Funding opportunities

Grand Challenges Canada
It announces $11.8 million in funding for bold, breakthrough innovations through its Saving Brains initiative. For further information: www.grandchallenges.ca/savingbrains-grantees-en/

 

AusAID: ADRAS funding Round 2012 now open

http://ausaid.gov.au/research/Pages/adras-funding-rounds.aspx

The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) is now accepting applications for the AusAID Development Research Awards Scheme (ADRAS). The purpose of ADRAS is to improve the quality and effectiveness of Australian aid in developing countries. AusAID promotes fairness, transparency and value for money from our research investment including through the use of competitive mechanisms to fund research. The ADRAS is designed to attract high quality, innovative research that informs policy development*. The 2012 funding round will allocate funding for research in the following priority theme areas; Africa, Disability-inclusive Development, Education, Gender, Health, Mining for Development, Scholarships, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges Explorations Topics

http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/ApplicationInstructions.aspx

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 10 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Two-page grant proposals are being accepted online until November 7, 2012 on the following topics:

·         Labor Saving Innovations for Women Smallholder Farmers

·         New Approaches in Model Systems, Diagnostics, and Drugs for Specific

·         Neglected Tropical Diseases

·         New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds

·         Aid is Working. Tell the World

Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.

Collaborative R01s for Clinical and Services Studies of Mental Disorders and AIDS (Collaborative R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-278.html

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) seeks to support collaborative intervention trials in the treatment, prevention or rehabilitation of those with mental disorders and comorbid mental disorders. Support is also provided for other collaborative clinical studies, including, but not limited to, mental health services research, AIDS, genetics, and psychopathology.

Call for TB REACH Wave 3 Proposals

http://www.stoptb.org/global/awards/tbreach/wave3.asp

TB REACH is currently accepting applications for Wave 3. The deadline for submitting proposals for Wave 3 is 17 September 2012. For Wave 3, TB REACH will have two separate funding tracks. Please read the following information and other background documents carefully to ensure that you apply for the correct track of funding and your application is complete. This funding track is open to applicants from 86 eligible Countries <http://www.stoptb.org/assets/documents/global/awards/tbreach/TB%20REACH%20Wave%203%20eligible%20countries.pdf>.

This track is for one-year projects for up to $US 1 million to improve TB case finding.

AIDS-Science Track Award for Research Transition (R03)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-282.html

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) by the National Institute on Drug Abuse seeks to facilitate the entry of both newly independent and early career investigators to the area of drug abuse research on HIV/AIDS. This FOA, AIDS--Science Track Award for Research Transition (A-START), encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications to support research projects on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources.

The International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) Program (K01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-TW-12-020.html

This Notice encourages early-career investigators in biomedical, epidemiological, clinical, social and behavioral sciences to consider applying for this FOA to conduct career development activities and research in developing countries.

Biomedical/Bio-behavioral Research Administration Development (BRAD) Award

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-270.html

Eunice Kennedy Shriver* National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, John E. Fogarty International Center National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases