Funding Opportunities for Faculty
Biomedical Research Externships for Faculty
Research Opportunity Awards for Faculty
Funding and Grant Writing Resources
History of INBRE Grants Awarded to Faculty
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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 undergraduate campuses
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NIH INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Program - 200
8Call for Mentors
Oklahoma is the recipient of a major grant from the NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program to develop an IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE). One of the INBRE initiatives is a summer undergraduate research program to expose promising students to the exciting world of research and as a mechanism for increasing the applicant pool for graduate programs in biomedical research at Oklahoma's comprehensive campuses. We are soliciting faculty mentors for the summer of 2008.
Each student will receive a stipend of $4,000 (subject to taxes) to pay living expenses over the 9 week (June-July) summer research experience. In addition, each Mentor's laboratory will receive $1,500 for lab supplies. Each mentor's department is responsible for purchasing supplies and/or submitting invoices to the INBRE administrative office. Each student will present a scientific poster of their summer research project at the end of the program. Funds from the $1,500 allocation for lab supplies should be used to cover the cost of making the poster.
If you are interested in serving as a faculty Mentor, please submit a one page description of your research including a brief description of the project envisioned for the summer student. In addition, please submit your current NIH-style Biographical Sketch and all contact information including email and mailing address. Please submit both documents via email in Word format to Sasha Smith at ssmith@osrhe.edu (405-225-9419) by February 4, 2008. Applications from prospective faculty mentors at both the research-intensive institutions and Oklahoma regional universities are strongly encouraged.
For the summer of 2008, we plan to support promising students from primarily undergraduate campuses in Oklahoma. The undergraduate institutions are: Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Langston University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, Cameron University, East Central University, Rogers State University, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Panhandle State University. The students may be placed with faculty mentors at these undergraduate institutions or at the INBRE research-intensive institutions: Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OU Norman, and the OU Health Sciences Center. In addition, mentors are also being solicited for additional students from four participating community colleges: Oklahoma City Community College, Redlands Community College, Tulsa Community College and Comanche Nation College.
Please contact Frank Waxman, INBRE Director, at fwaxman@osrhe.edu or at 405-225-9459 if you have any questions.
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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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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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Deadline for 2008 is March 3, 2008
$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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Deadline for 2008 is March 3, 2008
$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:
Tips for Grant Writing
| Plain English Initiative
| Myths of Grant Writing
| Grant Management
| Grant Evaluation
| Responding to an RFP
| Budget Development
| Indirect Costs
| Using OneNet Technology to Enhance Research and Program
Grants | |
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:
HISTORY OF INBRE MINI AND COLLABORATIVE GRANTS
| Arden | Aspedon | SWOSU | 2002 | mini grant | Identification of Molecular Genetic Determinants Mediating Peptide Resistance and Osmoadaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | |
| John | de Banzie | NSU | 2002 | mini grant | Assessment of Method to Map Nuclear Architecture | |
| Jason | Johnson | SWOSU | 2002 | mini grant | Establishing Fluorescence Systems for Analyzing Allosteric and Oligomerization Mechanisms in E coli Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase | |
| Bill | Kelly | SWOSU | 2002 | mini grant | Theoretical Assessment of Carotenoid Antioxidant Activity: Can Theoretical Calculations of Thermodynamic Parameters Provide a Quantitative Correlation of Carotenoid Radical Scavenging Activity | |
| Kathi | McDowell | NSU | 2002 | mini grant | Construction and Analysis of Segments of the Ribosomal DNA Repeat Unit Potentially Responsible for Nucleolar Formation in Human Cell Lines | |
| Sonya | Williams | LU | 2002 | mini grant | Age Related Loss of Estrogen Affects Cerebellar Macrophages | |
| KJ | Abraham | LU | 2003 | mini grant | Molecular Screening of Human Intestinal Bacteria for the Presence of Azoreductase Gene | |
| Arden | Aspedon | SWOSU | 2003 | mini grant | Identification and Characterization of Molecular Genetic Determinants Mediating Osmoadaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | |
| Jason | Johnson | SWOSU | 2003 | mini grant | Probing Allosteric Interactions within E. coli Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase via Intrinsic Fluorophores | |
| Bill | Kelly | SWOSU | 2003 | mini grant | Assesing Carotenoid Antioxidant Activities by Computational Methods: Can Theoretically Determined Ionization Potentials and Bond Dissociation Energies Shed Light on The Mechanism of Superoxide Radical Quenching | |
