Post-award staff have joined the Dean’s Office.
BioSci’s post-award staff moved to the Dean’s Office, joining the pre-award and research development teams. Learn more about the centralized Research: Administration and Development unit at https://research.bio.uci.edu/. You can read about our staff here.
Apply for support from the Faculty Research, Travel and Computing fund.
The Faculty Research, Travel and Computing Committee of the School of Biological Sciences is now accepting applications for FY 2021-2022 funding. Faculty who have a primary appointment in BioSci can submit proposals requesting support for research, travel, and computer hardware or software. Apply here by the deadline on December 8, 2021 at 5PM. Full competition details are available on the application page.
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School of Medicine Informational Webinar
Cancer Center Resources
The School of Medicine is hosting a webinar for researchers to learn about the Cancer Center’s Shared Resources, the new iLab management and billing software being used, and services available from the Optical Biology Core (OBC) and In Vivo Functional Onco-Imaging (IVFOI) facilities. As part of the webinar, there will be a Q&A. You can submit your questions in advance here.
Please register for the Zoom link.
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Enlist in NIH grant boot camp.
UCI’s School of Medicine will be accepting applications for its National Institutes of Health Grant Boot Camp beginning in January. Learn more about NIH boot camp here and look out for more information about an informational session.
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The Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS) is calling for proposals that advance our understanding of infection processes in natural systems. Proposals that focus on interactions between immune responses and other physiological, developmental, neural and behavioral phenotypes are well suited to this call. Please see the letter for examples of fitting projects. In addition, workshop and conference proposals that foster new research directions are invited. IOS strongly encourages researchers to consult with Program Directors in the IOS program that most closely relates to the proposed activities.
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The University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is accepting proposals for one-year seed grants for topics in any discipline that address any aspect of cancer, including its origins, prevention, and cure. CRCC funds basic, applied clinical, and community-based research in any field relevant to cancer. PIs must be members of the Academic Senate at a UC campus.
Currently, CRCC awards grants to:
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New UC faculty to initiate cancer research projects;
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Established investigators in other areas of research to initiate cancer research projects;
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Established cancer investigators to initiate cancer studies in new areas.
Interested applicants are encouraged to visit the How to Apply page and attend the applicant webinar on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 11AM. You can register for that webinar here.
Required Letter of Intent Deadline: January 25, 2022 at 12PM
Full Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2022 at 12PM
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The National Institute of Mental Health encourages research projects focused on the dynamic and mechanistic links between the maturation of brain circuits and behaviors across development in rodents and non-human primates. The goal is to build a foundation for understanding how interactions within and among brain regions change over pre- and post-natal development, allowing for the emergence of cognitive, affective and social behaviors.
Deadlines in 2022: February 5, June 5, and October 5
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The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (STEM Ed PRF) program funds individual and institutional postdoctoral awards designed to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctoral graduates in STEM, STEM Education, Education, and related disciplines, with a goal of advancing their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research in STEM education that advances knowledge within the field. Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship awards are up to $300,000 for up to 24 months.
Deadline: March 1, 2022
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Congratulations to UCI SKIN-affiliated faculty members in Developmental and Cell Biology on their recent grant awards!
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Ancestrally Diverse Single-Cell Skin Tissue Atlas
Maksim Plikus, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, is part of a UCI interdisciplinary team that received a 3-year, $2M grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to generate a comprehensive skin cell atlas. The team will collaborate with the University of Michigan to create a network of samples from a variety of ancestries. This project is part of a worldwide effort to create the Human Cell Atlas, which will map every cell type in the human body and serve as reference data broadly representative of race, ethnicity, ancestry and other determinants of health. This atlas will help explain ancestral differences in skin biology and disease.
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RECODE: Functional Characterization of Human Skin Organoids
Scott Atwood, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, is Principal Investigator on a 3-year, $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation to use cutting-edge technologies in biology, engineering, and mathematics to define how human epidermal stem cells differentiate at the single cell level. This project will also develop an interdisciplinary training program to enhance research, diversity, and outreach at the interface between mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. The co-principal investigators on this award are Qing Nie (Biomedical Engineering) and Yoojin Won (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering).
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BioSci Assistant Professors receive their first major research grant in 2.94 years.
This assessment looked at 28 faculty who started as Assistant Professors from 2012 to present. It takes 8.6 months longer on average for an Assistant Professor in BioSci to receive funding from NSF (3.6 years based on 7 people) than from NIH (2.8 years based on 21 people).
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