FW: EPSCoR Live! ~ Open Science Session

	Dear Colleagues, The U.S. National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) team is excited to announce the third EPSCoR Live! event (formerly known as EPSCoR Office Hours) of 2024. When : Wednesday, March 13, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EDT). Audience for March 13 th Session : This EPSCoR Live! will be of particular interest to researchers and leaders within research administration in EPSCoR jurisdictions , who would like to learn more about the topic of open science. Summary of Topic: In this session, Dr. Martin Halbert and other NSF staff will discuss the emerging landscape of open science, including upcoming federal public access mandates and related open science matters. Their discussion will be followed by a Q&A session. How to Attend: Advance registration is required. Register here to receive the Zoom link for the session. Please use an institutional email address for registration. How to Submit Questions: EPSCoR Live! participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance through the registration form or by sending an email to epscor-live@nsf.gov . ? While real-time captioning will be available, requests for additional accommodations may be sent to epscor-live@nsf.gov by Wednesday, March 6. If you missed previous events or would like to review past presentations, please visit our EPSCoR Live! webpage .? We would be grateful if you could also forward this message to faculty and other PIs within your institution who might be interested and invite them to sign up here for our mailing list to receive notifications of events (such as EPSCoR Live!) and solicitations from EPSCoR. Regards, The NSF EPSCoR Team

 

How to find great funding opportunities - posted from Emily Houston's email

 Emily put together the following list that could help many of us - thank you, Emily!

Last week we talked about locating funding opportunities for our projects, and here are a few links to the website mentioned:

 grants.gov -the federal government's central resource for funding opportunities

 Pivot-RP (proquest.com) -federal and private funding database; you can create an account to save searches

 Candid | Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid -philanthropic grants

 https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndexMobile.cfm?WeekEnding=02-02-2024 -subscribe to receive NIH-funding weekly updates

 https://www.uvm.edu/ovpr/resdev -UVM Research Development website and location to subscribe to their weekly funding opportunities email

 UVMMC Fund Grant Program (sharepoint.com) -You may need a medical center account to access this, but currently there are two UVMMC grants open for applications, a $10-25K one and a $25-100K grant.

 Home | RePORT (nih.gov) -Curious what has been funded federally? This website includes abstracts of funded research, the funding opportunity announcement, names of the PIs, how much was awarded, and the study section that reviewed the grant proposal.

Research in CTS (formerly CROW) Meeting: February 8, 2024

 

Present:   Emily Houston, Jerry Landau, Ben Littenberg, Charlie MacLean, Gail Rose, Connie van Eeghen (6)

1.                   Warm Up:

a.       Warm days ahead already!

2.                   Group discussion on how to find funding

a.       Emily’s favorite funding searches for graduate students

                                                   i.      Pivot.proquest.com: create an account, save searches, save options that are interesting. Gail has used it to create a profile that will send options every week, but much is not relevant. Nancy knows it taps into foundation funding and smaller opportunities to support dissertation work.  

                                                 ii.      Grants.gov for NIH opps

                                               iii.      Candid.org includes Gates Foundation and other private foundations

b.       Weekly NIH TOC listserve

                                                   i.      Also NIH RePORTER to see what has been funded in the past

                                                 ii.      ClinicalTrials.gov

c.       Internal UVM Office of Research listserve

                                                   i.      Their website indicates the number of grants they’ve helped support

d.       Emily received an investigator initiated award through private company

e.       Charlie: available awards through https://www.med.uvm.edu/nne-ctr/funding/PPP .  Charlie and Connie have one currently ongoing.  One award each year must go to a PBRN based study for primary care practice based research. This is funded through MaineHealth (no medical site but site for Tufts, partner with U Southern Maine, have a research institute).  Dartmouth has applied for a full CTSA to conduct additional work. It really helps to have relationships across institutions to build partnerships in developing grant ideas. Rural partners are an asset.

f.        Nancy: found collaborator for NCI grant through lit search and cold call. Targeted Louisiana because needed racial diversity; reviewer comment came back to focus on racial diversity in New England.

g.       Charlie: NNE CTR PBRN is in a system of PBRNs that can help recruit from more diverse, and therefore more generalizable, parts of the country.

h.       Emily: any collaboration outside the country, such as McGill.  Charlie: study on “pre-habilitation” to do rehabilitation work before surgery; resulted in a Grand Rounds talk.  Also worked on de-prescribing: helpful but not resulting in funding, as funders differ widely in methods of funding that don’t apply across international boundaries. This allows researchers to pivot quickly; our system takes a long time to operate. Ben: K awards are like that, but don’t cover lab and other research expenses.

i.         Jerry: goal is to start small smaller projects. Will follow up on the suggestions above.

j.         Ben: two strategies

                                                   i.      Find opportunities that the funder is promoting

                                                 ii.      Create own proposal and find a funder

                                               iii.      Lesson: don’t spend all your time on pleasing the funder

k.       Emily: her dissertation has had funding and, although taking longer than planned, is getting to the end.  Her section has continuous funding and allows for some independent work.

3.                   Next meeting: Feb 15 2024, topic TBD

Recorded by: CvE