Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-15

NJ ACTS Pilot Program

https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu/investigator-resources/funding-opportunities/

Pre-submission Webinar: April 19, 2022 from 5:00-6:30 pm

Letter of Intent Deadline: May 6, 2022 (required)(midnight) via REDCap link:

Application Deadline: June 17, 2022 (midnight) NJ ACTS Pilot Program Application_2022

One of the major objectives of NJ ACTS is to successfully translate biomedical discoveries to clinical applications by promoting creative and innovative science, and by providing pilot support for hypothesis generation and testing and building teams to address questions in translational science. The NJ ACTS Pilot Program offers pilot grants to foster collaborative research among faculty in three institutions: Princeton University, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Rutgers University. We expect that the NJ ACTS Pilot Program will increase collaborative research and provide a path to sustainable, extramurally-funded, independent research across the alliance.

NJ ACTS will commit up to $640,000 this year. The program is funded through the generous support of the NIH CTSA Award, the New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF), and each of the academic partners. The leaders of the Pilot Program will host a webinar to explain the categories of funding, proposal requirements, regulatory requirements and NIH/NCATS approval processes, and to answer questions from participants.

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NIH’s New Scientific Data Sharing Website

https://sharing.nih.gov/

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently launched a new website on scientific data sharing, which is a comprehensive resource detailing all NIH data sharing policies. Sharing policies encompass scientific data, genomic data, research tools, model organisms, clinical trials, and more. You can access the website here. For more information about this new website, including a video tour of its features, check out this blog post from the NIH office of extramural research. 

NSF: NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2022 Cohort; Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD); Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*); Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI); Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers (ERC); Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones (SII-NRDZ)

NIH: NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1); NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2); Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01); Technology Development Research for Establishing Feasibility and Proof of Concept (R21); Understanding and Addressing Misinformation among Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01); BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01); Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: DoD Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic, Applied Research Award; DoD Peer Reviewed, Career Development Award’  DoD Peer Reviewed, Translational Team Science Award; DOD, Autism Research Program, Idea Development Award; DOD, Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, Translational Research Award; DOD, Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, Investigator-Initiated Research Award; Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Office-wide; ERDC Broad Agency Announcement; Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI); Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide

Department of Transportation: Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) and MEGA Grants

Department of Agriculture: FY 2022 Scientific Cooperation Research Program; Conservation Innovation Grants New Jersey State Program

Department of Labor: Growth Opportunities

Department of Commerce/EDA:  2022 Build to Scale Program; Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM

Department of Energy: Management and Storage of Scientific Data; Program: Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Centers (MMICCs); Randomized Algorithms for Combinatorial Scientific Computing; Data Visualization for Scientific Discovery, Decision-Making, and Communication; FY2022 Artificial Intelligence Research for High Energy Physics); Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP)

NASA: ROSES 2022: Applications-Oriented Augmentation for Research and Analysis; ROSES 2022: Heliophysics Tools and Methods; ROSES 2022: Solar System Observations; ROSES 2022: Heliophysics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Ready Data; ROSES 2022: Heliophysics Innovation in Technology and Science

National Endowment of Humanities: Summer Stipends; Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants; Research and Development; Humanities Initiatives

Private Foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grant Challenges Partnership Network

International Quantum Partnerships: The State Department announced a new international partnership focused on the continued research and development of new quantum technologies as the U.S. works to solidify its global presence in the burgeoning field. Announcing a new partnership with Sweden on Wednesday, the U.S. has now entered several bilateral agreements specifically focused on quantum tech development with various ally countries, including Japan, Australia, Finland and the U.K.  “Taking into account that QIST [quantum information, science and technology] ecosystems will rely on close international connections and collaboration with partners, we intend to focus on cooperation in QIST as outlined in this vision for the mutual benefit of participating countries and continue to enhance scientific cooperation under our respective leaderships,” the State Department press release read. 

As the U.S.’s national security––and that of other nations’––becomes directly proportional to its technological infrastructure, more of these bilateral partnerships are likely to arrive, according to Quantum Economic Development Consortium Executive Director Celia Merzbacher.  More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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AI Reasoning Based Human Movement Research: he intelligence community is preparing for a busy research year with up to a dozen new projects, many of which lean on artificial intelligence and a special tailor-made quantum offering for the National Security Agency.  Catherine Marsh, the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, previewed a range of the agency’s research offerings that are expected to take shape this year during a keynote address at the Intelligence National Security Alliance’s Spring Symposium April 11.  Marsh said the goal is to kick off 10 to 12 new projects this year, including one that attempts to link “digital fingerprints” to a text’s author. In the coming weeks, Marsh said the agency will release a broad agency announcement for HAYSTAC, a program that seeks to “figure out human movement” using AI-reasoning engines that can identify abnormal patterns while generating normal ones. 

The IARPA director’s comments come after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its four-year tech investment plan, which ranked artificial intelligence among the most sought after capabilities, including expanded data, cyber, computing and sensor capabilities. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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New Data-Sharing Requirements from the National Institutes of Health are a Big Step Toward More Open Science – and Potentially Higher-Quality Research: Starting on Jan. 25, 2023, many of the 2,500 institutions and 300,000 researchers that the U.S. National Institutes of Health supports will need to provide a formal, detailed plan for publicly sharing the data generated by their research. For many in the scientific community, this new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy sounds like a no-brainer.

The incredibly quick development of rapid tests and vaccines for COVID-19 demonstrate the success that can follow the open sharing of data within the research community. The importance and impact of that data even drove a White House Executive Order mandating that “the heads of all executive departments and agencies” share “COVID-19-related data” publicly last year. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

Question:       How do I enter a cost share? For my salary? For other personnel and expenses?

Answer:         Cost Share for personnel other than faculty is very similar to release time –

• add the person under Key personnel
• select the period (start and end dates) that the staff/admin will be devoted to the project
• select percentage.

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