Highlighted Funding Opportunities

• North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Event and Meeting Grants, March 4: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s event and meeting grants provide support for North Carolina-based events and meetings that bring information and networking opportunities on diverse topics to the life science community statewide. Biotechnology event sponsorships provide up to $3,000 for events to support life science-focused events held primarily for a North Carolina audience. Biotechnology meeting grants are restricted to national and international meetings being held in North Carolina and offer up to $10,000.
• Kate B. Reynolds Trust, Building Partnerships and Organizational Capacity to Address Social Drivers of Poor Health, April 2: Achieving greater equity in health outcomes will require genuine partnership between hospitals and health systems and the community organizations that are embedded in underserved areas or led by residents with low incomes. The Kate B. Reynolds Trust is interested in hearing from organizations and collaboratives working to build these partnerships to address a specific social driver of poor health. We also want to hear about broad-based efforts to improve capacity of human service organizations that are embedded in communities of color to improve their ability to participate in the healthy opportunities pilots.
• National Institutes of Health, Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (R01 & R21), May 8: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) covers studies in a variety of settings including hospitals (and specific sites within hospitals including specialty medical or surgical wards, intensive care units, and emergency departments), post-acute care settings, outpatient clinics and doctors' offices, patients' homes and other residential settings, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospices, and other health care or community settings. This FOA encourages both prospective studies and analyses of existing data sets, health and medical records, claims data, or other sources. Leveraging ongoing cohorts, intervention studies, networks, data and specimen repositories, and other existing research resources and infrastructure are encouraged. Study designs may include observational approaches, quasi-experimental designs and interventional studies.
• National Science Foundation, Perception, Action and Cognition (PAC) Program, June 15: The PAC program funds theoretically motivated research on a wide range of topic areas related to typical human behavior with particular focus on perceptual, motor and cognitive processes and their interactions. Central research topics for consideration by the program include, but are not limited to, vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, written and spoken language, spatial cognition, motor control, categorization, reasoning, and concept formation. Of particular interest are emerging areas such as the interaction of sleep or emotion with cognitive or perceptual processes, epigenetics of cognition, computational models of cognition, and cross-modal and multimodal processing. The program welcomes a wide range of perspectives, such as individual differences, symbolic and neural-inspired computation, ecological approaches, genetics and epigenetics, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies spanning the range of experimentation and modeling.
• United States Department of Defense, Biomedical Research and Development, Continuous Submission (PDF): A primary emphasis of the United States Special Operations Command’s Biomedical, Human Performance and Canine Research Program is to identify and develop techniques, knowledge products and materiel (medical devices, drugs and biologics) for early intervention in life-threatening injuries, prolonged field care, human performance optimization, and canine medicine and performance. Special Operations Forces (SOF) medical personnel place a premium on medical equipment that is small, lightweight, ruggedized, modular, multi-use, and designed for operation in extreme environments. The equipment must be easy to use, require minimum maintenance, and have low power consumption. Drugs and biologics should not require refrigeration or other special handling. All materiel and related techniques must be simple and effective, and easily modified for commercialization. Research projects may apply existing scientific and technical knowledge for which concept and/or patient care efficacy have already been demonstrated to meet SOF requirements.

What's Coming Up?

Office of Faculty Excellence: The Office of Faculty Excellence offers sessions on various research platforms, including NVivo, Tableau, Qualtrics, SPSS, and others. Sign up for workshops through the OFE Calendar.

• Walk-In Research Statistics Consulting: Feb. 20, March 4, March 26
• Open Science Framework: March 23
• Single Case Research Designs: March 26

REDE Has Relocated: The Division of Research, Economic Development and Engagement has moved into its new home at 209 East Fifth Street. Visitor parking is available in the B sticker parking lot at the corner of Fifth Street and Reade Circle. A map of the new location is available below.

eTRACS Help: Have you been using eTRACS, but haven’t seen the help site yet? Check out eTRACS help online to answer your questions about ECU’s new electronic administration and compliance system.

Rural Health Symposium at Eastern AHEC, Feb. 27-28: Rural areas present a number of challenges for both providers and families in managing and accessing healthcare. This multidisciplinary conference focuses on innovative and collaborative efforts to provide better care to areas with limited resources, exploring community, business and leadership models. Registration is open for the event beginning Feb. 25.

Research and Scholarship Awards Recognition and Celebration Ceremony, March 2, 5-7 p.m.: ECU will recognize its research and scholarship award winners in March at the Harvey Banquet Hall at the Murphy Center. RSVP to the event by emailing specialevents@ecu.edu.

STEM@Starlight, March 23, 5-7 p.m.: STEM@Starlight is a regional intellectual exchange group designed to facilitate interaction and collaboration among university researchers. March’s program will focus on biotechnology, entrepreneurship and spin off companies.

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