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We are pleased to call for nominations for the 2017 American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Council Young Physician-Scientist Awards. We seek nominations of outstanding physician-scientists who are funded by NIH K or similar career-development awards, and who have recently received their first faculty appointment (preferably within the past 5 years). This is an excellent(...)
The JHU-UMD-DRC Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program provides up to four grants of $50,000 in direct costs towards the development of preliminary data sufficient for the application of a research grant, or towards the testing of an innovative hypothesis, which might have important implications or yield significant results for diabetes-related research. Translational studies are encouraged.(...)
The overall goal of the 2016-2017 Brancati Center Pilot Research Grant Program is to support research related to substance misuse in Baltimore City. The center seeks to fund novel but mature research plans that have potential to provide convincing data that will either (1) offer ways to immediately improve community-based care or (2) garner external funding(...)
The Primary Care Consortium (PCC) is has announced it will be funding 3-5 grants in the $5,000 to $20,000 range as part of its Small Grant Program for 2017. The mission of the PCC is to provide a broadly collaborative and multi-disciplinary academic home at Hopkins for research, education, quality improvement and innovation designed to improve(...)
The next deadline for the School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award applications is Friday December 2, 2016 at 5 p.m. The award provides up to $80,000 per year for a maximum of two years up to 75 percent support of the applicant’s salary and benefits. The portal is open and accepting applications. The applicant will(...)
The Biomarkers and Diagnostic Testing Community of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is accepting applications for their Nexus Award Program. The award strives to improve the research environment and career satisfaction of faculty by providing funds to investigators engaged in biomarker or diagnostic testing discovery and evaluation, including imaging research. It is designed(...)
We encourage mid-career faculty to apply for the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award if your scholarly work is transforming your discipline. As indicated in the full instructions at http://web.jhu.edu/administration/provost/awards/PFA, the ideal candidate is a mid-career faculty member. The last 2 winners were associate professors. Self-nominations are allowed. The deadline is October 26, 2016.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a Proposers Day to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated Research Announcement (RA) for the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program. The Proposers Day will be held on Monday, October 3 from 2-5 p.m. The event will be(...)
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) announces the availability of three pilot grants in amounts up to $50,000 for projects to be completed over two years. These grants are intended to accelerate the development and translation of novel approaches to the treatment of patients with psychiatric and behavioral health conditions in accordance with the summary on(...)
The Center for Proteomics Discovery (CPD) is excited to announce $25,000 in Core Coins as a funding mechanism to help accelerate investigations using proteomics. The CPD was recently launched to address a growing need among Johns Hopkins investigators for advanced mass spectrometry-based proteomics services. The CPD provides mass spectrometry services to comprehensively characterize whole proteomes(...)