Current calls, week 39, 2022
Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.
Swedish and Nordic calls
Postdoctoral Scholarships – Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has established long-term postdoctoral scholarship programs at Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Broad Institute, and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The purpose of these programs is to bring outstanding young Swedish scientists to these universities for up to two years of postdoctoral studies and research.
- The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship at Stanford University, USA
The program is open for all disciplines. The stipend is for a period of up to two years of postdoctoral studies and amounts to approximately USD 65,000 annually (the final amount will be set in accordance with the standard rate of each institution). A travel grant of USD 5,000 per year and an annual allowance for accompanying family members of USD 15,000 is also provided. The latter must be applied for separately in a direct request to the Foundation.
Following the postdoctoral studies there is an opportunity to receive funding from the Wallenberg Foundation to support a research position at a Swedish university for up to two years if the applicant cannot find another position.
- The Wallenberg Foundation Scholarship Program for Postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Broad Institute
The program is open for all disciplines at MIT and Broad Institute. The Stipend is for a period of up to two years of postdoctoral studies. The Stipend amounts to approximately USD 50,000 annually (the final amount will be set in accordance with the standard rate of each institution). For MIT a travel grant of USD 5,000 per year and an annual allowance for accompanying family members of USD 15,000 is also provided. For Broad an annual allowance for accompanying family members of USD 15,000 is provided. The allowance for accompanying family members must be applied for separately in a direct request to the Foundation.
Following the postdoctoral studies there is an opportunity to receive funding from the Wallenberg Foundation to support a research position at a Swedish university for up to two years if the Fellow cannot find another position.
- The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
The program is open for all disciplines at NTU. The successful candidates will be employed by NTU with an annual base salary starting at Singapore dollar (SGD) 70,000. In addition, a family cost or cost of living allowance will be paid starting at SGD 30,000 and an annual research allowance of SGD 5,000 each year over their two-year fellowship.
Following the postdoctoral studies there is an opportunity to receive funding from the Wallenberg Foundation to support a research position at a Swedish university for up to two years if the Fellow cannot find another position.
Closing date: November 15, 2022
Carmen och Bertil Regnérs stiftelse för forskning rörande ögonsjukdomar
Stiftelsen skall med stipendium till enskilda vetenskapsmän verksamma vid svenska vetenskapliga institutioner främja forskning rörande ögonsjukdomar och dessas uppkomstmekanismer. .
Closing date: October 15, 2022
Rolf Luft Award 2023
The Rolf Luft Award is given annually by Karolinska Institutet for outstanding scientific contributions in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. The award consists of medal, diploma and prize money.
The prize committee includes previous award winners and professors Per-Olof Berggren, Claes-Göran Östenson and Kerstin Brismar at The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, the Department och Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet.
Closing date: December 15, 2022
European calls
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Fight kids cancer programme - Imagine for Margo – Children without Cancer, FR and other funders
*The closing date for this opportunity has been extended. The previous deadline of 3 October has been extended to 24 October 2022. All other call details remain unchanged. *
Imagine for Margo – Children without Cancer, KickCancer, the European Science Foundation, the Foundation for Children with Cancer (FKK) and the Italian National Federation of Associations of Parents of Children and Adolescents with Cancer or Leukaemia (FIAGOP) invite applications for their fight kids cancer programme. This aims to catalyse and support pan-European innovative and relevant research initiatives in paediatric cancer. Projects should aim to develop new therapies that improve the outcome for all children and adolescents with cancer. There are two categories of projects: early phase clinical trials conducted in at least two countries, and translation research projects to identify novel mechanisms of action and targets that may result in innovative new therapies or better models of disease. Pre-clinical projects including high-risk/high return proposals, or projects that leverage and advance paediatric tumour models, will be considered. Multi-disciplinary or multi-institution collaborations are strongly encouraged.
The total budget is €4 million. Early phase clinical trial grants are worth up to €1.5m per project for three years, while translational research project grants are worth up to €500,000 per project for two years.
