Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-06

DOE’s Office of Science is Now Accepting Applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards

Students Will Perform Graduate Thesis Research at National Laboratories

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2022 Solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due 5:00pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The SCGSR program supports awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory or host site in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist — with the goal of preparing graduate students for scientific and technical careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall graduate theses while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the host DOE laboratories. SCGSR is open to current Ph.D. students in qualified graduate programs at accredited U.S. academic institutions, who are conducting their graduate thesis research in targeted areas of importance to the DOE Office of Science. Since its inception in 2014, the SCGSR program has provided support to over 780 graduate awardees from more than 150 different U.S. universities to conduct thesis research at all 17 DOE national laboratories across the nation.

The SCGSR program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, in collaboration with the eight Office of Science research and advanced technology program offices and the DOE national laboratories/facilities. Program administration support is provided by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). More information can be found at https://science.osti.gov/wdts.

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NIH Grant Applications: Biosketch Format Pages, Instructions and Samples

Biosketches are required in both competing applications and progress reports. Find instructions, blank format pages, and sample biosketches below. Try SciENcv, a tool supporting multiple research agencies, to help you develop your biosketch and automatically format it according to NIH requirements. The biosketch format page has been updated for application due dates and RPPR submissions on/after January 25, 2022 (See NOT-OD-21-073 / NOT-OD-21-110 for specific changes and details). Use the tabs to access the correct format page for your due date.

Supporting Documentation: For Other Support submissions that include foreign activities and resources, recipients are required to submit copies of contracts, grants or any other agreement specific to senior/keypersonnel foreign appointments and/or employment with a foreign institution as supporting documentation. If they are not in English, recipients must provide translated copies. This supporting documentation must be provided as part of the Other Support PDF following the Other Support Format page.

More information about proposal submission requirements is posted on NJIT Research Website under For Researchers – Pre-Award Services webpage https://research.njit.edu/pre-award-services:

NIH Biosketch Format Pages, Instructions and Samples

NIH Other Support Format Pages, Instructions and Samples

NSF-Approved Formats for the Biographical Sketch

NSF-Approved Formats for Current and Pending Support

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NAI-NJIT Chapter Workshop

Sustainable Societies: Global Healthcare

Innovations to Global Solutions

In Conjunction with

President’s Forum

and

NJIT 2022 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratory Showcase

February 21, 2022; 9.00 AM – 2.00 PM

Ballroom A/B and Gallery, Campus Center, NJIT

Abstract: As the world continues to evolve with increasing population and life expectancy along with urbanization and socio-economic inequalities, the global community is now facing a critical grand challenge of quality healthcare at affordable cost. According to the data published by World Health Organization (WHO), top global causes of death, in order of total number of lives lost but not including pandemic outbreaks, are associated with three broad topics: cardiovascular (ischemic heart disease, stroke), respiratory (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections) and neonatal conditions.

The workshop will provide an open forum to discuss innovative global solutions to address the healthcare grand challenge through preventive, personalized and precision medicine exploring the potential contributions of Point-of-Care technologies for communicable as well as non-communicable diseases.  The workshop will feature keynote talks and panel discussions by leaders from all stakeholder groups representing academic, industry, healthcare, and regulatory sectors to discuss potential pathways and collaborative synergies towards sustainable societies with affordable quality healthcare.

Panel-1 will focus on challenges associated with global healthcare for public health emergencies such as COVID-19 pandemic as well as critical non-communicable diseases. Lessons learned from the recent NIH’s successful RADx initiative in developing and accelerating the use of POC testing technologies for timely intervention and clinical management of COVID-19 pandemic will be discussed. The panel will also explore how challenges the US encounters managing patients across systems, spending limited resources effectively, and setting and meeting regulatory requirements become even more complex in global healthcare. Panel-2 will focus on technology innovation, translation, and scalability of innovative solutions to diverse environments and societies, each with unique care delivery models and opportunities. In addition, select research and development technologies in critical global healthcare applications will be explored.    

Program Agenda

8.30 AM – 9.00 AM:  Registration and Electronic PPT Poster Set-up

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM: NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Electronic Poster  Session-1

10.00 AM – 10.05 AM: Welcome Remarks:

                                       Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research, NJIT

                                       Fadi Deek, Provost and Senior Executive Vice President, NJIT

10.05 AM – 10.10 AM: Program Agenda and Introduction to the Distinguished Speaker

                                       Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research, NJIT

10.10 AM – 10.50 AM:  Keynote Presentation: Opportunities in Engineering Medicine to Advance Global Healthcare

                                      Distinguished Speaker: Roderic Pettigrew, PhD, MD

                                       Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health and Executive Dean Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine at Texas A&M University, Former Founding Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

10.50 AM–11.30 AM: Distinguished Panel Discussion I: Sustainable Societies: Global Healthcare Challenges

Moderator:

Arunan Skandarajah, PhD

Presidential Innovation Fellow at FDA

Panelists:

Steven Schachter, MD

CTO, CIMIT

Jo Carol Hiatt, MD, MBA, FACS

Vice President, Health Economics and Patient Value, Medical Device Innovation Consortium

Yukari C. Manabe, MD

Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation, Professor of Medicine, JHU

11.30 AM–12.10 PM:    Distinguished Panel Discussion II: Sustainable societies: Global Healthcare Innovations

Moderator:

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD

Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science

Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science

Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School                

Panelists:

Caroline Mbindyo

CEO, Amref Health Innovations

Treena Arinzeh, PhD

Distinguished Professor, NJIT

George F. Heinrich, MD

Vice Chair and CEO, Foundation Venture Capital Group, New Jersey Health Foundation

