July 2023

Research Insights

A monthly publication of the UGA Office of Research with the latest funding opportunities and announcements in support of our research community.

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Think Big: Research that changes lives. Calling for all Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant ideas!

True to our UGA land grant mission, we are laser focused on societal impact. Simply stated, we Think Big. Our Office of Research pre-seed and seed grant programs are structured to encourage interdisciplinary ideation around solutions to the world’s most complex problems.

Grant Opportunities

Beckman Young Investigator Program

Amount: $600,000

Deadline: Aug. 1

Provides research support to  promising young faculty members  in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open new avenues of research in science.

NSF: Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities

Amount: $200,000

Deadline: Sept. 15

T-AP is a collaboration between funders in South America, North America and Europe with the goal of increasing transatlantic research collaboration in the social sciences and humanities.

NSF: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

Amount: $465,000

Deadline: Sept. 27

Supports research participation by undergraduates in research areas funded by NSF. REU projects involve students in in ongoing research programs or in projects specifically designed for the program.

NIH: Leveraging Social Networks to Promote Widespread Individual Behavior Change

Amount: $679,000 - $755,000

Deadline: Nov. 3

Invites participation from researchers  looking to study how intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms of behavior change interact with, influence or are influenced by characteristics of social networks, with implications for health.

NIH: Investigator-Initiated Research in Genomics and Health Equity

Amount: $604,000 - $3,775,000

Deadline: Nov. 8

The purpose of this initiative is to support investigator-initiated research in genomics and health equity, with the goal of developing approaches, generating and disseminating data, and of implementing metrics or interventions that will advance the equitable use of genomics to improve health in U.S. populations. 

Humanities & Arts Opportunities

NEH Media Projects

Amount: $75,000 for development, $700,000 for production

Deadline: Aug. 9

Supports the development, production and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Media projects offers two levels of funding: development and production.

Foundation Opportunities

Organic Valley Invites LOIs for Farmers Advocating for Organic Program

Amount: $5,000 to $50,000

Deadline: Aug. 1

Organic Valley invites letters of intent for its Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO) program, which aims to address long-term needs of the organic marketplace and the future of organic agriculture by supporting the development of long-term solutions.

Simons Foundation SFARI Summer Pilot Award

Amount: Up to $300,000

Deadline: Sept. 14

Provides support for exploratory ideas considered higher risk but with the potential for transformative results, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism.

Limited Submissions

NIH: Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1 - Clinical Trial Optional)

Amount: $5,285,000 - $11,325,000

Due Date: July 26

Supports highly integrated research teams of three to six program directors/principal investigators to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are within the mission of NIGMS.

NSF: Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem

Amount: Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.

Deadline: July 31

The goal of this program is to democratize access to NSF’s advanced cyberinfrastructure ecosystem and ensure fair and equitable access to resources, services and expertise by strengthening how cyberinfrastructure professionals function in this ecosystem.

The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Awards

Amount: $400,000

Due Date: Aug. 1

Supports postdoctoral scientists of exceptional creativity in the field of neurosciences. Intended to help enable a postdoctoral researcher to become a full-time faculty member at the assistant professor level (or higher) and to promote the development of a laboratory program that will lead to independent funding.

Innovative Partnerships to Train School-based Mental Health Providers in High-Need Schools & LEAs in Rural Georgia

Funder: U.S. Department of Education

Amount: $4,733,188

PI: Bernadette Heckman, Mary Frances Early College of Education

An immunodominance-based Pan-Pneumovirus vaccine for protection against RSV and hMPV

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Amount: $3,760,877

PI: Jarrod Mousa, College of Veterinary Medicine

Prevention of catheter related infections via photoactive nitric oxide delivery device

Funder: National Science of Health

Amount: $1,785,680

PI: Elizabeth Brisbois, College of Engineering

CAREER: When Two Worlds Collide: An Intersectional Analysis of Black Women’s Role Strain and Adaptation in Computing Sciences

Funder: National Science Foundation

Amount: $607,995

PI: Krystal Williams, Institute of Higher Education

Collaborative Research: Investigating the role and interplay of microenvironment, manufacturing and metabolism on MSC production of extracellular vesicles

Funder: National Science Foundation

Amount: $547,347

PI: Ross Marklein, College of Engineering

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Research Announcements

Now accepting LOIs for 2023 Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program

Letters of Intent for the 2023 Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program can now be submitted here. Please note LOI submission is required by the Aug. 14 deadline in order to be eligible to submit a full proposal. Should you have any questions about the program, please email research-teams@uga.edu. Please contact limsub@uga.edu with any questions about the InfoReady submission system.

CCRC installs new equipment in Service and Training Laboratory

UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center has recently installed an Orbitrap Tribid Ascend Mass Spectrometer from Thermo Scientific to use for glycosylation, glycolipid and polysaccharide structural elucidation. This new equipment is the first of its kind to be installed in Georgia.

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Doug Menke out of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts & Sciences conducts research on eggs from brown anole lizards. Read full story here. (Photo by Chamberlain Smith )

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