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This webpage contains NIH and miscellaneous biomedical engineering and bioengineering funding opportunity highlights.

 

Venture Well (formerly National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance-NCIIA)

 

Venture Well (formerly National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance-NCIIA)
Student grants (the faculty member is the PI)
E Team Program-Our E-Team Program gives college students the chance to move new tech ideas out of the lab and classroom and into the marketplace. The three-stage program provides grant funding, experiential workshops, veteran coaching and a potential investment opportunity to help teams manifest their projects’ full commercial potential.
Eligibility: faculty with PI eligibility (the faculty member is the PI for a multidisciplinary group of students, faculty and mentors
Stage 1 funding; $5,000- to attend a three-day strategy mapping workshop, VentureLab1
Stage 2 funding: up to $20,000 + workshop (VentureLab 2) + coaching + network (and includes tactical coaching)
Stage 3 funding: up to $50,000 VentureWell program investment opportunity
You must apply for Stage 1 funding first.
Deadline: Oct. 7, 2015
http://venturewell.org/student-grants/

 

Venture Well (formerly National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance-NCIIA)
Faculty grants:
Course and Program Grants
Up to $50K
Support courses or programs at the intersection of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship that lead to the creation and support of E-Teams.
Topics: General (technology-based) entrepreneurship; new materials/clean tech/green energy; biomedical and healthcare; information technology
Sustainable Vision Grants
Up to $50K
Support experiential learning and generate E-Teams. Proposals must lead to the development of technology innovations that address poverty alleviation and basic human needs. Focus areas include, but are not limited to: water, sanitation, healthcare, agriculture, shelter, information technology
Deadline: Nov. 4, 2015
http://venturewell.org/facultygrants/

 

 

Miscellaneous Prizes

 

Distinguished Achievement Awards and other prizes webpage >>


Collegiate Inventors Competition
The Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Invent Now, is a national competition that recognizes and rewards innovations, discoveries and research by college and university students and their faculty advisors. The sponsors of the program include the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and AbbeVie Foundation.
Each entry must be the original idea and work product of the student/advisor team, and must not have been (1) made available to the public as a commercial product or process or (2) patented or published more than one (1) year prior to the date of submission to the Competition.
The invention, a reduced-to-practice idea or working model, must be the work of a student or team of students and a university advisor.
What are the awards? (see FAQs webpage >>): $100,000 in cash and prizes is awarded to the top three entries in each division. Advisors of winning entries receive cash prizes as well. Other prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the judges.
Eligibility: Represent the original idea and work of a student, or team of no more than four students, along with a university advisor. Be submitted by students who meet our full-time eligibility requirement. Individual entrants must be enrolled as full-time students in any U.S. college or university for at least part of the 12-month period prior to entry. Teams must include at least one member who meets this requirement, and all remaining members must be enrolled at least part-time at some point during the 12-month period prior to entry. No citizenship requirement
Deadline: June 15, 2015
Overview: http://collegiateinventors.org/enter-the-competition/
Institutional representatives: not applicable because this is a prize and not a sponsored project.
Prizes are awarded to the top three entries in each division. Advisors of winning entries receive cash prizes as well.
Note: Inventions are subject to Stanford’s Intellectual Property policies, if applicable.

 

Lemelson-MIT Prize: Improving the World Through Invention
$500,000
This prize recognizes individuals who translate their ideas into inventions and innovations that improve the world in which we live
Eligibility: Be U.S. citizens or permanent residents; Be mid-career, which is defined as having received their bachelor’s degree during or after 1989 if they graduated from college; Work in one (or more) of the following categories: medicine and healthcare, computers and telecommunications, consumer products, energy and environment, or industrial products; be the primary inventor of two or more U.S. patents, one of which is a product or process that has been commercialized or has potential or realized adoption; serve as an inspiration to young people, through their creativity, outreach or mentoring activities
Nomination Deadline: November
http://lemelson.mit.edu/awards/lemelson-mit-prize


 

 

DOD-epartment of Defense (DoD) Health Releated Funding Opportunities


See the DoD Bioscience/biomedical engineering BAA section >> on the funding information homepage

See the DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDRMP) section >> on the funding information homepage >>


 

Foundation and Association Funding Opportunites

 

Many of the foundation and association funding opportunities on the Calendar webpage >> are looking for innovative research projects, including biomedical engineering advances.

