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.
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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.
2020-2021 Awards (updated quarterly)
| PI | Recipient | Title | Department | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood, Marcelo | N/A | Training Program in Substance Use and Use Disorders | NBB | NIH NIDA T32 |
| Frank, Steven | N/A | OPUS: CRS: Comparative life history of microbes | EEB | NSF BIO DBE |
| German, Donovan | N/A | Gut Microbes and Diet | EEB | American Physiological Society |
| Lander, Arthur | Qing Nie | Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology | DevCell | NIH NIBIB T32 |
| Lur, Gyorgy | N/A | Cortical mechanisms of stress-induced cognitive impairment | NBB | NIH NIMH R01 |
| Pratt, Jessica | Rossella Santagata, Philip Collins | Transfer to Teaching: Accelerated STEM Teacher Preparation from Community College to Credentialing | EEB | NSF EHR |
| Rodriguez-Verdugo, Alejandra | N/A | Connections Across Borders: microbial communities at the interface between ecology and evolution | EEB | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
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 | Recipient | Title | Department | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atwood, Scott | N/A | GLI activation in basal cell carcinoma | DevCell | American Cancer Society |
| Bardwell, Lee | N/A | Novel Links Between Wnt Signaling, Centrosomes, and Cancer | DevCell | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | N/A | MSCA-IF Global Fellowship | NBB | University G. D'annunzio |
| Campbell, Diane | N/A | LTREB: Evolutionary and demographic responses to climate in natural populations | EEB | NSF BIO DEB |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth | N/A | Cognitive graphs: The geometry of spatial knowledge | NBB | NSF SBE BCS |
| Colon-Perez, Luis | N/A | Longitudinal biophysical markers of neuroinflammation due to morphine self-administration | NBB | Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator 2019 |
| Edinger, Aimee | N/A | Enhancing oligonucleotide delivery to tumors and tissues by manipulating endolysosomal trafficking | DevCell | Ono Pharma Foundation |
| Fowler, Christie | N/A | Impact of THC on Extracellular Vesicle Signaling | NBB | NIH NIDA R01 |
| Fruman, David | N/A | Preclinical optimization of statin/BH3 mimetic combinations in multiple myeloma | MB&B | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society |
| Gandhi, Sunil | Xiangmin Xu | Reorganization of the Central Visual System by Inhibitory Neuron Transplantation | NBB | NIH NEI R01 (Supplement) |
| Gaut, Brandon | Jonas Aguirre (Fellowship) | Combining micro-evolutionary processes, local adaptation, genomic load and niche models to understand how populations and species of grapes (Vitis) will respond to climate change | EEB | UC Mexus Conacyt |
| Gershon, Paul | N/A | Molecular architecture of the Vaccinia virion by structural proteomics | MB&B | NIH NIGMS R01 |
| Green, Kim | Joshua Crapser (Fellowship) | Investigating the Role of Microglia in Huntington's Disease | NBB | NIH NINDS F31 |
| Grill, Joshua | N/A | Henry L. Guenther Foundation | Proposal | NBB | Henry L. Guenther Foundation |
| Hughes, Christopher | Maike Sander (UCSD) | A 3D vascularized islet biomimetic to model type 1 diabetes | MB&B | NIH NIDDK UG3 |
| Kvon, Evgeny | N/A | Functional assessment of enhancer-gene interactions in vivo | DevCell | NIH NHGRI R00 |
| LaFerla, Frank | N/A | The Alzheimers Disease Research Center at the University of California, Irvine | NBB | NIH NIA P30 |
| Lane, Thomas | N/A | Defining mechanisms of disease and repair in a viral model of multiple sclerosis | NBB | NIH NINDS R35 |
| Lodoen, Melissa | Celia Goulding and Jennifer Martiny | T32 for Training in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | MB&B | NIH NIAID T32 |
| Luo, Ray | N/A | Multi-scaled Modeling of Electrostatic and Polarization Effects in Biomolecules | MB&B | NIH NIGMS R35 |
