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 The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) is seeking new, innovative research to continue its mission to find cures and better treatments for mitochondrial illnesses. Proposals will be considered in basic science and clinical areas and must fall under at least one of the following categories:
- Seed money for new researchers
- Post-doctoral fellowship
- New area of research for experienced investigators.
Letter of Intent (LOI) Application and additional information about the grant process is available on the UMDF website at www.umdf.org or by contacting the UMDF office.
Deadline: September 15, 2006
Contact information: UMDF Research Grant Program, 8085 Saltsburg Rd, Ste 201, Pittsburg, PA 15239 USA.
Telephone: (412) 793-8077;
Email: jean@umdf.org.
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The Tourette Syndrome Association
The Tourette Syndrome Association is accepting applications for their Grant Awards in the Basic and Clinical Sciences. These awards are being offered for up to $75,000 to Ph.D. and M.D. Applicants and $40,000 for post-doctoral fellowships Fields of interest include:
- Basal ganglia
- Physiology
- Neuroimaging
- Genetics
- Animal models
- Neuropathology
- Neurochemistry
- Psychiatry
- Neuropsychology
- Clinical treatment studies
For submission dates, cover sheet and information, please visit the following website: www.tsa-usa.org/research.html. Please submit to: grantadministrator@tsa-usa.org.
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 The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has initiated a major program to bring together research teams that are focused on the cure or prevention of leukemia, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and myeloma in order to foster interdisciplinary and synergistic research. A specialized center of research grant provides funding for five years. The research may be fundamental or applied or an integrated combination of the two approaches. The center will also support scientific core laboratories reqired by the component research programs. An application may be submitted by an individual holding an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, working in a domestic or foreign non-profit organization, such as a university, college, hospital, institute, or laboratory. The center’s annual total cost, direct and indirect, cannot exceed $1.25 million.
Deadlines: Preliminary applications should be submitted via website and hard copy by November 1, 2006.
Full application from selected investigators will be due on March 15, 2007
Guidelines are available from: www.LLS.org or Director of Research Administration, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 1311 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY 10605. Email: researchprograms@LLS.org.
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's
Career Development Program
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Career Development Program provides awards intended to meet the specific needs of investigators at different states in their research careers. The awards - Scholar, Scholar in Clinical Research, Special Fellow, Special Fellow in Clinical Research and Fellow - provide stipends to investigators, allowing them to devote themselves to research bearing on leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
These Scholar awards are for $110,000 per year for five years. Scholar in Clinical Research awards are for $110,000 per year for five years. Special Fellow awards are for $60,000 per year for three years. SFCR awards are for $60,000 per year for three years. Annual renewals are based on a non-competitive progress reviews. Fellow awards are for $50,000 per year for three years. A preliminary application is mandatory for those applying for a 2007 Career Development Program grant and must be completed online via the Society's Web site by midnight on September 15, 2006. Full applications must be received by the Society at our White Plains Home Office by 5 p.m. on Oct. 2, 2006.
Guidelines are available from: www.LLS.org or Director of Research Administration, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 1311 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY 10605. Email: researchprograms@LLS.org.
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 World Cancer Research Fund International
World Cancer Research Fund International is now inviting applications for grants to fund research into the effects of food, nutrition and physical activity on the origins, causes and prevention of cancer. Grants will be for a maximum of £150,000 up to four years, with no more than £50,000 in any one year. In general, preference is given to applications that address the dietary and research recommendations of the WCRF/AICR expert report, and consider diets or foods as a whole and/or use whole-body systems; use foods or dietary constituents in physiological amounts; have direct relevance to human cancer; address cancer prevention in preference to treatment; address genetic polymorphism in relation to nutrition (gene-nutrient interaction).
The deadline for outline applications is 22nd September 2006.
For more information, please visit the following website: http://www.wcrf.org/research/research_grant_programme.lasso.
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 Brain Injury Research Grant Availability
Two-year individual research grant with a maximum of $150,000 per year for a
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two-year multi-investigator project grant maximum of $1,000,000 per year
Letter of intent deadline September 2, 2006
Close date for application October 2, 2006
More info: http://www.nj.gov/health/njcbir/
Contact 609-633-6465
Email: njcbir@doh.state.nj.us
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Useful Website
 Digital Morphology library
Digital Morphology, part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of 'invertebrates'. The Digital Morphology library contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts. The Digital Morphology library site now serves imagery, optimized for Web delivery, for almost 300 specimens contributed by more than 80 collaborating researchers from the world's premiere natural history museums and universities.
http://www.digimorph.org/aboutdigimorph.phtml
http://www.digimorph.org/navlist.phtml?list=short
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News You Can Use
NHGRI ANNOUNCES LATEST SEQUENCING TARGETS
Several new sequencing targets including the Northern white-cheeked
gibbon ("Nomascus leucogenys").
The gibbon genome is unique because it carries an extraordinary high
number of chromosome rearrangements, even when compared to other
primates. The gibbon genome will also help scientists better understand rearrangements called segmental duplications which are large, almost identical copiesof DNA, present in at least two locations in the human genome. A number of diseases are known to be associated with mutations in segmentalduplicated regions, including a form of mental retardation and other neurological and birth defects.
The seven mammals to be sequenced are: the nine-banded armadillo;
("Dasypus novemcinctus"); domestic cat ("Felis catus"); guinea pig
("Cavia porcellus"); African savannah elephant ("Loxodonta Africana");
tree shrew ("Tupaia species"); rabbit ("Oryctolagus cuniculus")
NHGRI has recently approved the sequencing of the horse ("Equus
caballas") to high-density genome coverage.
Learn more: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2006/nhgri-19.htm
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