Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-37

Announcement: Call for Proposals

FY2024 Technology Innovation Translation and Acceleration (TITA) Seed Grant

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TITA External Advisory Board (EAB)

TITA Program Proposer Information Session:

Monday, October 2, 2023: 12.00.00 PM – 1.30 PM (light lunch will be served)

Please RSVP to attend the information by filling out this form by September 26, 2023.

TITA Seed Grant Program Objective

The NJIT Technology Innovation Translation and Acceleration (TITA) Seed Grant program will enable faculty and students to successfully accelerate the translation of their innovation to enterprise development and business incubation. The TITA grant program will foster entrepreneurial pathways from research and innovation to business and value creation with the acquisition of intellectual property, market validation, and engagement of stakeholders towards commercialization.

The TITA Seed Grants will increase awareness of the potential commercial benefits at earlier stages of the translation and market validation process and allow researchers and stakeholders to collaborate for entrepreneurial success. It will also help faculty to submit competitive translational research proposals to external grant funding opportunities.  

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BARDA Accelerator Network Opportunity

BARDA is actively seeking proposals for the BARDA Acceleration Network 2.0!

The Accelerator Network connects BARDA to thirteen accelerators across the U.S. in regions where there is heavy activity in developing health security products and technologies in biotechnology, life science research, and medical innovations. The network supports early-stage companies throughout their journey – from identifying a need to product launch – to help them overcome their biggest business, marketing, and operational hurdles, and achieve success sooner. These partnerships provide BARDA with critical insights and direct connections to our nation’s innovators, through which the development of groundbreaking technology to improve our nation’s health security would not be possible. To learn more about the RFP, visit: https://drive.hhs.gov/acceleratorrfi.html

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New Jersey Health Foundation Research Grants Program

Proposal Submission Window: September 15 - November 10, 2023

The New Jersey Health Foundation Research Grants program supports early innovative research projects that demonstrate exciting potential and help researchers qualify for larger grants. Our Community Health, Social Service & Education Grants Program funds health-related community, education and social service projects that address issues impacting society.

Faculty and personnel from select organizations (NJIT is included) will be eligible to apply for a grant.   For this cycle, applications will be accepted from September 15, 2023 through November 10, 2023.  The anticipated start date for each grant is February 15, 2024. The Policies & Procedures for each program and application documents are posted on the website www.njhealthfoundation.org. Here is a snapshot of the procedure:

1. After adhering to all your applicable school protocols for submitting a grant request, an applicant submits his/her proposal through the application portal.  The link to the application portal is available on the New Jersey Health Foundation web site at www.njhealthfoundation.org.  See the Grants Program section on the site.
2. Following the submission deadline, applications are reviewed by the New Jersey Health Foundation review committee, composed of members of the New Jersey Health Foundation Board of Directors plus members of the medical, pharmaceutical, and business communities. 
3. After the review process, all applicants will be notified by e-mail as to the status of their applications and next steps. New Jersey Health Foundation does not release final scores or comments.
4. Final narrative and financial reports for awarded grants will be due by April 14, 2025.

If you have any questions, please e-mail us at researchgrant@njhf.org.

NSF: Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (FRGMS)Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB); Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet); Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program: Instrument Acquisition or Development

NIH: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32); Planning for Product Development Strategy (R34); Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Minerva Research Initiative’s (Minerva) Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership; DoD Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) Research; Adversarial Resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance Collaborative Research Program

NASA: NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities

National Endowment of Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants; Humanities Initiatives; Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities; Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education

Energy officials say their agency can lead the federal approach to national AI R&D efforts: As artificial intelligence systems continue to rapidly advance past federal regulation, Department of Energy officials testified before the Senate that their agency is best poised to thread the needle between the beneficial opportunities that come with AI software and the drawbacks of a still-emerging technology. Experts testifying before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Thursday touched on familiar points in the AI and emerging tech policy discourse: competing with China while protecting intellectual property and fostering beneficial use cases such as vaccine development, material sciences investigation, electrical grid regulation and natural disaster risk evaluations. David Turk, deputy secretary at the Department of Energy, spoke to his agency’s posture in funding and overseeing research in emerging sciences like AI, noting specifically the existing computing infrastructure to support high volumes of data processing to train and run advanced AI models. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Air Force research arm plans AI prototypes contract for command and control efforts: The Air Force Research Laboratory is prepping for a new contract to test and prototype artificial intelligence applications that could ultimately strengthen its Joint All Domain Command and Control operations.  In an Aug. 31 presolicitation notice, the Air Force’s research and development arm detailed a planned broad agency announcement to develop C2 AI applications that can operate in a distributed and contested environment.  “Key to the [Air Force] transitioning from a single monolithic C2 node to multiple distributed C2 nodes is the ability [to] orchestrate operational processes, while optimizing for limited resources,” the notice said. “Through the development of distributed C2 capabilities the [Air Force] can achieve an agile, fully mobile, distributed and virtualized C2 operational capability.” Leveraging technology to advance command and control has become a core tenet of the Air Force as it works on its Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control — or CJADC2 — effort to develop a real-time data network that can track activity across the air, land, sea, space and cyberspace between the U.S. and its allies. The anticipated five-year contract would include multiple awards touching on options that range from traditional procurement contracts to Defense Department-based grants, Other Transaction Authorities and cooperative agreements. Awards are expected to have a period of performance of up to 48 months and may range between $200,000 to $20 million, but could be up to any dollar amount not exceeding the ceiling of the contract.  More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Energy continues funding expansion into quantum computing research: The Department of Energy is continuing its investments into quantum information sciences research and development, with another $24 million allocated toward three projects focused on quantum network research. Each of these three projects — developed between U.S. national laboratories and universities — intend to contribute to the growing pool of quantum computing research as the global race to develop a scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computer heats up. “Advances in quantum networking are enabling effective interconnections among multiple quantum devices,” said Ceren Susut, Energy’s acting associate director of science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research. “However, realizing scalable infrastructures for quantum information flows demands advancements in devices, error mitigation techniques and new quantum network architectures and protocols.” More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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