Reconstructive Transplant, Investigator‐Initiated Research Award (DOD)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31219
• Date: 06 August 2020
• Published date: 06 August 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Reconstructive Transplant, Investigator-

Initiated Research Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for

the Reconstructive Transplant, Investigator-Initiated

Research Award announcement to support studies that

have the potential to make an important contribution to

reconstructive transplant research, patient care and/or

quality of life.

Deadline: Pre-applications, Aug. 19, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 12, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $7.5 million for six Reconstructive

Transplant Investigator-Initiated Research Award

applications.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said applicants must address at least one

of the FY20 RTRP Focus Areas: reducing the risks

of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA)-

associated immunosuppression, such as dening

the unique mechanisms of VCA immunogenicity

or developing novel approaches for improving VCA

immune tolerance; developing reliable noninvasive

methods or tools for monitoring VCA graft rejection,

such as developing reliable noninvasive biomarkers for

monitoring chronic VCA graft rejection in a large animal

model; and advancing existing or developing innovative

ex vivo tissue-preservation strategies to extend the

timeline between procurement and transplantation,

such as developing novel approaches and models for

perfused, hypothermic, high subzero and low subzero,

or static preservation strategies.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# W81XWH-20-RTRP-IIRA

Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s Office of Naval

Research seeks applications for the Vannevar

Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) announcement for

distinguished researchers for the purpose of conducting

innovative basic research in areas of interest to DOD

and fostering long-term relationships between the VBFF

Fellows and DOD.

Deadline: White papers, Aug. 28, 2020; proposals, Jan.

15, 2021.

Funds: $3 million total for awards with project periods of

up to ve years.

Eligibility: U.S. colleges and universities with doctoral

degree-granting programs.

Areas: DOD said areas of interest include but are

not limited to: Area 1: Applied Mathematics and

Computational Science, Area 2: Networks and Articial

Intelligence, Area 3: Cognitive Neuroscience and Area 4:

Fundamentals of Bioengineering.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# N00014-20-S-F006

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Great

Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program

(GLFSMP) seeks applications for the Great Lakes

Restoration Initiative for a project to monitor the

temporal trends of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic

chemicals in sh in the Great Lakes.

Deadline: Sept. 21, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $6 million for one cooperative

agreement over a ve-year period.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments and organizations.

Areas: EPA said applicants must demonstrate how

they will: analyze homogenized sh tissue from all 10

GLFMSP stations, perform chemical analyses to retain

comparability and continuity with historical GLFMSP

data and submit quality-assured analytical results to

EPA within 10 months of receipt of samples.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-R5-GL2020-FMSP

Equitable development and environmental

justice in browneld communities (EPA)

Scope: The EPA’s Office of Brownelds and Land

Revitalization seeks applications for the FY2021 Supporting

Equitable Development and Environmental Justice in

Brownelds Communities to provide training, research and

technical assistance to facilitate the inventory of browneld

sites, site assessments, remediation of browneld sites,

community involvement or site preparation.

Deadline: Sept. 21, 2020.

Funds: $600,000 total for one award with a project

period of up to one year.

Eligibility: Nonprot organizations and state, local and

Native American tribal governments and agencies,

among others.

Areas: EPA said funding may be used for direct costs

necessary to provide browneld technical assistance

identied in the approved workplan. This includes

eligible programmatic costs necessary to perform

projects, such as: costs for personnel, technical

experts, materials, supplies, room rentals, travel and

transportation expenses.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-OLEM-OBLR-20-04

Projects to Advance the Safe Use of Pesticides

(EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of

Pesticide Programs seeks applications for the Projects

to Advance the Safe Use of Pesticides announcement

to manage projects in support of safe pesticide use and

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