More RNA Extraction Kits Needed for SARS Cov-2 Testing
The BUSM Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine needs more RNA Extraction Kits for SARS Cov-2 testing. Specifically: QIAGEN 74134 RNeasy Plus Mini Kit (50) 74136 RNeasy Plus Mini Kit (250) BUMC drop-off site: Attn Elizabeth […]
Join the Fight Against COVID-19
In light of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, researchers at Harvard University and Boston University have developed a short web-based survey to gather information on coronavirus disease and social distancing behaviors from the general U.S. adult population. The results from this survey aim to produce timely, rapid results that will inform the policy response to the disease. The survey […]
Limited Submission Opportunity: Enhancing Community Responses to America’s Addiction Crisis
DEADLINE: APRIL 17, 2020. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is seeking applications to support direct services for children and youth who are crime victims as a result of the current addiction crisis
Limited Submission Opportunity: Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program
DEADLINE: MAY 8, 2020. The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to advance the field of population dynamics research by increasing research impact, innovation, and productivity; developing junior scientists; and maximizing the efficiency of research support
Limited Submission Opportunity: Understanding Factors and Conditions for Democracy and Rights Organizations
DEADLINE: APRIL 13, 2020. DRL’s goal is to build a portfolio of evidence to further identify democracy, rights and labor rights program strategies that are effective. DRL’s Evaluation Innovation Fund is an initiative that seeks to contribute to our office’s ongoing mission—promoting democracy, protecting human rights and international religious freedom, and advancing labor rights globally—by supporting applied research and evaluation to improve projects overseas
Limited Submission Opportunity: Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
DEADLINE: April 17, 2020. The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications from large multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams (requesting support of more than $3 million per year) for the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes
Transnetyx COVID-19 Program Info
The following opportunity is for labs conducting essential research with animals. Transnetyx provides automated genotyping researchers in universities, hospitals, and bioscience companies. As a reminder, BU has ramped down non-essential research to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Transnetyx is offering all labs [conducting essential biomedical research] within BU 50 free samples, free shipping, free supplies […]
Announcement: Call for COVID-19 Research & Ideas
While Boston University has taken measures to ramp down non-essential laboratory research in response to the pandemic, we are also mobilizing new research to expand the work of our faculty, labs, and centers doing work related to COVID-19. We ask that faculty members with relevant research in the works, expertise to contribute, or ideas for addressing the […]
Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award
DEADLINE: MAY 8, 2020. Brain Research Foundation (BRF) Annual Scientific Innovations Award supports innovative discovery science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, cutting edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established investigators
Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: Pew Biomedical Scholars
DEADLINE: APRIL 20, 2020. Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. Selection of the successful candidates will be based on a detailed description of the work that the applicant proposes to undertake, evaluations of the candidate’s performance, and notable past accomplishments, including honors, awards, and publications