Funding Agencies & Announcements

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Newsletter,
NIAID Funding News Update

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2011 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology
The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh is accepting nominations for the 2011 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology. Nominees should be national or international leaders who have made significant contributions to the field of organ transplantation. 

Previous prize recipients are Paul I. Terasaki, Carl-Gustav Groth, Henri Bismuth, Sir Gustav J.V. Nossal, Francis D. Moore, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Sir Roy Y. Calne, Robert S. Schwartz, Norman E. Shumway, Richard L. Simmons, Nancy L. Ascher, Christian P. Larsen, Herman Waldmann, and Clyde F. Barker.

Date for receipt of all nomination materials is May 3, 2010.  

Nomination form and instructions are located on the Starzl Transplantation Institute Research website http://stiresearch.health.pitt.edu.
Questions concerning the prize may be referred to 412-383-8884 or starzlprize@upmc.edu.

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2010 National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Projects Program

A major goal of the NIH is to foster bold and creative investigator-initiated research. In pursuit of this goal, the Transformative Research Projects Program has been created under the auspices of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research to enhance submission and support of exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research that has the potential to have a profound impact in clinical, basic, and or behavioral/social science arenas.

NIH Roadmap Transformative Research Awards provide up to $25 million total costs per year for a single project.  The NIH encourages applications for the Transformative Research Projects Program from scientists representing all disciplines relevant to the NIH mission, including the biological, behavioral, clinical, social, physical, chemical, computational, engineering, and mathematical sciences. Interdisciplinary teams as well as individual investigators with bold ideas are encouraged to apply.

The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, launched in 2004, is a series of initiatives designed to address fundamental knowledge gaps, develop transformative tools and technologies, and/or foster innovative approaches to complex problems. Funded through the NIH Common Fund, these programs cut across the missions of individual NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) and are intended to accelerate the translation of research to improvements in public health. In collaboration with all NIH ICs, oversees programs funded by the Common Fund. Additional information about the NIH Roadmap and Common Fund can be found at www.nihroadmap.nih.gov.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) –“The Nation's Medical Research Agency” – includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments.

See the instructions in the RFA (RFA-RM-09-022).  Additional information, including Frequently Asked Questions about the Transformative Research Projects Program is available at: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/T-R01/. Send questions to: T_R01@mail.nih.gov.

Application deadline is January 22, 2010 with Letters of Intent due by December 22, 2009.

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The ASTS has a long history of supporting research efforts.  The Society sponsors nine annual awards available to investigators at all stages of professional training and accomplishment.

 View Annual ASTS Awards

As a resource, ASTS has asembled an extensive listing of public and private agencies with funding sources relevant to transplantation.  These links will be updated on an annual basis.  If you are aware of an opportunity that is not listed, contact us.

Public Funding Agencies

Private Funding Agencies