The Office of Corporate and Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
UCSC Contact: cfr@ucsc.edu
Funder: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Opportunity: Single Cell Biology Data Insights
Application Deadline: December 14, 2021
Funding: $200,000 and $400,000
Overview
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) seeks applications for projects that aim to use and gain insights into health and disease from existing single-cell datasets to help accelerate progress toward challenges associated with the compilation and exploration of large atlas-scale data. Given the growth of single-cell biology and the rapid increase in available data, CZI is looking to support projects that will advance the fields of single-cell biology and data science. Projects should address computational challenges and bottlenecks associated with boosting the utility and insight from available single-cell biology datasets.
Applications are encouraged from computational experts outside the field of single-cell biology but with expertise relevant to overcoming current bottlenecks. Projects may include dedicated efforts to refine existing computational tools, benchmark classes of tools, improve standards, integrate available data that enables greater biological insight, develop new features that support interoperability of data or tools, and other major challenges brought forward.
Award Amount & Terms
This request for applications is the first of three cycles planned for the coming years, with successful projects receiving 18 months of funding support
Grants will be awarded at two levels:
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- $200,000 USD total costs (inclusive of up to 15 percent indirect costs) for grants that primarily support the effort of one to two full-time employees (FTEs) working on a given project. These efforts will benefit from additional collaborations in the network but will generally be directed towards benchmarking tools, extension of existing toolchains, or curating/integrating existing datasets to boost their utility for the field; and
- $400,000 USD total costs (inclusive of up to 15 percent indirect costs) for networked grants that will require the participation of two to four FTEs. These projects may require dedicated effort from multiple projects to improve standards, improve toolchain interoperability, or undertake more extensive integration or benchmarking tasks.
- Funding is not intended to support experimental data generation; and
- Indirect costs cannot exceed 15 percent of direct costs for any grant proposal.
Eligibility:
- All grants will be awarded to institutions, not individuals.
- There may be more than one application submitted by each organization.
- Each application should designate one Principal Investigator (PI) as the Coordinating Principal Investigator (Coordinating PI), but may designate up to three total PIs (one Coordinating PI and up to two Co-PIs).
- All key personnel must be named in the budget section along with their percent effort.
- Examples of eligible positions are:
o Tenure track faculty;
o Non-tenure track faculty or staff scientists who lead a lab or are engaged in academic activities and are permitted to apply for grants by their institution;
o Researchers with expertise in the relevant areas that are affiliated with or supported by an institution and permitted to apply for grants; and
o Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students who are permitted to apply for grants by their institution and apply through the institution at which they will conduct the research.
- Early-career investigators are strongly encouraged to apply
Timeline
October 5, 2021: Application opening date
December 14, 2021 by 5 p.m. Pacific Time: Applications due
Mid-May 2022: Notification of decisions
July 1, 2022: Earliest start date
Special Instructions:
Please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu.
The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits.
For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding