Funding Opportunities for Faculty

Junior Investigator Awards

Release Time Grants

Summer Mentors

Biomedical Research Externships for Faculty   

Research Opportunity Awards for Faculty    

Faculty Mini-Grants    

Collaborative Research Grants  

Funding and Grant Writing Resources

History of INBRE Grants Awarded to Faculty

Junior Investigator Awards

Request for Proposals for INBRE II Application

Deadline March 24, 2008

Oklahoma INBRE is soliciting proposals to be included in its application for funding in the 2nd round of INBRE awards.  The start date for INBRE II is anticipated to be May 1, 2009.  The NIH deadline for applications for INBRE II is anticipated to be July, 2008.  The following institutions are eligible to apply: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Central Oklahoma, Northeastern State University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Langston University, and Cameron University.  Please click the links below for the RFP.

RFP for OUHSC and OMRF

RFP for undergraduate campuses

Summer Mentors

Please contact Frank Waxman, INBRE Director, at fwaxman@osrhe.edu or at 405-225-9459 if you have any questions.

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXTERNSHIPS FOR FACULTY

Externships for 2008 have been awarded.

$8,000 maximum award

1 award annually

Faculty at Oklahoma INBRE community colleges can apply for Biomedical Research Externships with a maximum budget of $8,000 to support a summer project in a lab at one of Oklahoma's research-intensive institutions: the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the University of Oklahoma Norman campus, Oklahoma State University, or the University of Tulsa.  

Faculty at the following community colleges are eligible to be sponsored by a research lab:  Oklahoma City Community College, Tulsa Community College, Redlands Community College, Comanche Nation College.

The funds may be used for both summer salary support and lab supplies for the lab sponsor.  Please submit a 1-2 page description of the project, including a brief statement on how skills learned during the summer will be used in the educational mission of the community college.  Also include a support letter from the lab sponsor and biographical sketches for both the community college faculty member and the lab sponsor.  These materials should be submitted electronically to Dr. Frank Waxman at fwaxman@osrhe.edu 

There is no set application deadline.  Please apply by email to Frank Waxman at fwaxman@osrhe.edu. 

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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY AWARDS

The Research Opportunity Award for summer 2008 has been awarded.  Awards for summer 2009 are contingent upon funding of Oklahoma's INBRE renewal application to NIH.

$10,000 Award

1 or more awards annually

Faculty at regional Oklahoma universities can apply for Research Opportunity awards with a maximum budget of $10,000 to support a summer project in a lab at one of Oklahoma's research-intensive institutions: the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the University of Oklahoma Norman campus, Oklahoma State University, or the University of Tulsa.  

The funds may be used for both summer salary support and lab supplies for the lab sponsor.  Please submit a 1-2 page description of the project, including a brief statement on how skills learned during the summer will be used in the educational mission of the regional university.  Also include a support letter from the lab sponsor and biographical sketches for both the regional university faculty member and the lab sponsor.  These materials should be submitted electronically to Dr. Frank Waxman at fwaxman@osrhe.edu 

There is no set application deadline.  Please apply by email to Frank Waxman at fwaxman@osrhe.edu

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FACULTY MINI-GRANTS 

Deadline for 2008 is  March 3, 2008

Application

$20,000 Maximum Budget

12 month Maximum Project Period

Next awards are expected to be made May 1, 2008 with a project period of one year.

The primary objective of the Mini-Grant program is to provide funding for faculty at the INBRE undergraduate institutions.  Faculty funded through this program gain valuable experience in designing, conducting and reporting biomedical research, thus enhancing their ability to compete for extramural funding beyond the local level.   A formal peer review process is employed to select the most worthy science for funding.  Competitions for Mini-Grants are held annually.  

Faculty at the following institutions are eligible:  Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, East Central University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, University of Central Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, Langston University.

The Peer Review Panel is selected from the graduate institutions and consists of faculty who have had their own NIH funding and/or service on NIH Study Sections. A mix of junior and senior graduate faculty are selected for service on the Peer Review Panel, thus affording junior graduate faculty a peer review experience that will prepare them for eventual NIH Study Section service. The application is then presented to primary and secondary reviewers, discussed by the Panel, and a priority score is determined using the NIH scale.  Each applicant receives a formal written critique of their application in the NIH format.

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS 

Deadline for 2008 is March 3, 2008

APPLICATION

$50,000 Maximum Budget

12 month Maximum Project Period

Next awards expected to be made May 1, 2008 with a project period of one year.

2 awards per year

The Collaborative Research Grant Program fosters research collaborations between faculty at research-intensive campuses and their faculty counterparts at the primarily undergraduate institutions.  The Principal Investigator must be a faculty member at one of the INBRE undergraduates campuses listed below.  The collaborative research must involve an investigator at one (or more) of the research-intensive campuses in Oklahoma: the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tulsa.  It is the expectation that the major portion of the budges will be allocated to the undergraduate campus.  

PI must be a faculty member at one of the following institutions:  Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, East Central University, University of Central Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, Langston University, Rogers State University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Panhandle State University.

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Funding and Grant Writing Resources

Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education www.okhighered.org/grant-opps

The INBRE Coordinator for Grant Writing and External Funding Technical Assistance provides an information resource for Oklahoma higher education grant writers and other interested parties and maintains a wealth of information on the Oklahoma State Regents website.  The mission is to enhance a robust grants culture in the Oklahoma higher education system, providing direct services to the State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma regional universities and two-year colleges. Services of training, grant source researching, proposal development, partnerships and collaboration development, and grant writing assistance can be provided to the regional universities and two-year colleges with need for such services. Training may include information specific to a particular grant source, general grant writing skills or specific topics such as:

GrantsNet is a one-stop resources to find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education.  Through the support of HHMI and AAAS the service is completely free.  www.grantsnet.org

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) now offers individualized help to researchers using the GenBank sequence database or the related bioinformatics resources such as Entrez, BLAST, Unigene, the Human Genome Map Viewer, and over 40 others, at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

HISTORY OF INBRE MINI AND COLLABORATIVE GRANTS