Funding Opportunities
Internal Funding
Funding is available for BioSci faculty and researchers through various on-campus entities and from the School of Biological Sciences.
- UCI’s Funding Opps website collates CFPs announced via email.
- Bridge Funding is available through Office of Research.
BioSci releases the following calls for proposals annually.
Past Calls
External Funding
To get grants, you need to know what opportunities are available. Information about funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) are available at several locations.
- Office of Research provides links to various resources.
- Grants.gov has a Search Grants tab that lists the federal government’s open funding opportunities.
- PIVOT is a funding database that lists open calls for proposals.
- Research Bulletin is a BioSci email bulletin that has links to current and upcoming funding opportunities. To subscribe, sign up here. Submit details about seminars and other research-related events on campus here. Submit funding opportunity announcements here.
2022-2023 Awards (updated quarterly)
| PI | Co-investigators or Fellowship recipient | Title | Department | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bracken, Matthew | NSFGEO-NERC: Linking species traits to marine ecosystem functioning | EEB | NSF GEO OCE | |
| Briscoe, Adriana | Dang, Andy | Characterizing the molecular basis of red-green color vision in Heliconius butterflies using confocal microscopy | EEB | American Microscopial Society |
| Cocco, Melanie | NMR and biophysical studies of Hb with various compounds that affect polymerization | MBB | Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc | |
| Fowler, Christie | Cannabidiol as a therapeutic approach for tobacco and nicotine cessation | NBB | UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program | |
| Fowler, Christie | Therapeutic development of GATC compounds for opioid addiction | NBB | Gatc Health Corp | |
| Fowler, Christie | Interaction of Stress and Nicotinic Receptor Allosteric Modulation in Nicotine Seeking and Cessation | NBB | UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program | |
| Gandhi, Sunil | Nakayama, Taylor | The role of Calbindin in developmental and transplant-reactivated cortical plasticity | NBB | NIH NEI F31 |
| Gaut, Brandon | Molecular Evolution of Plant Genomes | EEB | Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution | |
| Goulding, Celia | Function of novel antibacterial toxins | MBB | NIH NIGMS Multiple Campus Award with UC Santa Barbara | |
| Grill, Joshua | Recruiting multiethnic populations to preclinical Alzheimers disease trials | NBB | NIH NIA R21 | |
| Lane, Thomas | Green, Kim | Neuroimmunology Training Program at the University of California, Irvine | NBB | NIH NINDS T32 |
| Loudon, Catherine | Using Entrapping Surfaces to Augment Non-chemical IPM Approaches to Bed Bug Control | EEB | California Department of Pesticide Regulation | |
| Lur, Gyorgy | Feedforward-feedback integration in the posterior parietal cortex | NBB | NIH NINDS R01 | |
| Mahler, Stephen | Baram, Tallie; Fowler, Christie; Swarup, Vivek | Dynamic epigenomic landscape of opioid abuse following early-life adversity | NBB | NIH NIDA U01 |
| Martiny, Adam | Garcia, Nathan | Collaborative Research: Interactive physiological controls of trait expression, nutrient allocation, and the elemental stoichiometry of Synechococcus | EEB | NSF BIO IOS |
| Mota-Bravo, Luis | Bridges to the Doctorate Program at Cal State LA | BioSci Minority Programs | NIH NIGMS T32 subcontract with Cal State Los Angeles | |
| Nicholas, Dequina | Lipid Antigen Presentation as a Driver of T2D Inflammation | MBB | NIH NIAID DP2 | |
| Sumikawa, Katumi | Identifying a primary motivator of continued tobacco use in the schizophrenia population | NBB | UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program | |
| Walsh, Craig | Personalized therapeutic cancer vaccines to effectively mobilize antitumor T-cell immunity in esophageal cancer | MBB | NIH NCI N43 sub with Immunotarget Therapeutics, Inc | |
| Wang, Wenqi | Warrior, Rahul | Interplay of heavy metal homeostasis and cell growth-related signaling networks | DevCell | NIH NIGMS R21 |
| Wood, Marcelo | Chinn, Carlene | Gilz, an X-chromosome linked gene, as a possible molecular mechanism underlying fear memory processes and stress-induced relapse-like behavior. | NBB | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Wood, Marcelo | Downing, Timothy | Development of an epigenetic clock that predicts age-impaired or age-unimpaired cognitive performance | NBB | NIH NIA R21 |
