Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) (nsf23614) | NSF

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Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering
     Division of Info and Clever Techniques
     Division of Laptop and Community Techniques
     Division of Computing and Communication Foundations

Directorate for Engineering
     Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation

Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences
     Division of Mathematical Sciences

Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences
     Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

Nationwide Institutes of Well being

    Workplace of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Analysis

    Nationwide Middle for Complementary and Integrative Well being

    Nationwide Most cancers Institute

    Nationwide Eye Institute

    Nationwide Human Genome Analysis Institute

    Nationwide Institute on Getting old

    Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments

    Nationwide Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Pores and skin Illness

    Nationwide Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nationwide Institute of Baby Well being and Human Improvement

    Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse

    Nationwide Institute on Deafness and Different Communication Problems

    Nationwide Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Analysis

    Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Ailments

    Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences

    Nationwide Institute of Basic Medical Sciences

    Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being

    Nationwide Institute of Neurological Problems and Stroke

    Nationwide Institute of Nursing Analysis

    Nationwide Library of Drugs

    Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

    Nationwide Institute on Minority Well being and Well being Disparities

    Workplace of Knowledge Science Technique

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

     November 09, 2023

     October 03, 2024

     October 3, 2025

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES

The Sensible Well being program solicitation has been revised and potential Principal Investigators (PIs) are inspired to learn the solicitation fastidiously. Among the many modifications are the next:

Themes areas have been revised;
Modifications have been made in collaborating Nationwide Institutes of Well being’s Institutes and Facilities; and,
Proposal deadlines have been revised.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation ought to be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) that’s in impact for the related due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is recurrently revised and it’s the accountability of the proposer to make sure that the proposal meets the necessities specified on this solicitation and the relevant model of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal previous to a specified deadline doesn’t negate this requirement.

SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Basic Info

Program Title:

Sensible Well being and Biomedical Analysis within the Period of Synthetic Intelligence and Superior Knowledge Science (SCH)

Synopsis of Program:

The aim of this interagency program solicitation is to help the event of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in pc and data science, engineering, arithmetic, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive analysis to deal with urgent questions within the biomedical and public well being communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering improvements by interdisciplinary groups that develop novel strategies to intuitively and intelligently gather, sense, join, analyze and interpret information from people, gadgets and techniques to allow discovery and optimize well being. Options to those advanced biomedical or public well being issues demand the formation of interdisciplinary groups which can be prepared to deal with these points, whereas advancing basic science and engineering.

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

Please notice that the next data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Goli Yamini, Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-5367,

e mail: [email protected]

Thomas Martin, Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-2170,

e mail: [email protected]

Steven J. Breckler, Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences Directorate, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences,

phone:
703-292-7369,

e mail: [email protected]

Yulia Gel, Arithmetic and Bodily Sciences Directorate, Division of Mathematical Sciences,

phone:
703-292-7888,

e mail: [email protected]

Georgia-Ann Klutke, Directorate for Engineering, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation,

phone:
703-292-2443,

e mail: [email protected]

Tatiana Korelsky, Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8930,

e mail: [email protected]

Laurel C. Kuxhaus, Directorate for Engineering, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation,

phone:
703-292-4465,

e mail: [email protected]

Vishal Sharma, Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Laptop and Community Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8950,

e mail: [email protected]

Sylvia Spengler, Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8930,

e mail: [email protected]

Betty Okay. Tuller, Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences Directorate, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences,

phone:
703-292-7238,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher C. Yang, Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8111,

e mail: [email protected]

James E. Fowler, Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Computing and Communication Foundations,

phone:
703-292-8910,

e mail: [email protected]

Dana Wolff-Hughes, Nationwide Most cancers Institute (NCI),

phone:
240-620-0673,

e mail: [email protected]

James Gao, Nationwide Eye Institute (NEI), NIH,

phone:
301-594-6074,

e mail: [email protected]

Erin Iturriaga, Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH,

phone:
301-435-0403,

e mail: [email protected]

Lyndon Joseph, Nationwide Institute on Getting old (NIA),

phone:
301-496-6761,

e mail: [email protected]

Aron Marquitz, Nationwide Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Pores and skin Ailments (NIAMS),

phone:
301-435-1240,

e mail: [email protected]

Qi Duan, Nationwide Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH,

phone:
301-827-4674,

e mail: [email protected]

Samantha Calabrese, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nationwide Institute of Baby Well being and Human Improvement (NICHD), NIH,

phone:
301-827-7568,

e mail: [email protected]

Susan Wright, Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH,

phone:
301-402-6683,

e mail: [email protected]

