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Announcements

  • The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) holds quarterly virtual meetings with the campus research administrative community to provide updates and create an open environment for general discussion.

    The next meeting will be held on Thursday, June 22 at 2 p.m. 
    Register here.
     
  • The HEALTH-FAST (Helping Everyone Achieve a LifeTime of Health - Future Addiction Scientist Training) training program is offering an oppotunity for full-time doctoral students at UH to gain research knowledge in addiction sciences through a funded Research Assistantship for the upcoming academic year. Apply by June 1.
View past announcements on the Division of Research website.

Campus News

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Energy Industry Apps Improve Efficiency

A team of UH researchers has developed a series of digital applications to make energy industry processes more efficient. The three innovative calculators can be accessed online for free.

young boy in wheelchair outside with mother

Discovery Slows Down Muscular Dystrophy

A UH research team has discovered that by manipulating a certain protein in the immune system they can slow down disease progression and improve muscle function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 

Wa Xian and Frank McKeon

Odd Cells Found in Lungs of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Wa Xian and Frank McKeon of the Stem Cell Center report their findings of variant cells in the lungs of patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Science Translational Medicine, which likely represent key targets in any future therapy for the condition.

Upcoming Events

HPE DSI: AI Applications and Possibilities in Filmmaking
Thursday, June 1
Noon — 1 p.m.
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DDI: Two Novel Classes of Anticancer Compounds
Thursday, July 20 
Noon — 1 p.m.
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Featured Funding Opportunities

Health Science, Engineering & Technology Social Sciences, Art, Humanities & Education  
Image Health

Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services: Health Resources and Services Administration

Title: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Simulation Education Training (SET) Program

Application Deadline:  July 03, 2023

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR)-Simulation Education Training (SET) Program. The purpose of the NEPQR-SET program is to enhance nurse education and strengthen the nursing workforce by increasing training opportunities for nursing students through the use of simulation-based technology, including equipment, to increase their readiness to practice upon graduation. This training expands the capacity of nurses to advance the health of patients, families, and communities in rural or medically underserved areas experiencing diseases and conditions such as stroke, heart disease, behavioral health, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, and obesity.    

 

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Title: Accelerating Behavioral and Social Science through Ontology Development and Use: Dissemination and Coordination Center (U24) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Application Deadline:  October 03, 2023

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications from multi-disciplinary teams to establish a Dissemination and Coordination Center (DCC) for the Behavioral and Social Science Ontology Development U01 Research Network Projects (PAR-23-182). Teams must include subject matter experts in 1) one or more fields of behavioral or social science, 2) ontology-related informatics and computational approaches, and 3) Team Science or the Science of Science. The primary responsibilities of the DCC are to: 1) Coordinate and provide logistical support to facilitate collaboration and cross-project learning; 2) Provide ontology-related technical, computational, and informatics expertise and support; 3) Facilitate dissemination of resources and training to support ontology expansion, development, and use; and 4) Provide active outreach and coordination with relevant stakeholders to increase understanding of and demand for BSSR ontology-related tools and resources.    

 

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Title: Accelerating Behavioral and Social Science through Ontology Development and Use: Research Network Projects (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Application Deadline:  October 03, 2023

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to support research projects focused on the expansion of existing or development of new ontologies for behavioral or social science research (BSSR). The research projects must include multi-disciplinary teams of subject matter experts in one or more BSSR fields, as well as ontology related informatics and computational approaches. Projects should address health-related behavioral and social science problems not easily solved without improvement in semantic knowledge structures (e.g., controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and ontologies). Each project should identify one or more BSSR use cases and elucidate how the proposed ontological resources or tools to be developed and tested will advance BSSR research capabilities and efficiencies. This includes a plan for promoting dissemination and use of the resources and tools. Tools or resources proposed should include health-relevant terminology related to constructs, measures, and/or intervention components. Tools or resources must also account for socio-behavioral cultural context in vocabulary/ontology development.    

 

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Title: NIMHD Centers of Excellence in Investigator Development and Community Engagement (P50 - Clinical Trial Optional)

Application Deadline:  August 04, 2023

The purpose of this NOFO is to further advance NIMHDs mission by supporting Centers of Excellence to enhance research training and education of academic faculty (including post-doctoral fellows, junior faculty, and other early-stage investigators) in the conduct of minority health and health disparities research.    

