Boost Funding Applications Due
2023-04-24 17:00 (America/New_York)
The deadline for boost applications is April 24, 2023. The memo can be found here.

Bridge Funding Applications Due
2023-04-24 17:00
The deadline for the most recent round of bridge funding is April 24, 2023. The memo can be found here

LabArchives Virtual Training (registration required)
2023-03-16 12:00 - 13:00
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to host two virtual training sessions on this exciting resource for faculty, staff, and students in support of research:

March 8th – 10:00 – 11 AM

Register here

March 16th – 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Register here
Designed to replace paper notebooks, LabArchives is a secure, cloud-based electronic notebook that enables researchers to capture, manage, store, and share information and data. They are designed for intuitive use, ease of search, versioning, and archiving. In this workshop you will be provided an overview of LabArchives and learn the benefits of moving from a paper to an electronic notebook. LabArchives’ notebook software interface is securely accessible via the internet from anywhere in the world using a web browser on any device.
Join us at either session to learn about the benefits that LabArchives offers researchers, and how it can easily be integrated into your research data management toolkit.
For more information on LabArchives at Carolina, please visit https://research.unc.edu/systems/labarchives/ or contact labarchives@unc.edu.

LabArchives Virtual Training Session (registration required)
2023-03-08 10:00 - 11:00

Boost Funding Applications Due
2023-02-27 08:00 - 17:00
Applications for boost funding are due April 24, 2023. The memo can be found here.

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry
2022-10-03 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Nominations
Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, October 3, 2022

The Blavatnik Family Foundation invites UNC-CH to provide nominations for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Chemistry. UNC may nominate up to three candidates—one each in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Chemistry. Below you will find the internal nomination procedure, award information, and eligibility requirements.

Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, October 3, 2022
Blavatnik Nomination Deadline: November 9, 2022
Important Information

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists strive for nominee equality and diversity, and strongly encourage the nomination of women and members of other historically underrepresented groups in science and engineering. In support of all scientists’ efforts to increase the diversity of their fields, and in recognition of the many professional service and outreach activities that scientists undertake, Blavatnik is requiring all nominees to submit a Professional Service and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement as part of their nomination materials. Details on this requirement can be found on the Nomination Materials and Instructions page.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists is focused on accomplishments during the independent career only. CVs must omit publications from the graduate and postdoctoral career, and recommendation letters must discuss the independent career only. Most finalists and laureates have held the rank of associate or full professor.
This is a laureate award to honor the accomplishments of young faculty. It does not provide funding for a project. Awards (three in total each year) are given to individuals, not institutions.

For more information on award finalists, laureates and evaluators, please see the lists of honorees and membership of the award’s Scientific Advisory Council.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, October 3, 2022.

Nomination statement: indicating the nominee’s disciplinary category and subcategories (up to two) selected from the online list and a rationale for nomination pertaining to the nominee’s independent faculty career. This should detail the nominee’s strong record of significant independent scientific contributions, early career success, and promise of sustained or accelerated progress in the future. (200-word maximum).

Nominee’s curriculum vitae. Please use the CV Format Example as a guide to the required elements. This program focuses on the independent faculty career. Please omit publications from graduate and postdoctoral career. Full text publications and patents need not be included in the internal nomination package; faculty can bold and provide hyperlinks to the publications and patents they wish to highlight in the CV.
Nominee’s research summary: Describe up to five of the nominee’s most significant scientific contributions and research accomplishments from their independent career. Include key results, impact on the nominee’s field of study, and the nominee’s specific role in the described work (especially where the nominee is involved in large collaborations). Exclude information contained in the CV (1,000-word maximum).
Up to four full-text Publications and/or Patents representing the nominee’s best work from their independent career. Links may be submitted for the internal application.
A Professional Service and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement (1-page maximum). Details on this requirement can be found on the Nomination Materials and Instructions page.
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and potential as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the nomination packet to ORD.

Names of two letter writers familiar with nominee’s scientific contributions who will provide letters of support. Letters of support must discuss the independent career only. It is strongly advised that both Letters of Support be prepared by individuals external to the nominating institution and that have not previously served in the capacity of immediate advisor to the nominee.

Award Information
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards: Now entering its tenth year, the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize and celebrate America’s most innovative and promising faculty-rank scientists and engineers. Each year, one nominee in each category is awarded $250,000 in unrestricted funding and honored at the Blavatnik National Awards ceremony in New York City as a Blavatnik National Awards Laureate. Additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists.

Program Description
The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize the United States’ most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. One Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, and additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists.

Click the link to see the list of disciplinary subcategories: http://blavatnikawards.org/awards/national-awards/disciplines/
Eligibility

The nominee must:

Have been born in or after 1981 (42 years of age or younger)
Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.).
Currently hold a tenured or tenure-track academic faculty position (or equivalent) at an invited institution in the United States.
Currently conduct research as a principal investigator in one of the disciplinary categories in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, or Chemistry.

Age Limit Exceptions
Age limit exceptions will be considered by the Blavatnik Family Foundation in exceptional circumstances upon a detailed written submission from the nominating institution received by the New York Academy of Sciences by Wednesday, October 26, 2022. For more information, please contact us at limited_submission@unc.edu as early as possible if you are interested and exceed the age limitation.

Returning Nominees
Non-winning nominees from prior Blavatnik Awards nomination cycles are eligible to be re-nominated by their institutions as one of their three nominees, provided they still meet all eligibility requirements.

Dual or Joint Appointments
For nominees holding a dual or joint appointment at more than one institution, the nominee must be employed by the nominating institution at least 50% full-time effort.
Review Criteria

Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

Quality: The extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous.
Impact: The extent to which the work addresses an important problem, advances scientific progress, and is influential in the nominee’s field, related fields, or beyond, and/or has the potential to benefit society.
Novelty: The extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, establishes a new field or considerably expands on an existing field, employs original methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question.
Promise: The nominee has potential for further significant contributions to science, and the research program will generate further impactful and novel discoveries.

Additional Information
Submissions: Institutional nominations must be submitted by the institution’s President (or equivalent), Provost, or their official designee. Self-nominations are not allowed.

Please refer to the Blavatnik National Awards Nomination Guidelines for full details on candidate eligibility and selection criteria.

Nomination Materials

Please do not hesitate to contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Internal Limited Submission Deadline: NCI Predoctoral Transition Award (F99/K00)
2022-09-01 17:00
The NCI plans to reissue the F99/K00 transitional training award for graduate students in the field of cancer research (see the attached flyer from FY20 as well as the Notice of Intent to republish the RFA linked here.). Last year’s RFA can also be found here. Please consider nominating your students if they fit the eligibility criteria. Only one proposal per institution is allowed so there will be an internal selection process to identify the best candidate.
The purpose of the award is to facilitate the transition of talented graduate students into successful cancer research postdoctoral appointments, and provide opportunities for career development activities relevant to their long-term career goals of becoming independent cancer researchers.
The F99/K00 award is meant to provide up to 6 years of support in two phases and is intended for individuals who require 1-2 years to complete their Ph.D. dissertation research training (F99 phase) before transitioning to mentored postdoctoral research training (K00 phase). Consequently, applicants are expected to propose an individualized research training plan for the next 1-2 years of dissertation research training and a plan for 3-4 years of mentored postdoctoral research and career development activities that will prepare them for independent cancer-focused research careers.
The applicant must have a baccalaureate degree and be currently enrolled as a graduate student in the third or fourth year of a mentored PhD or equivalent research degree program in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences. The applicant must be at the dissertation research stage of training at the time of award, and must show evidence of high academic performance in the sciences and commitment to a career as an independent cancer research scientist
Since this is a limited submission, the OoR will conduct the SOM review and coordinate the final review and selection with other schools that have nominated applicants.
Faculty mentors with primary appointments in the School of Dentistry, School of Pharmacy, or School of Public Health should direct their nominations to their School.
For faculty mentors in the SOM, the items below should be emailed to the Office of Research (oor_submissions@med.unc.edu) by Thursday, September 1, 2022.

Title Page including:

-Nominee name, department, PhD program, current year in the graduate program
-Mentor name, department
-Citizenship status or current Visa

Nomination letter from the primary mentor. This letter should confirm that the nominee will be at the dissertation research stage of training at the time of award, and must provide “evidence of high academic performance in the sciences and commitment to a career as an independent cancer research scientist” . The primary mentor must confirm his/her “successful track record of mentoring predoctoral students”.

Dissertation Aims / Summary (1 page) prepared by the nominee
NIH biosketch for the candidate (please address future plans and relevance to cancer in your personal statement)
NIH biosketch for the faculty mentor

UNC has had three students that have been selected for this program previously: Sarah Shelton / BME (2016) and Ning Cheng / Oral biology (2017) and Megan Agajanian / Pharmacology (2019).

More information including slides and recording of webinars from last year can be found here under the Resources tab at the end of the page.

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: Pathway to Stop Diabetes Award
2022-06-21 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
Pathway to Stop Diabetes Award
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Tuesday, June 21, 2022

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Full Application Deadline: August 1, 2022
Important Information
Number of applications per institution: One per category.
Award Information
Initiator Award (INI): Awards provide two distinct phases of research support: Phase 1 provides up to two years of support for mentored training at a maximum of $100,000 per year (including 10% indirect costs), Phase 2 provides up to five years of support for independent research at a maximum of $325,000 per year (including 30% indirect costs). Maximum combined support for Phase 1 and Phase 2 is $1,625,000.
Maximum Funding: Up to $100,000/year in Phase 1, Up to $325,000/year in Phase 2
Support: Project support & PI salary
Indirect Support: Up to 10% of directs in Phase 1, Up to 30% of directs in Phase 2
Project % Effort Required: 75-100% effort in Phase 1, 50-75% effort in Phase 2
Accelerator Award (ACE): Awards provide five years of research support at a maximum of $325,000 per year (including 30% indirect costs), for a total of $1,625,000.
Maximum Funding: $325,000/year
Support: Project support & PI salary
Indirect Support: Up to 30% of directs
Project % Effort Required: 25-50% effort

To Apply
Submit the following as attachments via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

Letter of Recommendation from Department Chair
PI’s NIH-formatted biosketch – co-PI biosketches may be included but are not required.
Project description + Award Category (INI or ACE) (up to 2-pages)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Program Overview
This call for nominations will prioritize translational applications that move knowledge and discovery gained from basic research to its eventual translation into patient and population benefit. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step towards the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease – and the pathway to this impact is clear. Our vision is to create a pathway to launch the next generation of trailblazers in diabetes research.