The following sponsor, AHA, for example includes bioengineering and biotechnology under "science focus".

American Heart Association (AHA)
Award mechanisms
Science focus:
Unless otherwise stated: research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts, and cardiac arrest/resuscitation research in basic science, clinical science and population/health services sciences
Disciplines:
Unless otherwise stated: proposals are encouraged from all basic, behavioral, epidemiological, and community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems.
July deadlines
See the Cardiovascular Medicine funding opportunity webpage >>

 


HHMI-Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Simons Foundation
Faculty Scholar Program
Amount of funding: $500K-$2M
Eligibility: be assistant professors or higher-rank with tenure-track appointments (with Stanford UTL faculty appointments only); have more than 4, but no more than 10, years of post-training, professional experience. To meet this requirement, the applicant’s post-training, professional experience must have begun no earlier than June 1, 2005, and no later than July 1, 2011. (See FAQs for additional information.)
Stanford eligibility clarification: Stanford faculty with MCL, NTL-Research and CE faculty appointments and Instructors are not eligible.**
**Per the sponsor’s FAQs: Question C4: Am I eligible if I have a non-tenure track position with strong institutional commitment at an institution that has both tenure and non-tenure track faculty?
Answer: Individuals at an institution with a tenure-track must be on the tenure-track to be eligible.
See additional criteria.
Purpose: The competition is for basic researchers and physician scientists who bring innovative approaches to the study of biological problems. Scholars will apply molecular, genetic, computational and theoretical approaches to fundamental problems in diverse areas of biology. Those conducting research at the interface of the biological and physical sciences are especially encouraged to apply as are physician scientists and others studying biological questions emerging from and applicable to global human health problems, including malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and other diseases that disproportionately affect individuals living in low resource settings.
Institutional representative (RPM/RMG or OSR) deadline: July 21, 2015
Sponsor deadline: July 28, 2015, 3 p.m. EDT
Guidelines
http://www.hhmi.org/programs/biomedical-research/faculty-scholars

 

 

AHRQ Health IT RFPs

AHRQ Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21) PA 14-001
Standard R21 deadlines: Feb. 16, June 16, Oct. 16
Expiration date: Nov. 17, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-001.html

Advances in Patient Safety through Simulation Research (R18) PA 14-004
Standard R18 deadlines: Jan. 25, May 25, Sept. 25
Expiration date: Sept. 26, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-004.html

 

 

Multi-agency funding opportuities

 

NIH Predictive Multiscale Models for Biomedical, Biological, Behavioral, Environmental and Clinical Research (U01) (PAR-15-085)
Co-Sponsors:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
US Army (ARO)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Department of Energy (DoE)*
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
NIH:
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIGMS)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Remaining deadlines: September 29, 2015*; January 29, 2016; May 30, 2016; September 29, 2016*; January 30, 2017; May 29, 2017; September 29, 2017* via grantsgov
(*Applicants interested in DOE funding may wish to use the September due dates, see Section IV.6, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-085.html

 

NSF/ NIH NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NSF 13-570 Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences
Successful proposals will either involve the formulation of new mathematical, computational or statistical models and tools whose analysis poses significant mathematical challenges or identify innovative mathematics or statistics needed to solve an important biological problem.
$100K-$400K total costs per year for 3-5 years (15-20 awards to be made)
Remaining Deadline: Sept. 15, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13570/nsf13570.htm


