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This is an exciting time for new research funding opportunities, even as the federal government grapples with the challenges of developing a budget for FY 24 and California strives to manage a smaller budget than last year. Of particular note is a new federal agency, ARPA-H, which aims to provide new solutions to healthcare through transformative breakthroughs in the biomedical and health sciences. ARPA-H is rolling out new funding opportunities for investigators and is inviting researchers to join them as program managers. In addition, funding authorized under the CHIP and Science Act is leading to many new opportunities, especially under NIST (within the Department of Commerce) and NSF. Finally, climate science remains an important topic at the federal and state level, with many new funding opportunities. Each of these areas align with the strengths of our UC Davis research community and the Office of Research is here to support investigators in developing and submitting proposals.
At the same time, there are several important developments that will affect all researchers. Federal agencies are seeking comments on or announcing their guidelines for ensuring open access to research results and data as previously legislated by Congress. There remains some uncertainty on how the different agency requirements will intersect, and it’s my hope that we will eventually have a unified system. In addition, institutions like UC Davis are working to implement new research security policies under the National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33). This policy address issues such as disclosure of conflict of interest, export control requirements, and research data security practices. Some items in this issue of Research Insight relate directly to NSPM-33.
Thank you for your continuing efforts to advance the UC Davis research mission to make our world a better place.
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