Pathway to Stop Diabetes has a simple, yet revolutionary goal: to find scientists at the peak of their creativity and provide them with the flexibility and resources they need on the road to breakthrough discoveries. We attract and retain brilliant scientists in diabetes. Our three areas of focus—awarding research grants, providing access to scientific and career mentoring from leading diabetes researchers, and creating a diabetes think tank—are each key components of a unique formula to cultivate the next generation of leaders, whose discoveries will stop diabetes and all of its burdens once and for all.

To accelerate the research needed to stop this deadly disease, the American Diabetes Association’s bold transformational initiative, Pathway to Stop Diabetes, is inspiring a new generation of diabetes researchers. Pathway provides crucial support to individuals focusing on innovative ideas and transformational approaches that will lead to ground-breaking discoveries in diabetes prevention, management and cures. We are building a human pathway to tackle the toughest questions in diabetes by driving research innovations through 1:1 mentorship and the creation of a brain trust in diabetes.

Initiator Award (INI): This two-phased award is designed to support the transition of scientists from mentored training to independent research faculty.

Accelerator Award (ACE): This award is designed to support exceptional, independent early-career researchers who have distinguished themselves as promising investigators and are in the beginning stages of establishing successful, sustainable diabetes research programs.

Eligibility
Initiator Award (INI): Eligible applicants must currently be in research training positions (post-doctoral fellow, research fellowship) and have no more than seven years of research training following terminal doctoral degree. Applicants cannot concurrently hold an NIH K99/R00 grant. Candidates must be identified through institutional nomination; applications will be accepted only from individuals with the appropriate institution support.
Applicant: Postdoctoral Fellow
Award Term: Up to 7 years
Citizenship: Authorized to work in U.S. or U.S. possessions

Accelerator Award (ACE): Awards are available to early-career diabetes investigators proposing innovative and ambitious diabetes-related research programs. Applicants must hold faculty positions and have demonstrated independent productivity in diabetes research. Applicants may currently hold independent NIH funding (K, U or R awards, including an initial R01/U01) but must not have applied for (regardless of outcome), or received, an R01/U01 renewal or a second R01/U01 award. Candidates must be identified through institutional nomination; applications will be accepted only from individuals with the appropriate institution support.
Applicant: Early Career Faculty
Award Term: Up to 5 years
Citizenship: Authorized to work in U.S. or U.S. possessions

Review Criteria
The internal review criteria will mirror the guidelines as described within the full program announcement alongside the standard NIH criteria below.
Proposal’s responsiveness to program criteria: How well the proposal addresses the program’s stated goals? How well does the nominee meet the foundation’s criteria?
Presentation of the proposal: Is the proposal well-written and easily understood? Does it anticipate, and address potential areas of weakness?
Nominee: Address the qualifications and research experience of the nominee. What is their stature in the academic community? Are they well-qualified based on the criteria? Share what is most significant (based on the foundation’s criteria) about the nominee’s publication experience, funding history, how they have made a significant contribution to science/scholarship?
Impact of the proposal and potential benefit to the university: Will the proposal make a significant impact on the academic field involved? To society? Will it advance the state-of-the-art in its field? How will the university community benefit if the proposal were funded?
Additional Information
Complete Program Announcement

For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
2022-05-23 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, May 23, 2022

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, May 23, 2022
NSF Full Proposal Deadline: July 13, 2022
Important Information

Number of Applications per Institution: There is no limit on the number of PFI-TT proposals an organization may submit to a deadline of this solicitation. However, an organization may not submit more than one (1) new or resubmitted PFI-RP proposal to a deadline of this solicitation.
WEBINARS: Webinars will be held to answer questions about the solicitation. Registration will be available on the NSF Partnerships for Innovation website (https://www.nsf.gov/PFI). Potential proposers and their partners are encouraged to attend.

Award Information
PFI-RP projects will be funded for up to $550,000 for 36 months. Approximately 10-15 awards are anticipated. Please carefully review the current NSF solicitation as there are significant programmatic changes since the prior PFI call.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, May 23, 2022.

PI/ Team members NSF-formatted biosketch
Project Summary + Project Track Confirmation + Industrial Partner (four-page maximum)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD

Program Description
The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.
PFI has five broad goals:

Identifying and supporting NSF-sponsored research and technologies that have the potential for accelerated commercialization;
Supporting prior or current NSF-sponsored investigators, institutions of higher education, and non-profit organizations that partner with an institution of higher education in undertaking proof-of-concept work, including the development of technology prototypes that are derived from NSF-sponsored research and have potential market value;
Promoting sustainable partnerships between NSF-funded institutions, industry, and other organizations within academia and the private sector with the purpose of accelerating the transfer of technology;
Developing multi-disciplinary innovation ecosystems which involve and are responsive to the specific needs of academia and industry;
Providing professional development, mentoring, and advice in entrepreneurship, project management, and technology and business development to innovators.

The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct applied research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact. In the absence of such synergistic partnership, the project’s likelihood for success would be minimal. PFI-RP proposals require a minimum of one (1) Industrial Partner. This partner (i.e., either a for-profit or not- for-profit entity that fulfills the minimum requirement) must be U.S.-based and have an established record of commercial revenues that include sales, services, or licensing.
The intended outcome of the track is:

The commercialization of new intellectual property derived from NSF-funded research outputs;
The creation of new or broader collaborations with industry (including increased corporate sponsored research);
The licensing of NSF-funded research outputs to third party corporations or to start-up companies funded by a PFI team; and d) the training of future innovation and entrepreneurship leaders.

Eligibility
NSF Lineage Requirement: All proposals submitted to the PFI program must meet a lineage requirement under one of the following two paths: (1) NSF-supported research results, or (2) NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps Teams Program.

NSF-supported research results in all fields of science and engineering: Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have had an NSF award that ended no more than seven (7) years prior to the full proposal deadline date or be a current NSF award recipient. The proposed technology development project must be derived from the research results and/or discoveries from this underlying NSF award.

OR

NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps TeamsProgram. The Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have been a member of an award under the NSF I-Corps Teams Program (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/teams.jsp). The PI or co-PI must have fully completed the training provided under the I-Corps Team award within the past four (4) years. The customer discovery activities performed under the NSF-funded I-Corps award must be based on the technology that is proposed to be translated within the PFI proposal.

OBJECTIVES NOT RESPONSIVE TO THIS SOLICITATION
Proposals that pursue the following activities are not responsive to this solicitation and may be returned without review: basic research projects that do not involve technology translation and development activity; clinical trials, clinical efficacy or safety studies, development or validation of pre-clinical or clinical-stage drug candidates, medical devices or information technologies, or activities performed for regulatory purposes; commercial activities such as marketing, sales, corporate or business development, fundraising, intellectual property or regulatory work; straightforward engineering work; incremental development of existing products; or evolutionary modifications to broaden the scope of existing products or applications.

Internal Review Criteria
All PFI proposals must address the following five elements. Please view the NSF solicitation for additional details.

Technology Development
Demonstration of Commercialization Potential
Partnerships
Education and Leadership Development in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Broadening Participation

Additional Information
Full solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19506/nsf19506.htm
Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: NSF IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED)
2022-05-18 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
NSF IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED)
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Wednesday, May 18, 2022

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates

UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Wednesday, May 18, 2022
NSF Full Proposal Deadline: July 18, 2022
Important Information

Number of Applications per Institution: An eligible institution may submit a maximum of two proposals (e.g. 2 RED Innovation Track or 1 RED A&I Track and 1 RED Two-year Track).
Award Information
2-3 RED Innovation awards are anticipated; the budget for RED Innovation proposals is between $1,000,00-$2,000,000 for a duration of up to 5 years for a single institution or between $1,500,000-$3,000,000 for up to 5 years for department-level collaborations across multiple institutions. 2 – 3 RED A&I awards are anticipated; the budget for RED A&I proposals has a maximum of $1,000,000 for a duration of up to 5 years. 2-3 RED Two-Year awards are anticipated; the budget for RED Two-Year proposals is between $1,000,000-$2,000,000 for a duration of up to 5 years for collaborations across multiple two-year institutions.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

PI/ Team members NSF-formatted biosketch
Project Summary + Project Track Confirmation (four-page maximum)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD

Program Overview

While previous efforts have made pedagogical changes to the way engineers and engineering technologists are educated, RED projects must consider the cultural, organizational, structural, and pedagogical changes needed to transform the department to one in which students are engaged, develop their technical and professional skills, and establish identities as professional engineers or technologists. In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the need to create and support an innovative and inclusive engineering profession for the 21st Century. Doing so requires understanding of how engineers are formed and how to inculcate them with the technical and professional skills needed to solve the complex problems facing society. While some innovation has been adopted in the freshman and senior years, the middle two years remain largely untouched [4]. Educating the next generation requires that coherent technical and professional threads be developed and woven across all four years. The RED program is focusing on the middle two years because of the lack of attention this period has received in the past. Further, the RED program focuses on structural and cultural change because past attempts have shown that curricular and pedagogical change does not take hold if underlying structures remain the same. In addition, RED funding has demonstrated the need to engage both internal and external stakeholders to build shared vision in departmental change projects [5,6]. RED projects should create a seamless educational experience for students in their disciplinary degree programs, bridging the foundational science and engineering courses and capstone projects. The result will be students who are prepared to be professionals in their chosen paths after graduation. Proposals from IHEs with documented success in awarding degrees to students from groups underrepresented in engineering (such as minority-serving institutions, women’s colleges, IHEs primarily serving persons with disabilities) are strongly encouraged.

