Issue: ORN-2026-24
NJIT Research Newsletter includes recent awards, and announcements of research related seminars, webinars, national and federal research news related to research funding, and Grant Opportunity Alerts (with links to sections). The Newsletter is posted on the NJIT Research Website https://research.njit.edu/funding-opportunities.
Special Announcements
Announcement
CTR 2026 Translational Research and Innovation Badge Workshop
Value Creation and Partnerships in Innovation Ecosystems: Translation Validation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
Sponsored by
NSF ART (Accelerating Research Translation) Program at NJIT
National Academy of Inventor (NAI) – NJIT Chapter
Date and Venue: July 13-14, 2026, Atrium, Student Campus Center, NJIT
(Breakfast and Lunch will be provided on both days.)
Faculty, Post-docs and Students are Welcome
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Attendees of the CTR Workshop will receive “Completion Trophy and NJIT Digital Badge Certificate with Professional Development Hours (PDH) Credits after competition.
Registration Required by June 30, 2026
Please Register using CTR Translational Research Badge Workshop Registration Form
Brief Description: The Center for Translational Research is committed to promoting excellence in collaborative research, innovation partnerships, entrepreneurial pathways, education, training and infrastructure development to translate technology into applications with a high societal and economic impact. To follow up on the CTR mission to enhance the research, innovation and technology entrepreneurship ecosystem at NJIT, we have initiated a series of CTR workshops on Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer in Translational Research for Value Creation to enhance our understanding and facilitate pathways to innovation partnerships and value creation. The CTR badge work will provide faculty, postdocs and students an opportunity to interact with experts on early and advanced translational research, tech transfer, licensing and creating partnerships-based start-ups for entrepreneurial and commercialization activities.
Why You Should Attend: The CTR workshop agenda will bring key stakeholder groups including academic innovators, industry, government and community leaders to focus on understanding their perspectives and expectations on developing and sustaining partnerships-based value creation roadmap for technology translation from lab to market.
The workshop will provide a unique forum of “Reverse Pitch Presentations” from successful entrepreneurs to learn about innovation translation and value creation for commercialization (please see the session protocol details with interactive participation of faculty and students in the agenda below). The start-up industry presentations will be followed by open discussion on understanding the importance of value based effective communication to stakeholders for securing investment funding.
Also, an experienced professional team from VentureWell will present a special interactive workshop session to understand various funder perspectives and alignment with business stage of startups, and investor perspectives and elements of a successful value proposition. Throughout the workshop, attendees will have opportunities to learn and discuss challenges and pathways to innovation translation and validation towards potential commercialization for societal benefits and economic impact.
Who Should Attend: Faculty, research staff, undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs and external partners who are pursuing or are interested in understanding pathways to translational research and innovation partnerships-based value creation for technology translation to use-inspired applications and societal impact should attend and would be benefited from the badge workshop.
The CTR badge workshop is required to all innovators and principal investigators funded by CTR translational research seed grants including TITA and CERT seed grants. Faculty who are planning to submit TITA or CERT seed grant proposals should attend as they will have the opportunity to network with TITA external advisory board members and learn value creation and investment presentation tactics from successful entrepreneurs.
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MTEC: Pre-Announcement: "Multi-Topic Request for Proposals: Military Medical Prototype Advancement”
DHA and National Guard
The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is excited to post this pre-announcement for an upcoming Request for Project Proposals (RPP) soliciting a broad range of medical prototype technological and knowledge solutions related to the Focus Areas of Interest (also called “Focus Area(s)”) listed below. Proposed solutions may include medical techniques, knowledge products, and materiel (e.g., medical devices, drugs, and biologics). Military relevance is a key feature of the upcoming RPP.
