The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from Additional Ventures.
UCSC Contact: Sarah Carle | FR | sacarle@ucsc.edu
Funder: Additional Ventures
Opportunity: Expansion Awards
Deadline: May 4, 2023
Overview:
Single ventricle heart disease is an understudied and underfunded area that requires a multi-disciplinary approach from a research and clinical care perspective.
A. Expansion of existing single ventricle studies through the use of additive technology, approaches, or tools. Open to investigators with current, ongoing studies focused on understanding or treating single ventricle heart defects and/or their related sequelae. Previous awardees in this category have proposed to support the following:
- Equipment acquisition (e.g., bioreactors, microscopes, 3D printers, computers)
- Expansion of clinical studies to additional study sites
- Computational tool or software development
- Sample preparation, data storage or processing (e.g., for large scale sequencing, proteomic, or computational projects)
B. Addition of single ventricle-directed aims to ongoing studies. Open to investigators with current awards in any adjacent field seeking to apply technology or findings to single ventricle for the first time. Previous awardees in this category have proposed the following:
- Assessment of gene or molecular candidates in the context of single ventricle (after identification in other studies)
- Application of computational tools for single ventricle populations (after validation for other patient populations)
- Assessment of novel biomarker or intervention for single ventricle populations (after validation for other populations)
Competitive applications must provide a credible and realistic discussion of how the award will expand the scope, expedite time to completion, or otherwise increase the scientific interest or impact of an existing project.
Please access the full RFP.
Award Amount & Terms:
- $50,000 over 12 months
Eligibility and Fit:
- Proposed projects must be led by Principal Investigator(s) (PIs) who hold doctoral degrees (e.g., PhD, MD, PsyD, or equivalent) and are listed as a PI on a parent grant funded through Dec 31, 2023.
- Eligible PIs include both mentored and independent investigators, including professors, instructors, research associates, and postdoctoral or medical fellows.
- Since the first Expansion Award cycle in 2021, we have funded 10 projects annually.
- Previous Expansion Award recipients can be found in the awards database.
Timeline:
- May 4, 2023 (8 PM EDT) Proposal Deadline
- June 8, 2023 Notification of award
- July 1, 2023 Funding begins
Special Instructions:
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (cfr@ucsc.edu). 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.
Call sent: February 9, 2023
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