Grants Bulletin; June 15, 2017

The current issue of Grants Bulletin is available at the following website:

http://www.research.uky.edu/pdo/bulletin.html

Issued: June 15, 2017

Limited Submissions

• OASH/Office of Minority Health – Empowered Communities for a Healthier Nation Initiative – June 27
• NIH/NCI – Pediatric Early Phase Clinical Trials Network (UM1) – July 3
• NIH – NINDS Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (R25) – July 18

NSF announces NSF.gov, FastLane, and Research.gov will be unavailable from June 30 until July 4

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is moving its Data Center IT servers to the Foundation’s new headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.  This move has been scheduled around a holiday weekend to minimize the systems downtime and reduce the impact on the research community and NSF staff. As a result of the move, the NSF website, FastLane, and Research.gov will be unavailable from Friday, June 30 at 8:00 PM EDT until Tuesday, July 4 at 6:00 PM EDT. During this outage period, there will be no access to these websites, proposals cannot be submitted in FastLane, and project reports cannot be submitted in Research.gov. In addition, FastLane will not be available for post-award prior approval requests. However, previously saved information and uploaded documents in FastLane and Research.gov, including in-process proposals and reports, will be accessible after the NSF Data Center move.

Please contact your College Grant Officer for questions related to NSF proposals and your OSPA Research Administrator for questions related to your NSF awards.

NCATS Opportunity for collaborators at 2 CTSA Hubs: Limited Competition: Exploratory CTSA Collaborative Innovation Awards (R21)
PAR-16-343 is still open, the announcement is soliciting collaborative projects between 2 CTSA Hubs.  Many of us are talking, even collaborating, with partners at CTSA Hubs.  This may be an opportunity to grow the resources behind those efforts. 

Application Deadlines

July 31, 2017, November 29, 2017, March 29, 2018, July 30, 2018

The Purpose

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support highly innovative, exploratory collaborative research projects in the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, with the goal of assessing utility and feasibility of proposed innovation(s).
Contact CCTS@uky.edu with questions.

PDO Services Update

As part of a new emphasis on delivering more tailored research development services to University of Kentucky researchers, the Proposal Development Office (PDO) is ending its membership in the Grants Resource Center (GRC), a component of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), to pursue more strategically aligned research development tools. Effective July 1, 2017, PDO will no longer provide online access to GRC’s Grant Deadlines publication and GrantSearch database.