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Monthly Digest: May 2022

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Featured Opportunity
The program was created to catalyze novel solutions to improve equity in clinical research, health care delivery, and the science and health care workforce. Areas of priority include: Health Equity and Workforce Diversity.
  • Award Amount: $150K - $750K
  • Deadline: Applications due June 10, 2022 
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with Aaron Diaz and David Siegfried
Congratulations!
Shout out to the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion for receiving funding from the Henry Luce Foundation in support of a 4-year project with the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI)!

Congratulations to Niloufar Salehi, assistant professor in the School of Information, for being selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2027!

Congratulations to Rediet Abebe, assistant professor of computer science, who will be a member of the 2022 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows, with the Carnegie Corporation of New York!
Funding Opportunities
Grants for research projects focused on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve health, nutrition, and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $350K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due May 15, 2022
The award recognizes the leadership and scientific accomplishments of outstanding early- to mid-career researchers at U.S. universities or nonprofit research institutes who have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific fields. 
  • Award Amount: $1.15M (over 5 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due May 19, 2022 
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with Aaron Diaz
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative aims to support the application of single-cell biology methods to rare inflammatory pediatric diseases in order to clarify cellular mechanisms of disease, improve understanding of disease heterogeneity, identify biomarkers, and improve diagnosis. 
  • Award Amount: $2M (over 4 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due May 24, 2022 
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with Aaron Diaz
The program supports performing artists at the forefront of re-imagining inherited models of artistic production, cultural paradigms, and related economic practices. Seed investment is transformational in helping artists test their bold ideas and attract resources to further actualize their long-term ambitions.
  • Award Amount: $30K (up to 85 recipients)
  • Deadline: Applications due May 27, 2022
The program focuses on understanding the physical principles and mechanisms that make living systems distinctive from inanimate matter. The program will support basic scientific research at the intersection of these four disciplines: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering.
  • Award Amount: Unrestricted
  • Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with Aaron Diaz
Thematic grants will present opportunities for a diverse range of individuals, sectors and disciplines to address issues of mutual consequence to American and Japanese societies. Priority will be given towards projects submitted by partnerships of Japanese and American applicants. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $125K
  • Deadline: Applications due June 1, 2022
The program aims to better understand the manifestations of immune-mediated diseases of pregnancy impacting historically marginalized communities. Potential solutions should inform or catalyze the crucial next steps needed to develop diagnostics and novel therapies aiming to improve immune-mediated pregnancy outcomes in mothers and children from BIPOC communities.
  • Award Amount: Up to $500K
  • Deadline: Applications due June 3, 2022
The Society of Family Planning Research Fund is seeking to build and support an inclusive, multidisciplinary, skilled, and well-connected community with a shared focus on family planning. Priority will awarded to scholars of color, with the goal of responding to institutionalized racism in the science of family planning.
  • Award Amount: Up to $60K
  • Deadline: Applications due June 6, 2022
The program raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation of the arts and sciences. Areas of priority include: Creative Promise in Biomedical Science and Creative Promise in Music.
  • Award Amount: $50K (up to 6 recipients)
  • Deadline: Applications due June 10, 2022
The program supports young scholars on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing.
  • Award Amount: $60K (at least 3 recipients)
  • Deadline: Applications due June 17, 2022
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