Office of Sponsored Programs OSP Weekly
04/29/2020
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Are you working on COVID-19 research?
Even if you are not funded through a sponsored award, OSP is being asked by federal sponsors how  researchers have been making contributions to the COVID-19 research over the last couple of months? If you have a story to share, publication to announce, IRB studies, or proposed research and you would like to share, please let us know. You can email  [email protected]  directly. 

These contributions could be highlighted through several venues, such as NSHE Board of Regents news, OSP Weekly, Division of Research and Economic Development News, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering also ( https://basicresearch.defense.gov/COVID-19/Basic-Researchers-on-COVID-19/ ). If you have a contribution to post on the Research Directorate page please forward your story and we will get it sent in.   Image credit: Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM
Information Regarding the Forte Payments System
UNLV is now fully utilizing the Research Payments System to electronically manage incentives, travel reimbursements, mileage, and hotel stays for UNLV research human subjects. The system will reimburse using VISA credit cards.  This new procedure was implemented on September 1, 2019, for all NEW IRB submissions and effective for all research projects (new and existing) starting January 1, 2020.  This includes ALL research projects that will be reimbursing research human subjects.  

We kindly ask, as a proper check and balance, OSP to ensure Investigators are budgeting the cost of the VISAs and transactions when budgets are submitted and include research human subject reimbursements and incentives.

1. $1.50 per VISA card.
2. $0.80 for VISA transaction.

If the Investigator has any questions, please direct them to  [email protected] .
New NIH Resource to Analyze COVID-19 Literature
The COVID-19 Portfolio Tool
In the past few months, the scientific community has ramped up research in response to the SARS‑CoV‑2 pandemic; dozens of peer-reviewed articles and preprints on this topic are being added to the literature every day. This rapidly expanding effort has created a need for a human-curated resource to explore and analyze advances in SARS‑CoV‑2/COVID-19 research as they accumulate in real time. To address this need, the  NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis  (OPA) has assembled a  comprehensive portfolio  of COVID‑19 publications and preprints that is freely available to the public. The COVID-19 portfolio is updated daily with new literature selected for inclusion by subject matter experts.
The  iSearch  COVID-19 portfolio is NIH’s comprehensive, curated source for publications related to COVID-19. This portfolio includes articles from PubMed and pre-prints from arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, SSRN and Research Square. The portfolio is updated daily with the latest available data.
AFWERX Challenge Initiatives
Base of the Future

In 2018, Tyndall was delivered a direct hit by Category 5 Hurricane Michael which wiped out nearly 800 structures, destroying roughly one-half and causing billions of dollars in damage. AFWERX has been tasked with facilitating and resourcing ideas for the rebuild. Tyndall has been appropriated a Military Construction (MilCon) budget of $3 billion to rebuild as a Base of the Future. In addition, there are also billions of dollars being spent on this topic across the DoD to improve the bases of all military services.

This effort is broken down into five focus areas: 

  • Base Security and Defense
  • Installation Resilience
  • Leveraging Technology for Operational Effectiveness
  • Culture of Innovation
  • Empowering Airmen and Family Wellbeing
VIRTUAL EVENT - NOW!
Agility Prime & Flying Car Expo
April 27 - May 1

Five-day virtual event to launch Agility Prime, an Air Force initiative to to operationalize commercial electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles (i.e., "flying cars") for military missions and accelerate the emerging commercial eVTOL market in the United States.
Space

AFWERX has partnered with the U.S. Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), and Air Education and Training Command (AETC). This initiative aims to acquire technology from four separate topic areas: 

  • Persistent ISR technology
  • DoD  Commercial Space Partnerships
  • Global Space Transport and Delivery
  • Space Asset Resiliency
AFWERX FUSION 2020
Fall 2020
Las Vegas, Nevada

A two-day showcase hosted by AFWERX, the innovation program of the United States Air Force. This annual flagship event brings together industry, individual innovators, academia, investors, as well as, military and government team members. The goal of this event is to present innovative solutions for Air Force areas of interest and facilitate an environment of connection and collaboration.

National Endowment for the Humanities Funding Opportunities
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants - FON: 20200115-HAA - CFDA #: 45.149
Application due: June 30, 2020
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this program, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may involve:
  • creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods, techniques, or infrastructure that contribute to the humanities;
  • pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society; or
  • conducting evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.
Research and Development - FON: 20200515-PR - CFDA #: 45.149
Application due: May 15, 2020
The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials.

Research and Development projects are encouraged to address one or more of the following areas of special interest:
  • Preserving our audiovisual and digital heritage.
  • Conserving our material past.
  • Protecting our cultural heritage.
  • Reaching under-represented communities.
Pfizer Funding Opportunities
Request for Proposals (RFP)
COVID-19 : Continuity in Care for Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Application Due: May 21, 2020
Intent is to provide support to nursing associations, cancer centers, hospitals or healthcare systems so that they may improve their systems-of-care for patients with metastatic breast cancer who receive oral cancer medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Link to Full RFP
Request for Proposals (RFP)
COVID-19 : Competitive Grant Program
Application Due: May 22, 2020
Intent to support educational programs for healthcare providers focused on the recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and overall care management of patients with COVID-19, as well as provide support to hospitals or healthcare systems so that they may evaluate and improve their systems-of-care for COVID-19 patients. Link to Full RFP
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Providing Enhanced Medical Support for Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency (PI) Disorders
Application Due: June 8, 2020
Intent to support patient-focused programs that help patients and providers address the heightened medical and educational needs of patients with PI during this pandemic. Link to Full RFP
Request for Proposals (RFP)
2020 Osteoarthritis and Osteoarthritis Pain-Virtual Learning
Application Due: July 22, 2020
Projects that will be considered for Pfizer and Lilly support will focus on education. Link to Full RFP
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Long-acting Growth Hormone Research (Global) Competitive Grant Program
Application Due: June 15, 2020
Projects that will be considered for Pfizer support will focus on long-acting growth hormone (LAGH) research . Link to Full RFP
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Research in Hemophilia
Application Due: July 30, 2020
Projects that will be considered for Pfizer support will focus on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Link to Full RFP
Request for Proposals (RFP)
NASH-Future of Non-invasive Diagnosis Technologies
Application Due: July 30, 2020
  Intent to provide an independent grant(s) to an organization or organizations that will focus on the future of non-invasive diagnosis for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Link to Full RFP
Questions: Althea Sheets, Funding Opportunities Manager, [email protected] , 702-895-1880