RESEARCH

All can be accessed from NIH Recovery page:

http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/

Specific notices:

*Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-056.html

*Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-058.html

*Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-060.html

This is a quarterly competition for pilot funding of up to $10,000 which will be made available to support studies conducted through any of the CTSC Core facilities. This program is being supported by Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and MetroHealth Medical Center, and investigators based at these sites are eligible for this competition. Funds can be spent only in a CTSC supported facility. Deadline for submission is April 1, 2009. This funding will be made available quarterly. Please visit our website announcement at http://casemed.case.edu/ctsc/investigators/

Application Due Date: April 27, 2009 As part of the Recovery Act, the NIH invites, through this limited competition, NIH Challenge Grant (RC1) applications from domestic (United States) institutions/organizations proposing novel research in areas that address specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. This program is designed to support research in scientific areas identified by the NIH Institutes and Centers. For details see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html For NIDA areas of interest please visit http://www.drugabuse.gov/Recovery/

NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, and doctoral students for its 21st Annual Planetary Science Summer School, which will hold two separate sessions this summer (20-24 July and 3-7 August) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. During the program, student teams will carry out the equivalent of an early mission concept study, prepare a proposal authorization review presentation, present it to a review board, and receive feedback. At the end of the week, students will have a clearer understanding of the life cycle of a robotic space mission; relationships between mission design, cost, and schedule; and the tradeoffs necessary to stay within cost and schedule while preserving the quality of science. Applications are due 1 May 2009. Partial financial support is available for a limited number of individuals. Further information is available at http://pscischool.jpl.nasa.gov