NIDA Announces New Avant-Garde Award for Innovative AIDS Research
Award intended to stimulate scientists of exceptional creativity to study concepts and approaches in the forefront of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS research. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today it is looking for scientists of exceptional creativity to apply for its new NIDA Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS research. In a move to stimulate high-impact research into the link between drug abuse prevention and treatment and HIV/AIDS, NIDA will provide up to $500,000 per year for five years to two or three scientists of exceptional creativity who propose cutting edge - and possibly transformative - approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS.

Deadline: March 26, 2008
More info: http://www.nida.nih.gov/avgp.html

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Marine Biology Laboratory 2008 Summer Research Fellowships 

Funding Available For Summer Research in Neuroscience. The MBL is pleased to announce the availability of funding for the following summer research programs in neuroscience in 2008.These programs will provide up to $50,000/year/award with the possibility for renewal for three years. As participants in MBL’s new neuroscience Institute, scholars in these programs will benefit from the rich intellectual and interactive environment of the scientific community at the MBL.

Deadline: January 15, 2008
More info: www.MBL.edu/fellowships

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Brain Tumor Research Grants
$100,000 Grants and $200,000 Grants

The Brain Tumor Society (BTS) requests innovative proposals for basic scientific and translational research focused on finding a cure for brain tumors. Grants may be used for startup projects or supplementary funding. Available in United States and Canada.

Deadline: January 16, 2008

BTS also proudly announces a special request for proposals to investigate the causes and potential treatments for juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas, fibrillary astrocytomas, and other pediatric low-grade gliomas.

Ddeadline: February 15, 2008

More info: http://www.tbts.org

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Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
The National Science Foundation has announced that the deadline for full proposals for the Microbial Genome Sequencing Program are due on February19, 2008. The NSF anticipates that it will award 15-20 grants totaling approximately $10 million...

Deadline: 5 p.m. February 19, 2008
Download: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08511/nsf08511.pdf

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McDonnell Foundation announces new grants
21st Century Research Awards are designed to support research projects with a high probability of generating new knowledge and insights. Projects submitted for funding consideration should be at an early, even preliminary stage of development, and should be intended to break new ground or to challenge commonly-held assumptions. Projects submitted should be sufficiently novel, cross-disciplinary, or heterodox so that they have a strong likelihood of influencing the development of new ways of thinking about important problems.

21st Century Research Awards provide adequate, flexible funding over a sufficient time period to allow investigators to pursue and develop innovative directions to their research programs. A maximum of $450,000 total costs can be requested and the funds can be expended over a minimum of 3 years or a maximum of 6 years.

Deadline: March 12, 2008, 3:59pm CST
More info: http://www.jsmf.org/apply/research/index.htm

More info: http://www.jsmf.org/grants/research.php?year=2007

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Sense of Humor

Watch a funny video:
Animator vs. Animation

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 Science in YouTube

Everything You Wanted To Know About Stem Cells, But...

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News You Can Use

NIH launches Human Microbiome Project
National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni Thursday announced the official launch of the $115 million Human Microbiome Project to map the genomes of all of the microorganisms that live in or on our bodies. Over the next five years, the project will sequence some 600 bacterial and fungal genomes.

More info: http://www.nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/grants.asp

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