Roger Miller, Nationwide Institute on Deafness and Different Communication Problems (NIDCD), NIH,

phone:
301-402-3458,

e mail: [email protected]

Noffisat Oki, Nationwide Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Analysis (NIDCR),

phone:
301-402-6778,

e mail: [email protected]

Xujing Wang, Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Ailments (NIDDK), NIH,

phone:
301-451-2682,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher Duncan, Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences (NIEHS), NIH,

phone:
984-287-3256,

e mail: [email protected]

David Leitman, Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being (NIMH),

phone:
301-827-6131,

e mail: [email protected]

Deborah Duran, Nationwide Institute on Minority Well being and Well being Disparities (NIMHD), NIH,

phone:
301-594-9809,

e mail: [email protected]

Leslie C. Osborne, Nationwide Institute of Neurological Problems and Stroke (NINDS),

phone:
240-921-135,

e mail: [email protected]

Kristopher Bough, Nationwide Institute of Nursing Analysis (NINR), NIH,

phone:
301-496-2604,

e mail: [email protected]

Yanli Wang, Nationwide Library of Drugs (NLM),

phone:
301-594-4882,

e mail: [email protected]

Emrin Horguslouglu, Nationwide Middle for Complementary and Integrative Well being (NCCIH),

phone:
240-383-5302,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher Hartshorn, Nationwide Middle for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS),

phone:
301-402-0264,

e mail: [email protected]

Joseph Monaco, Mind Analysis By Advancing Modern Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,

phone:
301-402-3823,

e mail: [email protected]

Robert Cregg, Workplace of AIDS Analysis (OAR),

phone:
301-761-7557,

e mail: [email protected]

Jacqueline Lloyd, Workplace of Illness Prevention (ODP),

phone:
301-827-5559,

e mail: [email protected]

Fenglou Mao, Workplace of Knowledge Science Technique (ODSS), Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI),

phone:
301-451-9389,

e mail: [email protected]

Nicholas Jury, Workplace of Vitamin Analysis (ONR),

phone:
301-827-1234,

e mail: [email protected]

Jamie White, Workplace of Analysis on Girls’s Well being (ORWH),

phone:
301-496-9200,

e mail: [email protected]

Adam Berger, Workplace of Science Coverage (OSP),

phone:
301-827-9676,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher Barnhart, Sexual and Gender Minority Analysis Workplace (SGMRO),

phone:
301-594-8983,

e mail: [email protected]

Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):

47.041
— Engineering
47.049
— Mathematical and Bodily Sciences
47.070
— Laptop and Info Science and Engineering
47.075
— Social Behavioral and Financial Sciences
93.172
— Nationwide Human Genome Analysis Institute
93.173
— Nationwide Institute on Deafness and Different Communication Problems
93.213
— Nationwide Middle for Complementary and Integrative Well being
93.242
— Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being
93.279
— Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse
93.286
— Nationwide Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
93.361
— Nationwide Institute of Nursing Analysis
93.396
— Nationwide Most cancers Institute
93.846
— Nationwide Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Pores and skin Illness
93.847
— Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Ailments
93.853
— Nationwide Institute of Neurological Problems and Stroke
93.859
— Nationwide Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
93.865
— Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nationwide Institute of Baby Well being and Human Improvement
93.866
— Nationwide Institute on Getting old
93.867
— Nationwide Eye Institute
93.879
— Nationwide Library of Drugs

Award Info

Anticipated Sort of Award: Customary Grant or Persevering with Grant or Cooperative Settlement

Estimated Variety of Awards: 10 to 16

per yr, topic to the supply of funds.

Initiatives might be funded for as much as 4 years for a complete of $1,200,000 ($300,000 per yr).

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $15,000,000 to $20,000,000

might be invested in proposals submitted to this solicitation in every year of the solicitation, topic to the supply of funds and the standard of the proposals acquired.

Eligibility Info

Who Could Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Greater Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group schools) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, performing
on behalf of their school members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be supplied to an
worldwide department campus of a US establishment of upper training (together with via use of subawards and marketing consultant preparations), the proposer should clarify
the profit(s) to the venture of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the venture actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and related organizations situated within the U.S. which can be immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.

