Research Round-Up
Research Round-Up is a communication devoted to sharing information related to open funding opportunities and research administration procedures.
For additional information on deadlines, processes and procedures, please instead see our Sponsored Programs Support Services webpage.
Friendly Reminder: Proposal Request Form
Individuals serving as principal investigator on a CEHS-led proposal or co-investigator/collaborator on a grant proposal led by another college or external organization must submit a Proposal Request Form a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the proposal due date. Doing so ensures the timely routing of your proposal for review and approval by College administration, Central Sponsored Programs Administration (formerly known as University Research Services), Grants & Contracts Financial Administration, and, if required, University Research Compliance.
Please address any questions or concerns regarding the information contained below to the CEHS Sponsored Programs team: Kayley Watson (Kayley.Watson@okstate.edu), Samar Abid (SamarAA@okstate.edu), or Erin Brown (Erin.Brown10@okstate.edu).
Tip of the Month
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CITI Training requirements for federal sponsored programs
Oklahoma State University has an obligation to ensure that all students, faculty and staff conducting research do so by applying the highest ethical standards. Education and training in the ethical and responsible conduct of research is an essential element of training for individuals who are pursuing degrees or engaging in research in any field. Over the past few years funders have become more likely to require that everyone conducting research receive training in the responsible conduct of research in core areas that are seen as significant in conducting research (including proper citation of other work, plagiarism, research misconduct, intellectual property and copyright, falsification and unwarranted editing of data, conflict of interest, authorship on manuscripts, and mentor-mentee relationships).
Oklahoma State University subscribes to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) as a component of our financial conflict of interest and responsible conduct of research training program. The on-line training courses are titled Conflict of Interest, Responsible Conduct of Research and Undue Foreign Influence: Risks and Mitigations. Modules include instructional material, suggested readings, and short quizzes. You must earn a cumulative score of 80% to pass/complete the course. Quiz results are recorded and provided to you and to the OSU Office of University Research Compliance.
Agency Training requirement
NSF
- Responsible Conduct of Research
- Conflict of Interest
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
NIH
- Responsible Conduct of Research
- Conflict of Interest
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
USDA
- Responsible Conduct of Research
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
NIFA
- Responsible Conduct of Research
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
FDA
- Conflict of Interest
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
U.S. Department of Education
- Conflict of Interest
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE)
- Conflict of Interest
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
PHS & affiliated federal agencies
- Conflict of Interest
- Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
- U.S. Department of Energy requires COI training every 2 years.
- All other agencies require training every 4 years.
- Effective 7/9/24, all federal sponsored programs require the Undue Foreign Influence: Risks & Mitigations
Trainings requirements are based on:
- America Competes Act, section 7009
- CHIPS & Sciences Act, section 10337
- NOT-00-22-055
- Sections 2,3,8 of 2 CFR Part 422
- CHIPS & Sciences Act, section 10634 effective 7/9/2024
For Your Information
- NIH-developed AI algorithm matches potential volunteers to clinical trials
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to help speed up the process of matching potential volunteers to relevant clinical research trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov. A study published in Nature Communications(link is external) found that the AI algorithm, called TrialGPT, could successfully identify relevant clinical trials for which a person is eligible and provide a summary that clearly explains how that person meets the criteria for study enrollment. The researchers concluded that this tool could help clinicians navigate the vast and ever-changing range of clinical trials available to their patients, which may lead to improved clinical trial enrollment and faster progress in medical research.
- Grants.gov New Feature: Similar Opportunities Identified By AI
Searching for relevant opportunities is important when you are pursuing funding for your organization. Grants.gov is now leveraging artificial intelligence to improve search by suggesting opportunities that are similar to those you show interest in.
You can now scroll to the bottom of any "View Grant Opportunity" page and find a list of similar opportunities that have been identified by AI. These suggestions are based on keywords and other parameters within the opportunity that you are already exploring.
Grants.gov is committed to continuous improvements—and to its users. We are delighted to share the latest example of this commitment with our search-supportive integration of AI.
- CSPA's proposal writing service, “Weekly Proposal Edit Hours!”
EVERY WEDNESDAY 2:00 PM TO 5:00 PM
Quick grant editing/consultation is now available through the Central Sponsored Programs Administration. A grant writer will be available weekly in 45-minute sessions to answer your editing and other grant support questions.
Click Here to schedule your session Weekly Proposal Edit Hours
To learn more about our services visit Proposal Support Services
To request additional Proposal Writing or Editing services click here Proposal Request Form
Funding Opportunities
- LIMITED SUBMISSION: NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3)
https://okstate.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1957480
Internal Submission Deadline: January 6, 2025
Funding Organization's Deadline: February 26, 2025
Program Description:
The goals of R3 are to provide a streamlined method to address research issues important to NASA, and to enable NASA EPSCoR researchers to work with NASA to solve research issues impacting the agency’s programs/missions.
- $125,000 award; F&A to be calculated
- Funds to forge research collaboration with counterparts at NASA centers and NASA Mission Directorates
- Research must align with focus areas outlined in NASA Research Focus Areas and R3 Solicitation
- For NASA Research Focus Areas, see Section 15.A "FY2025 Research Focus Areas (RFAs)" in the full funding opportunity announcement.
- Funds may support Post Doctoral researcher, Graduate Assistants, Undergraduate Assistants, materials and supplies, and travel to NASA Centers for research visits.
- [The Greenwall Foundation] Making a Difference Grants
https://greenwall.org/making-a-difference-grants/request-for-proposals-MAD-spring-2025
Letter of Intent DEADLINE: January 2, 2025
The Foundation’s vision is to make bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research. Our mission is to expand bioethics knowledge to improve clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice. Projects funded under the Making a Difference program should promote the Foundation’s vision and mission through innovative bioethics research that will have a real-world, practical impact.
Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative. All proposals should explain how they will help address a real-world bioethics dilemma. Projects to analyze the normative implications of already-completed empirical research are encouraged. The Foundation will support mentored projects in which a postdoctoral fellow or early-career faculty member works closely with an experienced bioethics scholar. The Foundation will also consider pilot or feasibility projects to evaluate an innovative intervention to resolve a bioethics dilemma, with the goal of obtaining funding from other sources for a larger evaluation or demonstration project. Some highly promising projects may be funded for an initial phase, with additional funding contingent on achieving clear milestones.
- [Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust] Innovations in Built Environment
https://oklahoma.gov/tset/funding-opportunities/tset-built-environment-grants.html
DEADLINE: February 12, 2025
As authorized by Okla. Const. Art. 10, Section 40, and Title 62 O.S. § 2309, to identify and respond to emerging opportunities to transform and improve the health of Oklahomans through the built environment, TSET will accept applications in two areas of emphasis—planning, design and policy development or construction implementation. All applications must support the TSET mission, be aligned with the TSET strategic plan, and adhere to the guidelines stated in this document.
Applications must identify immediate, impactful opportunities to positively transform and improve the health of Oklahomans through built environment projects. Applications must be project-driven, time-limited, have a specific targeted area or population in mind, be supported by multiple partners, and agree to participate in an external evaluation of the project.
TSET seeks projects that are in line with the following guidelines:
- Develop or enhance infrastructure that encourages physical activity, such as park, trails and recreational facilities.
- Support the creation or improvement of land use and facilities that increase access to nutritious foods, such as community gardens, food hubs or farmers’ markets.
- Ensure that new or upgraded public spaces are safe and accessible for all community members, including children, older adults, and people with disabilities.
- Involve community members in the planning and development process to ensure that public spaces meet local needs and preferences.
- Design projects that have a lasting impact on the health of Oklahomans.
- [Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust] Discovery Grants
https://oklahoma.gov/tset/funding-opportunities/discovery-grants.html
DEADLINE: February 12, 2025
As authorized by Okla. Const. Art. 10, Section 40, and Title 62 O.S. § 2309, to identify and respond to emerging opportunities to transform and improve the health of Oklahomans, TSET accepts applications for applicant-defined best or promising practices and innovative ideas under the agency’s Discovery Grants funding opportunity. TSET’s Discovery Grants support innovative and effective new programs or major expansions of existing programs that significantly broaden the applicant’s reach in terms of population served and geographic area covered. Program expansions should be significant and reach a greater number of people, a new service population, and/or a larger geographic area.
Discovery Grant funding is not meant to sustain an existing program or replace current funding. Once TSET funding has ended, the expectation is that a significant portion or all of the program TSET funded is likely to continue as an integral service that your agency provides to a population of focus.
All applications must support the TSET mission and be aligned with the TSET strategic plan as it relates to tobacco and obesity reduction/prevention. The proposed program must be related to one of the following constitutionally mandated purposes:
- Tobacco Prevention and Cessation: Cost-effective strategies to prevent and reduce tobacco use.
- Health Improvement: Programs designed to maintain or improve the health of Oklahomans or to enhance the provision of health care services to Oklahomans, with a particular emphasis on programs for children.
- Children: Programs and services for the benefit of Oklahoma children, with particular emphasis on common and higher education, before- and after-school and preschool programs, substance use prevention and treatment programs and other programs and services designed to improve the health and quality of life of children.
- Senior Adults: Programs and services designed to enhance the health and well-being of Oklahoma senior adults.
