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Young Investigator Award Presidential Grants from the NMS-Group

Symposium Summary: Sleep research in neurodegeneration has become a rapidly growing field of research with major clinical and scientific impact. REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) as a hallmark and risk factor of neurodegeneration has gained prominent recognition in the last 15 years, identifying those patients at increased risk for neurodegenerative diseases. Idiopathic RBD patients will most likely comprise the ideal population for enrollment in neuroprotective trials in the future. We learn from sleep disorders about the pathophysiology of brain functioning in Parkinson syndromes and we can better define various phenotypes of Parkinson disease. Animal studies will be another focus in this research area, to study the interaction of Gaba-ergic, cholinergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission in the generation of REM sleep, REM without atonia and RBD.

Application Process: We invite all young researchers who are active in the field of clinical or experimental sleep research in a topic related to neurodegeneration (i.e. Parkinson syndromes or Alzheimer disease) or neurobiology of REM sleep to submit their abstracts and apply for a travel grant – with the chance of being selected to present their work in a special symposium entitled “Neurodegeneration and Sleep” at the 5th World Congress on Sleep Medicine in Valencia, Spain.

STEP ONE – Submit your abstract online at www.wasmcongress.com/abstract/submit_form.php.
-Select the box “Young Investigator”

STEP TWO – Email WASM at info@wasmonline.org. Within your email add why you are applying for this award with a short letter (max 200 words) and biosketch.

Deadline: June 30, 2013

Requirement: 35 years old or younger OR less than 3 years in that topic.

If selected your 10 minute oral presentation will be included in a special symposium during the meeting on Tuesday, October 1st from noon to 1:30 PM.

A travel grant of $1000-1500 (depending on distance of travel) will be provided to symposium speakers.

Call for Applications: Ellison Medical Foundation Neuroscience Scholar Award Program

Since 1998, The Ellison Medical Foundation has been actively engaged in supporting fundamental research on the Biology of Aging and age-related disease mechanisms. The Foundation is now pleased to announce an additional funding opportunity under the Foundation's new Neuroscience Scholar Awards Program. Like the Foundation's ongoing Biology of Aging Scholar Awards program, the Neuroscience Scholars program is intended to provide researchers with the support and resources to develop innovative research programs aimed at gaining insight into the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie normal biological function, and when dysfunctional, lead to illness.

Through a series of focused workshops, the EMF Scientific Advisory Board has sought to identify topics in fundamental Neuroscience research that hold promise for significant scientific progress and yet the research funding to support that progress is inadequate. As a result of this review, the SAB has chosen an initial focus for the Neuroscience Scholars program on the "Neuroscience of Aggressive Behavior". The goal of this program is to stimulate and nurture innovative research that seeks to gain an understanding of the neurobiological basis of aggression and related behaviors, and of the environmental and genetic factors that contribute to violence and anti-social disorders.

A first round of Neuroscience Scholar awards were made in early 2012 and the Foundation is now soliciting applications for up to five New Scholar and five Senior Scholar awards in 2013. While it is anticipated that other focused topics in Neuroscience research may be chosen for support in future years, for the 2013 application cycle, only projects that are explicitly directed toward the fundamental neurobiology of aggression and closely related behaviors will be considered for funding.

A candidate in the first three (3) years of an independent research career will be considered eligible for a New Scholar award and will be evaluated separately. All other applicants are eligible for the Senior Scholar award (independent of faculty rank or tenure status). For the 2013 competition, candidates must hold regular full time appointments (tenure or non-tenure) on the faculty of the sponsoring institution by June 15, 2013. Each New Scholar award will be made for up to $100,000 per year, total costs, for a four year period. Senior Scholar awards will be made for up to $150,000 direct costs per year, plus full indirect costs at the institution's NIH negotiated rate, for up to four years. Funding for years two, three and four is contingent upon submission of an acceptable progress report. Note that a budget is not required at the letter of intent stage, but will be requested of those candidates that are invited to submit a full proposal following the initial review.

The Letter of Intent must be completed online on our website: http://www.cybergrants.com/emf/neuro_loi

The deadline for online submission of the New or Senior Scholar Letter of Intent is June 21, 2013.

Address any questions to:

Kevin Lee, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Phone: 212-577-9255
klee@ellisonfoundation.org

Call for Applications: International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Grant Program

The International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD) is seeking applications for research grants.

Grant awards of $40,000 in direct costs each are available to three (3) investigators for innovative research related to idiopathic gastroparesis.

