Federal Grant Opportunities:
November 7, 2017

This summary is brought to you
by the Office of Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20).
If the grant for which you're applying accepts Congressional letters of support, please contact our office to find out how Rep. Tonko can support your request. Grant deadlines and guidelines may change. Please check with the awarding agency before applying.

Federal Funding Announcements:
This summary includes new or updated opportunities in the following areas. Please click on the topic below to view all grant announcements:

  1. Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
  2. Arts and Culture
  3. Business, Jobs and Workforce Development
  4. Children, Youth, Families and Older Americans
  5. Community Development
  6. Crime Prevention, Justice and Public Safety
  7. Education
  8. Energy and Environment
  9. Health
  10. Housing and Homelessness
  11. Infrastructure and Transportation
  12. International Development
  13. Science and Technology

Recent Grant and Contract Awards:


Recipient

Amount

Granting Agency

SUNY Albany: Northeastern Analysis Meeting 2017

$21,906

National Science Foundation

TOTAL

$21,906

 

 

NIH FY2017 Awards - 3rd quarter:

Recipient

Amount

NIH Institute/Center

Albany Medical College: Innate Lymphoid Cell Aging

$205,000

National Eye Institute

Albany Medical College: Investigation of Calcium Signaling in Caenorhabditis Elegans

$200,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Albany Medical College: Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators in Atherosclerosis

$150,972

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Albany Medical College: Understanding the Role of Microglia on Epileptogenesis

$218,750

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Albany Medical College: Upstate New York Immunology Conference

$10,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

HocusLocus, Inc.: Improvements to Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing (STTR Phase II)

$733,711

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Kitware: Advanced Virtual Simulator for Real-time Ultrasound-guided Renal Biopsy Training

$224,998

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Kitware: High-fidelity Virtual Reality Trainer for Orthognathic Surgery (SBIR Phase I)

$225,000

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Kitware: Interactive, Patient-specific Virtual Surgical Planning System for Upper Airway Obstruction Treatments (SBIR Phase I)

$225,000

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Kitware: Slicer+PLUS: Collaborative, Open-source Software for Ultrasound Analysis

$49,901

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Kitware: Slicer+PLUS: Collaborative, Open-source Software for Ultrasound Analysis

$398,759

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Kitware: Textural Biomarkers of Arthritis for the Subchondral Bone in the Temporomandibular Joint

$155,651

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

My Music Machines, Inc.: Jamboxx - Interactive Respiratory Therapy through Music and Gaming

$999,500

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Pulmokine, Inc.: Inhaled PDGF Receptor Inhibitor for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

$999,751

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Regenerative Research Foundation: iPSC Modeling of AD Using Progerin

$315,625

National Institute on Aging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Alzheimer's Disease Clinical and Translational Research (ADCTR) Training Program

$276,264

National Institute on Aging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Development and Validation of a Virtual Endoluminal Surgical Simulator (VESS) for Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

$375,204

National Cancer Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Effects of Non-Enzymatic Glycation and Collagen Crosslinks on Bone Fragility

$250,000

National Institute on Aging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: New Paradigm of Respiration in the Human Gut Bacteroides

$530,408

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Simmetrex, Inc.: Innovative Tools for Three-dimensional Traction Force Microscopy of Single Cells (STTR Phase I)

$149,448

National Cancer Institute

Skidmore College: Archiving a Large Audiovisual Dataset of Early Childhood Experiences

$50,000

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

SUNY Albany: Characterization of ncRNAs' Post-transcriptional Modifications by Antisense Affinity Capture and MS Analysis

$250,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: Development of Novel, User-centric Technologies for Detection and Single-molecule Analysis of RNA

$250,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: Engineering Functioning Salivary Glands Using Micropatterned Scaffolds

$509,236

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

SUNY Albany: Environmental Epitranscriptomic Studies and Tools Focused on the Wobble Uridine

$334,308

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: Regulated RNA Degradation is Required for Drosophila Oogenesis

$28,700

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: Regulation of Stem Cell Differentiation during Drosophila Oogenesis

$190,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: Role of Post-transcription RNA Modifications on Zika Virus Gene Expression

$150,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

SUNY Polytechnic Institute: Human CYP2A and Respiratory Tract Xenobiotic Toxicity

$310,776

National Cancer Institute

SUNY Polytechnic Institute: Role of the Phosphoprotein phosphatase PTP1B in Cardiac Hypertrophy

$300,000

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

SUNY Polytechnic Institute: Translational Regulation in Exposure Biology - Xenobiotic-induced Reprograming of tRNA Modifications and Selective Translation of Codon-biased Response Genes in Rat and Human Models

$294,922

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies

$707,485

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Wadsworth Center: Children's Health Exposure Assessment Resource (WC-CHEAR)

$1,325,844

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Cyclic AMP Secretion Mechanisms in M. Tuberculosis

$150,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: High Throughput Screening of Orthosteric Inhibitors of Flavivirus Protease

$332,379

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Identifying Genetic Correlatesof Zika Virus Infection and Transmission in US Mosquitoes

$125,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: In Vivo Efficacy Studies of Existing Drugs Re-purposed for Flaviviruses in Mouse Models

$150,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: New Use of Old Drugs for Zika Virus

$174,551

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Prenatal Environmental Toxicants induce Neuroinflammation causing Autistic Behaviors

$386,953

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Structure and Function of Primary Cilia

$190,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

TOTAL

$12,904,096



Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

 

Join the I-Corps at NIH expert on November 21 for an open-air office hour! I-Corps at NIH Program Manager Christie Canaria and I-Corps at NIH Lead Instructor Edmund Pendleton will be available from 1:00 to 2:00 PM Eastern Time to answer all your questions about the I-Corps at NIH entrepreneurship program. This will be an informal, free-form question-and-answer session, so sign up today, and join the experts on November 21! I-Corps at NIH is an entrepreneurship program designed for life science small businesses like yours. Selected companies will participate in an 8-week training done both online and offline, finding their focus and improving their business strategies. The application is open to eligible Phase I awardees who received their SBIR/STTR funding from any of the 16 participating NIH and CDC Institutes and Centers (click here for the full list.) The next receipt date is December 18, 2017! If you have questions about the Office Hour session or about the I-Corps at NIH program, please contact NCI SBIR at ncisbir@mail.nih.gov.

 

The latest issue of Philanthropy News Digest Connections is now available.

 

The Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices, NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, 11-3-2017 Edition is now available.

 

The Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices, NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, 10-27-2017 Edition is now available.



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