12.10 PM – 12.30 PM: Concluding Remarks

                                     Distinguished Speaker: Amadou Sall, PhD

                                     CEO of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal 

12.30 PM – 1.00 PM: Lunch and Networking Session

1.00 PM – 2.00 PM:   NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Electronic Poster Session-2

NSF: Future Manufacturing (FM); Research Visioning for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Research Directions for the CISE Community (CISE-RV); NSF Innovation Corps Hubs Program (I-Corps™ Hubs); Civic Innovation ChallengeStrengthening American Infrastructure (SAI); Geophysics (PH); Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE); Petrology and Geochemistry (CH); NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE); Research Coordination Networks: Fostering and Nurturing a Diverse Community of CI Professionals (RCN:CIP); Semiconductor Synthetic Biology Circuits and Communications for Information Storage (SemiSynBio-III); Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Equity Resource Center (AISL-ERC)

NIH: BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Projects- TargetedBCP (R01); Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan (R21); NIMH Instrumentation Program (S10); BRAIN Initiative: Development of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in Human and Non-Human Primate Brain (UG3/UH3); BRAIN Initiative: Standards to Define Experiments Related to the BRAIN Initiative (R01); Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) (R21); Pilot Studies for the Spectrum of Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (R61); High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10); Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI); The Department of Defense (DoD) Fiscal Year 2023 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP); Fiscal Year 2022 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program; Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide; Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS (MCS) BAA

Department of Transportation: FY 2021 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Enhancing Mobility Innovation

Department of Agriculture: 2022 Soil Science Collaborative Research Proposals; FY 22 National Urban and Community Forestry Grant Program; Announcement for Program Funding for NRCS’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)

Department of Labor: Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) Grant Program

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Precision Measurement Grant Program (PMGP); Environmental Literacy Program; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: FY 2022 - FY2023 Pollution Prevention Grant Program Fy 2022 - Fy2023 Pollution Prevention Grant Program Funded By The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Department of Energy: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Funding Opportunity Announcement; FY22 Carbon Utilization Technology: Improving Efficient Systems for Algae; Energy Frontier Research Centers

NASA: Early Career Faculty: ROSES 2021: Astrophysics Pioneers

National Endowment of Humanities: Humanities Initiatives; Fellowships

Private Foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) Grants

Agencies Look To Expand Both Automation Tech and AI Workforce: The presence of artificial intelligence in the federal workforce is poised to expand, with officials emphasizing the human component behind automation and machine learning technologies. Officials including Gil Alterovitz, the Veterans’ Affairs National Artificial Intelligence Institute director, and Martin Stanley, the branch chief of Strategic Technology at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, spoke during a Thursday panel and discussed digitization within their respective agencies.  Alterovitz said that VA leadership has opened up new data scientist positions to serve as subject matter experts across the government. Alterovitz also discussed the ethical parameters the VA has in place for its usage of automated technology. He cited the executive order signed by former President Donald Trump that outlined how government agencies need to responsibly manage AI.

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Biden Admin Announces $5 Billion To Fund Nationwide Electric Vehicle Charging Network: The White House on Thursday announced $5 billion in funding that will be allocated for states to build out a national electric vehicle charging network. The goal of the funding, made available through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and managed jointly by the Energy and Transportation Departments, is to promote the use of electric vehicles and boost the nascent industry. “A century ago, America ushered in the modern automotive era; now America must lead the electric vehicle revolution,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement. “The President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help us win the EV race by working with states, labor and the private sector to deploy a historic nationwide charging network that will make EV charging accessible for more Americans.”    Ultimately, $5 billion in funding will be made available to states over the next five years under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, beginning with $615 million in fiscal 2022. However, to receive potential funds, states must submit an electric vehicle infrastructure deployment plan. Those plans outline a state’s intent to use funds under Federal Highway Administration guidance.

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White House Unveils New Quantum Sciences Education Initiative: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a new initiative to complement its quantum computing research and development efforts, focusing on improved advanced technology education and outreach. The National Strategic Plan for Quantum Information Science and Technology Workforce Development was formally announced on Tuesday. Developed within the executive branch, the national plan broadly aims to help foster the workforce talent necessary to keep up with the growing number of jobs in quantum sciences.  “To accelerate QIST [Quantum Information Science and Technology] R&D and grow the Nation’s capacity to develop quantum technologies, the United States needs a talented, diverse and adaptable workforce,” the plan begins. “However, the supply of such talent currently does not meet demand from the rapidly expanding industrial, national laboratory, government and academic efforts.” One of the key strategies included in the plan is increasing high school and undergraduate student participation and access to STEM and quantum sciences educational opportunities. The goal is to foster a familiarity and enthusiasm among a younger generation to then pursue careers in government, academia or the private sector. 

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Defense Department Previews New Future-Facing Technology Aims: The Defense Department released a broad plan to expand and ensure its technological edge on the shifting global conflict stage—equipped with a list of more than a dozen technologies it is prioritizing in the near term—via a six-page memorandum published on Thursday. Penned by Defense Undersecretary for Research and Engineering and DOD Chief Technology Officer Heidi Shyu, the USD(R&E) Technology Vision for an Era of Competition previews the impending National Defense Science and Technology Strategy and its development. Shyu’s office will also steer the making of that future-facing blueprint. President Joe Biden’s administration is placing a sharp focus on strategic competition, particularly with Russia and China, as it crafts the latest National Defense Strategy that’s expected to be released early this year. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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