| Yassa, Michael | Mander, Bryce | Circuit-specific tau burden and mechanisms of sleep-dependent memory processing in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease | NBB | NIH NIA R21 |
2021-2022 Awards (updated quarterly)
| PI | Co-investigators or Fellowship recipient | Title | Department | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison, Steven | Collaborative Research: NSFDEB-NERC: Tropical deadwood carbon fluxes: Improving carbon models by incorporating termites and microbes | EEB | NSF REPS supplement | |
| Allison, Steven | Vela Diaz, Dilys | Planning Grant: Workshops to Build Capacity for Biological Field Research in Southern California Ecosystems | EEB | NSF BIO DBI |
| Atwood, Scott | Nie, Qing | RECODE: Functional characterization of human skin organoids | DCB | NSF ENG CBET |
| Atwood, Scott | Tumors on a Knife's Edge: Modulating Cancer Cell Fate in the Skin | DCB | American Cancer Society | |
| Azizi, Eman | Force generation and sensation in rapid plant movement | EEB | International Human Frontier Science Program Organization | |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | Examining the use of microglia to deliver therapeutic genes to the brain | NBB | Novoglia LLC | |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | Cell therapeutic platform for the treatment of neurodegenerative microgliopathies | NBB | NIH NINDS R43 with Novoglia LLC | |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | Transplantation of genetically corrected iPSC-microglia for the treatment of Sanfilippo Syndrome | NBB | CIRM Quest-Discovery Stage Research Projects | |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | With Novoglia, LLC | Enhancing the engraftment of microglia for the treatment of neurological disease | NBB | NIH NINDS R43 |
| Bowler, Peter | With the Marisla Foundation | UCI Herbarium (IRVC) | EEB | Orange County Community Foundation |
| Briscoe, Adriana | Mechanisms of Color Vision: Genomics, Physiology and Behavior | EEB | NSF REPS supplement | |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth | Navigational learning and memory: Cognitive graphs, active decision making, and brain network dynamics | NBB | NIH NINDS R01 | |
| Daley, Monica | Schwaner, Marie | Predicting muscle force during in vivo hopping and jumping in Kangaroo Rats | EEB | Graduate Women In Science Fellowship |
| Donovan, Peter | CIRM Scholars Comprehensive Research Training Program | DCB | California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) | |
| Edinger, Aimee | Finicle, Brendan | Targeting intracellular trafficking for cancer therapy | DCB | NIH NCI F99/K00 |
| Eom, Dae Seok | Signaling at a distance mediated by vesicles on novel cellular protrusions | DCB | NIH NIGMS R35 | |
| Gandhi, Sunil | Wheeler, Damian (Translucence Biosystems) | Rapid Evaluation of Neuronal Activity in the Intact Whole-Brain at Single Cell Resolution | NBB | NIH NIMH R44 |
| German, Donovan | Gut Microbes and Diet:Testing Phylosymbiosis in Closely-Related Prickleback Fishes with Different Diets | EEB | American Physiological Society | |
| German, Donovan | Developing tools for monitoring the impact of climate change on captive abalone reproduction and digestion | EEB | UC Sea Grant College Program (NOAA) | |
| Gonen, Shane | Breaking barriers in CryoEM through computational protein design | MBB | NIH NIGMS R35 | |
| Goulding, Celia | Ulijasz, Andrew | A novel family of conserved glyoxal toxicity response proteins | MBB | NIH NIGMS R01 |
| Green, Kim | Henningfield, Caden | Selective targeting and treatment of plaque associated microglia in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease | NBB | NIH NIA F31 |
| Grill, Joshua | Head, Elizabeth | Training in Translational ADRD Neuroscience (TITAN) | NBB | NIH NIA T32 |
| Grill, Joshua | Recruiting and retaining participants from disadvantaged neighborhoods in registries | NBB | NIH NIA R01 | |
| Halbrook, Christopher | Using Patient-Derived Organoids to Target Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer | MBB | Sky Foundation, Inc. | |
| Halbrook, Christopher | Overcoming Metabolic Heterogeneity to Target Pancreatic Cancer | MBB | V Foundation | |
| James, Anthony | Population modification of Anopheles for control of Pf transmission | MBB | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | |
| Kadandale, Pavan | Solanki, Sabrina and Sato, Brian | Assessing Peer Mentorship as a Scalable Intervention to Promote the Academic Success and Retention of Diverse Undergraduate Biology Majors | MBB | NSF EHR DUE |
| Kong, Mei | Using dietary glutamine supplementation for melanoma prevention and targeted therapy | MBB | NIH NCI R01 | |
