About Limited Submissions Opportunities

Process

• Once OSR receives an invitation to submit nominees, faculty liaisons within the four schools (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing) are contacted;
• Based on the information contained in the invitation, the liaisons choose a selection committee of faculty peers best qualified in the particular area for the submission;
• The opportunity is announced to the campus and applications are requested by OSR for the committee’s review;
• After the applications have been received, the committee selects the nominees who may move forward in the process with a final full application. 

Normal grant application requirements from the Contracts & Grants division will still need to be followed and each agency has its own specific requirements for submission.

Electronic Submission of Proposals to Contracts and Grants

The Contracts and Grants office will now accept electronic proposal submissions for review via e-mail. In order for the office to accept an electronic proposal, as with paper copies, they must be submitted by 9:00 a.m. five working days before the agency deadline. This will eliminate the need to physically deliver proposals or corrections to the office.  

• EXCEPTION: If a hard copy is required by the agency, please continue to submit a paper copy to our office by 9:00 a.m. five working days before the agency deadline.
• EXCEPTION: If your electronic proposal submission is past the five-day deadline, please submit a paper copy to our office as soon as possible.

Your electronic proposal must be sent to CGProposalTeam@ucsf.edu. Please use the following subject line header on all email proposal submissions: Proposal Express Number, PI last name, PI first name, Deadline date

• Example:  P0000111, Smith, John 01/01/09

C & G will accept either electronic or handwritten signatures of the PI, Chair, Dean, and other required signatures on the OSR Approval Form.

Please assemble the Proposal packet in the following order.

1. OSR Approval Form
2. COI Documents (if applicable)
3. Human and Animal Subject Approvals, or other compliance documents
4. Funding agency instructions, program announcement, Request for Proposals, or other special agency instructions
5. Proposal

Hints for Successful Submission

1. Revert to Grayscale if color is not required.
• Use black and white images and text instead of color images.
2. When saving your document use the “Save As” Feature
• “Save As” rewrites the entire PDF document as efficiently as possible.  When you choose “Save”, changes are appended to the file which may increase the file size.
3. In Adobe Go to the File Menu select “Reduce File Size”.
4. Minimize the number of fonts used.

If you would like more information on limited submission funding opportunities, please email: limitedsubmissions@ucsf.edu.

UCSF Deadline: December 1, 2009

The Pacific Rim Research Program has announced it is accepting applications for the 2010-2011 grants period. The Pacific Rim Research Program is a multi-campus program established to encourage Pacific Rim research on the 10 University of California campuses. It sponsors a competitive grants program that provides funds for University of California faculty and graduate students who do research on Pacific Rim topics in a variety of disciplines.

The University of California (UC) Pacific Rim Research Program (PRRP) supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions. PRPP promotes the study of the Pacific Rim as a distinctive region. For the purposes of this Program, the term "Pacific Rim" encompasses all areas and nations that border the Pacific Ocean, including Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, and Pacific Latin America. The Program places priority on research that is new, specific to the region, and collaborative – reaching across national boundaries and bridging academic disciplines. Proposals may come from any discipline and should address questions that contribute to an understanding of the Pacific Rim region as a whole.

Proposals will be evaluated for scholarly merit, originality, purpose, relationship to existing research, theoretical framework, methodology, qualifications and role of each investigator and collaborator, adequacy of available resources, justification for the budget, anticipated scholarly products, tentative schedule, and plan for dissemination of the research results.

In addition to these features, successful proposals ordinarily include the following: investigation across national, cultural, linguistic, and/or regional boundaries; focus on interactions, flows, or major issues affecting the Pacific Rim region; collaboration of scholars in different countries and, where appropriate, different disciplines.

Award Categories

UC faculty and staff who are eligible to be Principal Investigators on their campus may seek Faculty Research/Planning Grants and Faculty Initiative Grants.

Graduate students may apply for the Advanced Graduate Research Fellowships. Students whose research is part of a larger group project should clearly identify their individual roles in the project and in some cases it may be more appropriate to apply under a faculty grant which can support them.

1) Faculty Initiative Grants (only 3-5 grants will be awarded)

This is a new thematically focused grant in the range of $30K-$50K, which may be expended over a multi-year period. For the 2010-11 grant competition, the PRRP invites Faculty Initiative Grant applications on the topic “Responses to Crisis in the Pacific Rim.”

The historical formation of the Pacific Rim region, and its rapid economic growth and dramatic rise over the past century, have not been peaceful. Political, social, and economic crises have occurred with some regularity in the region. More battle-related deaths have occurred in East Asia than in any other region since World War II. An arc of territory from southern Mexico through Bolivia has rarely known social stability in the past thirty years. Throughout the region, inter-state tensions are exacerbated by domestic social divisions and formidable social, health, and environmental problems. Today, the region is facing a new challenge in the global financial crisis emanating, ironically, from the developed core of the world financial system in the U.S.

