Internal Funding Opportunities
One-U Responsible AI Faculty Fellows Program
Award: Annual stipend equivalent to 25% of base salary, bounded such that a minimum award will cover the average annual cost of a graduate student within the awardee’s department, and a maximum award will be $75,000. Fellows will be awarded for three years, with opportunity for renewal.
Deadline: October 1, 2024. Synopsis: Three to five faculty from the University of Utah will be recognized as RAI Faculty Fellows based on their alignment with one or more of the thematic areas of interest: Healthcare & Wellness, Environment, and Teaching & Learning.
Community Based Research (CBR) Project Implementation
Award: Up to $30,000. Flexible project timeline.
Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Synopsis: CBR Project Implementation Grants are designed to support research projects that are based in an established partnership with community partners and have been designed in collaboration with partners. Please see the opportunity above for more information about CBR projects.
Community Based Research (CBR) Planning & Partnership Formation
Award: Up to $10,000 over the one-year project period.
Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Synopsis: Community-Based Research (CBR) Grants at the University of Utah seek to support research partnerships between academic researchers and community-based partners that inquire into and address real-world issues through an approach rooted in enhancing societal impact for our local, national, and global communities. CBR requires substantial up-front work from both academic and community partners. Partnership Formation Grants are designed to support this early stage of CBR. The goal of the Partnership Formation Grant Program is to build and foster new relationships between community-based and campus-based partners. Planning and Partnership Formation Grants are designed to support activities such as analyzing existing data to help inform collaborative research, conducting asset mapping or other processes for identifying community strengths and priorities, developing partnership infrastructure and collaborative operating procedures, co-designing research proposals, and building the capacity of partners to conduct the research.
External Funding Opportunities
DHHS/ NIH: Short Courses Promoting Cross-National Analyses Using Data from the International Health and Retirement Study and Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
Award: Direct costs up to $350,000 per year. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Deadline: October 10, 2024.
Synopsis: The goal of this NOFO is to support short courses designed to increase utilization of the cognitive data from the HRS International Family of Studies (International HRS) and Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) to improve skills in conducting cross-national comparative research using these cognitive data to study a variety of aging and Alzheimers disease and Alzheimers disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) topics. Priority areas of focus include but are not limited to behavioral and social pathways to AD/ADRD, cognitive and dementia epidemiology, dementia care, caregiver/care partner research, unexpected environmental or economic shocks to the system, factors that are protective of AD and ADRD at the individual-level and statistical methods.
NIH Biomedical Quantum Computation Challenge
Award: Total cash prizes of $100,000
Deadline: Phase 1 open until October 12, 2024
Synopsis: The Biomedical Quantum Computation Challenge is offering $100,000 in prizes and consists of an Innovation Lab designed to prompt the development of quantum algorithms that address biomedical cancer research problems with a clear plan for simulating a demonstration of a quantum advantage for the novel approach over classical approaches to the same problem. The National Cancer Institute, in partnership with the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, is seeking Participants with ideas for data science problems in a cancer-relevant field of research for which novel quantum algorithms can be developed that demonstrate a clear quantum advantage over classical computation approaches, using real-world cancer research data.
ARPHA-H PRECISE-AI Program
PRECISE-AI aims to bring together machine learning experts, health information specialists, and clinicians to develop capabilities that can automatically detect and mitigate AI model degradation. These tools will monitor the performance of clinical AI models, identify if a degradation has occurred, and provide capabilities that can correct for performance degradations without the need for human oversight, thereby reducing the burden on individual operators. Proposer's Day will be held in person in Madison, WI and online on October 17. Registration is required and closes on October 14. One-U RAI, DELPHI, and DHI, are also leading a virtual UofU town hall on October 17.
NIH NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) Analysis Tool Challenge
Award: Total cash prizes of $50,000.
Deadline: Phase 1 open until October 30, 2024.
Synopsis: The NCI GDC Analysis Tool Challenge is a community competition and collaboration to integrate analysis tools with the GDC. Challenge objectives are: 1) Provide the research community with a novel analysis tool to analyze data in the GDC in support of cancer research, 2) Use the GDC Analysis Tool Software Development Kit (SDK) to integrate an Analysis Tool with the GDC using data available in the GDC in support of cancer research. The winning analysis tools will be made available in the GDC Data Portal Analysis Center to reach a broader audience of cancer researchers.