| LaFerla, Frank | Deciphering the role of interleukin-18 as a driver of tau pathology in Alzheimers disease | NBB | NIH NIA R01 | |
| Lander, Arthur | Leveraging single-cell transcriptomics to discover mechanisms of immune surveillance | DCB | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee | |
| Lee, Grace | How transposable elements drive genome evolution through epigenetic mechanisms | EEB | NIH NIGMS R35 | |
| Martiny, Adam | With University of Maryland (Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies [CISESS]) | CISESS: Bio-GO-SHIP - A global analysis of large-scale changes to ocean plankton systems | EEB | National Oceanographic Partnership Program |
| Martiny, Adam | Hall, Edward | Collaborative Research: The stoichiometric trait distribution of the marine microbiome | EEB | NSF GEO OCE |
| Martiny, Jennifer | BEE: Testing a phylogenetic trait framework for soil microbiomes | EEB | NSF BIO DEB | |
| Morrissette, Naomi | GAANN Graduate Fellowships for Training in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | MBB | U.S. DoEd GAANN | |
| Parsons, Michael | Tucker, Tori | Uncovering the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Driving B-cell Neogenesis During Regeneration | DCB | NIH NIDDK F31 |
| Plikus, Maksim | Lipogenesis as a novel strategy for cartilage formation | DCB | W. M. Keck Foundation | |
| Plikus, Maksim | Nie, Qing | Tissue size and precision control in growing hair follicles | DCB | NIH NIAMS R01 |
| Plikus, Maksim | Gardiner, David | Blastema-independent Mechanism for Regeneration in Salamanders | DCB | NIH NIAMS R21 |
| Ranz, Jose | Dissecting the phenotypic and functional consequences of sexual selection on sperm competition through a species-specific multigene family | EEB | NSF BIO MCB | |
| Ribbe, Marcus | Hu, Yilin | Light-driven activation of small molecules by nitrogenase hybrids | MBB | DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences |
| Sato, Brian | Lo, Stanley (UCSD); Eroy-Reveles, Aura (UCSC); Buswell, Natascha (UCI); Wilton, Mike (UCSB) | The AGEP University of California Alliance: A Model to Advance Equitable Hiring of Teaching-Focused Faculty in STEM | MBB | NSF EHR HRD |
| Sato, Brian | POD Network in Higher Education Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | MBB | Professional and Organizational Development Network | |
| Sato, Brian | Solanki, Sabrina; White, Virginia; Morgado Flores, Pedro; and Baker, Rachel | Conference Proposal: Two-Year/Four-Year Campus Research Communities Examining STEM Transfer Pathways | MBB | NSF EHR HRD |
| Sorte, Cascade | Predicting impacts of coastal species redistribution in a changing climate | EEB | NSF GEO OCE | |
| Sorte, Cascade | Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need | EEB | U.S. DoEd GAANN | |
| Stark, Craig | The cognitive and neural bases of work learning in aging, stroke, and developmental language impairment | NBB | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Sun, Sha | Elucidating the molecular basis of lncRNA evolution for mammalian dosage compensation | DCB | NIH NIGMS R01 | |
| Tenner, Andrea | Influence of C5a-C5aR1 signaling on synaptic pruning in Alzheimer's disease | MBB | The Larry L. Hillblom Foundation | |
| Thompson, Leslie | Integrated RM, cryoET and transcriptomics to characterize FTD derived i-neurons | NBB | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | |
| Thompson, Leslie | Subcellular RNA dynamics in HD | NBB | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | |
| Wang, Wenqi | Mechanistic Characterization of the Hippo Tumor Suppressor pathway in DNA Repair | DCB | American Cancer Society | |
| Wood, Marcelo | Jessica Childs | Relapse to drug-seeking behavior is regulated by medial habenula NR4A2 in male and female mice | NBB | NIH NIDA F32 |
| Wood, Marcelo | Exercise opens a molecular memory window to facilitate changes in gene expression, synaptic plasticity and memory | NBB | Proteintech Group, Inc. | |
| Wood, Marcelo | Cotman, Carl | Investigating the interface of epigenetics and metabolism underlying memory formation in the adult, aging, and AD brain | NBB | NIH NIA R01 |
| Yassa, Michael | Chappel-Farley, Miranda | Neurobiological mechanisms of sleep and exercise effects on memory in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease | NBB | NIH NIA F31 |
| Yassa, Michael | Testing the role of tau pathology in disrupting hippocampal CA1 memory function in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease | NBB | NIH NIA R21 | |
| Yassa, Michael | Guerra, Nancy | The Brain Explorer Academy (BEA): An Informal Science Education Partnership | NBB | NIH NIGMS R25 |
