UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: April 23, 2014
Michael. Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
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Bruce LaMattina, Visiting DOD Funding
Consultant: May 6 & May 7
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Updated NIH Resubmission Policy
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Predoctoral Training in Biomedical Big
Data Science (T32)
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Brain Research Foundation Scientific
Innovations Award: Internal Deadline, May 21
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SAMSUNG Global Research
Outreach (GRO) Program: June
12, 2014
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Hooded Oriole and Blue
Grosbeak
Bruce LaMattina, Visiting DOD
Funding Consultant: May 6 & May 7
Bruce LaMattina, a former Army Research Officer program officver officer will be visiting UCR on May 6th and 7th. He’s a DOD funding expert who possesses extensive knowledge in understanding the specific criteria the DOD is interested in, the proposal process, and the success metrics. Almost 100% of the pre-proposals he has assisted faculty with have been invited for full proposals and 50% of the DoD young investigator proposals have been funded. He’s worked with the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) as part of their gap analysis team that’s used to develop BAAs. During his visit at UCR Bruce will be providing two presentations as an opportunity to mentor any faculty interested in attending. Please RSVP by visiting the links corresponding to the seminars you’re interested in attending below by 5:00 PM on Friday, May 2nd. The survey also has a space to indicates times you are available to meet with Bruce to discuss your ideas for a DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO, IARPA, CDMRP or DoD Young investigator award.
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Tuesday, May 6th, 10:00 – 11:30
AM, Winston Chung Hall, RM 443
“DOD Funding
For Physical Sciences and Engineering: Opportunities & Strategies”
RSVP Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KSYJWCL
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Wednesday, May 7th, 11:30–1:30 PM,
SOM Research Building, Room 321
“DOD Funding
for Medicine Life Sciences”
RSVP Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KNTVWRS
Updated NIH Resubmission Policy
NIH has announced a policy change on resubmission of
grant applications. While the new policy still allows a single resubmission per
application, ideas that were unsuccessfully submitted as a resubmission (A1)
may now be presented in a new grant application (A0) without having to
substantially redesign the content and scope of the project. – See
the NIH policy http://1.usa.gov/P8caVG or Sally Rockey’s blog (http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2014/04/17/blog-on-nih-policy-notice-14-074/#)
Predoctoral Training in
Biomedical Big Data Science (T32)
NIH has
published an RFA for Big Data to Knowledge Initiative (BD2K) Institutional
Training Grant. If interested in applying, please contact me.
The
long-term goal of the BD2K initiative (http://go.usa.gov/KH9Q)
is to support the advances in data science, other quantitative sciences,
policy, and training that are needed for the effective use of Big Data in biomedical
research. To address the growing need and opportunities for skilled researchers
to fully utilize the vast amount of heterogeneous biomedical Big Data, a series
of BD2K FOAs have been designed to provide support for: 1) development of a
sufficient cadre of researchers skilled in the science of Big Data; and 2)
elevation of the general competencies in data usage and analysis across the
biomedical research workforce. The portfolio of BD2K training activities will
include opportunities for the full spectrum of scientists, from students to
senior faculty, from developers of methods and tools to investigators who need
to use Big Data tools.
Due to the multifaceted challenges faced in meeting
the opportunities provided by Big Data, the following principles were taken
into account in designing the set of BD2K training FOAs:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-14-004.html
Brain Research Foundation
Scientific Innovations Award: Deadline, July 4 at 4PM CT
The Brain Research Foundation has
invited the University of California, Riverside to nominate one
senior faculty member to submit a Letter of Intent for the
2015 Scientific Innovations Award (SIA). The objective of the
program is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for
traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing
important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these
grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications
and significant publications in high impact journals.
To be
eligible, the nominee must be a full-time associate professor/full
professor working in the area of studies and brain function in
health and disease. Current major NIH or other peer-reviewed
funding is preferred but evidence of such funding in the past three years is
essential. The grant period is for two years in the amount of
$150,000. The support focus is for new research projects of the highest
scientific merit.
Please note that BRF will only accept a single LOI per
institution so a deadline of May 21 for a limited submission application at http://research.ucr.edu/ord/limitedsubmissions.aspx
To learn more about the Brain Research Foundation, see http://thebrf.org/
To view the updated guidelines visit website, see http://thebrf.org/Grants/Scientific+Innovations+Award
SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach (GRO) Program: June 12, 2014
The GRO Program is SAMSUNG's (Samsung Electronics &
affiliated Samsung companies) academic research collaboration platform. The GRO
program annually invites world-class university researchers to submit
innovative research proposals to foster collaborative relationships. Selected
proposals will receive financial support for one year ranging from USD $70,000
to $100,000 including overhead. In some cases, larger awards may be possible
for especially outstanding proposals. Awards may be renewed up to three years,
based on research outcomes and necessity for further research partnership
driven by SAMSUNG.
All
eligible applicants should submit application forms by June 12, 2014 for
proposal screening. Only research proposals submitted through the GRO online
submission site will be accepted.
2014 GRO Program is seeking proposals in twelve (12) research
themes Collaboration on the special subjects is actively sought, but other
subject submissions are welcomed because innovation has no boundaries.
Samsung
is seeking novel ideas in the following broad research themes:
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Sensor Technology
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New Display
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Machine Learning
& Recognition
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Next Generation
Computing
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Next Generation Web
•
Big Data &
Network
•
Security
•
Functional Material
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OLED Material
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Next Generation
Battery
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Energy Harvesting
•
Design & Service
Under
the research themes, there are forty (40) special subjects this year.
Each special subject has a detailed Call for Proposal on the GRO homepage.
To
learn more about the 2014 GRO, please visit:
http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/saithome/01_about/gro_overview.jsp
Hooded Oriole and Blue Grosbeak
The hooded orioles have returned to nest in the Riverside area. This one dropped by my yard last Sunday.
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The Blue Grosbeak is a migrant that also had a brief visit to my yard.
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Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, Riverside
200 University Office Building
Riverside, CA 92521
Assistant: Johanna Bowman
951-827-4800