Who Could Function PI:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

In every annual competitors, an investigator might take part as Principal Investigator (PI), co-Principal Investigator (co-PI), Venture Director (PD), Senior Personnel or Marketing consultant in not more than two proposals submitted in response to every annual deadline on this solicitation. These eligibility constraints might be strictly enforced to be able to deal with everybody pretty and persistently. Within the occasion that a person exceeds this restrict, proposals acquired throughout the restrict might be accepted based mostly on earliest date and time of proposal submission (i.e., the primary two proposals acquired might be accepted, and the rest might be returned with out overview). No exceptions might be made.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation might not duplicate or be considerably much like different proposals concurrently into account by NSF or NIH applications or examine sections. Duplicate or considerably related proposals might be returned with out overview. NIH won’t settle for any utility that’s primarily the identical as one already reviewed throughout the previous 37 months (as described within the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion), aside from submission:

To an NIH Requests for Functions (RFA) of an utility that was submitted beforehand as an investigator-initiated utility however not paid;
Of an NIH investigator-initiated utility that was initially submitted to an RFA however not paid; or
Of an NIH utility with a modified grant exercise code.

Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Letters of Intent: Not required


Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required

B. Budgetary Info

Oblique Price (F&A) Limitations:

For NSF, Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Pointers apply.

For NIH, oblique prices on international subawards/subcontracts might be restricted to eight (8) p.c.

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Different budgetary limitations apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

C. Due Dates

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

     November 09, 2023

     October 03, 2024

     October 3, 2025

Proposal Overview Info Standards

Advantage Overview Standards:

Nationwide Science Board permitted standards. Extra advantage overview standards apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

Award Administration Info

Award Situations:

Extra award situations apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

Reporting Necessities:

Extra reporting necessities apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract of Program Necessities

Introduction
Program Description
Award Info
Eligibility Info
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

Proposal Preparation Directions
Budgetary Info
Due Dates
Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities


NSF Proposal Processing and Overview Procedures

Advantage Overview Rules and Standards
Overview and Choice Course of


Award Administration Info

Notification of the Award
Award Situations
Reporting Necessities


Company Contacts
Different Info

I. INTRODUCTION

The necessity for a major transformation in medical, public well being and healthcare supply approaches has been acknowledged by quite a few organizations and captured in numerous reviews. For instance, the Networking and Info Expertise Analysis and Improvement (NITRD) program launched the Federal Well being Info Expertise Analysis and Improvement Strategic Framework in 2020 that pointed to an amazing want for the mixing between the computing, informatics, engineering, arithmetic and statistics, behavioral and social science disciplines, and the biomedical, and public well being analysis communities to supply the innovation mandatory to enhance the well being of the nation. Latest developments and important advances in machine studying (ML), synthetic intelligence (AI), deep studying, excessive efficiency and cloud computing, and availability of latest datasets make such integration achievable, as documented within the 2023 up to date Nationwide Synthetic Intelligence Analysis and Improvement Strategic Plan.

These anticipated transformations hinge on scientific and engineering improvements by interdisciplinary groups that intelligently gather, join, analyze and interpret information from people, gadgets, and techniques to allow discovery and optimize well being. Technical challenges embrace a spread of points, together with efficient information era, evaluation and automation for a spread of biomedical gadgets (from imaging via medical gadgets) and techniques (e.g., digital well being data) and client gadgets (together with the Web of Issues), in addition to new expertise to generate data. Underlying these challenges are many basic scientific and engineering points that require funding in interdisciplinary analysis to actualize the transformations, which is the purpose of this solicitation.

II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This interagency solicitation is a collaboration between NSF and the NIH. The Sensible Well being program helps modern, high-risk/high-reward analysis with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical and public well being analysis, which might solely be achieved by well-coordinated, convergent, and interdisciplinary approaches that draw from a number of domains of pc and data science, engineering, mathematical sciences and the biomedical, social, behavioral, and financial sciences. Due to this fact, the work to be funded by this solicitation should make basic scientific or engineering contributions to 2 or extra disciplines, akin to pc or data sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, statistics, social, behavioral, or cognitive sciences to enhance basic understanding of human organic, biomedical, public well being and/or health-related processes and tackle a key well being drawback. The analysis groups should embrace members with applicable and demonstrable experience within the main areas concerned within the work. Conventional disease-centric medical, scientific, pharmacological, organic or physiological research and evaluations are exterior the scope of this solicitation. As well as, basic organic analysis with people that additionally doesn’t advance different basic science or engineering areas is out of scope for this program. Lastly, proposals addressing well being not directly within the training or work surroundings are additionally out of scope.

Producing these transformations would require basic analysis and improvement of latest instruments, workflows and strategies throughout many dimensions; a number of the themes are highlighted beneath. These themes ought to be seen as examples and never exhaustive.

