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How the HSF’s General Endowment Fund awards help UAB compete on a national stageOver its 28 years, this signature program has awarded grants totaling almost $60 million. Meet recipients and see how the HSF-GEF grants make UAB “a place where, if you have a good idea, you can find the support to make it a reality.”What you need to know about the new NIH data management and sharing policy
Beginning Jan. 25, 2023, the National Institutes of Health will implement a new data management and sharing policy, which will increase the rigor, reproducibility and transparency of research and create open access to data.
Apply for fellowship to explore careers in technology transfer, commercializationGraduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the Innovate Fellows program are trained and compensated to evaluate new inventions on campus through market, prior art and patent analyses to assess commercial merit.
Now is the time to launch or accelerate a startup in AlabamaNew state legislation matches federal small-business grants to Alabama-based recipients. Find out how to take advantage of these opportunities in the updated UAB Startup Guide, created by the university's Entrepreneurial Development Committee.Apply for aging research pilot awardsSubmissions are being accepted through Sept. 1.
3 researchers build interdisciplinary teams to tackle big issues in their fieldThe College of Arts and Sciences awarded $30,000 each to Jeff Morris, Magda Szaflarski and Zina Trost to fund projects that foster connections, ask big questions and find big solutions.
Help advance treatment for underrepresented communities Dec. 3-14Visit one of five locations to enroll in the All of Us Research Program, which aims to enroll 1 million-plus volunteers and oversample communities underrepresented in research to create the largest, most diverse resource of its kind.
Apply for funding for breast cancer researchProjects may focus on any area of breast cancer research, including but not limited to personalized medicine, prevention, early detection, drug discovery, immunotherapy, genomics and new breast cancer treatments.
Apply for faculty development grants by Feb. 15The grants provide seed money for research, teaching and service-related projects and is available to all UAB full-time faculty. Junior faculty are encouraged to apply.Competition produces creative proposals for obesity researchSeven researchers are halfway to the prize money for their winning entries in the annual Creativity is a Decision Awards, sponsored by UAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center, including research scientist Andrew Brown, Ph.D., and instructors Joshua Speed, Ph.D., and Ceren Yarar-Fisher. Ph.D.Funding available for nutrition P/F studiesUAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center will fund at least three nutrition-related pilot/feasibility studies for as much as $25,000 — with competitive renewals possible.Apply for faculty development grants by March 12The grants provide seed money for research, teaching and service-related projects and is available to all UAB full-time faculty.Funding available for innovative CF projectsUAB's Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center is soliciting applications for pilot and feasibility projects to support new research initiatives in cystic fibrosis pathophysiology and intervention.Pilot grants available for minority aging researchFaculty at UAB, UA, Morehouse School of Medicine and Tuskegee University are eligible for funding.Apply for a grant to help innovate teachingUAB's Center for Teaching and Learning is accepting competitive proposals to support teaching innovation and development of new approaches to improve instruction and learning.Pilot program to fund community-based researchAs many as three $30,000 awards will be made for projects that address health issues affecting Birmingham communities.Need funding for a health-related technology?A Sept. 4 workshop will prepare you to write proposals that can compete for federal funding to commercialize your research.NORC to provide funds for winning nutrition/obesity research ideasApplications for NORC pilot feasibility studies are due April 10.
New contest aims to hit researchers’ creative juicesPhysical work makes us tired at the end of the day, but what about problem-solving?
Hospital Auxiliary awards first-ever nursing scholarshipsEmployees Victoria Anderson (left) and Adam Grinfield are the first recipients of the UAB Hospital Auxiliary nursing scholarships.