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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

New Biomedical Frontiers at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences (R01)

Deadline: May 18, 2010; May 18, 2011; May 18, 2012

Purpose. The goal of this funding opportunity announcement, issued by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, is to encourage grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose discovery research that may create entirely new areas of biomedical investigation through bridging the physical and life/behavioral sciences.

A number of innovative techniques and discoveries developed in the physical, computational and engineering sciences have resulted in tremendous breakthroughs in the biological and life sciences. In many cases, important biomedical problems could not have been solved without the critical involvement of engineers and physicists, such as the development of new imaging technologies, nanotechnology, and high throughput screening technologies. It is the intermingling of approaches from one area, applied to problems of another, that makes research at the intersection of the life and physical sciences so rich and full of opportunities (Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academies, November 2009). The purpose of this initiative is to provide support for cutting-edge, visionary research, only possible through bridging the sciences, with the goal of setting the stage for the next biomedical breakthrough.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation are issuing this joint announcement to encourage grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose discovery research that may create entirely new areas of biomedical investigation through bridging the physical and life/behavioral sciences. A list of topics can be found in announcement at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-142.html

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