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Epilepsy Foundation Targeted Research Initiative for Morbidity and Mortality

Application Deadline: March 21, 2012

Award Amount: up to $50,000 maximum for one year

Apply via Proposal Central website

The Targeted Research Initiative for Morbidity and Mortality supports research that generates initial data leading to more extensive projects that will generate knowledge that will ultimately improve the lives of persons with epilepsy. This initiative recognizes the need for research and new insights into these scientific areas.

The broad focus of the morbidity portion of this program includes: identification of somatic comorbidities in epilepsy that occur more than expected among controls, including but not limited to diabetes, gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic lung disease, congenital cardiac abnormalities, heart failure, and pneumonia; and associations between somatic comorbidities in epilepsy and epilepsy outcomes, including quality of life in epilepsy, seizure remission, stigma and other outcomes.

The mortality portion of the program is focused upon potentially preventable causes of death in epilepsy, such as accidents, suicide and SUDEP. Applicants are encouraged to examine risk factors for these causes of death in epilepsy; as well as interventions to decrease the presence of risk factors for these causes of death where risk factors have been identified.

Applicants may request up to $50,000 maximum for one year.

Epilepsy Foundation
8301 Professional Place
Landover, MD 20785-7223
Telephone: 1-800-332-1000
Fax: 1-301-577-2684
Email: ContactUs@efa.org

Call for Applications: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy - Rutgers University

The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy announces the 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program. The program is intended for highly motivated undergraduates interested in a career as a researcher in the pharmaceutical and environmental sciences. Students are provided with an opportunity to conduct full-time research in areas related to Pharmacology and Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences, Pharmaceutics, Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Clinical Pharmacy Research. The program is open to undergraduate students enrolled at Rutgers or at another university. Student should be sophomores, juniors, or seniors at the time of application. Previous experience performing independent laboratory or clinical research is not required.

This 10-week program will run May 21 through July 27, 2012 and provides a $2,800 stipend. Funding for room and board is not available. Students must be available for the entire 10-week period. Training includes hands-on research conducted in the laboratories or clinical practices of faculty members, round table discussions of research progress, and seminars on research careers and activities of the faculty. Students also participate in career development workshops. At the end of the fellowship, each student will provide a brief oral presentation on his or her summer research project.

To apply to the Summer Research Fellowship Program, the following items are required:

· Completed application form

· College transcripts (current and previously attended universities)

· Personal statement

· Two letters of recommendation

Applications must be typed and submitted in a single envelope. Letters of recommendation should be in sealed envelopes and included in the envelope with the completed application form, transcripts, and personal statement. All application materials must be received/postmarked by February 15, 2012. Only complete applications will be reviewed.

For further information, please contact Dr. Debra Laskin by email at laskin@eohsi.rutgers.edu or Dr. Lauren Aleksunes at aleksunes@eohsi.rutgers.edu. Students selected for the program will begin to be notified March 26, 2012. Students will have 1 week to notify the Program of their intent to participate. Notifications of selected students will be made through April 9, 2012. Students who are not selected will be notified by April 16, 2012.

Note: Pharmacy students selected for the SURF program will be placed into Cycle III for their pharmacy practice experience.

Send completed applications to:

Ms. Cindy Olexsa
Dean’s Office
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Rutgers University
160 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854

The SURF Program at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy is financially supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (1R25ES020721), the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Dean of the School of Pharmacy.

General Research Areas

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences: neurotoxicology; immunology; inflammatory mechanisms of tissue injury; kidney injury; role of extracellular matrix in development and disease pathology; wound healing; nitric oxide biology; pulmonary toxicology, developmental toxicology; environmental health sciences

Medicinal Chemistry: design and synthesis of enzyme inhibitors and prodrugs; synthetic organic chemistry, structure activity relationships, medicinal chemistry

Pharmaceutics: design, development and evaluation of drug delivery systems; biopharmaceutics (drug formulation, drug transport); pharmacokinetics

Chemical Biology: cancer biology and prevention; regulation of tumor cell growth and differentiation

Pharmacy Practice: clinical studies; diabetes, hypertension, and medication therapy management

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation High Priority, Short Term Bridge Awards

Application deadline: 4/2/2012

Description
Supports research grant applications that address a high priority research area for JDRF, but failed to receive funding (but scored within 10% of the funding payline for a review cycle of a research funding agency up to a year prior to the request to JDRF). Helps investigators generate additional supporting data for an amended, competitive application

Institutional Eligibility
Domestic & foreign non-profit organizations; public & private universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories; units of state & local governments; eligible agencies of the federal government

Applicant Eligibility
Required: MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and faculty position or equivalent

Proposal
Application submitted via proposalCENTRAL

Research Plan
Access application in proposalCENTRAL. Research plan limited to 2 pages, including figures and tables

Terms
55,000 USD maximum/year for up to 1 year, including up to 10% for indrect costs. Generally not renewable after 1 year

JDRF recognizes the need at this time to support the research of investigators whose research is being curtailed or delayed by failure to receive funding. It is beneficial and of mutual interest to both the scientific community and JDRF to keep these scientists in the field, to help them receive funding for their proposals, and to have them help accelerate the JDRF mission.

This award will provide one year of funding of USD 55,000 for research grant applications that address a high priority research area for JDRF, failed to receive funding but scored within 10% of the funding payline for a review cycle of a research funding agency up to a year prior to the request to JDRF. The goal of this bridge funding is to help investigators generate additional supporting data for an amended, competitive application.

Eligibility
Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign non-profit organizations, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government. Applications must hold an MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and have a faculty position or equivalent at a college, university, medial school, or other research facility. There are no citizenship requirements for this program.

To assure continued excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, JDRF welcomes applications from all qualified individuals and encourages applications from persons with disabilities, women, and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences.

Proposal
All applications must be completed using the templates provided on the proposalCENTRAL website.

Research Plan
The high-priority, short-term bridge award research plan may not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables, and should indicate any changes in scope from the original application (revised specific aims) and in the timeline. Applications with research plans exceeding the page limit will not be reviewed.

Terms of the Award
The High Priority, Short-Term Bridge Awards will each provide up to USD 55,000 annually, including indirect costs, for up to one year. Indirect costs will be limited to 10%. This grant will be available for project applications only. The following application or grant types are not eligible:

New clinical trials or epidemiological studies
Multi-project applications (such as program grants)
Training grant applications
Applications that were triaged (or unscored) by the review process
Applications to JDRF that were not recommended for funding
Any type of Industry grant
Bridge funding request for an existing funded grant award

The award is always issued for a one-year budget period and may be extended for one year at no cost. However, the award will end if a subsequently amended application is funded or if another overlapping research grant is funded. You MUST inform JDRF when/if you eventually receive funding for the original project from the original funding agency. Awards are not renewable.

Awards may be used to obtain new data to support the feasibility or validity of the research, address reviewers' concerns, or revise approaches to the research. A final progress report and final expenditure report are required 2 months after the end of the grant period. The progress report must identify those portions of the original proposal pursued with the award and new funding that in part resulted from this award.

Applicants must agree to a statement to their funding organization giving permission for JDRF to receive confidential information. JDRF will contact the funding organization to determine the priority ranking of the application. Only applications that failed to receive funding but scored within the prior 12 months within 10% of the funding payline for the funding agency will be eligible.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
26 Broadway
New York, New York 10004
800-533-CURE (2873)
E-mail: info@jdrf.org