The Initiative Grants will fund research that explores the impact of crisis on the Pacific region, historically and in the contemporary moment. Proposals may address the social, economic, and political roots of past or present crises, their cultural ramifications, and their multiple effects. Crisis, which can have a long historical dimension, may take the form of a catalytic event that sets in motion or accelerates a sequence of political and economic events. Crisis causes a sudden change in external conditions that requires individuals, businesses and governments to quickly change behaviors and strategies. Social crisis may cause a breakdown of the controls that limit movement of population, regulate public health, and protect the environment and economy. States may intensify their technologies of control in order to clean up after a crisis, or avert the perceived danger of a crisis. Crisis may give rise to new cultural practices and modes of expression in literature, the arts, religion, and popular politics.

All Initiative Grant proposals must involve collaboration of scholars from more than one Pacific Rim nation or territory and may include support of graduate students. Interdisciplinary collaborations and multi-campus participation will enhance the prospects for funding. Each Initiative Grant proposal should include concrete plans for dissemination of research results and a discussion of prospects for future extramural funding.

2) Faculty Research/Planning Gants (4-6 grants will be awarded)

Research Grants fund collaborative projects of varying sizes, up to a maximum of $25,000. Projects must involve collaborative research, or research planning and pilot research, with colleagues in at least one Pacific Rim nation or territory, and may include support of graduate students. Awards are ordinarily granted for one year. Proposals for projects that are part of larger research programs funded by external sources should specify the programmatic and funding relationship between the proposed research and the project(s) already funded.

3) Advanced Graduate Research Fellowships (10 or more grants will be awarded)

Supports graduate students for a year of dissertation research or its equivalent. Students may apply for a maximum of $20,000 in funding for a year of research, with budget justification. Budget requests for less than a year should be adjusted proportionally. Graduate students whose research is part of a larger group project should clearly identify their individual roles in the project. In some cases it may be more appropriate to apply under a faculty grant, which can support graduate students.

UCSF may submit a total of eight (8) proposals for the Advanced Graduate Research Fellowship, Faculty Research/Planning Grant, and Faculty Initiative Grant Programs and OSR will coordinate the review process.

Interested applicants should click here for detailed directions and to submit internal applications by December 1, 2009!

Application deadline for Pacific Rim is February 16, 2010.

The Ellison Medical Foundation was established and is supported by Lawrence J. Ellison to support biomedical research (including basic biology, basic biomedicine and epidemiology) on aging.  The objective of the New Scholars Program is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities.  The New Scholars Program provides awards of up to $100,000 per year for a four year period for successful candidates.

Eligibility: These awards are intended to provide significant support to new investigators needed to permit them to become established in the field of aging.  As such:

• Only investigators who are in the first three (3) years of their research career following their post-doctoral fellowship experience will qualify;
• For the 2010 competition, as of March 1, 2010, nominees must hold regular full time appointments (tenure or non-tenure) on the faculty at UCSF and they must not have been in such an appointment, at UCSF or other institution(s), for more than three years as of July 15, 2010, i.e. the appointment having been made no earlier than July 15, 2007.
• Time spent in clinical internships, post-doctoral training, residencies, or in work toward board certification does not count as part of the three-year limit.

UCSF may submit TWO nominees and the Office of Sponsored Research will coordinate the review process.

Interested applicants should submit the following items in ONE PDF file by 5PM on December 1, 2009 via email to – limitedsubmissions@ucsf.edu:

1. Limited Submission Pre-proposal Cover Sheet with signatures (request this form by email via limitedsubmissions@ucsf.edu);
2. Proposal Abstract (1-page abstract with a clear summary of project goals and rationale, and must list specific aims);
3. Curriculum Vitae (5 pages total, including publications); and
4. One letter of recommendation.

Nominations are due to the Ellison Medical Foundation by December 15, 2009 and the full application deadline is February 25, 2010!

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Projects should show promise for contributing to significant advances in the research fields of interest to the Foundation. They should represent innovative departures in research rather than extensions or expansions of existing programs. Proposed research that cuts across traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s overall grant-making strategy is to support biomedical scientists at the beginning of their careers and to make grants in areas of science that are poised for significant advancement but currently undervalued and underfunded. Within this overall strategy, BWF makes grants within seven focus areas:

• Biomedical Sciences
• Infectious Disease
• Interfaces in Science
• Population and Laboratory Based Sciences
• Reproductive Sciences
• Science Education
• Translational Research

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was established in early 2005 with the passage of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, which provided $3 billion in funding for stem cell research at California universities and research institutions. It called for the establishment of a new state agency to make grants and provide loans for stem cell research, research facilities and other vital research opportunities. From time to time, CIRM offers limited submission opportunities for various projects usually open to M.D. and/or Ph.D. applicants.  Please consult their website for upcoming funding opportunities and to review past RFA announcements.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Clinical Investigator Award supports young physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented cancer research. The goal is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient's bedside in search of breakthrough treatments.  In addition to candidates working in translational clinical oncology, the Foundation is interested in candidates whose research relates to or uses imaging technologies and molecular imaging in cancer. Clinical research is defined as patient-oriented research, epidemiologic and behavioral studies, and outcomes research and health services research.

