The Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF) has announced a new deadline for its fall grant cycle. Applications will now be due September 1 (the former date was September 15). ABMRF application forms and guidelines have also been updated. Those are available at http://www.abmrf.org/grants.html.
The National Institutes of Health offers K Kiosk, a starting place for information on the range of Career Awards available. To determine which Career Award(s) might be appropriate for you, use the interactive Career Award Wizard. A series of questions narrows the field to those programs suitable for your degree and research history, e.g., Career Transition Award, Small Grant (R03), or Independent Scientist Award (K02). Click on the button to the left to pull up a concise description of the mechanism, a list of institutes that support it, deadlines, and links to Guide notices. To try out the Career Award Wizard, go to http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm.
Beginning with applications submitted for the January 2001 Council round, Institutional Review Board approval is no longer required prior to NIH peer review of an application. The previous policy was that proposals including human subjects research had to have IRB approval at the time of submission or within 60 days of the application receipt date. Under the new policy, following NIH peer review and notification of priority score/percentile, applicants should proceed with IRB review/approval for applications that appear to be in a fundable range and do not have IRB approval yet. Of course, no grant can be made until IRB approval is final. The change in policy is an attempt to reduce burden on applicants and IRBs. The full policy can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-00-031.html.
Through its Informal Science Education program, NSF funds supplements (to research grants supported by NSF) designed to inform the general public about the content, process, and relevance of the funded research. PIs must have active NSF grants; supplements are for a maximum of $50,000. Interested applicants should contact their Program Officers and review http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9770.