NSF 13-543 Smart and Connected Health
Co-sponsors:
NSF
NIH NICHD, NCI, NHGRI, NIBIB, NIA, OBSSR
The purpose of this program is to develop next generation health care solutions and encourage existing and new research communities to focus on breakthrough ideas in a variety of areas of value to health, such as sensor technology, networking, information and machine learning technology, decision support systems, modeling of behavioral and cognitive processes, as well as system and process modeling.
Exploratory (EXP) Proposals: Oct. 10, 2015
Integrative (INT) Proposals: Deadline: Dec. 10, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13543/nsf13543.htm


NSF 14-504 Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Innovative Approaches to Science and Engineering Research on Brain Function
Co-sponsors:
NSF; NIH NINDS, NIMH, NIDA, NEI, NIDCD, NIBIB, NAAA, NICHD, NCCAM
Federal MInistry of Education and Research Germany; French National Research Agency; United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Eligibility: faculty with PI eligibility
Remaining Deadlines: Oct. 29, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14504/nsf14504.htm

 

NSF 14-592 Ecology and Infectious Diseases
Multi-agency: NSF,
NIH FIC, NIAMS, NIAID
USDA
U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
BSF United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Deadline: Nov. 18, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14592/nsf14592.htm

 

NSF 15-505 National Robotics Initiatve (NRI)
Co-sponsors:
NIH, NSF, USDA, NASA, DoD DARPA*(*new participating agency)
The realization of co-robots acting in direct support of individuals and groups
Note: Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation may not duplicate or be substantially similar to other proposals concurrently under consideration by other NSF, NASA, NIH, USDA, or DOD programs or study sections.
Remaining Deadline: Dec. 3, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15505/nsf15505.htm

 

 

NSF highlights

 

NSF PD 14-7236 Biophotonics
Biophotonics is aimed at exploring the research frontiers in photonics principles, engineering and technology that are relevant for critical problems in fields of medicine, biology and biotechnology. Fundamental science and engineering research and innovation in photonics is required to lay the foundations for new technologies beyond those that are mature and ready for application in medical diagnostics and therapies.
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501025

 

NSF PD 14-5345 Biomedical Engineering
Themes: Molecular, cellular and tissue approaches for advanced biomanufacturing;
AND Neural engineering and human brain mapping
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501023

 

NSF PD 14-5342 General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE)
Areas of particular recent interest are disability-related research in neuroscience/neuroengineering and rehabilitation robotics.
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501021




NSF PD 14-1491 Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering
Topics of particular interest, but not limited to:
Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology; Quantitative systems biotechnology; Tissue engineering and stem cell culture technologies; Protein engineering/protein design; Development of novel "omics" tools for biotechnology applications
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2015
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024

 

 

NIH biomedical/ bioengineering funding opportunity highlights (in alphabetical order)

 

Eligibility: Faculty with PI eligibility (with UTL, MCL or NTL-Research faculty appointments)

 

**Special Announcement**

NIBIB Quantum Program: Technological Innovation to Solve a Major Medical or Public Health Challenge (U01) PAR-15-031
Up to $1M direct costs plus indirects per year for up to 4 years
Remaining deadlines: Jan. 26, 2016 and Jan,. 26, 2017
Remaining AIDS-related deadlines: May 7, 2016, May 7, 2017
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-031.html

 


Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of in vivo Imaging Systems for Cancer Investigations (R01) PAR-13-169
National Cancer Institute
Standard R01 deadlines: Feb. 5, June 5, Oct. 5
Expiration date: May 8, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-169.html


Bioengineering Research Grants (R01) PAR-13-137
NIBIB, NCI, NEI, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIAID, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDA, NIEHS, NIGMS, NINDS
Standard R01 deadlines: Feb. 5, June 5, Oct. 5
Standard AIDS-related deadlines: May 7, Sept. 7, Jan. 7
Expiration date: May 8, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-137.html



Bioengineering Research Partnerships (BRP) R01 PAR-14-092
NIBIB, NCI, NEI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, NIEHS, NINDS
Remaining Deadline: Sept. 18, 2015
Remaining AIDS related deadlines: September 7, 2015, January 7, 2016
Expiration date: Jan. 8, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-092.html

 

Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21) PAR-14-119
NIBIB, NHLBI, NIA, NICHD, NINR, OBSSR
Remaining deadlines: September 23, 2015 and September 23, 2016
Remaining AIDS-related deadlines: January 7, 2016; January 7, 2017
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-119.html

 

Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) [R21] PA-12-284
NIBIB, NCI, NHLBI, NIAAA, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NIDA, NIEHS, NINDS, ORWH
Remaining Standard R21 deadlines: June 16, 2015 and Oct. 16, 2015
Remaining Standard AIDS-related deadlines: Sept. 7, 2015 and Jan. 7, 2016
Expiration date: Jan. 8, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-284.html

 

Image-guided Drug Delivery in Cancer (R01) PAR-13-185
NCI, NIBIB
Remaining deadline: November 19, 2015
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-185.html


Imaging and Biomarkers for Early Cancer Detection (R01) PAR-13-189
NCI, NIBIB
Remaining Deadlines: July 10, 2015 and Dec. 11, 2015
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-189.html

 

Indo-US Collaborative Program on Affordable Medical Devices (R03) PAR-13-390
NIBIB, NCI, NIAID, NICHD
Remaining deadline: Jan. 22, 2016
Remaining AIDS-related deadline: May 7, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-390.html


Innovative Technologies for Cancer-Relevant Biospecimen Science (R21) RFA-CA-15-004
NCI
Remaining deadlines: June 17, 2015 and Sept. 22, 2015
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-15-004.html

 

mHealth Tools for Underserved Populations with Chronic Conditions to Promote Effective Patient-Provider Communication, Adherence to Treatment and Self-Management (R21) PA-14-181
NINR, NIBIB
Standard R21 exploratory/developmental deadlines: Feb. 16, June 16, Oct. 16
Standard AIDS-related deadlines: May 7, Sept. 7, Jan. 7
Expiration date: May 8, 2017
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-181.html

 

mHealth Tools for Underserved Populations with Chronic Conditions to Promote Effective Patient-Provider Communication, Adherence to Treatment and Self-Management (R01)
NINR, NIBIB
Standard R01 deadlines: Feb. 5, June 5, Oct. 5
Standard AIDS-related deadlines: May 7, Sept. 7, Jan. 7
Expiration date: May 8, 2017
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-180.html

 

Technologies for Healthy Independent living (R01) PAR-14-118
NIBIB, NHLBI, NIA, NICHD, NINR, OBSSR
Deadlines: September 23, 2015; September 23, 2016
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-118.html

 

 

Big Data Science


Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics, and Big Data Science (R01) PA-14-155
Participating institutes: NCI, NIGMS, NHGRI, NIAAA, NIAMS, NIBIB, NICHD, NIDCR, NIDA, NIEHS, NINDS, NINR, OBSSR
Eligibility: faculty with PI eligibility
Standard R01 deadlines: Feb. 5, June 5, Oct. 5
Standard AIDS-related deadlines: May 7, Sept. 7, Jan. 7
Expiration date: May 8, 2017
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-155.html

Extended Development, Hardening and Dissemination of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics and Big Data Science (R01) PA-14-156
Participating institutes: NCI, NIGMS, NHGRI, NIAAA, NIAMS, NIBIB, NICHD, NIDA, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, NINR, OBSSR
Eligibility: faculty with PI eligibility
Standard R01 deadlines: Feb. 5, June 5, Oct. 5
Standard AIDS-related deadlines: May 7, Sept. 7, Jan. 7
Expiration date: May 8, 2017
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-156.html

 

 

Stanford Resources:

 

Institutional representatives (RPM/RMG and OSR) and
Internal proposal deadline policy:
School of Medicine PIs:
RMG internal proposal deadline policy and FAQs webpage >>
PIs are strongly encouraged to alert their RPM asap that they plan to submit an application so your RPMs can begin to build your budget. RPM assignment webpage >>
PIs in other schools:
OSR internal deadline policy, FAQs and OSR contract officer dept. assignments
DoResearch webpage >>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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