NCIBC Request for Applications for the Collaborative Research Initiative
PURPOSE: The Collaborative Research Initiative is designed to foster collaborative research among teams of two or more investigators whose work aligns with the center's focus areas. This funding opportunity aims to stimulate new partnerships and innovative research directions that advance the scientific mission of NCIBC.
AWARD INFORMATION:
- Funding Amount: $10,000 per award
- Project Period: Typically 12 months
ELIGIBILITY:
- Collaborative projects involving teams of two or more investigators
- Current NCIBC members who are not receiving CoBRE funding at the time of application
- All formerly funded CIBC faculty
- Proposals must demonstrate clear alignment with the center's focus areas
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- One-page description of the project's specific aims.
- Give a presentation at an NCIBC monthly meeting about your research project.
SUBMISSION PROCESS:
- Email the one-page description to NCIBC Director Jiantao Guo at jguo4@unl.edu
AWARD CONDITIONS:
- Any publications, presentations, or future work that can be attributed to this funding must cite the NCIBC and the NIH CoBRE grant [P20GM113126]
- Recipients are expected to give a talk about their CRI research at a monthly NCIBC research meeting within the calendar year of receiving the award.
CONTACT INFORMATION: For questions regarding this funding opportunity, please contact: Kacey Nelkin Pedersen at knelkinpedersen2@unl.edu
ABOUT THE CENTER: Diseases result when the internal stability and normal communications between tissues and cellular pathways are disrupted by genetic defects, environmental disturbances, or pathogens. NCIBC is funded by a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence grant (P20GM113126) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to build institutional capacity and infrastructure for basic biomedical research. NCIBC is designed to be a natural mixing chamber to integrate the research activities of chemists, biochemists, engineers, and bioinformaticists to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how cells communicate and to mechanistically define metabolic and regulatory pathways relevant to disease development and progression. NCIBC's long-term goal is to foster the development of collaborative research teams with broad disciplinary representation to interrogate complex disease pathways, especially by connecting researchers who are developing new molecular probes and analytical and informatics technologies with those unraveling molecular mechanisms of complex diseases.
Please cite the grant (P20GM113126) if NCIBC funding or other NCIBC resources contribute to your publications.