- Apply for UCI's new NSF CAREER Institute.
- Learn about and use NSF's new biosketch and Current and Pending Support formats.
- Apply for pilot project funding from the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- See which BioSci professor received a new award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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UCI New NSF CAREER Institute
Research development professionals at UCI will be running an NSF CAREER Institute for Assistant Professors to hone their skills in the art of competitive grant writing and proposal development.
NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Applicants must hold a tenure-track position as an assistant professor. Read about the CAREER program on NSF’s website.
The NSF CAREER Institute will convene over several months before the July 26, 2023 deadline. Elements of the institute include:
Applicants are expected to submit an NSF biosketch and either an NSF-style project summary or 250-word abstract describing their project. Read the call for proposals and submit an application to participate in the NSF CAREER Institute. The deadline to apply to the institute is February 10, 2023. Instruction will begin in March.
Applicants should be planning to submit a CAREER proposal for the July 2023 deadline. We welcome applications from CAREER-eligible faculty resubmitting a CAREER proposal or submitting for the first time. UCI plans to run this Institute annually.
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Thinking about applying to a Limited Submission program? Let us know
Sponsors sometimes limit the number of applications that an institution can submit for a particular program. In these cases, UCI must run an internal competition to determine which applications may move forward. If you are planning to apply to a grant program that is a Limited Submission, please let Research Development (bio-research@uci.edu) know as soon as possible so that we can coordinate with the Office of Research.
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Focus on Evolution Seminar Series
Experimental Evolution of Chosen Genes Near Their Mutational Speed Limits
Chang Liu, Laboratory for Synthetic Evolution, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Samuel School of Engineering, UCI
Natural Sciences I or Zoom (https://uci.zoom.us/j/95838869040)
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New NSF Biosketch and Current and Pending Support Formats
For proposals submitted on or after this Monday, January 30, 2023, senior personnel must use NSF’s new biosketch and Current and Pending Support formats. NSF continues to encourage applicants to use SciENcv to create these documents, as doing so will be mandatory starting on October 23, 2023. If you need assistance creating documents in SciENcv, please email bio-research@uci.edu to get in touch with Research Development.
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The overall objectives of the CFCCC ACC Pilot Project Program are to: (1) increase the number of extramural peer-reviewed grant awards, particularly collaborative and multi-PI grants; (2) support the development of investigator-initiated early phase clinical trial protocols by clinical investigators, particularly interventional trials; (3) advance novel diagnostic or screening technologies, therapeutic molecules or devices, and bio-behavioral interventions from bench to bedside; and (4) advance research on cancer control, cancer population science, and pediatric cancers.
Please click the link above to see the Request for Proposals and learn about the different project types.
Deadline: March 6, 2023
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Xiaoyu Shi Receives Award from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative!
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Congratulations to Xiaoyu Shi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, for receiving an award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)! Dr. Shi is one of 14 research groups worldwide to receive this award. Her award also represents BioSci’s first funded grant from CZI.
Dr. Shi’s project (Dissemination of Chemical-Based Super-Resolution Microscopy) will help accelerate the adoption of a newly developed technology called Label-Retention Expansion Microscopy (LR-ExM) with 100 labs and core facilities in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. LR-ExM uses novel chemical probes to enable deep tissue super-resolution microscopy with conventional fluorescence microscopes. This method produces high-quality images at low cost.
Please congratulate Dr. Shi on her new award!
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In FY 21–22, the National Science Foundation received 43,617 competitive proposals and of them funded 11,349. This translates into a funding rate of 26%.
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