Other Grant Opportunities

2010 National organization for hearing research (NOHR) Foundation Grants

Grant #1: One-Year NOHR “Research Awards”

The Seed Money Program is the NOHR Foundation’s primary focus, making funds available for scientists to pursue new ideas and directions in their research.

Seed Money grants of $20,000 each are awarded on an annual basis, after a competitive application and peer review process. By sponsoring projects on a wide range of topics in auditory anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, hereditary hearing loss, molecular biology, pathology, physiology, and psycho-acoustics, the NOHR Foundation continues to be in the forefront of auditory science.

Grant #2: Two-Year NOHR “Stria Vascularis Projects”

The award will be funded at $25,000/year for a period of two years, beginning January 2010.

Deadline for applications is October 9, 2009

Contact NOHR for an application package for either of these grants by emailing peggyatnohr@att.net or visit http://www.nohrfoundation.org/Pages/2001grants.html

2010 American Otological Society Research Fund Announces Research Grant Awards and Training Fellowships

The American Otological Society, Inc., through its Research Fund, is offering Research Grant Awards, an Award for a Clinical Trial, full-time Research Training Fellowships, and a Clinician-Scientist Award. Research supported by the Research Grant Awards and by the Award for a Clinical trial must be focused on the study of otosclerosis or Ménière’s disease. A description of the relationship between the research study and otosclerosis or Ménière’s disease is an integral part of the application. The full-time Research Training Fellowships and the Clinician-Scientist Award can support the training of the recipient in research on any topic related to ear disorders. These grant awards and fellowships are for work conducted in United States or Canadian institutions only, July 2010 – June 2011

Deadline: Grant and fellowships applications must be postmarked by January 31, 2010
For more information visit http://www.americanotologicalsociety.org/information.html

NIH Funding Opportunities Available in RSS Format

If you are looking for the very latest funding opportunities published in the "NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts", you can now get them in RSS format as well. Point your news aggregator to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/newsfeed/fundingopps.xml and you will find the very latest RFAs, PAs and Notices to be published each week. This list is "up to the minute", so you know you will always be up to date.

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For additional information, please visit the NIH website at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rss_info.htm

NIH Seeks High Risk, High Impact Proposals through NIH Director’s Pioneer, New Innovator, and Transformative R01 Initiatives

NIH welcomes proposals for 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards. Both programs are part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov) and support exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.

Pioneer Awards provide up to $2.5 million in direct costs over 5 years and are open to scientists at any career stage. New Innovator Awards provide up to $1.5 million in direct costs over the same period and are for early stage investigators (ESI) who have not received an NIH regular research (R01) or similar NIH grant.

NIH expects to make at least 7 Pioneer Awards and at least 33 New Innovator Awards in September 2010.

To continue its strong record of diversity in these programs, NIH especially encourages women and members of groups that are underrepresented in NIH research to apply.The deadline for submitting Pioneer Award applications is October 20, 2009. See the instructions in the RFA (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-010.html, RFA-RM-09-010) and http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer for more information. Send questions to pioneer@nih.gov.

The deadline for submitting New Innovator Award applications is October 27, 2009. See the instructions in the RFA (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-011.html, RFA-RM-09-011) and http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/newinnovator for more information. Send questions to newinnovator@nih.gov.

Transformative R01 Program

The Transformative R01 (T-R01) supports exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research projects that have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms.  Please check http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/T-R01 for more information about the program and upcoming funding opportunities.