1. Equity and Trustworthiness: Advancing equity and trustworthiness[1] in modeling in AI/ML is a extremely interdisciplinary endeavor. Actual world issues transcend the analytics and might inform new instructions for computational science to higher understand the advantages of algorithmic and information equity and trustworthiness. The complexity of biomedical and well being techniques requires deeper understanding of causality in AI/ML fashions; new methods of integrating social and financial information to deal with disparities and enhance fairness, akin to illness heterogeneity, illness prevention, resilience, and remedy response, whereas systematically accounting for a broad vary of uncertainties; and new insights into human-AI techniques for scientific determination help. Typically, this thrust helps the conduct of basic computational analysis into theories, strategies, and methodologies that go effectively past at the moment’s capabilities and are motivated by challenges and necessities in biomedical purposes.

2. Transformative Analytics in Biomedical and Behavioral Analysis: As biomedical and behavioral analysis continues to generate great amount of multi-level and multi-scale information (e.g., scientific, imaging, private, social, contextual, environmental, and organizational information), challenges stay. New improvement in areas akin to synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI/ML), pure language applied sciences (NLT), arithmetic and statistics and/or quantum data science (QIS) additionally deliver alternatives to deal with necessary biomedical and behavioral issues. This theme will help efforts to push ahead the present frontline of AI/ML and superior analytics for biomedical and behavioral analysis together with:

novel information discount strategies;
new strong data representations, visualizations, reasoning algorithms, optimization, modeling and inference strategies to help improvement of modern fashions for the examine of well being and illness;
new computational approaches with provable mathematical ensures for fusion and evaluation of advanced behavioral, biomedical and picture information to enhance inference accuracy, particularly in situations of noisy and restricted information data;
novel explainable and interpretable AI/ML mannequin improvement;
superior information administration techniques with the potential to take care of safety, privateness and provenance points;
novel information techniques to construct a related and modernized biomedical information ecosystem;
improvement of novel applied sciences to extract data from unstructured textual content information akin to scientific notes, radiology and pathology reviews;
improvement of novel simulation and modeling strategies to assist within the design and analysis of latest assessments, therapies and medical gadgets; and
novel QIS approaches to distinctive challenges in biomedical and behavioral analysis.

3. Subsequent Era Multimodal and Reconfigurable Sensing Techniques: This theme addresses the necessity for brand new multimodal and reconfigurable sensing techniques/platforms and analytics to generate predictive and customized fashions of well being. The following era of sensor techniques for sensible well being will need to have just-in-time monitoring of biomarkers from a number of sensor modalities (e.g., electrochemical, electromagnetic, mechanical, optical, acoustic, and many others.) interfaced with totally different platforms (e.g., cell, wearable, and implantable). Current sensor techniques usually function both in discrete codecs or with restricted inter-connectivity, and are restricted in accuracy, selectivity, reliability and information throughput. These limitations might be overcome by integrating heterogeneous sensing modalities and by having field-adaptive reconfigurable sensor microsystems. This theme encourages the design and fabrication of multimodal and/or reconfigurable sensor techniques via modern analysis on novel purposeful supplies, gadgets and circuits for sensing or lively interrogation of system states, imaging, communications, and computing. Areas of curiosity embrace miniaturized sensor microsystems with built-in sign processing and communication functionalities. One other space of curiosity is multimodal or reconfigurable sensor techniques with dramatically decreased energy consumption to increase battery lifetime and allow self-powered operation, making the sensor techniques appropriate for wearable and implantable purposes. Different areas of curiosity embrace real-time monitoring of analytes and new biorecognition components that may be reconfigured to focus on totally different analytes on-demand. This thrust additionally requires researchers to combine information generated by the multimodal sensor techniques, in addition to information from different sources, akin to laboratory generated information (e.g., genomics, proteomics, and many others.), patient-reported outcomes, digital well being data, and current information sources.

4. Cyber-Bodily Techniques: Improvement and adoption of automation has lagged within the biomedical and public well being communities. Cyber-physical techniques (CPS) are managed techniques constructed from, and dependent upon, the seamless integration of computation and bodily parts. These data-rich techniques allow new and better levels of automation and autonomy. Thus, this theme helps work that permits the creation of closed-loop or human-in- the-loop CPS techniques to evaluate, deal with and cut back opposed well being occasions or behaviors, with core analysis areas together with management, information analytics, and machine studying together with real-time studying for management, autonomy, design, Web of Issues (IoT), networking, privateness, real-time techniques, security, safety, and verification. Lastly, improvement of automated expertise that may be utilized throughout a spread of settings (e.g., dwelling, major care, faculties, felony justice system, baby welfare companies, community-based organizations) to optimize the supply of efficient well being interventions can also be inside scope of the theme.