 

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Title: Assessment of TBI-related ADRD Pathology Related to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Outcomes (U01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Application Deadline:  July 28, 2023

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for a multisite study to comprehensively characterize ADRD relevant pathology related to cognitive impairment and dementia outcomes in post-mortem brains from persons with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Investigations should elucidate the contribution of key individual (sex, age at time of injury, time since injury, social determinants of health, etc.) and injury characteristics (injury severity and frequency) to evaluate  associations between neuropathological burden and antemortem clinicopathologic symptoms and outline the prevalence of TBI-related ADRD diagnoses, and CTE pathology in the specimen collected from participating brain banks. This NOFO intends to support applications that include retrospective samples, plans to acquire new brain tissue specimens, and methods to assess the antemortem symptomatology and clinical presentation. To further advance research in the area, broad sharing of clinical and neuropathological data will be a critical feature of successful applications, including the development of a digital resource for distribution and sharing of assessed neuropathological tissue.      

 

Funding Agency: Administration for Children and Families

Title: Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education

Application Deadline:  July 18, 2023

This Forecast is modified to correct the Estimated Total Funding from $9,000,000 to $4,719,633. The Estimated Post Date and Estimated Application Due Date have remained the same.The purpose of the Competitive SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teach participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. Successful applicants are expected to submit plans for the implementation of sexual risk avoidance education that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity, with a focus on the future health, psychological wellbeing, and economic success of youth.  Applicants must agree to: 1) use medically accurate information referenced to peer-reviewed publications by educational, scientific, governmental, or health organizations; implement an evidence-based approach integrating research findings with practical implementation that aligns with the needs and desired outcomes for the intended audience; and 2) teach the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, healthy relationships, goal setting, resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity.    

 

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Title: National Centers for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NCBIB) (P41 Clinical Trials Optional)

Anticipated Application Deadline:  September 25, 2023

The purpose of this notice is to inform the research community that the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) intends to reissue a Notice of Funding Opportunity PAR-20-169 "National Centers for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NCBIB) (P41 Clinical Trials Optional)."   

 

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health

Title: Leveraging Social Networks to Promote Widespread Individual Behavior Change (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)

Anticipated Application Deadline:  November 17, 2023

This Notice informs the research community that the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) intend to issue a Request for Applications (RFA) for new applications proposing R34 projects that support the planning activities necessary to develop social network interventions to promote health across the lifespan, especially in populations in which such interventions are currently largely underdeveloped and untested (such as populations in mid- and late life). Applications supported through this RFA will focus on planning activities for social network interventions for which a target interpersonal process of behavior change or social network characteristic has already been identified. Planning activities are those activities that are expected to yield necessary and sufficient information to inform final decisions about a social network health behavior change intervention prior to instigation of a hypothesis-driven trial to test a social network intervention. Activities may include (but are not limited to) team-building, protocol development, piloting of systems for data collection and/or management, feasibility and acceptability testing, staff training, and establishing documentation procedures. Projects that propose to test the efficacy or effectiveness of a social network health behavior change intervention will be outside the scope of the RFA, which will support only on pre-trial planning and development activities.

Image Science, Engineering, & Technology

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Title: Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology

Application Deadline:  Limited submission internal deadline (limit is one proposal per institution): October 01, 2023; Preliminary proposal due: December 01, 2023; full proposal due (by invitation only): December 06, 2024

Successful CREST Center proposals will demonstrate a clear vision and integration of STEM research and education and will align with the mission of the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) with respect to the development of a diverse STEM workforce. CREST Centers are also expected to provide leadership by meaningfully involving the efforts of those faculty, students, and postdoctoral researchers who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM at all levels. Centers are required to use evidence-based and innovative strategies to address salient broadening participation and workforce development issues, such as recruitment, retention, and mentorship of participants from underrepresented groups. Successful proposals are expected to achieve national research competitiveness, broaden participation in STEM, and generate sustained, non-CREST funding from federal, state, and/or private-sector sources. Eligible institutions are MSIs that offer graduate degrees in NSF STEM areas and have enrollments of 50% or more students (based on total student enrollment) who are members of minority groups underrepresented among those holding advanced degrees in science and engineering fields.