Basis

We are seeking proposals for research in humans that will ultimately lead to improvements in the understanding of idiopathic gastroparesis, its pathophysiology, and the care of patients.

The mission of IFFGD is patient-oriented. Our goal is to fund high-quality research. A preference will be given to clinical research, as well as basic research that is translational in nature.

Eligibility

Applicants must have completed an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree. Successful applicants must agree to acknowledge IFFGD support in any publications that result from the research, and to submit a final report to IFFGD within 18 months of initial receipt of funding (NIH form PHS 2590 or equivalent format).

Review Process

A Selection Committee, independent of IFFGD staff, will review applications and designate the grants. In evaluating the merits of an application, the Selection Committee will consider its scientific merit, its significance to the field, and its feasibility (including availability of adequate resources, personnel and facilities).

Program emphasis will include, but not be limited to, issues relating to:

symptom management

integrative physiological processes

therapeutic targets

new technology to help explain gastric function and relationship to human disease

neurobiology

quality of life

patient-physician relationships that improve outcomes and satisfaction with treatment

multi-disciplinary approaches, and

novel approaches to patient care.

Allowable Budget Expenses

Only direct costs are allowed. Indirect costs are not allowed in these grants. Within direct costs, there are no unallowable expenses.

Application Process

The deadline for submitting applications is midnight, Monday September 3, 2013.

The application must be sent either via email to IFFGD at awards@iffgd.org or uploaded via our online submission form here. An original signed face page will be required prior to award disbursement, but is not required to be sent with the application submission.

The awards will be announced December 15, 2013 and the award period will begin January 1, 2014. Grants are in pre-tax U.S. dollars.

Direct questions as follows:

Via email about the grants or online submission instructions – Susan Schneck at sschneck@iffgd.org

By phone at 1-414-964-1799.

American Association of Anatomists Outreach Grants

Applications due: August 1 (for program or meeting funding the next calendar year)

AAA’s Outreach Grant Program provides funding for workshops, symposia, and meetings organized by AAA members, either as stand-alone activities or under the umbrella of other national or international societies. Supported activities may either be educational—such as anatomy workshops for high school students—or scientific. Targeted audiences include researchers, educators, and students at all levels. Additionally, Outreach Grants may be used to help support an event for National Lab Network events.

For the AAA/Wiley Research Meetings Outreach Grants Program and the AAA/Wiley Three-Year Research Meetings Outreach Grants Program, some preference will be given to meetings that will use the funds for student/ postdoc/ young investigator travel fellowships.

AAA Education Outreach Grant

AAA offers grants for education programs designed to enhance teaching skills or interest educators and students at all academic levels in anatomy as a discipline. Proposals are judged by the AAA Education Outreach Awards Subcommittee.

AAA/Wiley Research Meetings Outreach Grant

Funding is available to support non-AAA workshops, symposia, or meetings organized by AAA members. Preference will be given to research areas viewed as AAA strategic priorities—imaging, cellular and molecular anatomy, neurobiology, systems biology, and vertebrate development. Some preference will be given to programs that use the funds for student/ postdoc/ young investigator travel fellowships. Proposals will be judged by a subcommittee of the AAA Program Committee, with the participation of the editors of The Anatomical Record and Developmental Dynamics.

AAA/Wiley Three-Year Research Meetings Outreach Grant

AAA may select one meeting each year as deserving of ongoing support over a three-year period.  AAA may choose one such meeting a year so that in a given year, up to three such meetings will be supported. Beyond fulfilling the regular criteria for Research Meetings Outreach Grants outlined here, three-year funded meetings will be encouraged to consider meeting with the AAA Annual Meeting/Experimental Biology as a guest society and encouraged to publish a special issue in one of AAA’s journals. With this in mind, AAA’s journal editors will be involved in the selection process and the meetings being considered for a three-year award will be ranked on the following criteria:

•Potential contribution to mission of an AAA journal (Anatomical Record, Anatomical Sciences Education, Developmental Dynamics)

•Potential to become a guest society at an AAA Annual Meeting

•Likelihood of future AAA involvement of attendees

The second and third year of a three-year grant will be contingent on receipt of a satisfactory progress report within 60 days following each meeting. All applications for three-year grants that are not accepted will automatically be considered within the pool of applications for a one-year Research Meetings Outreach Grant.

All three grant programs will follow the same application process and funding cycle, with proposals due August 1 for funding in the following calendar year.

Eligibility

Only AAA members are eligible to apply for a grant. No individual or project will be funded two years in a row for an Education Outreach Grant or regular Research Meetings Outreach Grant. Members submitting separate proposals for the same meeting will be asked to consolidate their requests.

