Funding Sources
The following is a list of some of our most popular funding agencies, external and internal, for both new and established investigators. This page also includes information about the NIH new investigator program and a section specifically designed for postdoctoral and clinical fellows.
Funding Opportunities
The following is a list of our most popular funding agencies, external and internal, for both new and established investigators.
Federal Funding Opportunities
GrantsNet (DHHS)
NIH
NSF
CDC
HRSA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
proposalCENTRAL
Alzheimer’s Association
American Heart Association
American Diabetes Association
American Cancer Society
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology
The Foundation Fighting Blindness
Online Resources
GrantsNet (AAAS & HHMI)
Community of Science
Internal OUHSC Competitions
Presbyterian Health Foundation - No 2008/2009 competitions
College of Medicine Alumni Association (COMAA) Request for Applications & Guidelines 2009
New and Early Stage Investigators
NIH and other funding agencies offer numerous special funding opportunities for new and early stage investigators. You may wish to read more information on these programs at the NIH website.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Funding Sources
NIH offers multiple funding opportunties for US citizens or permanent residents.
Some funding agencies that do not require the applicant to be a US citizens or permanent residents:
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Additional funding opportunities can be found by searching Grants-Net and Community of Science.
Resources
NIH offers a tutorials and information on grant application basics.
Tutorial for Training and Career Awards, Fellowships, and Supplements
OUHSC requires that all fellowship applications use the Sponsored Activities Routing Form for Individual Fellowship Grants, in addition to the Sponsored Activities Routing Form. Please contact your SPA if you have questions about this requirement.
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Vice President for Research Spotlight
John Iandolo, Ph.D. was appointed as the OUHSC Vice President for Research, on January 1, 2010. Dr. Iandolo received a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology from Loyola University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois. Prior to his arrival at the OU Health Sciences Center in 1997, he was a member of the faculty of Kansas State University where he served for 23 years in the Division of Biology and then in the Department of Pathobiology for 7 years. He was appointed a University Distinguished Professor in 1994. Dr. Iandolo was recruited to the OUHSC to serve as Professor and Department Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, a position he has held for the past 12 years. Under his leadership the Department of Microbiology and Immunology has been consistently ranked among the highest in NIH funding of all Microbiology Departments in the nation.
Dr. Iandolo is nationally renowned for his research in the areas of Staphylococcal infections and has been continually funded by the NIH for the past 35 years and is a past NIH MERIT award recipient. In addition to more than 100 publications in high quality scientific journals, Dr. Iandolo has served as Editor of Applied Microbiology and has been a member of numerous editorial boards. He has served and Chaired numerous grant review panels for NIH, USDA, NSF and other agencies.
The VPR at OUHSC oversees the Office of Research Administration, the Office of Laboratory Animal Resources, and OUHSC Core Laboratories. For more information on the VPR, click here.
Upcoming NIH Requirement
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