Funding Opportunities for Faculty

Equipment Grants

Release Time Grants

Biomedical Research Externships for Faculty   

Research Opportunity Awards for Faculty    

Faculty Mini-Grants    

Collaborative Research Grants  

History of INBRE Grants Awarded to Faculty

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SUMMER MENTORS

NIH INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Program - 2010

Call for Mentors

Oklahoma is the recipient of a major grant from the NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program to operate 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 now soliciting faculty mentors for the summer of 2010.

Each student will receive a stipend of $5,000 (subject to taxes) to pay living expenses over the 9 week (May 26 - July 23, 2010) summer research experience. In addition, each Mentor's laboratory will receive $2,200 for supplies. Each student will present a scientific poster of their summer research project at the end of the program. The cost of preparing the poster is to be covered by the aforementioned $2,200 allocation for supplies.

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 January 29, 2010. Applications from prospective faculty mentors at both the research-intensive institutions and Oklahoma regional universities are strongly encouraged.  Applications from current and former COBRE Investigators at OUHSC and OMRF are also strongly encouraged.

For the summer of 2010, 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, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 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 Darrin Akins, INBRE Co-Director, at darrin-akins@ouhsc.edu or at 405-271-2133 x46640 if you have any questions.

FACULTY MINI-GRANTS 

Deadline is February 15, 2010

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$25,000 Maximum Budget

12 month Maximum Project Period

Next awards are expected to be made April 1, 2010. 

At least four awards will be made.

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 is February 15, 2010

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$50,000 Maximum Budget

12 month Maximum Project Period

Next awards expected to be made April 1, 2010.

At least two awards will be made

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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Equipment Grants

Deadline is February 15, 2010

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The project start date is anticipated to be April 1, 2010 with a project period of one year.

At least two awards will be made in each category.

There are two types of equipment grant awards:

1) Small equipment grants - can request equipment costing up to $15,000.

2) Large equipment grants - can request equipment costing up to $35,000.

II. ELIGIBILITY

Full-time, permanent faculty members with unmodified titles at the rank of Assistant Professor and higher from Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, Cameron University,  Langston University, Rogers State University, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, and East Central University are eligible to apply for the program as Principal Investigators. 

Individual faculty are eligible to submit only one equipment grant award per year.  

Release Time

for Curriculum Development or Grant Proposal Development  

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education will provide funds for release time (up to 5 load credit hours) to assist faculty members at Oklahoma regional universities in the preparation of grant applications to support biomedical research projects or curriculum redesign and course development intended to improve the preparation of future biomedical researchers.  Curriculum redesign and course development must follow the interdisciplinary approach described in the National Academy of Sciences publication BIO2010 (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10497#toc).  

Requirements for Curriculum Development Release Time Awards:

1.    Within 30 days of completing the release time award, the funded applicant must provide a progress report.  The report should be sent to Ms. Dawn Scott as a PDF file or e-mail to  dscott@osrhe.edu (or by regular mail to:  Ms. Dawn Scott, OK-INBRE, 655 Research Pkwy, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104), which outlines how the course development proceeded and was incorporated into the faculty member's home institution or department.  This report should be approximately one page with one inch margins and 12 point font and submitted within 30 days of the completion of the release time.

2.    If a progress report is not received within 30 days as required, then future requests for curriculum development release time funding will not be approved.

Requirements for Proposal Development Release Time Awards:

1.    The applicant must provide one exact copy of the submitted grant application generated through the approved release time.  The copy  of the submitted grant application should be sent to Ms. Dawn Scott as a PDF file at dscott@osrhe.edu (or by regular mail to:  Ms. Dawn Scott, OK-INBRE, 655 Research Pkwy, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104) within 10 business days of submitting the original to the funding agency.

2.       After the grant application has undergone peer review at the funding agency (e.g., NIH, OCAST, ACS, non-profit…), the applicant must transmit the final critique provided by the funding agency to Ms. Dawn Scott as a PDF file or e-mail to  dscott@osrhe.edu (or by regular mail to:  Ms. Dawn Scott, OK-INBRE, 655 Research Pkwy, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104) within 10 business days of getting the final critique and summary statement.

3.       If a faculty member is provided Release Time for Grant Proposal Development, a grant application MUST be submitted within six months of the end of the release time that was awarded (unless the applicant provides evidence in their Release Time Application that the funding agency has only one deadline per year or that the deadline for which they will be submitting their application is beyond the six-month window).

4.       If a faculty member fails to comply with regulations 1, 2, and 3 above, they will no longer be allowed to submit Release Time Applications for Grant Proposal Development in the future.

Release Time Application

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY AWARDS

$10,000 Award

One or more awards annually

The awards for summer 2010 have been allocated.

Deadline for summer 2011 is January 17, 2011

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 Dawn Scott at dscott@osrhe.edu  

Please apply by email to Dawn Scott at dscott@osrhe.edu 

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXTERNSHIPS FOR FACULTY

$8,000 maximum award

At least one 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 Dawn Scott at dscott@osrhe.edu  

There is no set application deadline.  Please apply by email to Dawn Scott at dscott@osrhe.edu 

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HISTORY OF INBRE MINI, COLLABORATIVE, EQUIPMENT AND RELEASE TIME GRANTS