Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Interfaces Initiative
M E M O R A N D U M
| DATE: | January 5, 2005 |
| TO: | Deans, Directors, Department Chairs, College/School Research Administrators |
| FROM: | Jane Sherwood, The Graduate School |
| SUBJECT: | Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)-National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Interfaces Initiative |
Deadlines: Thursday, January 20, 2005 for email notices of intent to submit proposal to both UW-Madison and HHMI; Wednesday, March 9, 4:00 p.m. for internal competition application; Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 1:00 p.m. for full proposal to HHMI
This program is a new partnership between HHMI and NIBIB at NIH. The primary goal is to facilitate the development of new training opportunities in emerging interdisciplinary research environments. The program has been established to train Ph.D. scientists who possess the knowledge and skills to conduct interdisciplinary research at the interface between the biomedical sciences and the physical science, computational, engineering, or mathematical disciplines. Another goal is to reduce barriers to interdisciplinary graduate science education. Training programs that provide strategies to remove barriers between areas of research will be considered for funding, though this initiative is meant to enhance interdisciplinary graduate education, not to support research. All expenditures must be used to support the training program.
This is a two-phase program. Phase I will award to up $10 million in grants to as many as 10 institutions. The grant term is three years and the maximum for each grant is $1 million. Phase I recipients are expected to apply for Phase II funding.
UW–Madison may be designated a primary institution on only two proposals. For this reason we will convene an ad hoc committee to review the applications internally and to select the projects to be forwarded to the agency.
Applicants must do the following:
1. Register your intent to submit a proposal via HHMI's web-based competition system at this web site by Thursday, January 20, 2005, 1:00 p.m. Central time. http://www.hhmi.org/grants/gcs
- login ID: guest
- password: register
More detailed information about this program is also available on this web site.
2. Send an email message to gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu by Thursday, January 20, 2005 to inform us of your intention to submit a proposal. Include in your email message the names and departments of the PI and Co-PIs and a brief (one or two sentence) description of your proposal.
3. Send five copies of a 2-4 page proposal description to the Graduate School Dean's Office, 333 Bascom Hall by Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 4:00 p.m. The pre-proposals should address the specific program initiative objectives, 1-9, found in the program announcement.
For those projects selected, complete proposals must be submitted using the HHMI web-based competition system. The HHMI deadline is Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 1:00 p.m. Central time. The HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Initiative program announcement provides detailed proposal preparation and submission instructions. Scroll down the page to HHMI-NIBIB.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 263-7274/ jmsherwo@wisc.edu or Petra Schroeder at 265-4868/ pschroeder@bascom.wisc.edu