The intent of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship Program is to provide support for unusually creative researchers early in their careers and to emphasize support for innovative individual research that involves the Fellows, their students, and junior colleagues, rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs. The Fellowship does not fund clinical research.

The mission of Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.

The Ellison Medical Foundation was established to support biomedical research (including basic biology, basic biomedicine and epidemiology) on aging. The objective of The Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The award is intended to provide significant support to new investigators needed to permit them to become established in the field of aging. The Program provides awards of up to $100,000 per year for a four year period for successful candidates. Funding for years two, three and four is contingent upon submission of an acceptable progress report.

The Millennium Promise Awards: Non-communicable Chronic Diseases Research Training Program is designed to build research capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the fields related to cancer, cerebrovascular disease including stroke, lung disease including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and environmental factors including indoor air pollution, and obesity and lifestyle factors related to these conditions as well as genetics of non-communicable diseases. The institutions applying can be domestic or foreign, but have to exhibit the ability to do such training, and must exhibit that they have existing research programs in these fields.

This award is intended to provide support to outstanding faculty at the Assistant Professor level whose work shows originality and promise of distinction. Eligible candidates are assistant professors (ladder-rank, in-residence, clinical, and adjunct) who have their primary appointment at UCSF who have demonstrated promise and creativity in their research or other scholarly activities, but whose work needs further development to gain broader recognition, promote career advancement and attract other support. Awards will be made for the design and implementation of projects that may include formal research studies, innovative educational programs, novel interventions to improve clinical practice, community-based partnership programs, or similar types of scholarly activities.  There is a preference for individuals in family and community medicine. The awards will be particularly directed toward promising young faculty who are two or three years into their academic careers and whose work or career faces special challenges.  Examples of such difficulties include, but are not limited to: research that takes longer to become established because of its complexity or innovation, personal illness, or unusual family responsibilities. Awards will be made in the $25,000 - $50,000 range, and renewals can be made for one year under exceptional circumstances, upon competitive reapplication.

The Merck Scholars Program focuses on investigations of the underlying causes of developmental disabilities by neurobiologists and by cognitive scientists. These four-year fellowships to three scientists at academic institutions throughout the U.S. are intended to serve as a major stimulus for gifted, young scientists to pursue careers in fields relating to the problems of children who are mentally disabled and emotionally disturbed. Scholars are chosen from those currently working or planning to work in neurobiological and cognitive sciences relating to the biology of mental disability and developmental disabilities, including developmental studies of cognition, perception, language, reading, learning and motor performance.

This NSF program seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, and to foster the integration of research and education by providing instrumentation for research-intensive learning environments. The MRI program encourages the development and acquisition of research instrumentation for shared inter- and/ or intra-organizational use and in concert with private sector partners.

The Pacific Rim Research Program is a multicampus program established to encourage Pacific Rim research on the ten University of California campuses.  It sponsors a competitive grants program that provides funds for University of California faculty and graduate students who do research on Pacific Rim topics in a variety of disciplines. The University of California (UC) Pacific Rim Research Program (PRRP) supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions.  PRPP promotes the study of the Pacific Rim as a distinctive region.  For the purposes of this Program, the term "Pacific Rim" encompasses all areas and nations that border the Pacific Ocean, including Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, and Pacific Latin America. The Program places priority on research that is new, specific to the region, and collaborative -- reaching across national boundaries and bridging academic disciplines.  Proposals may come from any discipline and should address questions that contribute to an understanding of the Pacific Rim region as a whole.

The Center for the Health Professions at UCSF offers the Pew Scholars Program which is open to individuals with a doctorate in medicine, other health related professions or biomedical sciences. Candidates must hold full time appointments at the rank of assistant professor or equivalent on the faculty.  Time spent in clinical internships, residencies, or in work towards board certification does not count as part of this three year limit.

Applicants for the Searle Scholars Program will be expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences.

The Keck Medical Research Program seeks to advance the frontiers of medicine to benefit humanity by supporting high-risk/high-impact projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach to intractable problems, push the edge of their field, or question the prevailing paradigm. Research projects focus on basic research and are not clinical in nature. Medical research projects conducted in hospitals are not eligible. Grants range from $500,000 to $5 million.