Request for Applications for New Seed Projects
NCIBC seeks to fund several new Seed Projects (up to $25K direct costs), in the center’s focus areas as broadly defined below. Seed Projects are short term awards with a limited possibility of renewal.
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.
Eligibility:
- The proposed research must fall into the areas of NCIBC focus as listed above with preference given to collaborative projects involving NCIBC members and to projects that will make use of the NCIBC Systems Biology Core and/or Microscopy Core facilities.
- NCIBC Seed Project Leaders must become participating members of the center.
Application Process:
- Application should include: (1) a cover page with a descriptive title of proposed research and contact information; (2) a one-page description of research plan. Plans for collaboration within NCIBC and use of the NCIBC research core facilities should be included in the body of the research plan; (3) an NIH biosketch; and (4) a budget which supports any expenses covered by a standard NIH grant totaling up to $25,000 in direct costs. Renovation/alteration expenses and indirect (F&A) costs are not allowed.
- Applications should be submitted as a single PDF document to jguo4@unl.edu by 5 p.m. CST on April 15.
Application Review:
Proposals will be reviewed by the Center Directors and members of Internal Mentoring and Advisory Committee using standard NIH review criteria. Top-ranked proposals may be forwarded to the NCIBC external advisory committee members for approval and/or recommendations prior to submission to NIH for final approval. Award notifications will be sent out via email in early May.
Questions:
- Contact NCIBC Director, Jiantao Guo: jguo4@unl.edu