Strategies should be developed with impact on the student as the focus. Proposed efforts must be grounded in sound educational theory and work to enable a continuous progression of professional formation through the four-year experience. Efforts should address 21st Century T-shaped skills (i.e., cross-disciplinary breadth), and they should be aligned with stakeholder expectations.

Specific activities supported by the RED solicitation may include, but are not limited to:

Establishing convergent technical and professional threads that must be woven across the four years, especially in core technical courses of the middle two years, in internship opportunities in the private and public sectors, and in research opportunities with faculty;
Exploring strategies for institutional, systemic, and cultural change, including new approaches to faculty governance or department structures and to restructuring faculty incentive or reward systems;
Exploring collaborative arrangements with industry and other stakeholders who are mutually interested in developing the best possible professional formation environment and opportunities for students;
Exploring strategies to bridge the engineering education research-to-practice gap, primarily through faculty development and adoption of best practices in the professional formation of engineers; and
Exploring revolutionary means of recruiting and retaining students and faculty reflective of the modern and swiftly changing demographics of the United States.
Exploring new modes of delivering content (or facilitating learning) that respond to the learning needs of a diverse student body, making engineering more accessible.

RED Innovation track: The RED Innovation track supports projects that involve radically, suddenly, or completely new approaches and action; producing fundamental, structural change; and that go outside of or beyond existing norms and principles. Innovations in similar departments across multiple institutions is particularly encouraged. This track has two goals:

Generate new knowledge on best practices for meaningfully and thoughtfully incorporating into the middle two years at four-year institutions and technical core of the engineering curriculum oft-neglected “professional skills” (i.e. 21st Century skills, design, communication, teamwork, historical and contemporary social context, lifelong learning, and ethics). Changes in the middle two years need to be integrated with freshman and senior experiences in order to form an unbroken sequenced thread through the curriculum so that the process of professional formation deepens and strengthens as students move through engineering programs.
Generate new knowledge on how to transform the departmental cultures to be environments that are inclusive, innovative, equitable and supportive of faculty, faculty development to support cultural change, and build new department structures and cultures through innovative practices and policies that support significant holistic professional formation.

RED A&I Track: The RED A&I track support projects that use evidence-based and evidence-generating change strategy approaches and actions that are adapted to the local context. The goal of this track is to:

Generate new knowledge related to the adaptation of proven change strategies and actions in a new context.

This track encourages proposals from two-year or four-year institutions that are interested in adopting change strategies at a single institution.
RED Two-Year Track: The RED Two-Year track supports projects that involve radically new approaches among multiple two-year institutions that result in structural changes beyond existing norms and principles. The goal of this track is to:

Generate new knowledge on best practices for preparing engineers and technologists for future professions and integrating professional skills into the curriculum at two-year institutions through supporting partnerships. The focus is expected to be on students who would transfer to accredited four-year engineering or engineering-technology institutions.

Eligibility

Who May Serve as PI: For all tracks, the Principal Investigator must be a department chair/head (or equivalent) to provide leadership for the change process. For the RED Two-Year Track, the PI must be at a two-year institution. Additionally, there must be a RED team that includes (at a minimum) an expert in engineering education research who can provide guidance on evidence-based practices, and an organizational change expert who can advise on strategies for developing a culture of change and on strategies for creating meaningful collective ownership of the effort among faculty, students, and staff. The engineering education and organizational change experts may be at different institutions from the proposing institution. Funding for these experts at other institutions may be supported as consultants, through a subaward, or through a separately submitted collaborative proposal.
Review Criteria
The internal review criteria will mirror the guidelines as described within the program solicitation.
Additional Information
Full solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22587/nsf22587.htm
Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: Pew Biomedical Scholars 2023
2022-03-21 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
Pew Biomedical Scholars 2023
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, March 21, 2022

Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday, March 21, 2022
Institutional Nomination Deadline: May 18, 2022
Pew Biomedical Scholars Application Deadline: September 8, 2022
Important Information

One nomination will be invited from each of the participating institutions.
Investigator effort: It is expected that Pew scholars will spend at least 80 percent of their time in work or activities related to the accomplishment of their overall research goals (which are not restricted to the specific aims proposed for this award). However, Pew provides flexible support to the general research aims of the scholar and does not require effort reporting.

Award Information

An award of $75,000 per year for four years will be provided to the sponsoring institution for use by the scholar, subject to annual review of the scholar’s progress. Grant agreements will be issued in August of the award year. The awarded funds may be used at the discretion of the Pew scholar, for personnel, equipment, supplies, or travel directly related to the scholar’s research and as to best advance his or her research and career.

The amount of the award that may be used for the principal investigator’s salary is limited to $12,500 per year (including benefits) or $50,000 over the duration of the grant. There are no limits on student or postdoctoral salaries.
Not more than 8 percent ($24,000) of the total award value may be allocated for facilities and administration (F&A) charges or indirect costs (IDCs).
Should the funds not be immediately required, they may be accumulated and carried over through the four years of the grant period and, with written approval of the program office, the grant may receive a no-cost extension for one additional (fifth) year (without additional funds).
Subawards are allowed.

To Apply
Submit the following as attachments via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, March 21, 2022.

PI’s full CV, including publications and research support
Project Summary (two-page maximum)
Letter of nomination from department chair
List of three individuals to provide external letters of recommendation: the candidate’s thesis advisor, postdoctoral advisor, and a scientific reference from an individual external to UNC who is not a collaborator or mentor. For each recommender, include titles, institutional affiliations, and a two-three sentence overview of their area of expertise.
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel to evaluate nominees.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Program Overview
The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level.

Based on their performance during their education and training, ideal candidates should demonstrate outstanding promise as contributors in science relevant to human health. This program does not fund clinical trials research. Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and pioneering approaches to basic, translational, and applied biomedical research. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles but who bring in concepts and theories from more diverse fields are encouraged to apply.

Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. Selection of the successful candidates will be based on a detailed description of the work that the applicant proposes to undertake, evaluations of the candidate’s performance, and notable past accomplishments, including honors, awards, and publications. In evaluating the candidates, the National Advisory Committee gives considerable weight to evidence that the candidate is a successful independent investigator and has the skill set needed to carry out their high-impact proposal.

Funding from the NIH, other government sources, and project grants from nonprofit associations do not pose a conflict with the Pew Scholars’ program.
Eligibility

Candidates must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:

Hold a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine, or a related field.
As of Sept. 8, 2022, hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor. (Appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible).
Must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 13, 2018, whether or not such an appointment was on a tenure track. Time spent in clinical internships, residencies, in work toward board certification, or on parental leave does not count as part of this four-year limit.
May apply to the program a maximum of two times. All applicants must be nominated by their institution and must complete the 2023 online application.
If applicants have appointments at more than one eligible nominating institution or affiliate, they may not reapply in a subsequent year from a different nominating entity.
May not be nominated for the Pew Scholars Program and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research in the same year.

Additional Information
Pew Biomedical Scholars Program Announcement
Directory of Scholars
Prior UNC Scholars

For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bridge Funding (Deadline Extended)
2022-02-01 17:00
https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/research/funding/#bridge
Please visit the link above for more information.

Internal Limited Submission Deadline: NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award
2021-09-15 17:00
The NIEHS has re-issued an RFA (RFA-ES-21-001) for the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES). The award uses the R01 mechanism and is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on people’s health.
For most applications, the budget for direct costs are limited to $250,000/year and an additional $250,000 career enhancement budget that will be distributed over the 5-year project period (see RFA for details). 5-6 awards are anticipated.
This is a limited award application, and only one candidate from the School of Medicine can apply (Each School or College at UNC is allowed one applicant).
The Dean’s Office will conduct a review of all SOM nominated candidates to select who will be the SOM applicant. Applicants should electronically submit a short (up to a page) description of their proposed research and an NIH biosketch (with grant support and full publication list) to Trisha Dant (oor_submissions@med.unc.edu) by Wednesday, September 15, 2021. This will give the review committee time to select the candidate before full proposal is due on February 24, 2022.
Previous recipients from UNC are: Samir Kelada (2015), Kun Lu (2015), Rebecca Fry (2010).

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Program
2021-08-16 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Program
Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday, August 16, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
ORD Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday, August 16, 2021
Johnson and Johnson Submission Deadline: TBD *The 2022 Johnson & Johnson solicitation will be available soon. Official guidelines may vary, and any changes will be reflected in LAMSeS.
Important Information
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: One applicant per STEM2D discipline; six applicants in total.

To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, August 16, 2021.

Department head letter of recommendation (addressed to Johnson and Johnson)
Designate which field for which you are applying (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing, or Design)
1,000 words (plus one page of images) detailing your proposed area of research (Uploaded as PDF)
Nominee’s CV (limit to 3 pages font size 11) including a list of publications, presentations, abstracts, current financial support already obtained, other folio work and two references
Brief outline of your budget for proposed research
Names of three internal (to UNC) faculty who could speak knowledgeably about your research as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review. Please confirm the availability of each potential reviewer prior to your submission.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the application packet to ORD

Program Description
The Johnson & Johnson Scholars Award Program aims to fuel development of female STEM2D leaders and feed the STEM2D talent pipeline by awarding and sponsoring women at critical points in their careers, in each of the STEM2D disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design.

The awards will fund one woman per STEM2D discipline who has completed her advanced degree, who is working as an assistant professor (or global equivalent faculty position) and who is not yet tenured at an accredited university, institution or design school. The goal is to fuel the research passion of the awarded women and inspire career paths in their respective STEM2D fields. Johnson & Johnson is looking to identify global women leading in both their research fields and leading as mentors, to be a vision for girls and other women in STEM2D.

