Funding Opportunities for January 3, 2008
In this announcement:
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NIH
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NSF
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USDA
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Monsanto
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sponsor: 2008 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2)
Deadline(s): 03/31/2008
Synopsis:
The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award was created in 2007 to support a small number of new investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research. The research proposed need not be in a conventional biomedical or behavioral discipline but must be relevant to the mission of NIH. The New Innovator Awards complement ongoing efforts by NIH and its institutes and centers to fund new investigators through R01 grants, which continue to be the major sources of NIH support for new investigators. Thirty New Innovator Awards were made in 2007.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor: Directorate for Biological Sciences/NSF
Title: Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
Deadline(s): 02/19/2008
Synopsis:
Funding is provided to support high-throughput sequencing of the genomes of microorganisms (including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, oomycetes, protists and agriculturally important nematodes) and to develop and implement strategies, tools and technologies to make currently available genome sequences more valuable to the user community. Applicants may request funding of up to $2.5 million for a maximum duration of three years.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Sponsor: Cooperative State Research, Education, & Extension Service/Department of Agriculture
Title: Plant Biosecurity--Standard Research Grant (NRICGP)
Deadline(s): 3/14/2008, 6/5/2008
Synopsis:
The sponsor supports integrated projects aimed at ensuring a continued supply of safe, high-quality, affordable food and fiber for consumers in the U.S. and international trade partners. The goal of the program is to harness our Nation’s scientific and technological resources to help agricultural producers and professionals implement strategies to safeguard agriculture in the U.S. from high-consequence plant diseases. To accomplish this, the program will focus on integrated research, education and extension projects that counter threats to the agriculture system in the U.S., both by stepwise improvements to current responses and by development of innovative new capabilities.
Monsanto
Sponsor: Monsanto Fund
Program Number: 65971
Title: Grants Program
Deadline(s): 01/01/2008, 04/15/2008, 07/01/2008, 03/01/2008, 09/01/2008
Synopsis:
The sponsor provides support to non-profit, tax-exempt organizations in four priority areas: Improving Nutritional Well Being through Agriculture, The Environment, Science Education and Our Communities. Grants are made both within and outside the U.S. DEADLINE NOTE: January 1, 2008 and July 1, 2008 are the deadlines for applications submitted to the sponsor's headquarters in the U.S. The deadline for submission of applications to local seed production/research sites is April 15, 2008. Applicants submitting applications to local manufacturing sites should contact the local representative for timelines for submissions. Applicants from outside the U.S. must submit applications to their world area contact by July 1, 2007; the world area contact must submit the applications to the sponsor by March 1, 2008 and September 1, 2008.
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