Faculty Opportunities

Faculty, Postdoctoral

Grantor: Global Probiotics Council

Grant Opportunity: Research Grant

Award Amount: $50,000

Deadline: February 12, 2016

The purpose of the Young Investigator Grant for Probiotic Research is to contribute to the advancement of probiotics and gastrointestinal microbiota research in the United States and to impact academic and career development of young investigators, attracting them into the field of probiotics and microbiota.

 

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With Our Planet, Our Health, we want to invest in high-quality, transdisciplinary programmes of research that investigate novel aspects of – and build evidence for – how complex changes in our environment affect our health. Supported proposals will consider the interplay between different environments (biological, physical, economic, social and natural), drive collaborative research, and ultimately lead to outputs with a significant impact on our health.

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Wellcome Trust
Faculty, Graduate, Postdoctoral

San Francisco, CA – uBiome, the leading microbial genomics company, is offering talented researchers with big ideas a grant of up to $100,000 of microbiome sampling kits and full 16S laboratory analysis. The goal is to fast-track a study with the greatest potential to affect human health and well-being. The winner will also have access to their own dashboard, enabling them to view and compare the results of their study, as well as being able to download raw data to analyze in any way they like.

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Internal Medicine

Multiple opportunities may be reviewed through the IFFGD link listed here.

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The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological principles and processes that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems.

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Name:
Dr. Samuel Scheiner
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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet's biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss of biodiversity across the globe. The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. This campaign promotes novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth.

Contact:
Name:
Dr. Simon Malcomber
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Abstract - The purpose of the YIGPRO is to contribute to the advancement of probiotics and gastrointestinal microbiota research in the United States. The grant program objectives are
- to stimulate innovative research relevant to… more »

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Abstract - This award provides funding to investigators to support basic or clinical research on the testing and treatment of food intolerance, i.e. dietary triggers of gastrointestinal symptoms, potentially including the role of… more »

Amount: $120,000USD - This award provides $60,000 per year for two years (up to $10,000/year may be used for equipment and supplies).

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Abstract - This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages innovative multidisciplinary research projects that will advance our mechanistic understanding of microflora influences on Gastro-Intestinal (GI) carcinogenesis.… more » Recent advances in our knowledge of GI microflora composition and function have generated a flood of new information, technologies, and capabilities that may for the first time allow mechanistic investigations of very complex, networked host/microbiome interactions on a systems wide scale.

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This research initiative grant is offered to early stage and established investigators to support pilot research projects pertaining to the gut microbiome. The objective of this award is to provide investigators non-… more »salary funds to help establish their research careers or support pilot projects that represent new research directions.

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This award provides funding to junior investigators engaged in research related to the gut microbiome. Supported research may include basic, translational, clinical or health services investigation. The overall goal… more » of the AGA research awards program is to enable investigators, especially those in the early stages of their careers, to develop and maintain independent and productive research programs in digestive diseases.

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