Optical fluorescence methods and technologies for sensitive cancer detection in vivo (NCI)

• Published date: 17 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31305
• Date: 17 September 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

and commercial activity, that are important to families’

choices about their community.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FR-6400-N-34

Habitable Worlds (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the Habitable

Worlds program to use knowledge of the history of the

Earth and the life upon it as a guide for determining

the processes and conditions that create and maintain

habitable environments and to search for ancient and

contemporary habitable environments and explore the

possibility of extant life beyond the Earth.

Deadline: Nov. 17, 2020.

Funds: $1.5 million total for eight to 10 awards of up to

four years in length.

Eligibility: U.S. institutions.

Areas: NASA said terrestrial field experiments

that improve scientific understanding of how in situ

measurements at analog sites can or will improve our

understanding of the potential for the environment to

support life will be considered. Research areas include

but are not limited to: the presence of water and/or exotic

solvents, sources of energy for life, the presence of

organics and their reactivity, and water body physics and

chemistry as they pertain to habitability and habitability

over time, as well as space weather signatures that may

be indicative of impacts to planetary habitability. The

target bodies for this program element include but are

not limited to: Mars—the astrobiological potential of past

or present environments on or in the Martian surface or

subsurface; icy worlds—the astrobiological potential of

icy worlds in the outer solar system, including Europa,

Ganymede, Enceladus and Titan; and habitable

exoplanets and/or their moons—a potentially habitable

exoplanet implies a planet with conditions roughly

comparable to those of Earth (i.e., an Earth analog) and

thus potentially favorable to the presence of life.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NNH20ZDA001N-HW

Solar System Workings (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the Solar

System Workings program announcement to address

the physical and chemical processes that affect the

surfaces, interiors, atmospheres, exospheres and

magnetospheres of planetary bodies.

Deadline: Notice of Intent, Nov. 13, 2020; proposals,

Jan. 29, 2021.

Funds: Up to $10 million total for 50 to 70 awards. The

maximum project period is four years.

Eligibility: U.S. institutions.

Areas: NASA said areas of research include but are not

limited to: surfaces and interiors, planetary atmospheres,

rings, orbital dynamics and plasma environments,

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NNH20ZDA001N-SSW

Centers of Excellence at 1890 Institutions

(USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s National Institute

of Food and Agriculture seeks applications for the

Centers of Excellence (COEs) at 1890 Institutions

announcement to provide support for COEs that were

originally established in 2015 in conjunction with the

125th anniversary of the Second Morrill Act of 1890.

Deadline: Nov. 18, 2020.

Funds: $5.76 million for up to four awards ranging from

$1 million to $1.8 million.

Eligibility: 1890 land-grant institutions, including

Tuskegee University.

Areas: USDA said COE goals include: (1) increasing

profitability and rural prosperity in underserved

farming communities; (2) addressing critical needs

for enhanced international training and development;

and (3) increasing diversity in the science, technology,

engineering, agriculture and mathematics pipeline.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-NIFA-

1890COE-007732

Optical uorescence methods and technologies

for sensitive cancer detection in vivo (NCI)

Scope: The National Cancer Institute seeks (R01)

research project grant applications for the Clinical

Translation of Activated Optical Fluorescence Methods

and Technologies for Sensitive Cancer Detection in

Vivo announcement to bring a highly sensitive imaging

technology capable of detecting very small (1–3 mm3)

tumors in vivo to clinical utility.

Deadline: Letters of Intent are due 30 days prior to the

application due date; proposals, Feb. 10, 2021, and Oct.

13, 2021.

Funds: The number of awards depends on

appropriations and the submission of a sufficient

number of quality applications. The maximum project

period is five years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-profit

organizations, including small businesses; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NCI said examples of activated imaging probes

include but are not limited to auto-quenching and self-

quenching probes; dual-labeled probes; and protease-

activated, cell-penetrating probes; and probes or agents

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