TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Friday, August 04, 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

07/21/2006 

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-481 

07/24/2006 

SOURCES, COMPOSITION, AND HEALTH EFFECTS OF COARSE PARTICULATE MATTER  

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-G2006-STAR-Q1 

07/28/2006 

National Technical Assistance Program  

Economic Development Administration

EDA072806 

07/28/2006 

Health Promotion Research Directed to Improving the Oral Health of Women and Their Infants (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DE-07-008 

07/28/2006 

Development of Nonmammalian Models and Related Biological Materials For Research (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-498 

07/28/2006 

Exfoliated Cells and Circulating DNA in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis(R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-499 

07/28/2006 

Exfoliated Cells and Circulating DNA in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis(R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-499 

07/28/2006 

National Technical Assistance Program  

Economic Development Administration

EDA072806 

07/31/2006 

Pathophysiology of Bisphosphonates-associated Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-500 

07/31/2006 

Pathophysiology of Bisphosphonates-associated Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-501 

07/31/2006 

Neuroeconomics of Aging (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-06-011 

07/31/2006 

Pathophysiology of Bisphosphonates-associated Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-502 

08/01/2006 

2007 Challenge Cost-Share Grant Program Request for Pre-Proposals  

Forest Service

USDA-FS-08012006 

08/01/2006 

Predoctoral Training at the Interface of the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (T32)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-503 

08/02/2006 

Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancer for the Year 2007 (P50)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-505 

08/02/2006 

Enabling Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-504 

08/02/2006 

Serbia Youth Leadership Program  

Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs

ECA-PE-C-PY-07-04 

08/03/2006 

Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources  

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH-EE-10022006 

08/03/2006 

Promoting Aging Research Careers In Health Disparities (K01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-06-008 

08/04/2006 

Oral Health Research Education Grants (R25)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-506 

08/04/2006 

NLM Individual Fellowship for Informationist Training (F37)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-509 

08/04/2006 

Educational Programs for Population Research (R25)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-507 

08/04/2006 

Technology Development for the Comprehensive Determination of Functional Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HG-07-028 

08/04/2006 

Technology Development for the Comprehensive Determination of Functional Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HG-07-029 

08/04/2006 

Exploratory/Developmental Grant for Clinical Studies of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-510 

08/04/2006 

Muscular Dystrophy: Pathogenesis and Therapies (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-508 

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.