Closing date: 24 October 2022
Project grants - European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
The European Society of Anaesthesiology invites abstracts for its project grants. These promote anaesthesia- or intensive care-related research in Europe and encourage anaesthesiologists and intensivists to extend the frontiers of their practice. Proposals may address clinical or translational research, experimental research, patient safety and research on education or training of anaesthesiologists. Priority is given to topics that have no alternative sources of funding.
Applicants must be full ESA members. However, if they are co-investigators, at least one of the investigators should be a full ESA member at the moment of application. Any qualified member of an institution in one the European countries that is represented in the ESA Council or from which the national society is a society member of the ESA may apply.
Two grants are available. The Andreas Hoeft grant for intensive care-related research is worth up to €60,000 over two years, and the research project grant for anaesthesia-related research is worth up to €50,000 over two years.
Closing date: 28 October 2022
Large clinical grants - Osteology Foundation
The Osteology Foundation invites applications for its large clinical grants. These support clinical research to bridge the gap between scientific progress and clinical practice for the benefit of patients in the field of oral and maxillofacial tissue regeneration. Applicants should be well-established groups with demonstrated clinical research expertise.
Grants are worth up to CHF 350,000 for a maximum period of three years.
Closing Date (abstract submissions): 15 November 2022
Research grants - European Hematology Association, EUR
The European Hematology Association invites applications for its research grants. These enable early-career researchers in the field of haematology to advance their career towards becoming the leader of a research group. Research must be basic or translational lab-based research. The following awards are available:
•junior research grant for researchers doing basic research within four years of their PhD graduation – worth €50,000 per year for two years;
•advanced research grant for researchers doing basic research four to eight years after their PhD graduation – worth €80,000 per year for two years;
•physician scientist research grant for physicians who are involved in patient care, are within four years after PhD or MD graduation, or haematology training, have a proven track record in research by publications and have at least 50 per cent protected time for performing the research project – worth €80,000 per year for two years.
Closing Date: 15 December 2022
US calls
Federal Funding agencies
The Center for Innovative NeuroTech Advancement (CINTA) & NeuroTech Harbor (NTH) announce the 2022 Award Competition supported by the NIH Blueprint MedTech Program: NIH
CINTA and NTH seek groundbreaking collaborative projects to improve the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nervous system or their sequelae. The technologies proposed in applications must have a pathway to a prototype ready for first-in-human testing within 4 years. If successful, projects should be viable candidates for commercial development or have a viable and sustainable financial plan for rare disorders.
Awards from NTH or CINTA will rarely exceed $500,000 in direct costs per year for a period of up to 4 years. In addition to monetary support, awardees will receive ongoing, specialized support from mentors experienced in commercializing medical devices. Awardees will work with their individual mentor for several hours each week to focus on business, regulatory, clinical, and technical factors that may impede commercialization.
Deadline:
- Informational Webinars on 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, and 10/20 & Office hours on 10/7, 10/14, and 10/21.
- October 24, 2022: Pre-proposal Submission deadline
- November 9, 2022: Submission opens for full proposals from selected pre-proposal applicants
- December 9, 2022: Full proposal Submission deadline
- January 2023: Deep Dive Assessment Phase
- February-March 2023 (estimated): Final projects selected by NIH for funding
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities with a focus on addressing diverse representation in research on Down syndrome (R21 Clinical Trial Optional): NIH
The NIH INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Project seeks to improve health and quality-of-life for individuals with Down syndrome (DS). This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) announces NIH support for exploratory/developmental grant (R21) applications that are focused on community-based participatory research (CBPR) in DS to address health disparities and that meet programmatic objectives for the INCLUDE Project.
Deadline: October 1, 2022 (First Available Due Date) and expired on March 17, 2025.
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA): NOT-OD-22-142
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed): NIH
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies. Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (“de-implement”) the use of practices that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. Applications that focus on re-implementation of evidence-based health services (e.g. cancer screening) that may have dropped off amidst the ongoing COVID pandemic are encouraged.
All applications must be within the scope of the mission of one of the Institutes/Centers listed above.
Deadline: standard due dates. Applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA): PAR-22-106
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Small Research Grant (R03 Clinical Trial Optional): NIH
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Small Research Grant (R03) applications to study the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of human genome research. These applications should be for small, self-contained research projects, such as those that involve single investigators. Of particular interest are projects that propose normative or conceptual analyses, including focused legal, economic, philosophical, anthropological, or historical analyses of new or emerging issues. This mechanism can also be used for the collection of preliminary data and the secondary analysis of existing data.