 

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Title: Geoinformatics

Application Deadline:  December 01, 2023

The Geoinformatics program funds the deployment, operation, and sustainment of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources to serve and support Earth Sciences research and education. In this solicitation, “Earth Sciences” refers to the academic research communities supported by programs within NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/programs.jsp?org=EAR). Goals for Geoinformatics support include (but are not limited to): (i) Enabling the management of and access to data, physical samples, and other research products in the Earth Sciences; (ii) Facilitating the development and use of open-source software and modeling capabilities, preferably via approaches that leverage shared computing resources and collaborative software development processes; (iii) Fostering transparent and reproducible modes of research and education in the Earth Sciences; and (iv) Increasing the capacity of Earth Scientists to utilize cyberinfrastructure resources.    

 

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Title: Energy, Power, Control, and Networks

Application Deadline:  Proposals accepted anytime

The Energy, Power, Control, andNetworks (EPCN) Program supports innovative research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation, and control of networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision making, and dynamic resource allocation, as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures, and stochastic disturbances. EPCN also invests in novel machine learning algorithms and analysis, adaptive dynamic programming, brain-like networked architectures performing real-time learning, and neuromorphic engineering. EPCN’s goal is to encourage research on emerging technologies and applications including energy, transportation, robotics, and biomedical devices & systems. EPCN also emphasizes electric power systems, including generation, transmission, storage, and integration of renewable energy sources into the grid; power electronics and drives; battery management systems; hybrid and electric vehicles; and understanding of the interplay of power systems with associated regulatory & economic structures and with consumer behavior.

 

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Title: Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education

Application Deadline:  September 19, 2023    

The Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education solicitation, which is managed by the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM in the Directorate for STEM Education, supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances knowledge and practice about diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM and STEM education workplaces and postsecondary training environments for persons with disabilities. Proposals should focus on one or more of the following three research themes: (1) Studying barriers and solutions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in STEM and STEM education workplaces and training settings for persons with disabilities; (2) Applying intersectional social identity perspectives to investigate characteristics and conditions of STEM and STEM education workplaces and training environments that limit and/or improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for persons with disabilities; and (3) Conducting use-inspired and solution-oriented translational research about diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM and STEM Education workplaces and training settings for persons with disabilities.

 

Funding Agency: Department of Energy: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Title: Fiscal Year 2023 Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Program

Application Deadline:  Concept Paper Submission Deadline: June 26, 2023; Full Application Submission Deadline: August 11, 2023

This Funding Opportunity Announcement will advance research, development, demonstration, and deployment in several areas critical to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, including: reduction of weight and cost of batteries, reduction in life cycle emissions of advanced lightweight materials, reduced costs and advanced technologies for both on- and off-road vehicle charging and infrastructure, innovative public transit solutions, and training to increase deployment of these technologies among diverse communities.

Social Science, Arts, Humanities and Education

Funding Agency: Department of Education: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Title: Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Early-Phase Grants

Application Deadline:  Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: June 22, 2023. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 1, 2023

Purpose of Program: The EIR program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended (ESEA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based (as defined in this notice), field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students and to rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially more students.     

 

Funding Agency: Department of Education: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Title: Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Mid-Phase Grants

Application Deadline:  Deadline for Notice of Intent To Apply: June 22, 2023. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 12, 2023

Purpose of Program: The EIR program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended (ESEA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based (as defined in this notice), field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students and to rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially more students.

 

Funding Agency: Department of Education: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Title: Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Expansion Grants

Application Deadline:  Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: June 22, 2023. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 12, 2023

Purpose of Program: The EIR program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended (ESEA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based (as defined in this notice), field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students and to rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially more students.

Funding Agency: Department of Education (ED)
Title: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Project to Support America’s Families and Educators (Project SAFE) Grant Program Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.184N
Application Deadline: Rolling
The Project SAFE grant program provides grants to eligible LEAs to improve student safety and well-being by advancing strategies consistent with CDC guidance to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in schools. (must partner with an LEA).

Tim Holt | University of Houston Division of Research
cjholt@uh.edu | uh.edu/research | 713-743-8959

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