| Monica | Macklin | NSU | 2003 | mini grant | Determination of Phylloquinone Levels in Wild-harvested Native Plants and the Dietary Usse of Wild-harvested Plants by Older Native Americans | |
| Kathi | McDowell | NSU | 2003 | mini grant | Investigation of Transcriptional Activity and Nucleolar Participation from Plasmids Containing Partial Human rDNA Transcriptional Units Transiently Transfected into a Human Cell Line | |
| Sonya | Williams | LU | 2003 | mini grant | Estrogen as a Gatekeeper of Cytokine Expression by Microglia | |
| KJ | Abraham | LU | 2004 | collaborative | Development of a Classification Scheme Using a Secondary and Tertiary Amino Acid Analysis of Azoreductase Gene | |
| Arden | Aspedon | SWOSU | 2004 | collaborative | Identification of Osmoadaptive Genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | |
| David | Chambers | NSU | 2004 | mini grant | Biochemical Analysis of the D. Melanogaster and C. elegans ERM proteins | |
| Bill | Kelly | SWOSU | 2004 | collaborative | Is Retinoid Induced Cell Apoptosis Mediated by Superoxide Radical Anion Production | |
| Cindy | Cisar | NSU | 2005 | mini grant | Development of a PCR-based assay for the detection of checken feces | |
| Daniel | Endres | UCO | 2005 | collaborative | A Model Bgased Investigation of DNA Microsatellite Repeat Instability at the Friedreich Ataxia Locus | |
| Bill | Kelly | SWOSU | 2005 | collaborative | Investigations of SHetA2 Mediated Mitochondria Changes in Human Cncer Organotypic Cultures | |
| Mauricio | Sanchez | UCO | 2005 | mini grant | Three-Dimensional Finite Element and Heat Transfer Modeling of a Cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty | |
| Tim | Smith | SOSU | 2005 | collaborative | Carbohydrate Metabolism of e coli | |
| Muatasem | Ubeidat | SWOSU | 2005 | mini grant | Tagging Genes that Affect the Expression of 5'-Nucleotidase in Dictyostelium | |
| Mohamed | Bingabr | UCO | 2006 | mini grant | Improving Speech Intelligibility for Cochlear Implant Users by Selecting Spectral Bands that Minimize the Effect of Noise and Electrode Interaction | |
| David | Chambers | NSU | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| John | de Banzie | NSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Daniel | Endres | UCO | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Daniel | Endres | UCO | 2006 | collaborative | A Model Based Investigation of DNA Microsatelite Repeat Instability at the Friedreich Ataxia Locus | |
| Anne | Ewing | UCO | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Dennis | Frisby | CU | 2006 | mini grant | Regulation of Cholinergic Function in Caenorhabditis elegens | |
| Tim | Hubin | SWOSU | 2006 | mini grant | Configurationally Restricted Bis-Azamacrocyles; Chemokine Recepter Antagonists | |
| Yefim | Kats | SWOSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Rick | Matzen | NSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Kathi | McDowell | NSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Mike | Morris | SOSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Christopher | Pritchett | NSU | 2006 | mini grant | The Role of LytR in the Virulence of Mycobacterium marinum | |
| Gang | Qian | UCO | 2006 | mini grant | Bulk-loading and Performance Studies of the ND-Tree of Large Genome Databases | |
| Mauricio | Sanchez | UCO | 2006 | mini grant | Heart Valve Dynamics and of Non-Newtonian Fluid Structure Interactions | |
| James | Schooley | NSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Tim | Smith | SOSU | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Tim | Smith | SOSU | 2006 | collaborative | Metabolism Studies of E. Coli | |
| Mary | Song | CU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Muatasem | Ubeidat | SWOSU | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Melville | Vaughn | UCO | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Frankie | White | CU | 2006 | collaborative | Estradiol and Interleukin-1B Regulate the uterine Inflammatory Response Permitting Establishment of Pregnancy | |
| Donna | Smith | NSU | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Christopher | Pritchett | NSU | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Kathi | McDowell | NSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Christopher | Morretti | SOSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Mike | Morris | SOSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Yefim | Kats | SWOSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Sharon | Lewis | LU | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| Rick | Matzen | NSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| Melville | Vaughn | UCO | 2006 | release time | grant writing | |
| William | Kelly | SWOSU | 2006 | release time | course development | |
| William | Kelly | SWOSU | 2007 | collaborative | Effects of Flex-Hets on Ovarian Cancer Cell Metabolism: Evaluating the Mechanism of NADH: Ubiquinone | |
| Tim | Smith | SOSU | 2007 | collaborative | Metobolism Studies of E. coli | |
| Jessica | Martin | NSU | 2007 | mini grant | Iron-binding Compounds Produced by Open Water Marine Fungi | |
| Theresa | Golden | SOSU | 2007 | mini grant | The Role of Protein Phosphatase 5 (PP5) in Cancer | |
| Mohamed | Bingabr | UCO | 2007 | mini grant | Effects of Bipolar and Monopolar Current Spread on Forward Masking and Speech Intelligibility of Cochlear | |
| Gang | Qian | UCO | 2007 | mini grant | Extending Search Ranges of the ND-tree to Support Efficient Bioinformatics Database Queries Using the Edit |