Funding Opportunity Overview: FOCUS AREAS:
To meet the intent of the RPP, each proposal SHALL specifically address ONLY ONE Focus Area described below. Offerors are not limited to a single proposal submission. Projects that fail to align with only one of these Focus Areas may not be considered for funding. The following general Focus Areas of Interest are not listed in order of importance. The detailed requirements for each area will be described in the upcoming Request for Project Proposals. The anticipated focus areas include, but are not limited to the listing below:
- Focus Area 1: Policies and practices for cross-cutting prevention
- Focus Area 2: Fostering Service member physical fitness through integrated primary prevention
- Focus Area 3: Identify and reduce barriers to help-seeking
- Focus Area 4: Prophylactic Solutions to Prevent Battlefield and Complex Traumatic Wound Infections in Austere or Contested Environments
- Focus Area 5: Pathogen Agnostic Countermeasures for the Treatment of Sepsis Caused by Wound Infection
- Focus Area 6: Knowledge Product Solutions for the Prevention of Infection in Traumatic Penetrating Wounds
- Focus Area 7: Bacterial Diarrhea Prevention
- Focus Area 8: Dengue Fever Prevention and/or Treatment Solutions
- Focus Area 9: Prevention and Treatment of Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Focus Area 10: Musculoskeletal Injury Treatment
- Focus Area 11: Operational Suitability of Existing Pain Treatments
- Focus Area 12: Repurposing and Novel Delivery of Approved Compounds
- Focus Area 13: Development of Novel Non-Addictive Analgesics
- Focus Area 14: Advanced Anesthesia and Procedural Pain Solutions
Additional background and solution requirements for each of the above mentioned Focus Areas will be provided within the upcoming RPP.
Please visit the MTEC website at https://mtec-sc.org/solicitations/multitopic to view the Pre-Announcement, which includes additional information on Technical Objectives and Solution Requirements.
Grant Opportunity Alerts
NSF: Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs : A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation
NIH: Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award (Parent F99/K00)
Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: DoW Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Idea Development Award; DoW Joint Warfighter Medical, Military Medical Research and Development Award; Restorative and health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST); Decentralized Artificial Intelligence through Controlled Emergence (DICE)
Department of Energy: Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2026 (IGNIITE 2026)
NASA: MUREP Space Technology Artemis Research (M-STAR)
Recent Research Grant and Contract Awards
In the News
OpenAI’s ChatGPT to debut on GenAI.mil in ‘early July’: Speaking during the Defense One Tech Summit in Virginia on Tuesday, Mohammed Husain — the Strategic Delivery Lead for Cyber at OpenAI — said the company is poised in early July to unveil its flagship chatbot model ChatGPT to defense civilian and military personnel through GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s enterprise-wide generative AI platform. Through GenAI.mil, ChatGPT will be available to more than 3 million defense personnel and certified for controlled unclassified information and Impact Level 5. Husain said OpenAI is still working closely with the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office to launch ChatGPT across the military apparatus. The Defense Department launched the platform in December with initial plans to integrate Gemini for Government, and later announced plans to incorporate AI models from OpenAI and xAI. In late April, senior defense officials said more than 1.3 million users were regularly using the platform, having developed more than 100,000 AI agents. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
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Tech bills of the week: Managing biological data; Evaluating quantum computing’s impact on national security; and more: A proposal seeks to create a comprehensive database of biological data to make available to American researchers with the goal of centralizing critical information to accelerate the U.S. biotechnology sector. Introduced on Tuesday by Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., the Web of Biological Data Act looks to democratize access to biological data for research and development purposes. The bill stems from an earlier Senate report that examined the national security implications of emerging biotechnology and found that China’s approach to exploit public data has translated to a stronger biotech industry for the nation. The solution proposed in the bill tasks the Energy secretary with creating an implementation plan, beginning with the appointment of a single national lab to helm a pilot program that collects, secures and democratizes specific biological data.
Evaluating U.S. quantum innovations
Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., introduced a bill on Wednesday that seeks to create a government commission to evaluate the myriad implications of quantum information technologies, including looking at the national security ramifications. The National Security Commission on Quantum Computing Act would establish an 11-member, bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers to assess the national security, economic, scientific and military repercussions of quantum computing. The goal of the commission would be to use this assessment to craft a report that recommends actions Congress and the executive branch should take on public-private partnerships, research initiatives, workforce planning, and more to fortify the U.S. quantum tech sector.
Nationalizing AI
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released legislation on Thursday that functions as a framework to give the U.S. government shares in leading AI companies, aiming to share the revenue generated by major tech firms with the public. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act’s topline goal is to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest U.S. AI companies. The 50% share would be executed as a one-time tax on the stock of large, publicly traded AI developers, which would then be deposited into a separate wealth fund that would allocate annual dividends as direct payments to U.S. citizens. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
Webinars and Events
Research Grant Opportunities:
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
NASA
Proposal Submission and Streamlyne Information
The NJIT Proposal Submission Guidelines and Policy provides the expected institutional timeline for proposal submission. Streamlyne User Manuals are posted on https://research.njit.edu/streamlyne. For contact information on proposal submission, pre-award services and post-award grant management, please visit research website https://research.njit.edu/researchers and https://research.njit.edu/contact.