MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Tuesday, May 30, 2006

SUBJECT:     FEDERAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

The table below lists federal agency grant funding opportunities open to public and/or private higher education institutions which have been announced in the last week.  To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date

Opportunity Title

Agency

Funding Number

05/19/2006 

Neurodevelopment and Neuroendocrine Signaling in Adolescence: Relevance to Mental Health (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-428 

05/19/2006 

Research on Community Reintegration for People with Psychiatric Disabilities (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-427 

05/19/2006 

Probiotics for Pediatric Illnesses (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-426 

05/23/2006 

Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program  

Administration for Children and Families

HHS-2006-ACF-OCS-IC-0141 

05/23/2006 

School-based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-415 

05/23/2006 

Research on Psychopathology In Intellectual Disabilities (Mental Retardation) [R01]  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-431 

05/23/2006 

School-Based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-417 

05/23/2006 

School-Based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-417 

05/23/2006 

Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program  

Administration for Children and Families

HHS-2006-ACF-OCS-IC-0141 

05/23/2006 

Phased Innovation Research in Cancer Prognosis and Prediction (R21/R33)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-434 

05/23/2006 

Phase II Developmental Research in Cancer Prognosis and Prediction (R33)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-435 

05/23/2006 

School-based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-416 

05/24/2006 

Shared Neurobiology of Fragile X Syndrome and Autism (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-429 

05/24/2006 

Shared Neurobiology of Fragile X Syndrome and Autism (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-430 

05/25/2006 

International Research Collaboration Basic Biomedical (FIRCA-BB) [R03]  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-436 

05/25/2006 

Basic and Preclinical Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) [R01]  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-440 

05/25/2006 

International Research Collaboration Behavioral, Social Sciences (FIRCA-BSS) [R03]  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-437 

05/26/2006 

Early Identification and Treatment of Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-442 

05/26/2006 

Interventions And Practice Research Infrastructure Program (IP-RISP) (R24)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-441 

05/26/2006 

Biological Research Collections (BRC)  

National Science Foundation

06-569 

05/26/2006 

Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)  

National Science Foundation

06-571 

NOTE:

Only those opportunities characterized as “grants”, in which the eligibility

 field specifically includes “Public and State controlled institutions of higher education” and/or “Private institutions of higher education” are included in this report.  For broader or more focused searches, visit http://www.grants.gov/search/advanced.do.