Office of Research
Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Clinical Network Hub (U01)
This FOA solicits applications to maintain, expand and enhance the existing NIGMS-funded Drug Docking and Scoring Data Resource by (i) maintaining strong working relationships with current and past data donors from the pharmaceutical industry and academia; (ii) recruiting new donors of unique datasets valuable to the docking and screening software effort; (iii) optimizing the value of these datasets by adding a limited amount of carefully chosen new experimental results; (iv) maintaining the existing Data Resource contents and integrating them with new data and with information from other sources, such as the Protein Databank; and (v) making all Resource data freely and efficiently available for use by the in silico drug docking and screening community.
Application Instructions
As the School of Medicine may only submit 1 proposal for this opportunity, the Office of Research and Graduate Education has established an internal review process to determine which proposal will move forward to the funding agency.
To apply for this funding opportunity, please email the following to RGE at rgeopps@uw.edu by Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
- 1-2 page letter of intent with a list of all anticipated investigators, description of proposed aims and approach
- Biosketch of the PI
- Letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair has ensured the nominee’s eligibility per the sponsor’s requirements, and that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally.
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.