Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC periodically provides campus with a Washington Update report. In this report:
Policy Update: FDA Issues Final Rule to Regulate Laboratory-Developed Testing Services Engagement Opportunity: NIST to Host CHIPS Manufacturing USA Proposers Day Engagement Opportunity: DOT ARPA-I RFI on AI in Transportation Engagement Opportunity: NIH Seeking Nominees for the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating...
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC periodically provides campus with a Washington Update report. In this report:
Agency Update: CHIPS NSTC Update Engagement Opportunity: Federal Advisory Committee Nomination Opportunities Update Engagement Opportunity: Tentative Dates and Location Released for 2024 Military Health System Research Symposium Funding Opportunity: DARPA Releases BAAs for Quantum and AI Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) to support Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign). BioDesign will support collaborative research projects inspired by the natural world to increase understanding of general principles about biological and/or engineering systems and utilize these principles to work towards new engineered systems or products. For more information, please see the...
On February 28, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing to assess U.S. leadership in science and technology and the impacts to U.S. competitiveness and national security of China’s attempts to surpass U.S. scientific leadership. A major focus of the hearing was to identify key objectives for a U.S. National Science and Technology Strategy and a quadrennial science and technology review to maintain U.S. competitiveness. For more information, please see the...
Please see the Lewis-Burke Associates' report about the NIH's new opportunity for Climate Change and Health Research Centers (CCHRCs). These awards, which will be issued using the P20 exploratory grants mechanism, represent the first major new opportunity through NIH’s Climate Change and Health Initiative, which received $40 million in new funding through the FY 2023 omnibus appropriations bill. The CCHRCs will serve as transdisciplinary research environments for the...
Please see the Lewis-Burke Associates' report for more information about NSF's solicitation to establish a Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience, supported by the BIO Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS). This new Center aims to support research to “advance our ability to explain and predict organismal resiliency and plasticity in response to complex and dynamic environmental circumstances encountered over a lifespan.”
Please see the Lewis-Burke Associates' resport about the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) which has released its first Open Broad Agency Announcement (Open BAA) and announced a wide range of agency actions, including the hiring of its first program managers (PMs) and mission office directors, selection of its first of three physical sites or Hubs, solicitation of the remaining two Hubs, and a new “ARPA-H Dash” competition soliciting ideas from the health, scientific, and technology communities. Modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ARPA-H...
Lewis-Burke Associates' have provided their annual report analyzing the the FY 2024 President’s budget request for federal research, health, education, and workforce development programs.
Please see the Lewis-Burke Associates' report for more informaton about the DOD's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program's 2023 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program solicitations. These incluse a new “Advancing Cancer Care Through Clinical Trials Award.” For FY23, Congress allocated $130 million to the PRCRP in twenty topic areas. The PRCRP aims to support innovative, high-impact cancer research that leads to clear and impactful advances in the health care of...
