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.
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.
2019-2020 Awards (updated quarterly)
The School of Biological Sciences received the following new and renewal awards with start dates during FY 2019-2020.
| PI | Co-Investigators or Fellowship Recipient | Title | Department | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atwood, Scott | N/A | GLI activation in basal cell carcinoma | DevCell | American Cancer Society |
| Campbell, Diane | N/A | LTREB: Evolutionary and demographic responses to climate in natural populations | EEB | NSF BIO DEB |
| Fruman, David | N/A | Preclinical optimization of statin/BH3 mimetic combinations in multiple myeloma | MB&B | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society |
| Green, Kim | Joshua Crapser (Fellowship) | Investigating the Role of Microglia in Huntington’s Disease | NBB | NIH NINDS F31 |
| Martiny, Adam | Natalia Komarova, Francois Primeau, Simon Levin | Convergence: RAISE: Linking the Adaptive Dynamics of Plankton with Emergent Global Ocean Biochemistry | EEB | NSF GEO OCE |
| Yassa, Michael | Bruce McNaughton (mPI) | Training Program in Learning and Memory | NBB | NIH NIMH T32 |
FY 2018-2019 Awards
The School of Biological Sciences received the following new and renewal awards with start dates during FY 2018-2019.
| PI | Co-Investigators or Fellowship Recipient | Title | Department | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blumberg, Bruce | Generation Of Novel, Integrated and Internationally Harmonised Approaches for Testing | DevCell | European Union | |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | A Kinase-directed phenotypic screen of human microglial cells | NBB | Array Biopharma Inc. | |
| Boiko, Alexander | N/A | Tracing Tumor Heterogeneity in Squamous Cell Carcinoma | MB&B | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee |
| Bowler, Peter A. | UCI Arboretum and Herbarium (IRVC) | EBB | Orange County Community Fdn | |
| Bowler, Peter A. | N/A | Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Capturing California’s Flowers: using digital images to investigate phenological change in a biodiversity hotspot | EBB | NSF BIO DBI |
| Campbell, Diane | Norman Wickett (Chicago Botanic Garden), Warren Wagner (National Tropical Botanical Garden), Michael Moore (Oberlin College) | Collaborative Research: Unlocking the evolutionary history of Schiedea (carnation family, Caryophyllaceae): rapid radiation of an endemic plant genus in the Hawaiian Islands | EEB | NSF BIO DEB |
| Cho, Ken | Interplay of maternal transcription factors in endoderm specification | DevCell | NSF | |
| Cinquin, Olivier | N/A | Cell-free DNA damage to detect tumors and DNA repair defects | DevCell | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee |
| Cotman, Carl | Marcelo Wood | Epigenetic suppression of histone methylation reverses age and AD-related cognitive decline | NBB | NIH NIA (RF1) |
| Cotman, Carl | California Alzheimer’s Disease Center of UC Irvine | NBB | State of CA – H&W Public Health, Dept of (CDPH) | |
| Fruman, David | Control of B cell survival and transformation by the eIF4F translation initiation complex | MB&B | American Society of Hematology | |
| Fruman, David | Effects of novel mTORC1-selective inhibitors on T cell function | MB&B | Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | |
| Gandhi, Sunil P. | N/A | Investigating Circuit Mechanisms and Brain-wide Connectivity Deficits in a Mouse Model of Amblyopia | NBB | Knights Templar Eye Fdn Inc |
| Gandhi, Sunil P. | Ricardo Azevedo (Fellowship) | Contributions of interhemispheric signaling to visual system processing and development | NBB | NIH NEI (F30) |
| Glabe, Charles | N/A | Conformational polymorphisms of amyloid in AD and immunological biomarkers and therapeutics | MB&B | NIH NIA (R01) |
| Green, Kim | Elizabeth Spangenberg | Role of microglia in plaque homeostasis in AD | NBB | NIH NIA (F31) |
| Green, Kim | N/A | Microglia are necessary for cortical plaque formation in Alzheimer’s disease | NBB | NIH NIA (RF1) |
