New incentive program for new MPI SOM-BIO grant submissions

The School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences are pleased to announce the SOM-BIO Incentive Program. This internal grant program promotes collaboration between our two schools. Please see the Funding Opportunities section below for more information.

If reporting requirements are not met, NSF will delay reviewing and processing pending grants.

In December, NSF announced that it will delay reviewing and processing proposals under consideration, if annual and final project reports are not submitted on time. The delay applies to all PIs and co-PIs on the award that is out of reporting compliance. PIs must submit final project reports within 120 days after the award end date and annual project reports prior to the annual performance period end date.

Postdocs, submit an abstract to the 6th Annual UCI Postdoctoral Symposium.

This year’s symposium, called “Research Transforming the World: From Bench to Broader Impacts”, highlights translational research and research making impacts beyond the bench. All postdocs can submit an abstract for a talk or poster. Abstracts are due on Friday, February 11, 2022; the symposium will be held on April 14, 2022. More details and registration can be found here.

January

BioSci DEI Speaker Series

Making Academic Science Environments More Inclusive for LGBTQ+ Individuals - Sara Brownell, Ph.D.

Location: Room 1114 Natural Sciences I

January

2021-2022 CNLM Colloquium Series

The Cognitive Basis of Intracranial Self-Stimulation of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons - Melissa Sharpe, Ph.D.

January

9th Annual Stem Cell Science Symposium

The UCI Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center will host a day-long symposium with several talks. Anthony Atala, M.D. will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Atala is G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology. His talk is titled “Regenerative Medicine: Current Concepts and Changing Trends”.

The NIH Grant Process: From Submission to Notice of Award

Join the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) in a webinar where NIH experts will walk you through the path of a typical NIH R01 research grant from submission to summary statement to notice of award. Attendees will come away with insights into what happens at each step of the post-submission process, a better understanding of what goes into a summary statement, and what to expect with your notice of award.

This event is jointly hosted by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and the Wistar Institute.

Date: January 19, 2022

Time: 7AM - 8:30AM

Please register here to receive a meeting invitation and to submit questions to the speakers in advance.

SOM-BIO Incentive Program

The School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences have the SOM-BIO Incentive Program to promote collaborative grant submissions between our two schools. Specifically, multi-PI (MPI) research grants with one MPI from SOM and the other MPI from BIO at the NIH R01 level or similar (not R03 or R21) are eligible. Program details include:

• Eligible faculty must have a primary appointment in either SOM or BIO
• For each award submitted, one MPI from SOM and one MPI from BIO are eligible for the incentive payments
• Eligible Dates of Grant Submission: 01/01/22 – 12/31/22
• Incentive Plan Details:
  • Submitted grants: $2,500 per MPI
  • Funded grants: an additional $2,500 per MPI
  • Incentive payments will be allocated as unrestricted funds to each MPI
  • If more than one MPI from each school, the $2,500 incentive(s) would be shared
  • Only MPI opportunities are eligible
  • There are funds available to incentivize a maximum of 8 award submissions in this program

To be eligible for these funds, one member of the team must fill out the SOM-BIO INCENTIVE FORM prior to submission.

NSF EAR encourages proposals related to climate change research

NSF Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) encourages investigators to submit proposals related to climate change using existing programs. Investigators should contact program directors to discuss their proposed ideas. NSF encourages investigators to submit proposals before March 15, 2022 to be funded in FY 2022.

NIH S10 Instrumentation Programs

The NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs’s S10 Instrumentation Programs support purchases of state-of-the-art commercially available instruments to enhance research of NIH–funded investigators. These instruments are usually too expensive to be purchased with typical research grants and are shared among several investigators.

UCI is currently eligible for the two S10 programs below. With tight budgets within UCI and BioSci, we encourage eligible faculty to apply for external instrumentation funding. BioSci’s Research Development team is ready to assist with proposals to these programs. The next due date for both programs is June 1, 2022. Subsequent due dates are June 1, 2023 and June 3, 2024. Awards are for one year. Additional information about the program can be found here.

Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10)

• PAR-22-080
• Funding range: $50,000 to $600,000
• Next due date: June 1, 2022

High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10)

• PAR-22-079
• Funding range: $600,001 to $2,000,000
• Next due date: June 1, 2022

Congratulations to the following faculty members, who have new awards from foundations starting in January 2022!

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