By offering these scholarships, Johnson & Johnson hopes to play an influential role in STEM2D breakthroughs in the future.
The Scholars Award is a three-year award in the gross amount of $150,000, which will be paid to the University (the “Recipient”) for the benefit of the Johnson & Johnson Scholar and her research, with the understanding that the Recipient will administer the funds. The Scholars Award will be paid in three (3) installments of U.S. $50,000 per year of the three-year scholarship period, payable in 2022, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the program’s Agreement.
Award Information

Funding Amount: $150,000. The Scholars Award will be paid in three (3) installments of $50,000 per year of the three-year scholarship period.

Eligibility
You must be a woman working in the field(s) of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Manufacturing and Design (STEM2D).

You must be an assistant female professor or global equivalent faculty position at the time of application at an accredited academic university, institution or design school.

The female scholar should have a minimum degree for the appropriate field:

Science; M.D., Ph.D.
Technology; Ph.D.
Engineering; Ph.D.
Math; M.S., Ph.D.
Manufacturing; Ph.D.
Design; M.A., M.S., MDes, MArch, MFA, MLA, Ph.D.

Review Criteria
Judges will use the following criteria to evaluate the applications:

Scientific/technical expertise exhibited
Novelty/innovation of the research
Potential impact of the research
Feasibility of the research

Additional Information

To view the full solicitation please click on the link below.
https://www.jnj.com/wistem2d-university-scholars

Frequently asked Questions: https://www.jnj.com/wistem2d/faq

For questions, email: Limited_Submission@unc.edu

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Awards
2021-08-16 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Awards
Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday, August 16, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday, August 16, 2021
Warren Alpert Foundation Deadline: November 1, 2021
Important Information

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: One.
Please note: The final application will be submitted via the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) per the Foundation’s submission requirement.

To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

With this application you must include the following and should be no more than 5 single spaced pages, ½ inch margins and 11pt or greater font. The 5 pages does not include the bibliography, cv, budget and 3 letters of recommendation.

Title
Summary of the research
Introduction, importance of the project, methods and likely presentation results.
One-half page on the background of the applicant and the special characteristics that he/she has for implementing the project and career plan.
Bibliography
A CV in NIH format
A budget in G.300 R&R Format (aka: SF 424 R&R Budget). Please be certain to include budget justification
Three letters of recommendation are preferred. If letters are not prepared prior to the internal deadline, please provide the names of three referees.
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about your research as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest.

Please notify all potential internal reviewers and check their availability before submitting the application packet to ORD.

Award Information
Funding Amount: The medical school, research institute or academic hospital appointing the scholar will be awarded $200,000 annually for two years to cover their salary, lab costs, and related expenses. Under certain circumstances, the awardee may transfer funding to support their faculty position. Indirect cost of up to 15% of direct costs, may be included in the $200,000. All applicants are required to provide 75% effort.
Program Description
These awards are given as a transitional post-doctoral award for recipients to enable their advance to a full-time faculty member at the Assistant Professor level or higher and/or to assist in the development of a laboratory program that would lead to independent funding. Scholars will be chosen on the basis of the success in their prior post-doctoral work as well as in the importance and creativity of their continued work. The Foundation will select recipients for awards using an objective and nondiscriminatory selection process based upon criteria including a review of each applicant’s scholastic achievements, academic records, scientific proposal and submitted letters of recommendation.
Eligibility
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree (or both) and who have completed a minimum of three years of a post-doctoral fellowship by July 1, 2021, in the field of neurosciences and hold a post-doctoral research position at a United States medical school, research institute or academic hospital.
Additional Information
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Awards Review Board:

H. Robert Horvitz, PhD
Lennart Mucke, MD
Rachel Wilson, PhD
Karen Furie, MD
Joseph B. Martin, MD, PhD
Fred J. Schiffman, MD
Robert H. Brown, Jr.- D.Phil., M.D.
Barbara McNeil, MD, PhD

Warren Alpert Foundation Solicitation: https://www.warrenalpertfoundation.org/awards/
Please email Limited_Submission@unc.edu with questions.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: National Institute of Health Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1)
2021-08-09 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
National Institute of Health
Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1)
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, August 9, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, August 9, 2021
LOI Due Date: 30 days prior to application deadline
NIH Application Deadline: January 27, 2021
Important Information
Number of Applications per Institution: Only one application per institution is allowed per review round.

Consultation with relevant IC staff at least 10 weeks prior to the application due date is strongly encouraged.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, August 9, 2021.

PI/Proposed team member’s CV/NIH Biosketch (five-page maximum)
Project Summary (four-page maximum, as an attachment) including a list of potential/committed collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Written confirmation that the PI team has spoken with an NIGMS Program Official who has agreed to accept the proposal under the RM1 mechanism (please see additional program information below for more details)
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Program Overview
Purpose: Many research questions in biomedical science can be pursued by single investigators and their close collaborators and are adequately supported by individual and multiple PD/PI research grants. However, the scope of some scientific problems is beyond the capabilities of a small group of investigators. Such complex and challenging research questions benefit from the integrated efforts of teams of research laboratories employing complementary approaches and having multiple areas of intellectual and technical expertise, and the necessary resources to accomplish a unified scientific goal. Such team-based efforts can produce convergent, lasting scientific benefits with high impact, such as the creation of new disciplines of study, resolution of long standing or intractable problems, or definition of new areas that challenge current paradigms. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages Collaborative Program Grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct research to address complex and challenging biomedical problems, important for the mission of NIGMS, through deeply integrated, multidisciplinary research teams. The Collaborative Program Grant is designed to support research in which funding a team of interdependent investigators offers significant advantages over support of individual research project grants. Applications should address critical issues and be sufficiently challenging, ambitious, and innovative that objectives could not be achieved by individual investigators.

Background: Recent reports (e.g., enhancing the effectiveness of team science) have evaluated the benefits of a team science approach to scientific inquiry, and the need to create flexible funding opportunities that enable interdisciplinary research teams to accomplish goals that could not be achieved individually. The Collaborative Program Grant draws on our past experience and is designed to improve support for interdisciplinary collaborative research across different scientific domains. We also anticipate that these grants will enhance the diversity and interdisciplinarity of participating investigators and provide opportunities to encourage early-stage investigators (ESIs) to engage in team science projects. Successful Collaborative Program Grant applications will bring together scientists to apply complementary approaches to work on an important and well-defined problem. Applications may address any area of science within the NIGMS mission, which is to support basic research that increases understanding of biological processes at a range of levels, from molecules and cells, to tissues, whole organisms, and populations. NIGMS also supports research in a limited number of clinical areas that affect multiple organ systems. Truly new interdisciplinary ideas for approaching significant biological problems are encouraged. Applications that bridge the research interests of more than one NIGMS division are also encouraged but must remain within the scope of the NIGMS mission. Research with the overall goal to gain knowledge about a specific organ or organ system, or the pathophysiology, treatment, or cure of a specific disease or condition will, in most cases, be more appropriate for another Institute or Center.
Eligibility

Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique DUNS number or NIH IPF number) is allowed per review round. The same or a similar topic may be submitted for subsequent review rounds involving the same or a similar team, but must be presented as a New application, not a Resubmission.
Applications that are not considered in the NIGMS mission will not be reviewed. Given that only one application is permitted per institution per review cycle, it may be important to contact NIGMS staff before committing to any particular team and its topic area.
The application is required to be submitted as a multiple PD/PI application, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 PDs/PIs, all of whom must have an appointment at a domestic institution. Scientists employed solely by foreign institutions may not serve as one of the PD(s)/PIs of the multiple PD/PI team, although they may be included in the application as collaborators/co-investigators, consultants or other significant contributors.

Award Information
Award Budget: While applications may request research program budgets of up to $1.5 million direct costs per year, it is anticipated that most awards will be between $700,000-$900,000 direct costs. Annual inflationary increases are not allowed. The requested budget should be consistent with the number of PDs/PIs and the complexity and needs of the proposed program. An additional $250,000 direct costs per year may be requested for optional developmental funds to support the addition of ESIs to the program in YRS 2-5.
Award Project Period: Applications may request up to five years of support.
Additional Information
Prior Consultation with IC staff: NIGMS intends to fund a limited number of applications. Therefore, consultation with relevant staff at least 10 weeks prior to the application due date is strongly encouraged. Once applicants have identified overall program objectives and PD/PI participants, NIGMS staff may be able to advise applicants whether the proposed research strategy meets the goals and mission of the Institute, whether it addresses one or more high priority research areas, and whether it is appropriate for a Collaborative team program. A collaborative program that is closely related to the goal of a PD/PI’s existing NIGMS-funded research might require that funding be relinquished to avoid overlap. Institute staff will not evaluate the technical and scientific merit of the proposed program in advance; technical and scientific merit will be determined during peer review using the review criteria indicated in this FOA. During the consultation phase, if the proposed research strategy does not meet NIGMS’ programmatic needs, or is not appropriate as a Collaborative Program Grant, applicants will be encouraged to consider other funding opportunities.
Additionally, ORD has compiled notes from prior NIH RM1 webinars that we will make available to interested teams. Please contact Limited_Submission@unc.edu to request these materials.

Full Solicitation: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-103.html

For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Limited Submission Internal Award Deadline: The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program
2021-08-02 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, August 2, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, August 2, 2021
Foundation LOI Deadline: September 8, 2021
Foundation Deadline: October 20, 2021
Important Information
Number of Applications per Institution: One
Award Information
Scholars can receive up to $110,000 per year for a maximum of five years. Recipients of the Award in Pain can be granted $50,000 per year for up to three years. Rita Allen Foundation Scholar grant funds may only be used for direct project expenses, including up to 50 percent of the Scholar’s compensation.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, August 2, 2021.

A letter of nomination from a department chair, school dean (if there are no departments within a school), or center/institute director (maximum 2 pages), addressing:

What is innovative and high-risk about the applicant’s research?
What is significant/impactful about the applicant’s published/yet-to-be published work?
Are there specialized facilities and resources available to the applicant and their lab?

A summary for the research proposed (2 pages). The program calls for strong proposals that incorporate creative, innovative approaches that contribute to biomedical science in their areas of interest.
Separate page(s) can be included for references, if applicable.
Curriculum vitae with a full list of publications and a list of current and pending funding.
Names (alongside contact information) of three experts, internal to UNC, who could speak knowledgeably about your research as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review:

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the application to ORD.

