Announcements

BIRCWH Program Scholars and Associates | apply by March 5

The Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program is now accepting applications for two Scholars and up to four Associates, effective August 1, 2025. Selected faculty receive intense mentoring and career development to strengthen their research programs. Applications are due at 11:59 p.m. March 5. Click here to learn more.

CCTS Offers New Mentor Training

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science now offers mentor training using the CIMER Entering Mentoring Curriculum. The program is for UK faculty with mentees in health or biomedical fields, and it meets the requirements for serving as a mentor on an NIH-funded training grant. This interactive, in-person training is offered four times a year at no cost. More information here.

CCTS Spring Conference | abstracts due Feb. 5, mentor award nominations due Feb. 10

April 1, 2025, hundreds of researchers, clinicians, staff, students and community members will share research around the theme “Pioneering Pathways: Innovative Trial Design in Translational Science.” The 20th Annual CCTS Conference also hosts Research Days for the colleges of Dentistry, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and the Department of Internal Medicine.

New NIH Genomics Data Management Policy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued updated data management policies, which introduce new security standards in the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy.

Proposal Submission Deadline Policy

To ensure timely and accurate submission of proposals for sponsored projects and to honor our commitment to a healthy work-life balance for our staff, the following policy was developed in collaboration between the Vice President for Research, Collaborative Grant Services (CGS), Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) and the Associate Deans for Research (ADRs). This policy outlines the timeline and responsibilities for the proposal preparation and submission process.

NSF Limited Submission – Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)

Limited Submission – NSF – Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) – NSF 25-521

NCATS Clinical & Translational Science Award Request for Pilot Funding Applications due 1/21/25

Eight institutions funded by the NCATS Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) have joined together to form the Consortium of Rural States (CORES): The University of Utah Health, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Kentucky, the Translational Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Iowa, Dartmouth College, and Penn State University.

January 2025 The IRB Review Newsletter

January edition now available

December 2024 RCR Newsletter

December edition now available

Materials Science RPA FY 25 Funding

We are pleased to announce the FY25 call for proposals for m-RPA and we welcome your funding applications. Note that the joint m-RPA and e-RPA Equipment competition was circulated last week and is due January 10, 2025. Four additional m-RPA categories are now active with a submission deadline of January 17, 2025. These categories are:

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