University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)
Guidelines
Stimulus Package Funding Opportunities
The recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) legislation provides $8.2 billion in extramural funding to the NIH to help stimulate the US economy through the support and advancement of scientific research. More information is available at the following websites (please check frequently as the information is changing daily):
- NIH: http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/
- NCI: http://www.cancer.gov/
researchandfunding/announcements/
recoveryact - UPCI: UPCI tracking PDF (links to funding announcements, grant details including limited submissions, NIH deadlines, and internal UPCI/Pitt deadlines)
- Pitt Office of Research, Health Sciences: http://www.oorhs.pitt.edu/
UPCI investigators, please notify Nicole Franczyk in the UPCI Fiscal Office if you intend to apply for any of these grants. She will provide you with internal UPCI deadline information. Dr. Sid Kar is the UPCI contact for letters of reference. Please contact him at least three weeks in advance of any grant deadlines.
All UPCI Investigators planning to submit research grant proposals must follow the UPCI Guidelines. These guidelines contain mandatory deadlines from UPCI Research Services and UPCI Fiscal, including but not limited to the following:
- All investigators must submit the UPCI Pre-Submission Review Cover Sheet eight weeks prior to a grants.gov deadline and six weeks prior to other agency deadlines.
- All investigators must submit the UPCI Fiscal Proposal Submission Data Form six weeks prior to agency deadlines.
Please read Dr. Davidson’s Pre-Submission Review Directive. All investigators are encouraged to submit their proposals for UPCI Pre-Submission Review; however, only those researchers in the following categories are required to submit their proposals for review:
- Those submitting their first major grant application (NIH, DOD, ACS)
- Those submitting their first competitive renewal
- Those who have been unsuccessful in obtaining major funding during the previous year
Examples of outstanding funded applications
- Shared instrumentation grant 2008 and critique (courtesy Dr. Simon Watkins, Cell Biology and Physiology) - please contact Dr. Maryann Donovan (donovanma2@upmc.edu) for access
- Model UPCI K24 funded grant application and model renewal (courtesy Dr. Clayton Wiley, Pathology)
Funding Guideline Announcements
- UPCI Bridge Funding Evaluation Process
- Eligible PIs urged to establish Early Stage Investigator status (.pdf)
- Change in Allowable Requested Budget Levels of Renewal (Type 2) R01, U01, and P01 Applications for the NCI (.pdf)
- NIH Announces Changes to Enhance Peer Review (.pdf)
- NIH Announces New Scoring Procedures (.pdf)
- DOD CDMRP Research Funding for 2009 (.pdf)
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