The names and titles of five potential letter of recommendation writers

The list must include at least two external individuals who are familiar with the nominee’s work. For each, include a two to three sentence overview of their area of expertise.

Program Description
The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program funds basic biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology and neuroscience. The program embraces innovative research with above-average risk and groundbreaking possibilities. The Foundation funds basic biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology and neuroscience. Rita Allen Foundation Scholars are distinguished by their bold approaches to basic scientific questions that address problems of global concern, as well as their potential for learning, leadership and collaboration. The program embraces innovative research with above-average risk and groundbreaking possibilities.
Eligibility
To be eligible for a Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award, candidates must have completed their training and provided persuasive evidence of distinguished achievement or extraordinary promise in research in one of the relevant fields (cancer, immunology, neuroscience. or pain). United States citizenship is not a requirement; however, awardees must be legally employed at the time of application at a U.S. degree-granting or research institution that is an invited participant in the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Program.
Institutions should consider the following when considering whom to nominate for the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program:

Candidates should be independent investigators in the early stages of their careers and research.
The caliber of early-stage investigators suggests nominees would be appointed to tenure-track positions at their respective institutions.
It is preferable that candidates be in the first three years of their tenure track. (This is taken into consideration in the rating of applications by the Scientific Advisory Committee.)
A senior postdoc should not be a candidate; wait until s/he is in a tenure-track position, as described.
Associate professors should not be candidates.
Candidates must have received committed startup funds from their respective institutions.
Candidates must have lab space from their institutions.

Rita Allen Foundation Scholars may not accept an award from the Beckman Young Investigator Program, Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, Searle Scholars Program, or Vallee Scholars Program that would take effect beginning in year one of the RAF award. Rita Allen Scholars may apply for awards from these organizations that would take effect beginning in year two of the RAF award. Other sources of funding also may influence selection.
Internal Review Criteria
The Internal Review criteria will reflect the Rita Allen Foundation’s general criteria that is stated within this internal solicitation.
Additional Information
UNC Recipients: Sarah Linnstaedt (2020) (Anesthesiology); Bo Li (2016) (Chemistry); Greg Scherrer (2014) (Cell Biology and Physiology); (Ian Davis) (2008) (Genetics, Pediatrics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center); Mark Zylka (2007) (Cell Biology and Physiology, Neuroscience Center)
Frequently Asked Questions: https://ritaallen.org/scholars/#faq-list
Past Recipients: https://ritaallen.org/all-scholars/
Review Committee: https://ritaallen.org/about/#scientific-advisory-committee
Rita Allen Website: https://ritaallen.org/scholars/
Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Yang Biomedical Scholars Seminar
2021-07-29 13:30 - 14:30
Please join us for a virtual seminar celebrating the outstanding recipients of the 2020-21 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Awards. These annual awards highlight the accomplishments of recently tenured SOM faculty that are recognized for their innovative contributions to research in their fields.
The seminar will be held on Thursday, July 29, 2021 from 1:30pm-2:30pm via Zoom.
More information about the event and access to the zoom link can be found on the website linked here. Please reach out to Trisha Dant (dant@med.unc.edu) should you have any questions.

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: The Searle Scholars Program
2021-07-26 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
The Searle Scholars Program
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, July 26, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, July 26, 2021
Foundation Deadline: September 30, 2021
Important Information
Number of Applications per Institution: Two
Award Information
Grants are set at $300,000 for a three-year period with $100,000 payable in the first year and equal sums payable in the second and third years and are subject to the receipt of acceptable progress reports. Generally, fifteen new awards are granted annually and are activated on July 1 of the year of the competition.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, July 26, 2021.

A letter of nomination from a department chair, school dean (if there are no departments within a school), or center/institute director (maximum 2 pages), addressing:

What is innovative and high-risk about the applicant’s research?
What is significant/impactful about the applicant’s published/yet-to-be published work?
Are there specialized facilities and resources available to the applicant and their lab?

A summary for the research proposed (2 pages).

The program calls for strong proposals that incorporate creative, innovative approaches that contribute to biomedical science in their areas of interest.

Separate page(s) can be included for references, if applicable.
Curriculum vitae with a full list of publications and a list of current and pending funding.
Names (alongside contact information) of three experts, internal to UNC, who could speak knowledgeably about your research as part of an internal review panel, in the event of an internal review:

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the application to ORD.

The names and titles of five potential letter of recommendation writers

The list must include at least two external individuals who are familiar with the nominee’s work. For each, include a two to three sentence overview of their area of expertise.

Eligibility
Applicants should have begun their appointment as an independent investigator at the assistant professor level on or after July 1, 2020. The appointment must be their first tenure-track position (or its nearest equivalent) at an invited institution.

Institutions which do not have tenure-track appointments should consult with the Scientific Director of the Program regarding eligibility of selected applicants PRIOR to nominating such individuals.

The Searle Scholars Program does not ordinarily support purely clinical research but has supported research programs that include both clinical and basic components. Potential applicants who are unsure if their research is appropriate for our Program are encouraged to examine the research interests of present and former Searle Scholars on this website.

Applicants who were nominated for awards in the previous competition year but were not awarded may still meet the eligibility criteria for the current competition. Institutions should consult with the Scientific Director of the Program regarding renomination of such individuals.
Program Description
The Searle Scholars Program Scientific Advisory Board is primarily interested in the potential of applicants to make innovative and high-impact contributions to research over an extended period of time. Applicants for the 2022 competition (awards which will be activated on July 1, 2022) are expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. The purpose of this program is to support research of outstanding faculty who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level.
Internal Review Criteria
The Internal Review criteria will reflect the Searle Foundation’s general criteria that is stated within this internal solicitation.
Additional Information
UNC Recipients: Wesley Legant (2019) (Biomedical Engineering/Pharmacology);
Rob McGinty (2017) (Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chemical Biology, and Medicinal Chemistry);
Mark Zylka (2007) (Cell Biology and Physiology, Neuroscience Center);
Brian Kuhlman (2004) (Biochemistry and Biophysics)

FAQs: https://www.searlescholars.net/competition/faqs
Past Recipients: https://www.searlescholars.net/scholarships/latest
Review Committee: https://www.searlescholars.net/advisory-board
Searle Scholars Website: https://www.searlescholars.net/competition/

Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

COVID-19 Supplemental Funding Application Deadline
2021-07-19 17:00
The School of Medicine Office of Research would like to support SOM faculty who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 by soliciting applications for supplemental funding of up to $20K per faculty investigator to support their research programs.
Please review the RFA linked here for more information about eligibility, use of the funds and application process.
All applications must be submitted by July 19, 2021.

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: National Institute of Health NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research (P30 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
2021-07-05 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
National Institute of Health
NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research
(P30 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, July 5, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
ORD Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, July 5, 2021
NIH Full Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2021
Important Information
Number of Applications per Institution: Only one application per institution is allowed.
To Apply
Submit the following via LAMSeS by 11:59PM, Monday, July 5, 2021.

PI/Proposed team member’s CV/NIH Biosketch (five-page maximum)
Project Summary (two-page maximum)
List of potential/committed collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Award Information

Award Budget: Institutions may request direct costs of up to $2,000,000 over a five-year period in support of a Core Grant to institutions having 8 to 19 eligible grants. Institutions having 20 or more eligible grants may request direct costs of up to $2,500,000 over a five-year period.

Award Project Period: The maximum project period is 5 years.
Program Overview

The NEI Center Core Grant combines three or more Resource and/or Service Cores for a group of R01 investigators to enhance their research, consolidate resources, avoid duplication of efforts, and/or contribute to cost effectiveness by providing a service with lower costs or higher quality than could be attempted for independent projects by several individual Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD(s)/PI(s)). Shared resources and facilities that are accessible to a group of independently funded investigators lead to greater productivity for the separate projects and can provide instrumentation and facilities that are too costly to be maintained by an individual investigator. The design and purpose of each Center Core may vary in how it serves its users. This program is designed to enhance an institution’s environment and capability to conduct vision research and to facilitate collaborative studies of the visual system and its disorders.

A NEI Center Core Grant should increase the productivity and impact of research in eligible projects of the Core users, and should create a collaborative environment to increase scientific interactions. A strong research base of funded projects is an eligibility requirement and a major factor in obtaining an NEI Center Core Grant award.

NEI-supported Center Cores should consist of discrete units or Cores, each devoted to a specific activity that would be impractical or less efficient to support on an individual research project grant. The purpose of each Core is to support a resource or service that enhances or facilitates the research efforts of a group of independent investigators, each having NEI funding. Cores may involve the purchase and maintenance of shared instruments. Sharing of NEI Center Core Grant resources and services with other NIH-funded collaborators and with investigators new to vision research is encouraged.
The Administrative Core: supports the overall management of the Center Core which includes an organizational structure sufficient to coordinate and integrate the activities of the Resource and Service Cores, and to determine the distribution and utilization of funds.
The Resource Cores: facilitate the production of materials for research, or support the purchase, maintenance, and technical support of shared equipment. Examples may include, but are not limited to: confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, tissue and cell culture services, genotyping, microarray analysis, mass spectrometry, high throughput sequencing, database management, hybridoma production, laboratory animal resources, image analysis, and brain and eye imaging. Resource Cores may also help support computer experts, biostatisticians, and other individuals who can assist or collaborate with participating investigators in conducting vision research.
The Service Cores: support essential laboratory or technical services provided by one or more highly skilled persons. Examples of this type of core include, but are not limited to an electronics shop, a machine shop, and photography services.
Studies involving human subjects are not allowed. However, Core resources and services can be accessed for secondary studies that use human specimens, cell lines, or data provided that these have been stripped of identifiers and appropriate approvals have been obtained through the individual research grants that support collection of human subject material.