5. Robotics: This theme addresses the necessity for novel robotics to offer help and/or automation to boost well being, lengthen lifespan and cut back sickness, improve social connectedness and cut back disabilities. The theme encourages analysis on robotic techniques that exhibit important ranges of each computational functionality and bodily complexity. Robots are outlined as intelligence embodied in an engineered assemble, with the power to course of data, sense, plan, and transfer inside or considerably alter its working surroundings. Right here intelligence features a broad class of strategies that allow a robotic to resolve issues or to make contextually applicable selections and act upon them. At the moment, robotic gadgets in well being have targeted on restricted areas (e.g., surgical robotics and exoskeletons). This theme welcomes a variety of robotic areas, in addition to analysis that considers inextricably interwoven questions of intelligence, computation, and embodiment. The following era of robotic techniques for sensible well being might want to even have to contemplate human-robot interplay to boost usability and effectiveness.

6. Biomedical Picture interpretation. This theme’s purpose is to find out how traits of human sample recognition, visible search, perceptual studying, attentional biases, and many others. can inform and enhance picture interpretation. This theme would come with utilizing and creating presentation modalities (e.g., pathologists studying optical slides via a microscope vs. digital whole-slide imagery) and figuring out the sources of inter- and intra-observer variability. The theme encourages improvement of fashions of how multi-modal contextual data (e.g., integrating affected person historical past, omics, and many others. with imaging information) modifications the notion of advanced photographs. It additionally helps new strategies to use consultants’ implicit data to enhance perceptual determination making (e.g., through speedy gist extraction, context-guided search, and many others.). Analysis on optimum strategies for conveying 3D (and 4D) details about anatomy and physiology to human observers can also be welcome. This theme additionally helps advances in picture information compression algorithm improvement to allow extra environment friendly information storage.

7. Unpacking Well being Disparities and Well being Fairness. The Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Drugs report, Communities in Motion: Pathways to Well being Fairness (2017), presents a broader context to know well being disparities. On this theme, proposals ought to search to develop holistic, data-driven AI/ML or mathematical fashions to deal with the structural and/or social determinants of well being. Proposers may also develop novel and efficient methods to measure, cut back, and mitigate the results and impacts of discrimination on well being outcomes. The theme additionally helps new interdisciplinary computational and engineering approaches and fashions to higher perceive tradition, context and person-centered options with various communities. To generate expertise that’s usable and efficient would require improvement of latest approaches that help customers throughout socio-economic standing, digital and well being literacy, expertise and broadband entry, geography, gender, and ethnicity. Lastly, the theme helps improvement of novel strategies of distinguishing the advanced pathways between and/or amongst ranges of affect and domains as outlined by the Nationwide Institute of Minority Well being and Well being Disparities Analysis Framework.

The above listed themes are to offer examples for attainable analysis actions which may be supported by this solicitation, however certainly not ought to the proposed analysis actions be restricted to those themes. These analysis themes are clearly not mutually unique, and a given venture might tackle a number of themes. This solicitation goals to help analysis actions that complement quite than duplicate the core applications of the NSF Directorates and the NIH Institutes and Facilities and the analysis efforts supported by different companies such because the Company for Healthcare Analysis and High quality.

NSF helps investigation of basic analysis questions with broadly relevant outcomes. The Sensible Well being program helps analysis analysis with people. As a result of advancing basic science is early-stage analysis, randomized management trials should not applicable for this solicitation and won’t be funded. Analysis that has superior to a stage that requires randomized management trials ought to be submitted to an company whose mission is to enhance well being.

NIH helps analysis and discovery that enhance human well being and save lives. This joint program focuses on basic analysis of generalizable, disease-agnostic approaches with broadly relevant outcomes that align with NIH’s Strategic Plan for Knowledge Science and Nationwide Institute of Minority Well being and Well being Disparities Analysis Framework.

Integrative Innovation:

Proposals submitted to this solicitation should be integrative and undertake analysis addressing key utility areas by fixing issues in a number of scientific domains. The work should make basic scientific or engineering contributions to 2 or extra disciplines, akin to pc or data sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, social, behavioral, cognitive and/or financial sciences and tackle a key well being drawback. For instance, these initiatives are anticipated to advance understanding of how computing, engineering and arithmetic, mixed with advances in behavioral and social science analysis, would help transformations in well being, medication and/or healthcare and enhance the standard of life. Initiatives are anticipated to incorporate college students and postdocs. Venture descriptions should be complete and well-integrated, and may make a convincing case that the collaborative contributions of the venture staff might be better than the sum of every of their particular person contributions. Collaborations with researchers within the well being utility domains are required. Such collaborations sometimes contain a number of establishments, however this isn’t required. As a result of the successes of collaborative analysis efforts are identified to rely on considerate collaboration mechanisms that recurrently deliver collectively the assorted members of the venture, a Collaboration Plan is required for ALL proposals. Initiatives might be funded for as much as a four-year interval and for as much as a complete of $300,000 per yr. The proposed price range ought to be commensurate with the corresponding scope of labor. Rationale should be supplied to elucidate why a price range of the requested measurement is required to hold out the proposed work.

