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This opportunity supports high priority research at the intersection of HIV and substance use, and invites research projects with the potential to open new areas of basic and clinical HIV/AIDS research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention, treatment and cure of HIV among people who use addictive substances.

Amount: $11,325,000

Due Date: 08/15/2024

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This program aims to cultivate and grow the earliest foundations of convergent approaches for addressing a specific and compelling problem. Proposals should explore novel avenues not previously investigated that are at the forefront of advancing science through deep integration.

Amount: $1,200,000 (Phase I); $2,400,000 (Phase II)

Due Date: 04/12/2024

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This program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues

Amount: $150,000

Due Date: 09/12/2024

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This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits applications for sites to conduct research on the impact of and methods for implementing regional clinician-to-clinician genomic medicine eConsult services.

Amount: $7,353,700

Due Date: 04/30/2024 (LOI); 05/30/2024 (Full Proposal)

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The goal of this program is to support fundamental research, education, and training of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today.

Amount: $3,000,000 (FMRG Track); $500,000 (FMSG Track)

Due Date: 04/11/2024

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This program will support multidisciplinary translational research Centers focused on generating, validating, and advancing medical countermeasures against bacteria or fungi listed in the NOFO with known and emerging resistance to current therapies.

Amount: $37,750,000

Due Date: 03/29/2024 (LOI);04/30/2024 (Full Proposal)

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From the VPR

There is one thing all of us, as UGA researchers, have in common, no matter what we study or which college or school we call home. Whether our workspace is a lab or a studio, a field site or a performance hall, we all want our work to matter—to have impact. Of course, there are many ways we can facilitate such impact, and this month I want to focus on one: partnering with industry on applied research projects and initiatives.

UGA has a long list of valued industry partners, including major corporations like Delta, Georgia Power, Truist and Boehringer Ingelheim, as well as many smaller companies that also access our research expertise and facilities. One such company made international news earlier this year, as Dalan Animal Health announced the availability of the world’s first honeybee vaccine—which was developed with scientific support the company received through the UGA Innovation District initiative.

Enhancing our portfolio of industry research collaborations is a UGA strategic objective because it’s a win for all. An industry-funded researcher can continue a research program and perhaps take it in a new direction, most often with a translation to market viewpoint. Our industry partners are able to access research expertise and instrumentation that they may not have in-house. And, as members of the public, we all enjoy the benefits of new products and services created with UGA’s help, as well as the economic growth that can result from such offerings.

Indeed, there is likely not a faster or more direct path to university research translation than through an industry partnership. That’s one reason why in 2021 we created UGA’s Office of Business Engagement (OBE), i.e., to facilitate more collaborations that provide value to Georgia’s economy and communities, while also providing critical research support and opportunities to our faculty and students.

The Office of Research and Development and Alumni Relations are the collaborative home to the OBE, which serves as UGA’s front door for companies that want to partner with us. But the OBE also serves UGA faculty, providing resources, support and guidance to researchers who want to pursue and engage in industry-sponsored activities.

With regard to faculty support, in August the OBE team unveiled its online Business Engagement Toolkit for Faculty. This toolkit offers a range of resources for faculty, intended to help them develop direct relationships with industry contacts, as it is often at this level that corporate sponsored research projects are realized.

Some of the resources in the toolkit include:

The toolkit provides a comprehensive guide to working with industry partners and taking the first steps toward this end. Earlier this month we held a Research Live webinar to unveil the Business Engagement Toolkit, and gave a guided tour through the website and all it has to offer. If you are interested in pursuing industry collaborations, please consult with your unit head, associate dean for research and/or business manager early in the process, to ensure you are aware of established procedures.

Working with industry can be tremendously rewarding and satisfying—I know from personal experience. The range of disciplines represented in UGA’s industry partnerships is immense—companies are looking for STEM researchers as well as those in social sciences, humanities and the arts.

If you’re at all interested in diversifying your funding sources or shortening your path to research translation by collaborating with a corporate partner, please watch our recent Research Live webinar and connect with the OBE team. You may find doors to opportunities and impact that you’d never considered.

Karen J.L. Burg
Vice President for Research
Harbor Lights Chair in Biomedical Research

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Supports the work of the research projects funded under the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH) initiative described in the companion announcement RFA-MH-23-105.

Amount: $18,875,000

Due Date: 6/14/23

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Notable Grants

The University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology will use funds to rehouse and digitize its paleoenvironmental archives from Georgia’s coastal zone. The collections include artifacts and documentary archives about Native American history, represented by excavations on Georgia’s barrier islands and adjacent mainland areas and pertaining to Native American sites from 4500 years ago to the 17th century. For the project, staff will work with two graduate students, five undergraduate students, and a database consultant to inventory, rehouse, and digitize collections. Additionally, staff will consult with members of descendent communities related to the material histories of the artifacts, such as members of the Geechee (Sapelo Island and Pinpoint Community) and the people of the Muscogee Nation.

  • Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Amount: $385K
  • PI: Victor Thompson (Franklin College)
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Systemic and structural racism is a public health crisis. However, little is known about the impact of structural racism and discrimination (SRD) on the health and emotional well-being of individuals across the life course. While prior studies have shown associations between discrimination and negative health outcomes in adults (e.g., cardiometabolic disease, depression), these studies have been cross-sectional and primarily examined individual-level sources of racism and discrimination. Much more research is needed to fill gaps in our understanding about the relationship between SRD and health disparities before interventions can be developed. To significantly advance the field regarding SRD and health equity, studies need to include: (1) multi-level measures of SRD including individual (both intrapersonal and interpersonal), neighborhood, institutional, and societal/policy levels; (2) rigorous mixed-methods designs (e.g., ecological momentary assessment (EMA), biological measures, geographic information system (GIS) data, surveys); (3) multi-site samples with urban and rural participants; (4) a life course approach; (5) whole-person outcome measures (i.e., mental, physical, behavioral health); and (6) longitudinal study designs. Including these study elements will allow for comprehensively examining the relationships between SRD and health and emotional well-being to identify mechanisms to target in interventions to mitigate SRD. The main objective of the proposed study is to examine multiple levels (i.e., individual, neighborhood, institutional, societal/policy) of SRD and associations with mental, physical, and behavioral health outcomes across the life course to identify intervention targets to promote health equity. The proposed study is built on a prospective longitudinal cohort study of 627 racially/ethnically diverse families (i.e., African American, Hispanic, Native American, Immigrant/Refugee, White) across the life course (childhood, adolescence, adulthood/parenthood) from urban settings (i.e., Minneapolis, St. Paul). The parent R01 already has three time-points of mixed-methods data (i.e., EMA, GIS, survey) that includes discrimination and neighborhood segregation measures and physical and behavioral health outcomes carried out using a community-based participatory approach. For the proposed study, a sample of 300 racially/ethnically diverse families from rural Georgia (i.e., Athens) will be added to compare SRD experiences in urban versus rural settings. In addition, cardiometabolic and stress biomarker data (i.e., heart rate, blood pressure, waist circumference, lipids, HbA1C, cytokines) and multi-level measures of structural racism (i.e., individual, neighborhood, institutional, societal/policy) will be added at two time points, 18 months apart. The proposed study will be one of the first to prospectively measure multiple levels of SRD using mixed-methods across two sites and associations with mental, physical, and behavioral health disparities across the life course in diverse families. Results of the study will inform the development of an intervention targeting multi-level SRDs to promote health equity.

  • Funder: NIH (via University of Minnesota)
  • Amount: $1.4 million
  • PI: Allan Tate (Public Health)