Eligibility
The applicant institution must have 8 or more eligible grants. Eligible grants are defined as active NEI-supported R01s. Grant applications in administrative extensions, with or without additional funds, are not eligible. Administrative supplements, revisions, and sub-contracts cannot be counted toward eligibility.
Review Criteria
Significance: Does the Center Core address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? Is the prior research that serves as the key support for the proposed project rigorous? If the aims of the Center Core are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field? Does the Center Core provide resources and/or services to meet the scientific needs of the research base? Will the Center Core be used by multiple investigators? What is the likelihood that the Center Core will increase efficiency, accelerate progress, and promote new research directions and scientific collaborations among the Senior Persons and other users?

Investigator(s): Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or those in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project?

Innovation: Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to one field of research or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, improvement, or new application of theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed? Does the Center Core use innovative ways to communicate or integrate activities among the Resource/Service Cores, or across basic and clinical research? Are there innovative methods for allocating resources or promoting new cross-departmental or multi-disciplinary collaborations?

Approach: Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the Center Core? Have investigators included plans to address weaknesses in the rigor of prior research that serves as the key support for the proposed project? Have the investigators presented strategies to ensure a robust and unbiased approach, as appropriate for the work proposed? Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed? Have the investigators presented adequate plans to address relevant biological variables, such as sex, for studies in vertebrate animals or human subjects? If the Center Core involves human subjects and/or NIH-defined clinical research, are the plans to address:
1) the protection of human subjects from research risks, and
2) inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of all ages (including children and older adults), justified in terms of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed?
Are there plans to establish and maintain communication and cooperation among Senior Persons and other users? Are there adequate management plans for the Research and Service Cores, including implementation, allocation, NEI-R01 grantee user prioritization, quality control, and utilization of the Cores? How well does the management plan address accountability, flow of authority, dispute resolution, evaluation and integration with the institution’s fiscal and academic administrations?

Environment: Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements?
Additional Information
Full Solicitation: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-051.html

For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research Pilot Award Deadline: Promoting Health Equity in Research Pilot Award Program
2021-06-29 17:00
The UNC School of Medicine’s Office of Research (OoR) sponsors an annual pilot program, Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research (ECBR), to provide support for innovative, early-stage research relevant to external strategic funding priorities.
For the 2021 round of funding, the OoR is partnering with the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute and the UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) to provide pilot funding for innovative, early-stage research projects that broadly address strategies for reducing health disparities and promoting equity for historically marginalized populations.
Projects across the translational spectrum will be supported and should: Promote research to understand and to improve minority health; Advance scientific understanding of the causes of health disparities; Develop and test multi-level interventions to reduce health disparities; or Create and improve scientific methods, metrics, measures, and tools to study the causes of health disparities and develop solutions. Applications that will provide preliminary data for intervention and implementation studies that will reduce disparities are of particular interest.
Awards will provide up to $50,000 in funding for a 12-month project period.
Full details on the application process and eligibility can be found in the RFA posted here.
Questions can be emailed to Jennifer Brennan (OoR) or Mary Beth Cassely (NCTraCS)

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
2021-04-05 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
National Science Foundation
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, April 5, 2021
*Please distribute to relevant faculty*

Key Dates

UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, April 5, 2021
NSF Full Proposal Deadline: July 14, 2021
Important Information

An organization may not submit more than one (1) new or resubmitted PFI-RP proposal to a deadline of this solicitation.
Resubmission of significantly improved revisions of a previously declined PFI proposal is strongly encouraged.
The PFI program has an NSF Lineage Requirement under one of the following two paths: (1) NSF-supported research results or (2) NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF Innovation Corps (I-CorpsTM) Teams program. The NSF lineage requirement applies now to both proposal tracks PFI-TT and PFI-RP. The only allowed exception is for resubmission of PFI-RP proposals previously declined under solicitation NSF 18-511. An I-Corps Node award, training at an NSF I-Corps Site, or any I-Corps-related training imparted by federal agencies and organizations other than NSF do not meet the NSF Lineage Requirement.

To Apply
Submit the following (in ONE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Monday, April 5, 2021.

Cover Page: Name, Department, Contact Information, Track, and Project Title
Project Description (4-page maximum)
PI/co-PI team member’s NSF-formatted Biosketch (2 maximum)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.

Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Award Information
PFI-TT projects will be funded for up to $250,000 for 18-24 months per award; approximately 40-50 awards are anticipated. PFI-RP projects will be funded for up to $550,000 for 36 months. Approximately 10-15 awards are anticipated.
Program Overview
The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.
PFI has five broad goals, as set forth by the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017 (“the Act”, S.3084 — 114th Congress; Sec. 602. Translational Research Grants):

identifying and supporting NSF-sponsored research and technologies that have the potential for accelerated commercialization;
supporting prior or current NSF-sponsored investigators, institutions of higher education, and non-profit organizations that partner with an institution of higher education in undertaking proof-of-concept work, including the development of technology prototypes that are derived from NSF-sponsored research and have potential market value;
promoting sustainable partnerships between NSF-funded institutions, industry, and other organizations within academia and the private sector with the purpose of accelerating the transfer of technology;
developing multi-disciplinary innovation ecosystems which involve and are responsive to the specific needs of academia and industry;
providing professional development, mentoring, and advice in entrepreneurship, project management, and technology and business development to innovators.

This solicitation offers two broad tracks for proposals in pursuit of the goals:
The Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track offers the opportunity to translate prior NSF-funded research results in any field of science or engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential and societal impact. PFI-TT supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any NSF-funded science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Concurrently, students and postdoctoral researchers who participate in PFI-TT projects receive education and leadership training in innovation and entrepreneurship. Successful PFI-TT projects generate technology-driven commercialization outcomes that address societal needs.
The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct applied research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact. In the absence of such synergistic partnership, the project’s likelihood for success would be minimal.
The intended outcomes of both PFI-TT and PFI-RP tracks are: a) the commercialization of new intellectual property derived from NSF-funded research outputs; b) the creation of new or broader collaborations with industry (including increased corporate sponsored research); c) the licensing of NSF-funded research outputs to third party corporations or to start-up companies funded by a PFI team; and d) the training of future innovation and entrepreneurship leaders.
WEBINARS: Webinars will be held to answer questions about the solicitation. Registration will be available on the NSF Partnerships for Innovation website (https://www.nsf.gov/PFI). Potential proposers and their partners are encouraged to attend.

Review Elements
All PFI proposals must address the following five elements. Please view the NSF solicitation for additional details.

Technology Development
Demonstration of Commercialization Potential
Partnerships
Education and Leadership Development in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Broadening Participation

Additional Information
NSF Lineage Requirement: All proposals submitted to the PFI program must meet a lineage requirement under one of the following two paths: (1) NSF-supported research results, or (2) NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps Teams Program.

NSF-supported research results in all fields of science and engineering: Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have had an NSF award that ended no more than seven (7) years prior to the full proposal deadline date or be a current NSF award recipient. The proposed technology development project must be derived from the research results and/or discoveries from this underlying NSF award.

OR

NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps TeamsProgram. The Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have been a member of an award under the NSF I-Corps Teams Program (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/teams.jsp). The PI or co-PI must have fully completed the training provided under the I-Corps Team award within the past four (4) years. The customer discovery activities performed under the NSF-funded I-Corps award must be based on the technology that is proposed to be translated within the PFI proposal.

NSF Solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19506/nsf19506.htm

WEBINARS: Webinars will be held to answer questions about the solicitation. Registration will be available on the NSF Partnerships for Innovation website (https://www.nsf.gov/PFI). Potential proposers and their partners are encouraged to attend.

For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-7503

Deadline for Physician Scientist Training Program
2021-03-03 17:00
Physician Scientist Training Program
2021 Request for Applications

The School of Medicine is soliciting the second round of applications for the new training initiative to support career development of Physician Scientist trainees near their transition to faculty positions – The Physician Scientist Training Program (PTSP).

This program, supported by the SOM Strategic Plan, supports physician scientists at two stages: resident/fellowship level and early stage faculty level. The program partners with trainees’ home departments and provides funding to support research efforts of the trainees (Resident/Fellow Award -$ 35,000/year and Faculty Award -$ 55,000/year salary support + $ 25,000/year project support). Additionally, trainees enter a career development training program with peer level physician scientists across multiple clinical disciplines. Each awarded trainee will receive two years of support from the program.

The program is seeking nomination of eligible applicants from the UNC Clinical Departments for awards with support to begin for the 2021-2022 academic year (July 1, 2021). Each department may nominate up to two candidates for each award.

Eligibility Criteria:

For all SOM PSTP trainee applicants:

Trainees must have an M.D. or equivalent degree and be licensed or qualified to become licensed to practice medicine in the state of N.C.
Trainees must have commitment from the applicant’s Department to provide at least 50% protected time for research and fund difference between SOM PSTP funds and actual stipend/salary.
Trainees must have Scientific mentor and project plan in place.

For SOM PSTP Resident/Fellow Award applicants:

Resident/Fellow Award applicants may be clinical trainees (GME residents, or GME or non-GME clinical fellowship trainees with specialty training program that allows for protected research time during the award period) or postdoctoral fellows/clinical instructors (with a clinical degree and completion of clinical training program in an American Board of Medical Specialties discipline) at the time of application.

For SOM PSTP Faculty Award applicants:

Faculty Award applicants must be currently at UNC or committed to start at UNC as an Assistant Professor at the start of the funding period.
Faculty Award applicants will have held a faculty position (Clinical Instructor or Assistant Professor) for less than two years, although exceptions for physician applicants with longer times as a faculty member can be considered by the review committee.
If the Faculty Award applicant is in an Instructor position at the time of application, the home Department Chair must be committed to opening an Assistant Professor position focused on research area specific to the trainee’s interest by the end of their term of support.

Individuals interested in applying for this award should consult with their Department Chair or Vice Chair for Research to learn about their department’s specific procedure for determining its nominees.

Questions about potential nominee eligibility can be directed to Alex Duncan, Director of the SOM Physician Scientist Training Program.