III. AWARD INFORMATION

Estimated program price range, variety of awards and common award measurement/length are topic to the supply of funds. An estimated 10 to 16 initiatives might be funded, topic to availability of funds. As much as $15,000,000-20,000,000 of NSF funds might be invested in proposals submitted to this solicitation. The variety of awards and program budgets are topic to the supply of funds.

All awards underneath this solicitation made by NSF might be as grants or cooperative agreements as decided by the supporting company. All awards underneath this solicitation made by NIH might be as grants or cooperative agreements.

Scientists from all disciplines are inspired to take part. Initiatives might be awarded relying on the supply of funds and with consideration for making a balanced total portfolio.

IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

Who Could Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Greater Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group schools) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, performing
on behalf of their school members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be supplied to an
worldwide department campus of a US establishment of upper training (together with via use of subawards and marketing consultant preparations), the proposer should clarify
the profit(s) to the venture of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the venture actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and related organizations situated within the U.S. which can be immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.

Who Could Function PI:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

In every annual competitors, an investigator might take part as Principal Investigator (PI), co-Principal Investigator (co-PI), Venture Director (PD), Senior Personnel or Marketing consultant in not more than two proposals submitted in response to every annual deadline on this solicitation. These eligibility constraints might be strictly enforced to be able to deal with everybody pretty and persistently. Within the occasion that a person exceeds this restrict, proposals acquired throughout the restrict might be accepted based mostly on earliest date and time of proposal submission (i.e., the primary two proposals acquired might be accepted, and the rest might be returned with out overview). No exceptions might be made.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation might not duplicate or be considerably much like different proposals concurrently into account by NSF or NIH applications or examine sections. Duplicate or considerably related proposals might be returned with out overview. NIH won’t settle for any utility that’s primarily the identical as one already reviewed throughout the previous 37 months (as described within the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion), aside from submission:

To an NIH Requests for Functions (RFA) of an utility that was submitted beforehand as an investigator-initiated utility however not paid;
Of an NIH investigator-initiated utility that was initially submitted to an RFA however not paid; or
Of an NIH utility with a modified grant exercise code.

V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers might choose to submit proposals in response to this Program Solicitation through Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.

Full Proposals submitted through Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation ought to be ready and submitted in accordance with the final tips contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The whole textual content of the PAPPG is out there electronically on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Paper copies of the PAPPG could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected]. The Put together New Proposal setup will immediate you for this system solicitation quantity.
Full proposals submitted through Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation through Grants.gov ought to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Functions through Grants.gov. The whole textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information is out there on the Grants.gov web site and on the NSF web site at: (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide). To acquire copies of the Utility Information and Utility Types Bundle, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov website, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Utility Bundle and Utility Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Bundle button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Utility Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

In figuring out which technique to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please notice the next:

Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations should be submitted through Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 gives extra data on collaborative proposals.

See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steering on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please notice that the proposal preparation directions supplied on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.

The next data SUPPLEMENTS (notice that it does NOT substitute) the rules supplied within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG).

Proposal Titles: Proposal titles should start with SCH, adopted by a colon and the title of the venture (i.e., SCH: Title). In case you submit a proposal as a part of a set of collaborative proposals, the title of the proposal ought to start with Collaborative Analysis adopted by a colon, then SCH adopted by a colon, and the title. For instance, if you’re submitting a collaborative set of proposals, then the title of every can be Collaborative Analysis: SCH: Title.

Proposals from PIs in establishments which have Analysis in Undergraduate Establishments (RUI) eligibility ought to have a proposal title that begins with Collaborative Analysis (if relevant), adopted by a colon, then SCH adopted by a colon, then RUI adopted by a colon, after which the title, for instance, Collaborative Analysis: SCH: RUI: Title.

Venture Abstract (1 web page restrict): Originally of the Overview part of the Venture Abstract enter the title of the Sensible Well being venture, the title of the PI and the lead establishment. The Venture Abstract should embrace three labeled sections: Overview, Mental Advantage and Broader Impacts. The overview features a description of the venture. Mental Advantage ought to describe the transformative analysis and the potential of the proposed exercise to advance data. Broader Impacts ought to describe the potential of the proposed exercise to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes. The Broader Impacts can embrace training targets, and the group (communities) that might be impacted by its outcomes.