Deadlines: New Application Due Dates: October 19 2020, February 17 2021, June 17 2021, October 19 2021, February 17 2022, June 17 2022, October 19 2022, February 17 2023, June 19 2023. Applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA): PAR-20-257
Foundations
Tech Impact Award & Clinic and Laboratory Integration Program, Cancer Research Institute (CRI), US
Tech Impact Award
CRI's TECH Impact Award is designed to encourage collaboration between technology developers and clinical cancer immunologists in addressing the gap between technology development and clinical application of cancer immunotherapies.
The aim of this program is to advance technologies that can speed up the entire field's efforts in addressing one of the most defining challenges of our time-developing immunotherapies that
are effective for all cancer patients.
The most competitive applicants will address areas where technological innovation stands to benefit the field and cancer patients most, and that will ultimately lead to effective next generation personalized cancer immunotherapies. Applicants must hold a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor (or higher rank) at the time of award activation. TECH awards provide $200,000 over two years.
Clinic and Laboratory Integration Program
CRI offers CLIP grants to qualified scientists who are working to explore clinically relevant questions aimed at improving the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
The development of new and effective cancer treatment requires the translation of basic laboratory discoveries into novel therapies that can be tested in patients. This area of translational research-where laboratory findings move into clinical testing and where questions from clinical studies are brought back into the lab-is critical to bringing new and better immunotherapies to patients.
The grant will support basic, pre-clinical, and translational research that will provide information that can be directly applied to optimizing cancer immunotherapy in the clinic. Applicants must hold a
faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor (or higher rank) at the time of award activation. CLIP grants provide $200,000 over two years.
Deadlines:
- TECH LOIs are due November 15, 2022; Full proposal March 15, 2023.
- CLIP LOIs are due December 1, 2022; Full proposal March 1, 2023.
Further information (Technology Award)
Postdoctoral fellowships for both Basic Scientists and Clinical neurologists, Parkinson’s Foundation, US
For Basic Scientists:
The Postdoctoral Fellowships for Basic Scientists are two-year fellowships for young scientists, fresh from their PhD training, to study at major research institutions. The Parkinson’s Foundation seeks research proposals from promising early-career scientists that will directly impact the understanding of Parkinson’s disease or its treatment.
This program grants $124,000 over two years. This consists of $57,000 annually (to be used as salary) as well as a $5,000 annual research allowance to be used at the Fellow's discretion, with sponsor/mentor approval, to pay for items such as books, training courses, travel costs (up to $2,000), or a computer.
For Clinical Neurologists:
The Parkinson’s Foundation invites letters of intent for its postdoctoral fellowships for clinical neurologists. These support young clinicians who have completed their neurology residency and are seeking clinical research experience.
Applicants must possess an MD or equivalent and be within three years of having completed a residency in neurology at the time the award starts. Applicants may be based anywhere in the world. They may not have their own lab and must name a mentor who will supervise their research.
The fellowships are worth USD 140,000 each over two years, including salary support of USD 65,000 per year. An additional research allowance of USD 5,000 per year may be used for items such as books, training courses, travel costs or a computer.
Deadlines:
- LOI Due: November 1, 2022;
- Application Due: February 24, 2023;
- Award Notification: Late May 2023
- Award Begins: July 1, 2023
Integrative Program, Gateway for Cancer Research, US
The Gateway for Cancer Research invites letters of intent for its integrative programme. This supports integrative oncology research that pairs conventional therapies with evidence-based integrative therapies to manage symptoms and side effects from treatment. This also aims to increase quality of life, especially post-treatment.
Any investigator who is ready to conduct a novel clinical trial in cancer research may apply for funding. Grants are typically two to five years in duration with award amounts from USD 200,000 to USD 1.5 million.
Deadlines: Letters of intent due by November 1, 2022 at 11.59pm CDT. Applicants will be given 4-5 weeks to complete a full grant application. This call is repeated 4 times a year.