Application Process

Any AAA member interested in receiving an Outreach Grant should submit a proposal, not to exceed two pages, stating the goals and particulars of the project and the expected audience. Sources of matching funds or contributions from other societies should be indicated, along with an itemized budget detailing expenses for speaker travel, housing, on-site fees, and ancillary supplies or equipment. Also include details on how AAA might benefit from your program and how AAA support will be acknowledged. If you have received an AAA Outreach Grant in the past, you must provide details about the success of your earlier meeting or project. AAA support generally will not exceed $3,000 a year. Travel and housing expenses of the proposer will generally not be covered by the grant. A follow-up report on the meeting will be required in the format of an article to be published in the AAA Newsletter. Recipients will be asked to provide AAA with an electronic list of participants and to distribute or display appropriate AAA and Wiley information at their event, as requested.

Deadline

The submission deadline for grant proposals is August 1 (for program or meeting funding the next calendar year).

Review Process

The primary criteria for evaluating proposals include visibility and scientific impact, quality of participants, potential value to AAA, and visibility of AAA support. Additional criteria are described above. Based on subcommittees’ recommendations and funds available, the Board will select proposals for support. Recipients will be notified by late November of the calendar year in which the application is submitted; funds are disbursed in January. Neither the subcommittees nor the Board are obligated to make awards if satisfactory proposals have not been submitted or to provide the full amount requested.

Call for Nominations: American Association of Anatomists Young Investigator Awards

Nomination deadline: August 15th

Materials deadline: September 15th

Nominations are due each year on August 15; nominees are then asked to submit three representative papers by September 15. Winning nominees and their nominators will be notified of selection in late October and will be expected to present a lecture at the AAA Annual Meeting/EB 2012.

Beginning with nominations made in 2008, AAA’s Young Investigator Awards combine three long-standing AAA awards with a new award to recognize investigators in the early stages of their careers who have made important contributions to biomedical science through their research in cell/molecular biology, developmental biology, comparative neuroanatomy, or the morphological sciences. Candidates should be within 10 years of their highest earned degree at the time of nomination. It is not necessary that nominators or nominees be AAA members.

AAA’s Young Investigator Awards Selection Committee is comprised of eight (8) members appointed by the current or incoming President to represent the various disciplines covered by these awards. Committee members will serve a two-year term with one member serving a one-year term as chair in the final year. The position of chair will rotate among the disciplines covered by these awards. The committee will review all nominations and determine which of the following prizes to award in a given year. It is not required that each award be made annually.

R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology

This award, first given in 1979, recognizes a cell biologist who has made a distinguished contribution to the advancement of anatomy through discovery, ingenuity, and publications in the field of cell biology. The successful candidate will be an independent cell biologist whose publications have had substantial impact on his/her field.

C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy

Established in 1962, this award recognizes investigators who have made important contributions to the field of comparative neuroanatomy and have demonstrated remarkable promise of future accomplishments. The area of comparative neuroanatomy is defined broadly; previous awardees are outstanding scientists who have made contributions to areas of neuroscience, including neurochemistry, development, neurocytology, neuroendocrinology, neurophysiology, and molecular neurobiology.

H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology

This award was established in 2001 to recognize investigators in the early stages of their careers who have made important contributions to the field of developmental biology, as broadly defined, and have demonstrated remarkable promise of future accomplishments.

AAA Morphological Sciences Award

This award was established in 2008 to recognize investigators in the early stages of their careers who have made important contributions to biomedical science through research in the morphological sciences, as broadly defined, and have demonstrated remarkable promise of future accomplishments.

AAA Young Investigator Award recipients will present a lecture in the Young Investigator Award Symposium at the AAA Annual Meeting following their selection and will receive:

•A plaque

•A $1,000 honorarium

•Travel reimbursement (coach airfare plus 3 nights)

•Two years free membership in the American Association of Anatomists (and two years free membership for winning non-member nominators)

•Two years free registration (at early registration rate) at the AAA Annual Meeting/EB meeting, including the year of the award

NOMINATION MATERIALS

The person making the nomination only needs to submit:

1. Completed Award Nomination Form

2. Curriculum vitae of the nominee (NIH biosketch format preferred)

3. Detailed letter of recommendation that addresses the following:

•The significant research contribution(s) made by the nominee and why it is considered significant.

•Why the nominee's potential and current work is viewed as especially promising.

•The ability of the nominee to give a lecture that is dynamic, engaging, and readily understood by scientists across various subdisciplines.

•The date on which the nominee’s advanced professional degree was awarded.