Venture Description: There’s a 15-page restrict for all proposals. Throughout the venture description, embrace a bit labeled ‘Analysis Plan’ that features a description of how the staff will consider the proposed science/engineering. This plan may embrace outcomes from purposes of the analysis to particular outcomes in well being area, efficacy research, assessments of studying and engagement, and different such analysis. The proposed Analysis Plan ought to be applicable for the scale and scope of the venture.

Please notice that the Collaboration Plan should be submitted as a Supplementary Doc for this solicitation; see steering beneath.

Proposal Finances: It’s anticipated that the PIs, co-PIs, and different staff members funded by the venture will attend an SCH PI assembly yearly to current venture analysis findings and capacity-building or group outreach actions. Requested budgets ought to embrace funds for journey to this annual occasion for a minimum of one venture PI.

Supplementary Paperwork: Within the Supplementary Paperwork Part, add the next:

Collaboration Plan. Proposals should embrace a Collaboration Plan. The Collaboration Plan should be submitted as a supplementary doc and can’t exceed two pages. Proposals that don’t embrace a Collaboration Plan might be returned with out overview. The Collaboration Plan should be labeled “Collaboration Plan” and should embrace: 1) the precise roles of the collaborating PIs, co-PIs, different Senior Personnel and paid consultants in any respect organizations concerned; 2) how the venture might be managed throughout establishments and disciplines; 3) identification of the precise collaboration mechanisms that can allow cross-institution and/or cross-discipline scientific integration (e.g., workshops, graduate pupil trade, venture conferences at conferences, use of videoconferencing and different communication instruments, software program repositories, and many others.); and 4) particular references to the price range line gadgets that help these collaboration mechanisms.
Human Topics Safety. Proposals involving human topics ought to embrace a supplementary doc of not more than two pages in size summarizing potential dangers to human topics; plans for recruitment and knowledgeable consent; inclusion of girls, minorities, and kids; and deliberate procedures to guard towards or decrease potential dangers. Human topics plans should embrace the NIH enrollment desk (https://period.nih.gov/erahelp/help/Content material/ASSIST_Help_Topics/3_Form_Screens/PHS_HS_CT/Incl_Enroll_Rprt.htm).
Vertebrate Animals. Proposals involving vertebrate animals ought to embrace a supplementary doc of not more than two pages in size that addresses the next factors:

Detailed description and justification of the proposed use of the animals, together with species, strains, ages, intercourse, and quantity for use;
Info on the veterinary care of the animals;
Description of procedures for minimizing discomfort, misery, ache, and harm; and
Technique of euthanasia and the explanations for its choice.


Knowledge Administration Plan (required). This supplementary doc ought to describe how the proposal will conform to NSF coverage on the dissemination and sharing of analysis outcomes.
See Chapter II.D.2 of the PAPPG for full coverage implementation and the part on Knowledge Administration Plans.
For added data on the Dissemination and Sharing of Analysis Outcomes, see: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/dmp.jsp.
For particular steering for Knowledge Administration Plans submitted to the Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering (CISE) see: https://www.nsf.gov/cise/cise_dmp.jsp.


Documentation of Collaborative Preparations of Significance to the Proposal via Letters of Collaboration.
There are two varieties of collaboration, one involving people/organizations which can be included within the price range, and the opposite involving people/organizations that aren’t included within the price range. Collaborations which can be included within the price range ought to be described within the Venture Description and the Collaboration Plan.

Any substantial collaboration with people/organizations not included within the price range ought to be described within the Services, Gear and Different Sources part of the proposal (see PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.g). In both case, whether or not or not the collaborator is included within the price range, a letter of collaboration from every named collaborating group apart from the submitting lead, non-lead, and/or subawardee establishments should be supplied on the time of submission of the proposal. Such letters describe the character of the collaboration and what the collaborator(s) brings to the venture. They have to explicitly state the character of the collaboration, seem on the group’s letterhead, and be signed by the suitable organizational consultant. These letters should not in any other case deviate from the restrictions and necessities set forth within the PAPPG, Chapter II.D.2.i.

Please notice that letters of help, that don’t doc collaborative preparations of significance to the venture, however primarily convey a way of enthusiasm for the venture and/or spotlight the {qualifications} of the PI or co-PI is probably not submitted, and reviewers might be instructed to not take into account these letters in reviewing the deserves of the proposal.

