MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Friday, October 06, 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

10/06/2006 

Membrane Associated Signaling Defects in Immune Cells with Aging (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-07-006 

10/06/2006 

Community-Based Participatory Research at NIMH (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-07-004 

10/06/2006 

Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-07-005 

10/06/2006 

Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-07-006 

10/05/2006 

Technology Development for Biomedical Applications (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-RR-06-004 

10/05/2006 

The Bernard Osher Foundation/NCCAM CAM Practitioner Research Career Development Award (K01)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-07-003 

10/05/2006 

Implementation Grants for Special Projects  

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH-QI-01232007 

10/05/2006 

NIDDK Mentored Clinical Scientist Award to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (K08)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DK-06-015 

10/05/2006 

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-07-002 

10/04/2006 

Alcohol Education Project Grants (R25)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-07-001 

10/03/2006 

Short-Term Interdisciplinary CareerEnhancement Awardsfor NeurodegenerationResearch (K18)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DC-07-005 

10/03/2006 

Biomarkers for Neurodegeneration (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-NS-07-004 

10/03/2006 

NEA Renna Arts Scholarships  

National Endowment for the Arts

2007NEA01RS 

10/02/2006 

Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging (K08 and K23)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-07-001 

10/02/2006 

Therapeutics Delivery for Neurodegenerative Diseases (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-EY-07-001 

10/02/2006 

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Interdisciplinary Individual Postdoctoral Fellows for Training in Neurodegeneration Research (F32)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-07-004 

09/29/2006 

Implementation Grants for Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives  

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH-LI-01232007 

09/29/2006 

Implementation Grants for Museums and Historical Organizations  

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH-MI-01232007 

09/29/2006 

Manufactured Nanomaterials: Physico-chemical Principles of Biocompatibility and Toxicity (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-ES-06-008 

09/29/2006 

Implementation Grants for Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives  

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH-LI-01232007 

NOTE:

A search is conducted for opportunities which mention colleges or universities in the “Additional Information on Eligibility” field of the announcement. Only those items and 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.