Federal Grant Opportunities

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Federal Funding Announcements:
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Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient	Amount	Granting Agency
Albany Housing Authority: VASH Tenant-Based Vouchers	$292,331	Housing and Urban Development
Disability Rights New York: Assistive Technology State Grants for Protection and Advocacy	$292,352	HHS - Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD)
Kitware: R & D Services, Computational Model Builder for Multi-Dimensional Models	$9,500,000	Department of Defense - Army
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Travel Support for Students to Attend the 2015 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC); Nashville, Tennessee	$5,000	National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research
Schenectady Family Health Services: Health Center Cluster	$2,509,949	HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration
SUNY Albany: Albany 2015 - The 19th Conversation to be held on June 9-13, 2015 at the State University of New York, Albany, NY	$10,000	National Science Foundation - Conference
SUNY Research Foundation: Maternal and Child Health Public Health Training Program	$67,708	HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration
SUNY Research Foundation: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program	$17,784	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
TOTAL	$12,695,124

2015 1^st Quarter National Institutes of Health Awards:

Recipient	Amount	NIH Institute/Center
Albany Medical College: Cytoskeletal Regulation of Airway Smooth Muscle	$221,625	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Albany Medical College: HSC Function During Infection	$190,000	National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Albany Medical College: Integrin Intracellular Function	$250,000	National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Albany Medical College: Keratinocyte Integrin Crosstalk During Wound Healing	$212,500	National Institue of Arthritis and Musculskeletal and Skin Diseases
Albany Medical College: Mechanisms of STING-Mediated Mucosal Vaccine Adjuvant Activity of Cyclic di-GMP	$76,917	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Albany Medical College: A New Humanized Mouse Model of Chronic Hepatitis B	$150,000	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Albany Medical College: Novel Role of MAPK14 in Regulation of VSMC Contractile Phenotype	$246,250	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Albany Medical College: Novel Signaling in Chronic Hypoxic Responses in Pulmonary Arteries	$304,943	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Albany Medical College: Numb Family Proteins Regulate Trabecular Development	$250,000	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Albany Medical College: Reorganization of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Airway Smooth Muscle	$246,250	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Albany Medical College: Role of BCL11B in CD4+ T Cells	$250,000	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Albany Medical College: Sulforaphane as an Inhibitor of HIV Infection	$150,000	National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Breonics, Inc.: The Potential to Immunocloak Renal Allografts	$961,117	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
General Electric Global Research Center: High Performance, Highly Deployable Head-Only MRI Scanner	$44,081	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Health Research, Inc.: NYS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System	$123,566	National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Health Research, Inc.: Tobacco Control Program	$2,358,238	National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Kitware, Inc.: Prostate Cancer Assessment Via Integrated 3D ARFI Elasticity Imaging and Multi-Parametric MRI	$150,002	National Cancer Institute
Regenerative Research Foundation: Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Human RPE Plasticity	$267,736	National Eye Institute
Regenerative Research Foundation: Endothelial Aromatase in Sex-Specific Cerebrovascular Dysfunction After Ischemia	$56,042	National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Design of Antibody Fragments Specific for Amyloidogenic Aggregates	$170,000	National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Development and Validation of a Virtual Airway Skill Trainer (VAST)	$546,745	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Grating-based X-ray Phase-contrast Tomography Methods	$220,500	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: High-Throughput Platform for Identifying Stem Cell Toxicity	$382,347	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: A Probabilistic Closed-loop Artificial Pancreas to Handle Unannounced Meals	$301,533	National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Synthetic Heparan Sulfate: Probing Biosynthesis to Prepare Defined Drugs	$325,926	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Time-Resolved Wide-Field Molecular Optical Tomography	$398,249	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
SUNY Albany: Assessment of Carcinogenicity of Nanosilver in DNA Repair Deficient Mouse Models	$98,036	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
SUNY Albany: The Impact of Stress on Steroid Hormones and Cue Reactivity in Smokers and Gamblers	$28,625	National Institute on Drug Abuse
SUNY Albany: Novel Theranostic Approaches to Identify and Treat Tinnitus Using Functionalized Nanoparticles	$170,903	National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
SUNY Albany: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly	$294,325	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
SUNY Albany: The Role of Long Non-coding RNAs in EMT and Cancer Stem Cells	$159,627	National Cancer Institute
SUNY Albany: Synthetic Progestin Exposure and Mesocortical Dopamine System Development	$146,250	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
SUNY Albany: Vitamin D and HA Signaling in TNBC	$352,275	National Cancer Institute
SUNY Albany: Young Adults Leaving and Returning to the Parental Home	$48,750	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Union Graduate College: Caribbean Research Ethics Education Initiative (CREEi)	$230,382	Fogerty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Union Graduate College: E-Education in Research Ethics: Central and Eastern Europe	$245,197	Fogerty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Wadsworth Center: Aflatoxin B1 Hepatocarcinogenesis in the mGSTA3-/- Mouse	$221,263	National Cancer Institute
Wadsworth Center: Enzyme-based Lysis of Mycobacteria	$125,000	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wadsworth Center: Genetic Analysis of Molecular Interactions in Coronavirus Replication	$375,191	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wadsworth Center: Inhibition and Mechanism of Flavivirus Methyltransferase	$510,543	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wadsworth Center: Empirically Defining Gene Architecture and Expression of M. Tuberculosis	$125,000	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wadsworth Center: Mechanisms of Bacterial DNA Polymerase Replication and Fidelity	$192,500	National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Wadsworth Center: Mechanism of MALT1 Regulation by a Novel Ubiquitin Ligase	$164,500	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wadsworth Center: Structure and Function of Primary Cilia	$190,000	National Institute of General Medical Sciences
1st quarter TOTAL	$12,121,309

Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

The USDA Rural Development Section 502 Direct Loan Program provides low and very low income people the opportunity to acquire, build, rehabilitate, or improve single family dwellings in rural areas. Under this program, borrowers receive a loan directly from USDA Rural Development. The standard term for a section 502 loan is 33 years. However, loans may be made for a shorter term and in some cases for 38 years. Each loan is made at a fixed rate established by the Agency and payment subsidies are available to many (income eligible) borrowers to reduce monthly loan payments. For more information, contact (518) 692-9940 ext. 4.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small aquaculture businesses and private nonprofit organizations located in New York that May 26, 2015 is the deadline to apply for a working capital disaster loan as a result of excessive rain, flooding, high winds and hail from April 1 through July 8, 2014.

Applicants may apply online using the Electronic Loan Application (ELA) via SBA’s secure website at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela.

Disaster loan information and application forms may also be obtained by calling the SBA’s Customer Service Center at 800-659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) or by sending an email to disastercustomerservice@sba.gov. Loan applications can be downloaded from www.sba.gov/disaster. Completed applications should be mailed to: U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.

NSF Proposal Submission Document Updates- The newest NSF Proposal and Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) released in December, 2014 (NSF 15-01) includes some significant policy changes both in proposal submission guidelines (Part I: Grant Proposal Guide or GPG) and award administration (Part II: Award and Administration Guide or AAG). The overall document was revised to implement 2 CFR § 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance). Other important changes are summarized in the first 7 pages of the PAPPG and explained in more detail in the body of the document. Please pay special attention to these changes when preparing proposals as proposals will be returned without review for non-compliance.

FEMA Fundamentals of Grants Managementcourse for recipients currently receiving FEMA federal financial assistance. The course, part of the Grants Management Technical Assistance (GMTA) Program, is designed to enhance the recipient's ability to administer and manage their federal financial assistance. Click here for more information.

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