Grants Bulletin

February 11, 2010

Reminder – Information needed for NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program

Researchers planning to submit a proposal to the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant program for major research equipment costing between $100,000 and $600,000 will need a letter of institutional commitment from the Office of the Vice President for Research that addresses the specific program guidelines. To ensure adequate time to prepare the appropriate documentation, please send the following information electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Friday, February 19, 2010:

• Name and department of PI
• Instrument requested and approximate cost
• Proposed user group (a minimum of 3 NIH-funded investigators are required)
• If the instrument is intended to be part of an existing service core (recharge center), identify which one; if a new recharge center is being proposed, provide proposed name and location
• If instrument is not intended to be part of a recharge center, delineate the departmental/center/institute and college plans for instrument support in terms of personnel and service costs

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663.) To identify potential NIH-funded investigators, researchers may contact the Proposal Development Office (proposal@email.uky.edu) or search SPIFi, the database of UK funded projects (www.research.uky.edu/ospa/info/spifi.html).

Complete Program Announcement:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-082.html

Limited Submission

• Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network - March 16

To view this and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.

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February 8, 2010

"From Mechanism to Treatment: Developing Drugs for Chronic Pain" - Feb. 18

Leslie J. Crofford, MD
Gloria W. Singletary Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Kentucky

Thursday, February 18, 2010
HG611 (Hospital Auditorium)
Lunch 11:30 a.m., Presentation Noon to 1 p.m.
Please call or e-mail the UK CR-DOC office to reserve your place (323-8545 or crdoc@email.uky.edu).

OBJECTIVE
At the completion of this session the participants will be able to:

• Describe mechanisms underlying chronic pain
• Articulate how potential therapeutic targets are identified
• Discuss how the FDA works with pharmaceutical companies on new indications
• Review treatments for fibromyalgia
  

Presented by the University of Kentucky Clinical Research Development and Operations Center (CR-DOC)

"Clinical Research Madness: Research and Its Many Brackets" - March 23

Join us for a collaborative effort from the UK CR-DOC and TriHealth Hatton Institute. This comprehensive symposium will focus on special challenges in clinical research.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Lexington Convention Center, 3rd Floor, Bluegrass Ballroom

For more visit: http://www.ccts.uky.edu/Events/ClinicalResearch.aspx

Limited Submissions

• Framework Programs for Global Health Signature Innovations Initiative - Feb. 17
• Program to Enhance NIH-supported Global Health Research Involving Human Subjects - Feb. 17
• Institutional Research Training Grants for Statistical Genetics and Genome Informatics - March 1
• Cooperative Multicenter Neonatal Research Network - March 8
• Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30) - March 22

To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.

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February 1, 2010

Cyberinfrastructure Days to Enhance Research Skills - Feb. 22-23

"Cyberinfrastructure Days," a two-day workshop aimed at helping faculty, staff and students develop and improve their computational research skills, will be held from noon Monday, Feb. 22 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the William T. Young Library and Hilary J. Boone Center.

The event is part of a national effort to promote the development of a strong cyberinfrastructure to enable worldwide collaboration among scientists and engineers through the rapid exchange of information necessary for ambitious research agendas. The University of Kentucky, already a leader among the nation's computational research universities, is committed to contributing significantly to the national effort.

The workshop, which will feature speakers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure, the University of Utah, and Massachusetts General Hospital, will apprise participants of supercomputing resources available at UK.

Participants will also learn how to use their supercomputing time efficiently and where to go to get assistance.

The workshop is sponsored by UK Provost Kumble Subbaswamy, UK Vice President for Research James W. Tracy and the UK Center for Computational Sciences. It is part of a national series of workshops being sponsored by a consortium of federal agencies and national organizations. In addition, IBM has contributed support to the UK CI Days event.

Online registration is available at www.ccs.uky.edu/CIDays. Registration is required because of space limitations.

Limited Submissions

• NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering - Feb. 8
• Institutional Comparative Effectiveness Research Mentored Career Development Award (KM1) - Feb. 12
• Parkinson's Disease Data Center - Feb. 26

To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.