| Mahler, Stephen | Mitchell Farrell (Fellowship) | Ventral Pallidum GABA Circuits in Risky Decision Making | NBB | NIH NIDA F31 |
| Martin, Rachel | N/A | Understanding the molecular mechanisms underpinning the aggregation resistance of crystallin proteins in the human eye lens. | MB&B | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| 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 |
| McHenry, Matthew | N/A | Hydrodynamic sensing in schooling fish | EEB | Office of Naval Research |
| McNaughton, Bruce | N/A | A mouse model of cognitive reserve and its effects on memory related hippocampal coding dynamics in healthy and Azheimer's mice | NBB | NIH NIA R21 |
| McNulty, Reginald | N/A | Macromolecular assemblies of transcription factors initiated by pathogen infection | MB&B | NIH NIAID K22 |
| Messaoudi Powers, Ilhem | N/A | Mechanisms of increased susceptibility to pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial disease in the elderly | MB&B | NIH NIAID R01 |
| Mooney, Kailen | Lawrence Sack, Jeremy Beaulieu, Thomas Buckley | Collaborative Research: The Critical of Diverse Leaf: Hairstyles: Integrative Quantification of Anatomy, Function and Ecology of Trichomes | EEB | NSF BIO (with UCLA) |
| Mortazavi, Seyed | Barbara Wold (CalTech) | Higher Precision Human and Mouse Transcriptomes | DevCell | NIH NHGRI UM1 |
| Mota-Bravo, Luis | Marlene De La Cruz and Marcelo Wood (mPI) | MARC at the University of California, Irvine | Dean's Office | NIH NIGMS T34 |
| Plikus, Maksim | N/A | Collective mechanism of hair regrowth during Alopecia Areata resolution | DevCell | National Alopecia Areata Foundation |
| Razorenova, Olga | N/A | Defining the metastasis-initiating cancer stem cells | MB&B | UC CA Breast Cancer Research Program |
| Ribbe, Marcus | Yilin Hu | Mechanistic Investigation of CO activation by Nitrogenase | MB&B | NSF MPS CHE |
| Sato, Brian | N/A | Building Community and Facilitating Active Learning in Online STEM Courses | MB&B | California Governor's Office of Planning and Research |
| Tenner, Andrea | Nicole Schartz (fellowship) | Mechanistic link between C5aR1 and cognitive loss in Alzheimer's disease | MB&B | Alzheimer's Association |
| Stark, Craig | N/A | Development of the mnemonic similarity task as a tool to address age and dementia-related memory decline | NBB | NIH NIA R01 |
| Suetterlin, Christine | German Andres-Enciso, Ming Tan | Mechanism of RB-to-EB Conversion in Chlamydia | DevCell | NIH NIAID R01 |
| Sun, Sha | Olga Razorenova, Scott Atwood | Downregulation of XIST in Ovarian Cancer and Its Mechanisms | DevCell | UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee |
| Swarup, Vivek | N/A | Identification and Characterization of Genomic Regulators of the Growth State of Adult Neurons | NBB | Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation (with UCLA) |
| Thompson, Leslie | N/A | Donald A. King Summer Research Fellowship | NBB | Huntington's Disease Society of America |
| Treseder, Kathleen | N/A | OPUS: CRS: Trade-offs among fungal traits that influence responses to the environment and effects on ecosystems | EEB | NSF BIO DEB |
| Whiteson, Katrine | N/A | Sewage Surveillance to monitor COVID19 outbreak | MB&B | RGPO Emergency COVID-19 Research Seed Funding |
| Williams, Adrienne | N/A | The Expansion of the Southern California Regional Collaborative to Orange County California | DevCell | NSF (with UCLA) |
| Wunderlich, Zeba | N/A | Uncovering the regulatory DNA logic of the Drosophila innate immune response | DevCell | NSF BIO MCB |
| Yassa, Michael | Bruce McNaughton (mPI) | Training Program in Learning and Memory | NBB | NIH NIMH T32 |
| Allison, Steve | Michael Goulden, Adam Martiny, Jennifer Martiny, Kathleen Treseder, Eoin Brodie, and Ulas Karaoz | Biogeochemical consequences of microbial evolution under drought | EEB | Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences |
