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The Research and Development Authority Weekly 08.08.2017 
For additional funding opportunities and more calls for proposals
go to "Approaching deadlines" table. 
 
 
NIH - The Interplay of Cell Death Pathways in Cancer Cell Survival and Resistance to Therapy

The goal of the call: to stimulate research in the interplay between cell death pathways in naïve and drug resistant cancers.

R01 - PA-17-440 - Research Project Grant
R21 - PA-17-449 - Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant

Early consultation with RDA staff is essential - If you consider yourself a candidate or if you have collaborators, please update us at least one month prior to the cycle's deadline. Interested parties must register – with the RDA assistance – on era commons.

RDA Deadline:  Every October, February and June until 2020
RDA Contact: Danna Rapaport, Tel: 77748

 

 
The Michael J. Fox Foundation works to accelerate promising research toward breakthroughs for Parkinson’s patients. With their strong emphasis on funding translational and clinical research, they also support high-risk/high-reward discovery work.

Core Funding Programs:
  • Target Advancement Awards support research characterizing promising, novel PD-relevant targets or continuing target biology work on established PD targets. 
  • Therapeutic Pipeline Program supports Parkinson's disease therapeutic development along the pre-clinical and clinical path (both drug and non-pharmacological therapeutics, including gene therapy, biological, surgical and non-invasive approaches).
  • Outcome measures to assist in target validation for therapeutic development and ultimately inform clinical trial design, execution and interpretation of results.

RDA Deadline for LOI: September 27, 2017
RDA Contact: Danna Rapaport, Tel: 77748

 

 
The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences Targeted Grants to Institutes

The program is intended to support established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. they aim to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions.

RDA Deadline: October 02, 2017 (actual deadline immediately after the holiday vacations).
RDA Contact: Danna Rapaport, Tel: 77748

 

 
 
"Original – isn’t it?" New Options for the Humanities and Cultural Studies:
The funding initiative aims to promote the exploration of research ideas of groundbreaking originality in the humanities and cultural studies.
"Originality" may encompass anything that contradicts the established knowledge or generally accepted intuition; or the development of a new approach to research a new hypothesis, a new theory, observation of a new phenomenon, and discovery of knowledge gaps.
Project teams: up to 4 partners.
Funding: up to € 80,000 or € 150,000.
Duration: 12 to 18 Months.
The Lead Applicant must  be a German.
Consultation with the fund referee is recommended.
 

RDA Deadline:
November 09, 2017
RDA contact: Ephrat Messing, Tel: 64 72435

 

 
NEW - NVIDIA Foundation: Computational Solutions in Cancer Omics
 
NVIDIA is seeking proposals for projects that use omics data and innovative computing techniques, including deep learning, to dramatically impact the battle against cancer and reduce the time it takes for research outcomes to be used effectively in a clinical environment. 
Areas of interest include:
  • Development of new computational tools, publicly-available omics datasets to increase knowledge of cancer biology and to advance the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of cancer.
  • Integration of new computational omics analysis techniques into existing, well-established omic data analysis pipelines/frameworks.
  • Development of new and innovative multi-omic simulation and/or visualization methods.
Call Details
Application Form

RDA Deadline: August 14, 2017 (Actual deadline during the summer vacation)
RDA Contact: Danna Rapaport, Tel: 77748

 

For more information regarding financial guidelines and points of contact, click the following link:  

 

                                                         
 
Horizon 2020 - Social Sciences and Humanities Info Day at BGU
September 5, 2017

Focus areas: Migration, Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformations, Governance of the Future and other opportunities in these areas in Horizon 2020

Dr Sylvie Rohanova, European Commission will present opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities area of Horizon 2020.

Come and learn about the funding options and meet the other interested parties in this program.

Researchers interested in participating are requested to contact        

For more information on the draft call topics please contact

 

 
 
Representatives of the NSF-BSF will be at Ben-Gurion University to introduce programs to researchers in the field of Biology.

Dr. Theresa Good, Division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience (MCB) and Dr. Matthew D. Kane, Division of Environmental Biology (BIO/DEB) will present information to interested researchers.
Dr. Yair Rotstein, Executive Director of the BSF, will also present information on the BSF regular programs for 2017.

Date: September 5, 2017 from 10:00-12:30
Location: Rotem Hall, Student Building, 2nd floor
 
Please see attached letter for more information on the topics and additional meetings.
RDA Contact: Galia Chelets, Tel: 64 72436

 

SciPub Seminar -   Writing a Successful Research Grant Proposal

The editors of the Scientific Publications team are pleased to present a seminar on grant writing.
The seminar will focus on writing proposals – mainly for ISF, and, in brief, for BSF and GIF – and will be held on the following dates (Please check the RDA’s Weekly for updates):

Thursday, August 10, 2017 (In Hebrew) 
Thursday, September 7, 2017 (In English)

All seminars will be held from 10:00–13:00 in the Dekel Room, 2nd floor of the Zlotowski Student Center building (near the RDA offices).
Participation is open to BGU faculty members only and requires advance registration with Reesa Stone.

For further information contact [email protected]

 

Ministry of Science, Technology and Space: Israel - Italy
  • Dr. Anat Ben-Zvi - Department of Life Sciences
  • Dr. Gabriel Abraham Frank – Department of Life Sciences
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space: Dealing with resistant pathogens
  • Prof. Hanna Rapaport – Department of Biotechnology Engineering
  • Dr. Eyal Gur – Department of Life Sciences and Prof. Michael Meijler – Department of Chemistry
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space: Applied Engineering
  • Prof. Guy Makov – Department of Materials Engineering and Dr. Iris Visoly-Fisher – The Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
  • Dr. Tamar Riklin Raviv - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Prof. Zeev Wiesman – Department of Biotechnology Engineering
  • Prof. Joe Rosen - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space: Israel - Germany, Cancer Research
  • Dr. Roi Gazit – The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics
NATO: Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Program 
  • Prof. Amiel Ishaaya - Department of Electrical an d Computer Engineering
ICRF – Israel Cancer Research Fund: Career Development Award
  • Dr. Moshe Elkabets - The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics
ICRF – Israel Cancer Research Fund: Project Grant 
  • Prof. Ron Apte - The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics

 

Departmental email & Feedback: [email protected]
 
RDA website: www.bgu.ac.il/research

 

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