Application details (Due March 3, 2021): Completed applications should contain the following elements (A-C) and should be emailed from applicant’s Department Chair or designated representative to Alex Duncan, Director of the SOM Physician Scientist Training Program (jaduncan@med.unc.edu) and Noelé Daniels, Physician Scientist Training Program Administator (noele_daniels@med.unc.edu).

1. Proposal (Resident/Fellow applications should be no longer than 3 pages, Faculty applications should be no longer than 4 pages – not including references) :

Specific aims – (1 page maximum) outlining the project conceptually

Background and significance – covering literature in the field and preliminary data (if the candidate has preliminary data the proposal should indicate in the text or figure legends whether data was generated by others in the mentor’s lab or data generated by the applicant) that support the approach.

Approach – covering details of research plan

Training Plan – (1/2 page maximum) – describe what training has been done and what is the current status of the applicant (GME trainee, postdoc/Instructor, Assistant Prof.), what remaining clinical and/or scientific training will be undertaken during the award and any additional training the applicant will seek after participating in the Physician Scientist Training Program.

2. NIH style Biosketch

3. Letters of Support

Letter from the candidate’s mentor who will supervise the research training while in the physician Scientist Training Program

Letter from the candidate’s chair – indicating support for 50% protected time and paying difference between PSTP funds and full stipend/salary, description of the chair’s commitment to candidate as a future faculty member in the department, statement of any other departmental resources committed to candidate (start up money, lab space, support for trainee working under applicant via departmental T32, etc.)

Letter of support from previous mentor or other scientist familiar with the candidates accomplishments and promise as a future independent investigator.

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
2021-02-24 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Wednesday, February 24, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2021
Application Deadline: April 20, 2021
Important Information

Number of Applications per Institution: Two early-career professors may be nominated by each institution.
What is Not Funded: Recognizing that certain areas of contemporary science and engineering already have access to relatively generous funding (for example, clinical research, research associated with the design and construction of large national facilities such as accelerators and space stations, and applied research of direct relevance to national security), the Packard Fellowships are directed to other, less generously supported fields.

To Apply
Submit the following (in a SINGLE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Wednesday, February 24, 2021.

Letter of nomination from your department chair or other senior administrator.
Candidate Research Statement, describing why the research is important and outlining general goals for the next five years (one-page maximum, excluding figures and references).
Candidate’s CV, including research support and publications.
List of three potential individuals to provide external letters of recommendation, including their titles, institutional affiliations, and a two-three sentence overview of their expertise and contributions. At least one individual must be a person who has had no supervisory or collaborative contact with the candidate.
Names (along with title, department, and email) of at least three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel to evaluate nominees for this program.

Please do not include department chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Program Overview
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering program invests in future leaders who have the freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may lead to groundbreaking discoveries.

In 1988, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation’s most promising early career professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. It is among the nation’s largest nongovernmental fellowships, designed to allow maximum flexibility on how the funding is used. Packard Fellows have gone on to receive many additional awards and honors, including Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics, Fields Medals, Alan T. Waterman Awards, Breakthrough Prizes and elections to the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Every year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two early-career professors each from their institutions. Nominations are carefully reviewed by the Fellowship Advisory Panel, comprised of distinguished scientists and engineers. Twenty recipients will receive individual grants of $875,000 distributed over five years. Beginning with the 2021 Packard Fellows, the Foundation will pilot a program to offer additional funding support to Fellows for activities that will help increase diversity and representation in science and engineering – whether in their research group, department, university or scientific fields. An invitation and details regarding this diversity funding support will be shared with the 2021 Fellows at the beginning of their grant period.
Eligibility
Candidates must be faculty members who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers, that is, whose initial faculty appointments began no earlier than May 31, 2018, and no later than May 31, 2021. Disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates engaged in research in the social sciences will not be considered.
The Fellowship Program provides support for highly creative researchers early in their careers; faculty members who are well established and well-funded are less likely to receive the award. The Foundation emphasizes support for innovative individual research that involves the Fellows, their students, and junior colleagues, rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs. Packard Fellowships are awarded without regard to age, race, national origin, citizenship, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or physical disability.

Award Information
Award Amount: Each recipient will receive an individual grant of $875,000 distributed over five years. Of the $175,000 paid each year, $17,500 is available to the university as compensation for administrative costs.
Additional Information
Packard Fellows are inquisitive, passionate scientists and engineers who take a creative approach to their research, dare to think big and follow new ideas wherever they lead.

UNC Packard Fellows and their disciplinary fields: Wesley Legant, Chemical/Biological Engineering (2019); Bo Li, Chemistry (2016); Jillian Dempsey, Chemistry (2015); James Cahoon, Material Sciences/ Nanotechnology (2014); Samuel Lai, Biological Sciences (2013); David Nicewicz, Chemistry (2012); Marc Pollefeys, Computer/Information Sciences (2005); James Morken, Chemistry (1998); Holden Thorp, Biochemistry (1991)

Full Solicitation: https://www.packard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2021-Packard-Fellowship-Guidelines.pdf

Fellowship Advisory Panel: https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/packard-fellowships-advisory-panel/

Fellowship Directory: https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/

Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-7503

Limited Submission Internal Deadline: HRSA Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health
2021-02-22 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
The Health Resources and Services Administration
Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health
Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-21-080
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, February 22, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, February 22, 2021
HRSA Deadline: April 9, 2021

Important Information

Number of Applications per Institution: 1, Multiple applications from an organization are not allowable.
Award Information
Estimated Award Amount: Up to $250,000.
Award Project Period: September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022 (1 year).
To Apply
Submit the following (in ONE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Monday, February 22, 2021.

PI/ Team members NIH-formatted biosketch
Project Summary (two to four-pages)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal
packet to ORD

Program Description
The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacities of state- and/or local-level organizations to respond to emerging public health issues affecting maternal and child health (MCH) populations. This funding opportunity is a mechanism to support capacity-strengthening activities that will improve state- and/or local-level organizations’ abilities to address emerging issues that threaten the health and well-being of MCH populations in an effective, timely manner. For the purposes of this NOFO, MCH populations include the following groups: women, children (birth to 21), children with special health care needs (CSHCN), adolescents, and families.

Recipients will implement a set of activities under at least one of the three capacity-strengthening areas below (See Section IV.2 for details) and through these activities address an emerging issue specific to their state or local community.

Capacity Areas:

Data and Informational Systems
Workforce Development
Strategic Partnerships

“Emerging issues” refers to issues that affect MCH populations at an increased rate, for which there is new knowledge or an increased level of awareness of, or there are new approaches to solving the issue. The challenge is that these issues are difficult to anticipate and thus difficult for which to have funds set aside. Through this program, the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) aims to increase the ability of states and local communities to anticipate, prepare, and execute timely responses to emerging issues to reduce their negative impact on MCH populations.
You will select an emerging issue specific to the needs of your state or local community. Examples of emerging issues include, but are not limited to, increasing rates of opioid and other substance use disorders, emergent environmental health threats, persistent or increasing disparities in maternal mortality, inadequate availability of and access to behavioral health services, disparities in access to health services for CSHCN, and declining immunization coverage. Successful projects will address an emerging issue that affects MCH populations and has reliable, current data to support it.
In November 2020, MCHB released summaries of Title V state needs assessments. Every 5 years states complete a comprehensive needs assessment to assess their progress, identify emerging issues and needs, and set priorities going forward. Regardless of the geographic scope of your project, you are encouraged to utilize your state’s needs assessment report at the Title V Information System (TVIS) to inform the selection of an appropriate emerging issue. See Appendix B for guidance on the TVIS and Section IV.2 for a list of all suggested data sources.
Internal Review Criteria
The internal review follows the HRSA program criteria. Please visit Section V of the HRSA solicitation for additional information.
Additional Information
Full solicitation: https://www.hrsa.gov/grants/find-funding/hrsa-21-080
Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Limited Submission Internal Deadline: NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00)
2021-01-25 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00)
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, January 25, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, January 25, 2021
NIH Full Proposal Deadline: February 26, 2021
Important Information

Number of Applications per Institution: Each eligible institution may submit a combined total of three applications to RFA-CA-20-055, RFA-CA-20-056 and/or RFA-CA-20-057. Additionally, each application must be in a different scientific area as defined below.

Scientific Areas:
(A) Data Science: For the purposes of this K99/R00 award, data science is defined as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are both developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data. This includes cancer-focused data integration and visualization, systems biology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, informatics, genomics, precision oncology, and developing analytics for epidemiological or biostatistical studies.
(B) Cancer Control Science: For the purposes of this K99/R00 award, cancer control science is defined as basic and applied research in the behavioral, social, and population sciences to create or enhance interventions that, independently or in combination with biomedical approaches, reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and improve quality of life. This includes research in epidemiology, behavioral sciences, health services, surveillance, cancer survivorship, and healthcare policy.
(C) Other Sciences: For the purposes of this K99/R00 award, “Other Sciences” includes all scientific fields supported by the NCI that are not included in (A) or (B). Applicants proposing research in (C) “Other Sciences” may apply only if it is reasonable to expect them to transition to independence with an abbreviated period of mentored research and career development beyond their original doctoral degrees.

Award Information

Award Budget: Award budgets are composed of salary and other program-related expenses. NCI will contribute up to $100,000 per year toward the salary of the career award recipient. Further guidance on budgeting for career development salaries is provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. See also NOT-OD-17-094.
Award Project Period: The maximum project period is five years.
To Apply
Submit the following (in ONE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Monday, January 25, 2021.

Specific Project Aims, that must include:

Which RFA (RFA-CA-20-055, RFA-CA-20-056, or RFA-CA-20-057) the applicant would like to be considered for.
Scientific Area (Data Science, Cancer Control Science, or Other Sciences)

NIH Formatted Biosketch
Letter of recommendation from Mentor
Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest
Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal
packet to ORD
Given the tight turnaround it may not be possible to conduct a full internal review; if this is the case ORD will coordinate a panel review with appropriate UNC faculty and researchers.

