MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, August 29, 2008

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
08/22/2008	Food Price Crisis in the Sahel Region West Africa	US Agency for International Development	OFDA-FY08-009-APS
08/22/2008	Metals in Medicine (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-251
08/22/2008	Archiving and Development of Socialbehavioral Datasets in Aging Related Studies (R03)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-252
08/22/2008	Mechanisms of Adverse Drug Reactions in Children (R03)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-249
08/22/2008	Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-250
08/22/2008	NIAMS Building Interdisciplinary Research Team (BIRT) Revision Awards (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AR-09-001
08/22/2008	Innovative Computational and Statistical Methodologies for the Design and Analysis of Multilevel Studies on Childhood Obesity (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HD-08-023
08/26/2008	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Documentary	Region 7	701818R076
08/26/2008	Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OSWER-OBLR-08-07
08/26/2008	Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Grants	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OSWER-OBLR-08-08
08/26/2008	Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OSWER-OBLR-08-09
08/26/2008	Museums for America	Institute of Museum and Library Services	MFA-FY09
08/26/2008	Unique Interactions Between Tobacco Use and HIV/AIDS (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-253
08/26/2008	Unique Interactions Between Tobacco Use and HIV/AIDS (R03)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-254
08/26/2008	Functioning of People with Mental Disorders (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-255
08/27/2008	Ancillary Studies in Immunomodulation Clinical Trials (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AI-08-011
08/27/2008	Basic HIV Vaccine Discovery Research (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AI-08-053
08/27/2008	Medications Development Centers of Excellence (P50)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-002
08/27/2008	Using Proven Factors in Risk Prevention to Promote Protection from HIV Transmission (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HD-08-010
08/28/2008	Nyquist-Limited Infrared Detectors (NIRD)	DARPA - Microsystems Technology Office	DARPA-BAA-08-54
08/28/2008	Research to Advance Vaccine Safety (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-256
08/28/2008	Research to Advance Vaccine Safety (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PA-08-257
08/28/2008	Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) High Throughput Genotyping Resource Access (X01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-258
08/28/2008	Biomedical Technology Research Resource (P41)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-259
08/28/2008	Pre-application for a Biomedical Technology Research Resource (X02)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-260
08/29/2008	Public Health Conference Support Program	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	CDC-PA-HM09-901
08/29/2008	Collaborative Studies on Systems Biology of Complex Phenotypes (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-GM-09-007

NOTE:

The scope of searches has been expanded to include “Unrestricted”, “Individuals”, and “Others” as well as Private and Public Institutions of higher education.For broader or more focused searches, visit http://www.grants.gov/search/advanced.do.