| Green, Michael T. | N/A | Thermodynamic, Electronic, Structural, and Kinetic Characterizations of Cytochrome P450 Compounds I & II | MB&B | NIH NIGMS (R01) |
| Inlay, Matthew | N/A | Identifying the precursor to hematopoietic stem cells in the mouse embryo and improving its engraftment upon transplantation | MB&B | NIH NCI (R21) |
| Kong, Mei | Eric Hanse (Fellowship) | A Tumor Suppressor Role for PP2A Via Inhibition of Wnt Signaling | MB&B | American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Lodoen, Melissa | Regulation of Thrombosis During Vascular Infection | MB&B | American Heart Association | |
| Lur, Gyorgy | N/A | Feed-forward – feed-back integration in cognitive circuits | NBB | Whitehall Foundation |
| Martiny, Adam | Natalia Komarova, Francois Primeau, Simon Levin | Convergence: RAISE: Linking the Adaptive Dynamics of Plankton with Emergent Global Ocean Biochemistry | EEB | NSF GEO OCE |
| Martiny, Jennifer B. H. | Ana Elena Escalante Hernández (Instituto de Ecolígia, UNAM) | Functional significance of microbial diversity in arid soils: biological soil crusts and Nitrogen fixation as study model | EEB | UC MEXUS |
| Metherate, Raju | N/A | Nicotinic enhancement of auditory-cognitive processing | NBB | NIH NIDCD (R01) |
| Nie, Qing | Xing Dai, Maksim V. Plikus | Multiscale Models of Wound Cell Plasticity for Regeneration | DevCell | NIH NIAMS (U01) |
| Nie, Qing | Arthur Lander, John Lowengrub, Xing Dai, Jun Allard | NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research | DevCell | NSF MPS DMS and Simons Foundation |
| Parsons, Michael | N/A | Characterizing the Role of Pancreatic Progenitors in Regeneration | DevCell | NIH NIDDK (R01) |
| Pedersen, Irene | N/A | miR regulation of the neurovasculature function in health and disease | MB&B | NIH NINDS (R01) |
| Sato, Brian | Kimberly Tanner, Stanley Lo, Di Xu, Kameryn Denaro | Examining the Roles of STEM Teaching Faculty in Advancing the Use of Evidence-based Teaching Practices at Research Universities | MB&B | NSF EHR DUE |
| Suetterlin, Christine | N/A | Centrosome abnormalities, Chlamydia and HPV | DevCell | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee |
| Swarup, Vivek | N/A | A functional genomics approach to identify neuronal and glial regulators of neurodegeneration | NBB | American Federation Aging Research |
| Tenner, Andrea | Seyed Ali Mortazavi | Defining the Mechanistic Link between C5aR1 signaling and cognitive loss in Alzheimer’s diseases | MB&B | NIH NIA (R01) |
| Tenner, Andrea | N/A | Modulating Polarization of Glial Cells in AD mouse models by a Complement Receptor Antagonist | MB&B | NIH NIA (R21) |
| Thompson, Leslie | N/A | An hESC-derived hNSC Therapeutic for Huntington’s Disease | NBB | California Institute for Regenerative Medicine |
| Thompson, Leslie M. | Peter J. Donovan | Training Program in Stem Cell Translational Medicine for Neurological Disorders | NBB; Psychiatry and Human Behavior | NIH NINDS (T32) |
| Tinoco, Roberto | N/A | Targeting PSGL-1 inhibitory pathways to promote anti-tumor T cell immunity | MB&B | Melanoma Research Alliance |
| Tinoco, Roberto | N/A | PSGL-1 mechanisms of T cell exhaustion | MB&B | NIH NIAID (R01) |
| Walsh, Craig | N/A | Regulation of T cell metabolism by DRAK2 | MB&B | NIH NIAID (R01) |
| Wang, Wenqi | N/A | Novel regulations of the Hippo tumor suppressor pathway | DevCell | American Cancer Society |
| Wang, Wenqi | N/A | Investigate the Hippo pathway in stress response and cancer | DevCell | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee |
| Wodarz, Dominik | Natalia Komarova | Hybrid deterministic-stochastic methodology for simulating spatial evolution in large populatioons | EEB | NSF MPS DMS |
| Wunderlich, Zeba B | N/A | Mechanisms of shadow enhancer robustness during development | DevCell | NIH NICHD (R01) |
| Yassa, Michael | Weiwei Zhang (PI) | A Neurocognitive Mechanism for Precision of Visual Working Memory Representations | NBB | NIH NIMH (R01; subcontract from UC Riverside) |