Program Description
The overall goal of the NIH Research Career Development program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) support a variety of mentored and non-mentored career development award programs designed to foster the transition of new investigators to research independence and to support established investigators in achieving specific objectives. Candidates should review the different career development (K) award programs to determine the best program to support their goals. More information about Career programs may be found at the NIH Extramural Training Mechanisms website.

The objective of the NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00) is to help outstanding postdoctoral researchers complete needed, mentored career development and transition in a timely manner to independent tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty positions. The K99/R00 award is intended to foster the development of a creative, independent research program that will be competitive for subsequent independent funding and that will help advance the mission of the NCI.

This program is designed for outstanding postdoctoral fellows with research and/or clinical doctoral degrees who do not require extended periods of mentored research beyond their original doctoral degrees before transitioning to research independence, which is common for those working in data science and cancer control science, as defined in Section III. 3. Additional Information on Eligibility. Therefore, researchers from these disciplines are encouraged to apply.

This K99/R00 award is intended for individuals who require no more than 2 additional years of mentored research and career development (K99 phase) before transitioning to the independent stage (R00 phase) of the program. Consequently, the strongest applicants will require, and will propose, a well-conceived plan for 1–2 years of substantive mentored research and career development that will help them become competitive candidates for tenure-track faculty positions and prepare them to launch robust, independent research programs.

Program Considerations
Individuals must be in mentored, postdoctoral positions to be eligible to apply to the K99/R00 program. If an applicant achieves independence (any faculty or non-mentored research position) before a K99 award is made, neither the K99 award, nor the R00 award, will be made. The K99/R00 award will provide up to 5 years of support in two phases. The initial (K99) phase will provide support for up to 2 years of mentored postdoctoral research and career development. The second (R00) phase will provide up to 3 years of independent research support, which is contingent on satisfactory progress during the K99 phase and an approved, independent tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty position. The two award phases are intended to be continuous in time. Therefore, although exceptions may be possible in limited circumstances, R00 awards will generally only be made to those K99 PDs/PIs who accept independent, tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty positions by the end of the K99 award period.
Additional Information
RFA-CA-20-055: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-20-055.html
RFA-CA-20-056: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-20-056.html
RFA-CA-20-057: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-20-057.html

Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-7503

Internal Deadline for Limited Submission: National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
2021-01-13 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
National Science Foundation
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
UNC Internal deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, December 1, 2020
*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates

UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, December 1, 2020
NSF Full Proposal Deadline: January 13, 2021
Important Information

Number of Applications per Institution: 1 submission (PFI-RP Track).
The limit on the number of proposals submitted by an eligible organization has been eliminated for the PFI-TT track.
NSF Lineage Requirement: All proposals submitted to the PFI program must meet a lineage requirement under one of the following two paths: (1) NSF-supported research results, or (2) NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps Teams Program.
The PFI-RP track requires the creation and implementation of new multidisciplinary, multi-organization partnerships between academia, industry and other public and private entities to pursue new innovative technology development projects.

To Apply
Submit the following (in ONE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Monday, December 1, 2020.

Cover Page: Name, Department, Contact Information, and Project Title
Project Description (4-page maximum)
PI/co-PI team member’s NSF-formatted Biosketch (2 maximum)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.

Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Award Information

PFI-RP projects will be funded for up to $550,000 for 36 months. Approximately 10-15 awards are anticipated.
Program Overview
The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.

Five Goals:

Identifying and supporting NSF-sponsored research and technologies that have the potential for accelerated commercialization.
Supporting prior or current NSF-sponsored investigators, institutions of higher education, and non-profit organizations that partner with an institution of higher education in undertaking proof-of-concept work, including the development of technology prototypes that are derived from NSF-sponsored research and have potential market value.
Promoting sustainable partnerships between NSF-funded institutions, industry, and other organizations within academia and the private sector with the purpose of accelerating the transfer of technology.
Developing multi-disciplinary innovation ecosystems which involve and are responsive to the specific needs of academia and industry.
Providing professional development, mentoring, and advice in entrepreneurship, project management, and technology and business development to innovators.

PFI seeks to implement the mandate set by Congress in Section 102(c)(a) of the Act (Broader Impacts Review Criterion Update) by enhancing partnerships between academia and industry in the United States, and expanding the participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups in innovation, technology translation, and entrepreneurship.

This solicitation offers two broad tracks for proposals in pursuit of the aforementioned goals. Only the RP track places a limit on submissions per institution. Thus, the PFI-TT track does not qualify as a part of the internal competition.

The Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track offers the opportunity to translate prior NSF-funded research results in any field of science or engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential and societal impact. PFI-TT supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any NSF-funded science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Concurrently, students and postdoctoral researchers who participate in PFI-TT projects receive education and leadership training in innovation and entrepreneurship. Successful PFI-TT projects generate technology-driven commercialization outcomes that address societal needs.

The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct applied research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact. In the absence of such synergistic partnership, the project’s likelihood for success would be minimal.

PFI-RP proposals consist of applied research and commercialization projects that specifically depend on highly collaborative partnerships between academic researchers and industrial partners. The proposed project should further scientific and engineering foundational outcomes to enable breakthrough technologies with the potential to address critical industrial and societal needs. Industry involvement assures that the technology development endeavor is industry-relevant. With input from their Industrial Partner(s), Principal Investigators are expected to design their applied research objectives to respond to the unmet market/societal needs. Interdisciplinary projects that enable researchers from different academic and non-academic organizations to interact with one or more industrial partners in industry-university groups or networks are encouraged. Proposals may include the participation of a non-profit organization that has research and technology translation experience. NSF funding can be used for university research/education activities and may support activities of faculty and their students and research associates in the industrial setting. PFI-RP proposals should include one or more of the following partners: Industrial Partner (required) and/or Research Partner.

The intended outcomes of the PFI-RP track:

The commercialization of new intellectual property derived from NSF-funded research outputs.
The creation of new or broader collaborations with industry (including increased corporate sponsored research).
The licensing of NSF-funded research outputs to third party corporations or to start-up companies funded by a PFI team; and d) the training of future innovation and entrepreneurship leaders.

Review Elements
All PFI proposals must address the following five elements. Please view the NSF solicitation for additional details.

Technology Development
Demonstration of Commercialization Potential
Partnerships
Education and Leadership Development in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Broadening Participation

Additional Information
NSF Lineage Requirement: All proposals submitted to the PFI program must meet a lineage requirement under one of the following two paths: (1) NSF-supported research results, or (2) NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps Teams Program.

NSF-supported research results in all fields of science and engineering: Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have had an NSF award that ended no more than seven (7) years prior to the full proposal deadline date or be a current NSF award recipient. The proposed technology development project must be derived from the research results and/or discoveries from this underlying NSF award.

OR

NSF-supported customer discovery results through the NSF I-Corps TeamsProgram. The Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have been a member of an award under the NSF I-Corps Teams Program (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/teams.jsp). The PI or co-PI must have fully completed the training provided under the I-Corps Team award within the past four (4) years. The customer discovery activities performed under the NSF-funded I-Corps award must be based on the technology that is proposed to be translated within the PFI proposal.

NSF Solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19506/nsf19506.htm

WEBINARS: Webinars will be held to answer questions about the solicitation. Registration will be available on the NSF Partnerships for Innovation website (https://www.nsf.gov/PFI). Potential proposers and their partners are encouraged to attend.

For additional information, please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-7503

Internal Deadline for Limited Submission: 2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award
2021-01-11 17:00
Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals
2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, January 11, 2021

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*
Key Dates
UNC Internal Deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, January 11, 2021
External Application Deadline: February 26, 2021
Important Information
Eligibility: Professor completed Ph.D. (residency in case of M.D.’s or M.D.- Ph.D.’s) not earlier than January 2011. Early-stage faculty may have a variety of titles. To be eligible for this award the nominee should be on your institution’s path toward full professor.
Award Information

An unrestricted research award of $100,000 to be distributed in 2 years to university in the professor’s name

Option to use all or part of award to obtain Agilent products at 50% discount
Option to accelerate payments to facilitate procurement of equipment with list price over $100,000

Engraved plaque commemorating award
Recognition on Agilent’s website

To Apply
Submit the following (combined into a SINGLE .pdf) to Limited_Submission@unc.edu by 11:59PM, Monday, January 11, 2021.

PI/Proposed team member’s CV/Biosketch (five-page maximum)
Project Summary (two-page maximum)
List of potential collaborators (internal and external to UNC)
Names (along with title, department, and email) of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and who could potentially serve on an internal review panel.

Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports, or others who have a conflict of interest.

Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD.

Program Overview
The topic of the 2021 award is “Contributions to the development of breakthrough solutions to understand or manage immunological responses to infection, autoimmunity or cancer”.
The purpose of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award is to:

Promote and encourage excellent research enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world.
Establish strong collaborative relationships between Agilent researchers and leading professors early in their career.
Build the prominence of Agilent as a sponsor of university research.

Selection Criteria
The 2021 winner will be selected based on the following selection criteria:

Significant original research contributions enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world.
Outstanding potential for future research.
Professor completed Ph.D. (residency in case of M.D.’s or M.D.- Ph.D.’s) not earlier than January 2011.
Alignment with the defined award focus for 2021: Contributions to the development of breakthrough solutions to understand or manage immunological responses to infection, autoimmunity or cancer.

Additional Information
Agilent Solicitation: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/profaward/index.shtml
Past Winners: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/profaward/pastwinners.shtml
Frequently Asked Questions: https://www.agilent.com/univ_relation/faq.shtml#a

To become more familiar with the current Agilent measurement products relevant to this topic you may wish to check the “products & services” section of the www.agilent.com.

Contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submission@unc.edu.

UNC-Chapel Hill’s research partnership with Agilent is managed by the Industry Relations team. For more information, please contact the Industry Relations team at industry@unc.edu.

Limited Submissions Team
Office of Research Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-7503

Deadline for Bridge Funding Applications
2021-01-11 17:00
Please visit the website linked here for the RFA and more information about applying for SOM Bridge Funding.
