Division of Engineering Research
The E-Funding News
July 6, 2012
Announcements:
- Tuesday Noontime Engineering sessions will resume in the fall.
High Performance Computing and Programming at MSU Summer Sessions for faculty and students. Virtual Science and Engineering from ICER. July 30-Aug 3, 2012 and Aug 13-17, 2012. More info and registration at:
https://wiki.hpcc.msu.edu/display/Opportunities/VSCSE+2012+SUMMER+SCHOOLS
-Check out your listing in the Faculty Expertise Database. Changes can be made via the Update button. http://www.egr.msu.edu/egr/research/resources/facultyexpertise.php
-If you’ve been away, archived E-Funding News are easily accessed at http://www.egr.msu.edu/research/administration/funding
Contents:
1. Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) - NSF
2. International Collaborations in Organismal Biology Between US and Israeli Investigators (ICOB) - NSF
3. Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) - DARPA
4.DE-FOA-0000739: Innovative Pilot and Demonstration Scale Production of Advanced Biofuels – Dept Energy
5. Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (U54) – NIH
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1. Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) - NSF
Solicitation 12-578
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: September 26, 2012
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 12, 2012
This program solicitation, Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) starts with an existing sound scientific and/or engineering-based research discovery that can be translated to market-valued solutions through a partnership between academe and small technology-based businesses. The funds will provide support to an academic institution to partner with at least two small technology-based businesses that are not in direct competition with each other to carry out early translational-research activities The primary aims of the activities of this partnership are three-fold: (1) to build the innovation capacity of the individual participants from academe and from business; (2) to increase the viability of the small business concerns; and (3) to develop the next-generation workforce by providing opportunities for students at different levels to effectively learn from, participate in, and be profoundly changed by exposure to the process of building innovation capacity that occurs in BIC projects. The active collaboration between academe and business could result in solutions with potential for an impact on more than one market. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504708&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
2. International Collaborations in Organismal Biology Between US and Israeli Investigators (ICOB) - NSF
Solicitation: 12-577
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: September 4, 2012
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 3, 2012
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is partnering with the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) to support collaborative research between US and Israeli investigators in areas of biology supported by the NSF Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) supports research aimed at an integrative understanding of organisms. The goal is to predict why organisms are structured the way they are, and function as they do. Projects that innovatively apply systems biology approaches, i.e. approaches that combine experimentation, computation, and modeling, and which lead to new conceptual and theoretical insights and predictions about integrated organismal properties that may be experimentally verified, are particularly encouraged. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504768&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
3. Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) - DARPA
SOL: DARPA-BAA-12-52
DUE: 082112
DARPA is soliciting research proposals in the area of actuation. The Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program is designed to create and demonstrate significant advances in both science and engineering for ground robots. Synopsis
4.DE-FOA-0000739: Innovative Pilot and Demonstration Scale Production of Advanced Biofuels – Dept Energy
Solicitation: DE-FOA-0000739
Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 7/16/2012 5:00 PM ET
Full Application Submission Deadline: 8/13/2012 5:00 PM ET
The intent of this FOA is to identify, evaluate, and select innovative pilot- or demonstration-scale integrated biorefineries that can produce hydrocarbon fuels that meet military specifications for JP-5 (jet fuel primarily for the Navy), JP-8 (jet fuel primarily for the Air Force), or F-76 (diesel). Integrated biorefineries proposed for this funding opportunity may employ various combinations of feedstocks and conversion technologies to produce a variety of products, but the primary focus must be on producing biofuels. Novel and highly innovative technologies are strongly encouraged. Topic Area 1 requests applicants to design, construct and/or operate an integrated pilot- or demonstration-scale integrated biorefinery in order to validate the proposed technology using an acceptable lignocellulosic or waste-based feedstock, to produce an acceptable biofuel. Processes are also eligible under this topic that can utilize advanced technology approaches for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) (rather than direct conversion of lignocellulosic biomass) directly to liquid transportation fuels. Topic Area 2 requests applicants to design, construct and/or operate an integrated pilot- or demonstration-scale integrated biorefinery in order to validate the proposed technology using an acceptable algal type feedstock, to produce an acceptable biofuel.
FULL TEXT: Modification 000001,DE-FOA-0000739, Innovative Pilot and Demonstration Scale Production of Advanced Biofuels
5. Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (U54) – NIH
Solicitation: RFA-TR-12-006
Due: Letter of Intent – Dec 10, 2012; Full proposal Jan 8, 2013
The purpose of the Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) is to strengthen the entire spectrum of NIH supported translational research. Through integrated homes that build upon and support institutional scientific strengths, they provide research resources and workforce training that improve the quality, validity, generalizability, and efficiency of clinical and translational research. These awards are the centerpiece of the NCATS CTSA program.
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Other Funding Opportunities:
This and earlier notices are archived at
http://www.egr.msu.edu/research/administration/funding
Environmental RFPS posted by MSU (Tom Dietz): http://www.environment.msu.edu/news/funding.html
-SBIR/STTR - info for many agencies: http://www.zyn.com/sbir/scomp.htm
-Grants.Gov – search individually by key word, agency, etc. http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp
-Army Research Office: http://www.aro.army.mil/research/index.htm
-Institutionally limited procedure for proposals for MSU –
http://resfacil.msu.edu/groups/ILP/wiki/087cd/Institutionally_Limited_Application_Procedure.html
-NIH - Bioimaging/Bioengineering opportunities –
http://www.nibib.nih.gov/publicPage.cfm?pageID=1879
-Office of Naval Research: http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/business_opp.asp
-Michigan Biotechnology - www.michbio.org
-For more Funding Opportunity information, Search Engines, etc. see the DER Funding web site: http://www.egr.msu.edu/egr/research/resources/fundingopps/index.php