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Request for Proposals:
University of Minnesota Chemical Biology Initiative
Tackling Interdisciplinary Research Roadblocks (TIRR) Grants
Description
As part of the President’s Initiative in Bioscience and Biotechnology, the university has recently invested in a Chemical Biology Initiative. One of the primary aims of this initiative is to develop the intellectual and technical resources needed to carry out cutting edge interdisciplinary research at the interface of chemistry and biology. The initial focus of the initiative will be to facilitate the development of chemical tools for altering biological processes. The development and use of these chemical probes is likely to have a major impact on our ability to development a deeper understanding of biology, which can be translated to the improvement of new therapeutic strategies (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/). Although there has been a growing interest in multidisciplinary biomedical research at the University of Minnesota, the future impact of university research at the interface of chemistry and biology has been hampered by a number of technical and intellectual hurdles. Proposals addressing these needs, by Tackling Interdisciplinary Reasearch Roadblocks (TIRR) are sought by this RFP. TIRR proposals should be highly relevant to the development of chemical and biological experimental and computational tools that may have a large impact on the ability of University of Minnesota researchers to carry out chemical biological research. TIRR proposals should seek to develop new collaborative research teams that can address; 1) the development of chemical libraries for biological use, 2) the identification and characterization of biological targets including assay development at the single cell/molecule level and 3) the use of biocomputing and bioinformatics tools.
Proposals may request support for graduate student/postdoc and associated laboratory supplies and/or instrument cost not to exceed $50,000. The term of a TIRR grant is one year.
Proposals will be reviewed by the Chemical Biology Initiative Steering Committee and awards will be made on the basis of proposal quality, impact on chemical biology at the university and availability of funds. Grantees will be required to provide the Chemical Biology Steering Committee with information for the annual report and to acknowledge CBI support on any work supported by the grant.
The deadline for submission of proposals is May 30, 2004. Applicants can submit proposals by campus mail to Dr. Carston R. Wagner College of Pharmacy Room 5-130 WDH 1332 308 Harvard St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 or by E-mail at wagne003@umn.edu as a PDF attachment. Proposals will be reviewed in August 2004. Funding of successful proposals will commence in September 2004.
Proposal Elements
Proposals should include a title, P.I.s names, the budget, the source of cost-sharing funds (if available), a brief statement describing how the proposed work meets the criteria above, plans for funding the project beyond the one-year term, a three-page narrative of the research plan (including text and figures), and a curriculum vita for each investigator, including current support (three pages each). Applicants are invited to use the outline below.
Outline for TIRR proposals
Page 1
Title:
P.I.(s):
Budget:
 Personnel (No PI salary support)
Supplies
Instrumentation
Other
Cost-sharing (source and amount):
How proposal meets TIRR Grant criteria:
Plans for funding the project beyond the one-year TIRR Grant term:
Page 2-4
Research plan (3 page limit, including figures and references)
Page 5
Curriculum vita including current support for each investigator (three pages each)
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