Grants & You September/October 2014

Funded

*Melissa Kay, AT, ATC, ASHS Athletic Training, “Athletic Trainers’ Perceptions of and Experiences with Academic Accommodations as Part of the Concussion Management Protocol,” National Athletic Trainers’ Association, $1,000, August 2014 – June 2016.

*Peter Kondrashov, PhD, KCOM Anatomy, “Development of Clinical Skills in NRMC Residents and Third- and Fourth-Year Osteopathic Medical Students with a Hands-on Simulation Surgical Skills Lab Using Cadaveric Material,” Northeast Missouri Osteopathic Charitable Trust, $16,000, July 2014 – December 2015.

**Tamara Valovich McLeod, PhD, ATC, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Youth Football Safety Study – Year 3,” Datalys Center, $44,000, August 2014 – December 2014.

American Osteopathic Association – Research Fellowships Funded

**Lindsay Peckskamp, KCOM OGME II, and Kelly Burchett, DO, KCOM Surgery, “Assessment of ENT Knowledge in Osteopathic Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Pediatric Residents and Medical Students,” American Osteopathic Association – Research Fellowship Program, $8,250, August 2014 – July 2015.

**Brian Peternell, KCOM OGME II, and Eric Snider, DO, C-NMM/OMM, KCOM Neurobehavioral Sciences, “A 3D Infrared Kinematic Method of Detection of Inherent Slow Rythmic Cranial Motion in Humans,” American Osteopathic Association – Research Fellowship Program, $10,000, August 2014 – July 2015.

Submitted (Pending)

*Christopher Halliday, DDS, MPH, MOSDOH, “Establishment of a High-Need Dental Education Clinic in St. Louis,” Missouri Foundation for Health, $1,000,000, January 2015 – December 2015.

*Tony Hashemian, DDS, ASDOH, “Text2Floss: An Innovative Technology to Improve Oral Health,” Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation, $25,000, March 2015 – February 2016.

**Keith Elmslie, PhD, KCOM Pharmacology, “Excitability of Afferents Evoking the Exercise Pressor Reflex (Penn State subaward to KCOM),” National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, $958,046, April 2015 – March 2020.

*Frederic Schwartz, DO, FACOFP, SOMA, “The Envision Community Health Center^TM Project,” John C. Lincoln Health Foundation, $198,246, October 2014 – September 2015.

*Full proposal development and support provided by the ATSU Sponsored Programs team
**Technical support provided by the ATSU Sponsored Programs/Research Support team(s)

Recently Released Grant Opportunities

The following table lists RFAs, PAs, and PARs recently released by the National Institutes of Health. If any of these opportunities are of interest to you, contact Sponsored Programs or Research Support at ext. 2860. Grant guidelines and submission deadlines for all active NIH funding opportunities are available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html. To learn more about the grants process, see Grants Process Overview.

Research Grants (R Series)

Small Grant Program (R03)

Research Demonstration and Disseminations Project (R18)

Research Project Grant Programs (R01)

Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Awards (R21)

Phase Innovation Award (R21/R33)

Resource-Related Research Projects (R24)

Education Projects (R25)

Clinical Trial Planning Grants (R34)

Career Development Awards (K Series)

Clinical Investigator Award (CIA) (K08)

Research Career Programs (K23)

*Denotes multiple mechanism offerings

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) – Deadline Correction

Deadline Correction: September 1 through November 17
Notices released by the NIH indicate an application period of September 1 – November 15; however, Sponsored Programs has confirmed with the NIH Division of Loan Repayment (DLR)/LRP Information Center that the correct deadline is November 17th, as stated on the NIH-DLR web page.

Other Extramural Funding Opportunities

American Academy of Audiology (AAA) Foundation – Research Grants in Hearing and Balance

Deadline: October 1, 2014
Purpose: The mission of the AAA Foundation is to promote philanthropy in support of research, education, and public awareness in audiology and hearing science. The Research Grants in Hearing and Balance program was established to support the promotion of research among audiologists, to encourage research as part of a student’s training program, and for the development of new scientists within the profession. Clinical, applied, and basic research will be considered. Research opportunities available include:

• New Investigator Research Grant – Up to $10,000
• Student Investigator Research Grant – Up to $5,000
• Student Summer Research Fellowship – $2,500 stipend

Verizon Foundation Grants

Deadline: October 10, 2014 (By Invitation Only)
Funding: $5,000 - $10,000
Purpose: The Verizon Foundation is dedicated to improving lives and giving back to communities, with focuson education, healthcare, and energy management. The Foundation’s primary philanthropic priorities within healthcare are: improving access for children, empowering health for women, connecting health for seniors, and domestic violence prevention. Historically, projects funded by the Foundation involve integration of technology in some aspect. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact their local Community Relations Manager.

GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT – Lesbian Health Fund (LHF)

Deadline: October 15 and May 15 Annually
Funding: $500 - $10,000
Purpose: The LHF has a mission to improve the health of lesbians and other sexual minority women and their families through research. These small grants are generally for studies that provide data for subsequent research, allowing researchers to test concepts and collect pilot data that must be done before other agencies will consider funding larger studies.

The Doctors Company Foundation (TDCF)

Deadline: November 1 and April 1 Annually
Funding: $10,000 - $200,000 per year
Purpose: TDCF, the nation’s largest insurer of medical professional liability for physicians, surgeons, and other health professionals, supports safety education for healthcare professionals in training and in practice, patient safety research with clinically useful applications, and medical professional liability research. Focus areas include: funding to support medical and other health professional students to attend patient safety trainings or education camps, research, interprofessional educational programs, and curriculum development.

Foundation for Dental Health Education (FDHE) of the Alliance of the American Dental Association (AADA) Grants

Deadline: November 1, 2014
Funding: $1,000 - $2,500 per year
Purpose: The FDHE was founded in 1990 to fund initiatives that promote the awareness and importance of dental care. The Foundation sponsors the development of public outreach programs, access to care initiatives, educational materials, web-based public information resources, training, and other innovative efforts to educate the public. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to submit a grant application for initiatives, activities, products, or programs that focus on dental health education.

American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Foundation (AMSSM) – Research Grants

Deadline: November 3, 2014
Funding: $500 - $25,000 per year
Purpose: The AMSSM Foundation is dedicated to the support and recognition of excellence in Sports Medicine education, research, and scientific activities, while promoting opportunities for humanitarian outreach. The Foundation welcomes research grant proposals that investigate issues within the broad discipline of sports medicine, including clinical practice, injury prevention and rehabilitation, basic science, epidemiology, and education. Grant awards are designed to provide partial support of research projects. Researchers who are AMSSM members are eligible to apply.

American Lung Association (ALA) Training Awards & Independent Investigator Awards

Deadline: December 15, 2014
Purpose: ALA is dedicated to saving lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. The goals of the ALA Awards and Grants Program are to: 1) foster laboratory, patient-centered and social-behavioral research designed to prevent and relieve the suffering associated with all lung diseases and corresponding risk factors and 2) fund researchers at important crossroads of their careers to gain long-term commitment to lung disease research. Awards offered include:

Training Awards

• Lung Health Dissertation Grant - $21,000 per year
• Senior Research Training Fellowship - $32,500 per year

Independent Investigator Awards

• ALA/ARTrust TM Allergic Respirator Disease Award - $75,000 per year
• Biomedical Research Grant - $40,000 per year
• Clinical Patient Care Research Grant - $40,000 per year
• Dalsemer Research Grant - $40,000 per year
• *Lung Cancer Discovery Award - $100,000 per year
• Social-Behavioral Research Grant - $40,000 per year

*Requires a Letter of Intent, due October 1, 2014.

AOA – Research Fellowships

Deadline: January 30, 2015
Funding: Up to $10,000 per year
Purpose: The AOA Research Fellowship Program, partially funded by the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation, is designed as a mechanism for supporting research training and enabling researchers to conduct a basic science or clinical research project that will make a significant contribution to osteopathic medicine. This program provides seed funding to encourage an osteopathic physician or physician in training to contribute to research through his/her career. Research projects must be completed under the direction of a faculty sponsor.

For information on general timelines for submitting research projects and papers, view the Recommended Timelines for Research Projects and Papers for Still OPTI Residents document presented by the ATSU Research Support and Sponsored Programs departments. Research Support and Sponsored Programs can provide assistance with designing research studies, obtaining grant funding for research projects, statistical analysis, and editing and submitting research papers for publication.

St. Luke’s Health Initiatives (SLHI) - Arizona Innovation Grants

Deadline: March 2015 (By Invitation Only)
Required Letter of Intent due January 20, 2015
Purpose: SLHI’s Innovation Grants program is designed to catalyze innovations for transformational systems and policy change that impact health and resiliency. Awards will support projects proposing transformational approaches to increasing community well-being, improving health in the built environment, or impacting health outcomes. Grant goals include: 1) increasing community capacity to identify and address issues affecting community well-being;
2) strategically leveraging infrastructure, systems, and policies to improve health; and 3) addressing the conditions/determinants that enable Arizonans to be healthy and resilient, including environmental, social, behavioral, and health infrastructure that impacts and/or influences health outcomes.

DJO Global, Inc. – Research Grants

Deadline: Rolling
Purpose: DJO Global is a leading global provider of high-quality, orthopedic devices, and the largest non-surgical orthopedic rehabilitation device company in the US and among the largest globally. The Research Grants program offered through DJO Global provides support for research that delivers valuable scientific and clinical information, improves clinical care, leads to promising new treatments, promotes improved delivery of healthcare, and otherwise benefits patients in the areas of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal conditions.