlines for this opportunity #PD 04-112 are: July 9, 2008; Jan. 9, 2009 Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12823&govDel=USNSF_39

Office Naval Research - University Research Instrumentation Program
The Department of Defense (DoD)'s 2009 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) - # AFOSR-BAA-2008-5 is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment. Deadline: Aug 26, 2008. Go to: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17872

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
For a listing of open funding opportunities, go to: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/FOAs.htm

Fulbright

The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Deadline: Aug. 1, 2008. Go to: http://www.cies.org/. To learn about FAU's policy for faculty thinking of applying for a Fulbright, go to: http://www.coe.fau.edu/e-forms/memos/PROVOST-MEMO-2003-04.pdf

The Fulbright Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. Shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments. Applications for the Fulbright Specialists Program are accepted on a rolling basis, and peer review of applications is conducted eight times per year. Go to: http://www.cies.org/specialists/

The Grammy Foundation

Scientific Research Projects: The foundation awards grants to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the research and/or broad-reaching implementations of original scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition, including the links between music study and early childhood development, the effects of music therapy, and the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals. Grants range from $10,000 to $40,000 each.

Archiving and Preservation Projects: The foundation awards grants to organizations and individual to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The Archiving and Preservation area has two funding categories: Preservation Implementation grants of between $10,000 and $40,000 each; and Planning, Assessment, and/or Consultation grants of between $5,000 and $10,000 each.

Deadline: October 1, 2008. Go to: http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Foundation/Grants/

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Created June 17, 2008