- [Spencer Foundation] Large Research Grants on Education
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/large-research-grant
Intent to Apply DEADLINE: January 14, 2025
Full Proposal DEADLINE: February 11, 2025
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We anticipate awarding grants with budgets across each of the following funding tiers -- $125,000 to 250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000. Within each of our funding tiers, we evaluate projects within tier and strongly encourage applicants to submit for funding that best fits their project rather than applying for the highest amount. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year.
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
- [Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality] AHRQ Small Research Projects to Advance
the Science of Primary Care (R03)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-23-115.html
DEADLINE: NIH Standard Deadlines, soonest is February 16, 2025
AHRQ is interested in applications that will address salient questions related to primary care health services research. Robust primary care (including the elements of access, coordination, comprehensiveness, and continuity) is particularly important for patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCC), a burgeoning problem with an expanding older population, whose higher risks for severe disease compound the existing burdens of their underlying conditions. Similarly, access to high quality primary care for socially disadvantaged populations is critically important in advancing health equity. AHRQ is thus particularly interested applications that target the specific needs and challenges of disadvantaged populations and people living with MCC, and that improve their access, quality, and outcomes of care.
Specific Areas of Research Interest:
Sample primary care research domains relevant to this notice include, but are not limited to:
- Coordination of care across settings and providers, with attention to healthcare disparities and patients with multiple chronic conditions.
- Person-centered, whole person healthcare delivery that addresses social determinants of health.
- Primary care workforce issues, including approaches to support, develop, retain, and grow this workforce and further understanding and improvement of burnout, moral injury, and well-being.
- External supports, composition, and configurations of primary care teams and their effect on the effectiveness, efficiency and experience of care and health outcomes.
- The impact of financing models on the ability of primary care to deliver quality care.
- Community-based and public health partnerships.
- Organization of primary care within health care systems and public health, and its impact on performance.
- Behavioral health integration within primary care.
- The role of primary care in response to pandemics, natural and man-made disasters, climate change, other national health emergencies.
- Meaningful quality measures applicable to the primary care setting.
- Measurement of key aspects of primary care, such as comprehensiveness or team performance.
- The use of digital healthcare (including electronic health records, clinical decision support tools, telehealth, etc.) to improve the delivery of high-quality primary care.
- Any other significant issues or challenges primary care practices face and innovative solutions targeting them
Overall, AHRQ is interested in research that provides evidence about how to improve the delivery of primary care. Proposed studies may focus on the patient, clinician, practice, or system level. Applicants are encouraged to partner with primary care practices using innovative approaches to study design including co-production of the research, intervention design and evaluation with patients and communities. AHRQ is interested in evidence generation from practice-based data, rapid cycle evaluation, qualitative and mixed methods, and adaptive designs. AHRQ also encourages projects that produce and disseminate timely insights that can be used to improve patient care and inform healthcare delivery.
- [National Science Foundation] Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mms-methodology-measurement-statistics
DEADLINE: January 30, 2025
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics.
The MMS Program provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms. The following mechanisms are addressed in this solicitation:
- Regular Research Awards
- Awards for conferences and community-development activities
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants
- Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements
MMS also supports Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. Please see the CAREER Program Web Site for more information about this activity.
- [American Heart Association] $10M International Research Challenge on Women’s Cardiovascular
Health
Required pre-proposals DEADLINE: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The AHA is a member of the Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), a partnership of 12 research funding organizations across nine countries. GCRFF is accepting proposals for the International Research Challenge on Women's Cardiovascular Health, an international, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research network grant of up to US $10 million over 5 years. This first-of-its-kind research funding opportunity will drive transformative research and address urgent knowledge gaps in women’s cardiovascular health and build capacity at the international level. See full Request for Proposals.
Informational Webinars:
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 5 pm - 6 pm ET
Registration link: https://heartandstroke-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z2R0REmJQ2mYKGJDOobuQg
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 11 am - 12 pm ET
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[American Heart Association] Investigator-Initiated Research Funding Opportunities
Remaining AHA investigator-initiated opportunities with funding to begin in 2025 are listed below. Applicants must be AHA Professional Members to submit proposals and required pre-proposals. Check out the many benefits of membership.
International Visiting Professorship Award
Proposal deadline: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Novel pilot program to bring internationally based scientists to the U.S. for one week to foster scientific exchange -- to expand research experiences and collaborative opportunities for the awarded Visiting Professor and their U.S.-based host in research that aligns with the AHA mission.
Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science
Proposal deadline: Thursday, February 6, 2025
To enable current AHA awardees to identify and serve as mentors for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups in science and medicine.Transformational Project Award
Proposal deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2025
Supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research. Research deemed innovative may be built around an emerging paradigm, approaching an existing problem from a new perspective or exhibiting other uniquely creative qualities.