Research Funding Information
- Jeremy Steinbacher
Here we have assembled some materials relevant for finding and securing extramural funding for research.
DoD 101:How to find and navigate Department of Defense research funding opportunities
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) funds basic research to the tune of billions of dollars a year, yet many academic researchers are not aware of the funding opportunities available through DoD, including programs in biomedicine, chemistry, biology, engineering, materials, and physics.
The BioInspired Institute invites you to learn more about extramural funding opportunities from the Department of Defense’s research and development programs and agencies. We will provide an opportunity to hear from former DoD program managers and leaders about best practices for engagement with the DoD, the types of research most likely to achieve success with the DoD, and how to collaborate with DoD labs and intramural researchers.
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Data Management Planning
In this workshop, Paul Bern, Syracuse University Libraries, and Sebastian Karcher, the Moynihan Institute, will discuss the importance of planning for and actively managing data as part of the scientific process. We will start with an overview of open science, including ways of sharing data sets, and recent developments in federal funding and rules. Then, we will discuss the Data Management Plan (DMP), a document required by many funding organizations, and increasingly, by many publishers. DMPs describe the types and amount of data you will collect as well as how you will collect, store, process, secure, share and publish or archive your data. We will cover the details of each of these points and how you can work them into your own DMP using the DMPTool online platform. Resources to help you complete your DMP as well as implement it will also be covered.
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Panel Discussion with Program Managers from the Departments of Defense and Energy
We conducted a virtual panel discussion with two scientific program managers from the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to answer your questions about DoD/DOE funding:
- Who to talk to
- How to get in the system
- How to get started
- How the DOE/DoD processes differ from those at the NSF or NIH
Dr. Nancy Kelley-Laoughnane, Biological Materials and Processes Research Team Lead at Air Force Research Laboratory.
Dr. Aura Gimm, program manager of the biomolecular materials program in the Material Sciences and Engineering Division at DOE.
We were unable to record the discussion, but please see these notes and additional materials sent by the speakers.
The Opportunities and Challenges of Center Grants
Center grants are a key mechanism for funding high-impact, interdisciplinary work that appear across multiple federal funding agencies and related solicitations from private foundations. In addition, many agencies have programs specifically for collaborative, multi-investigator projects that are beyond the scope of standard research grants. Therefore, identifying and supporting preliminary work towards promising ideas that can drive large-scale collaborative grants is an important goal of the Institute. That said, team science collaborations like center grants present unique challenges for investigators used to single-PI proposals and the ensuing projects.
In this workshop, BioInspired and the Office of Research will cover some of the most common center-type and multi-investigator funding opportunities, including those from NSF, DoD, and NIH. We will also cover the basics of team science projects and offer insight into how to launch and maintain these collaborations successfully.
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