Checklist of Venture Personnel and Companion Establishments (Observe – In collaborative proposals, solely the lead establishment ought to present this data).
Present present, correct data for all personnel and establishments concerned within the venture. NSF employees will use this data within the advantage overview course of to handle reviewer choice. The checklist ought to embrace all PIs, co-PIs, Senior Personnel, paid/unpaid Consultants or Collaborators, Subawardees, Postdocs, and project-level advisory committee members. This checklist ought to be numbered and embrace (on this order) Full title, Group(s), and Position within the venture, with every merchandise separated by a semi-colon. Every particular person listed ought to begin a brand new numbered line. For instance:

1. Mei Lin; XYZ College; PI
2. Jak Jabes; College of PQR; Senior Personnel
3. Jane Brown; XYZ College; Postdoctoral Researcher
4. Rakel Ademas; ABC Inc.; Paid Marketing consultant
5. Maria Wan; Welldone Establishment; Unpaid Collaborator
6. Rimon Greene; ZZZ College; Subawardee

Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan (if relevant).
Every proposal that requests funding to help postdoctoral researchers should embrace, as a supplementary doc, an outline of the mentoring actions that might be supplied for such people. Please be suggested that if required, NSF techniques won’t allow submission of a proposal that’s lacking a Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan. See Chapter II.D.2.i of the PAPPG for additional details about the implementation of this requirement.


Different Specialised Info.
RUI Proposals: PIs from predominantly undergraduate establishments ought to comply with the directions https://new.nsf.gov/funding/alternatives/facilitating-research-primarily-undergraduate

Single Copy Paperwork:

(1) Collaborators and Different Affiliations Info.

Proposers ought to comply with the steering laid out in Chapter II.D.2.h of the NSF PAPPG. Grants.gov Customers: The COA data should be supplied via use of the COA template and uploaded as a PDF attachment.

Observe the excellence to the checklist of Venture Personnel and Companion Establishments specified above underneath Supplementary Paperwork: the itemizing of all venture members is collected by the venture lead and entered as a Supplementary Doc, which is then mechanically included with all proposals in a venture. The Collaborators and Different Affiliations are entered for every participant inside every proposal and, as Single Copy Paperwork, can be found solely to NSF employees.

SCH Proposal Preparation Guidelines:

The next guidelines is supplied as a reminder of the gadgets that ought to be verified earlier than submitting a proposal to this solicitation. This guidelines is a abstract of the necessities described above and within the PAPPG and doesn’t substitute the entire set of necessities within the PAPPG. For the gadgets marked with (RWR), the proposal might be returned with out overview if the required merchandise is noncompliant on the submission deadline.

(RWR) A two-page Collaboration Plan should be included as a Supplementary Doc.
Letters of Collaboration are permitted as Supplementary Paperwork.
(RWR) Venture Abstract to not exceed one web page that features three labeled sections: Overview, Mental Advantage and Broader Impacts.
(RWR) Throughout the Venture Description, a bit labeled “Broader Impacts” that describes the potential to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.
Throughout the Venture Description, a bit labeled Analysis Plan that particulars how the venture might be evaluated.
(RWR) Throughout the Venture Description, an outline of “Outcomes from Prior NSF Assist”.
(RWR) If the price range contains postdoctoral researchers, a one-page Postdoctoral Researcher Plan should be included as a Supplementary Doc.
A listing of Venture Personnel and Companion Establishments is required as a Supplementary Doc.
(RWR) A Knowledge Administration Plan, to not exceed two pages, should be included as a Supplementary Doc.
Proposals involving human topics or animals, ought to embrace a Human Topics Plan with an NIH Enrollment Desk or Vertebrate Animals Plan as a Supplementary Doc.
Collaborators & Different Affiliations (COA) for every PI, co-PI, and Senior Personnel ought to be submitted utilizing the spreadsheet template uploaded as Single Copy Paperwork.

B. Budgetary Info

Price Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.

Oblique Price (F&A) Limitations:

For NSF, Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Pointers apply.

For NIH, oblique prices on international subawards/subcontracts might be restricted to eight (8) p.c.

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Budgets ought to embrace journey funds to attend one SCH PI assembly yearly for the venture PIs, co-PIs and different staff members as applicable from all collaborating establishments.

C. Due Dates

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

     November 09, 2023

     October 03, 2024

     October 3, 2025

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted By way of Analysis.gov:

To organize and submit a proposal through Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions obtainable at: https://www.analysis.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Service/Desktop/ProposalPreparationandSubmission.html. For Analysis.gov consumer help, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions normal technical questions associated to the usage of the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation ought to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.

For Proposals Submitted By way of Grants.gov:

Earlier than utilizing Grants.gov for the primary time, every group should register to create an institutional profile. As soon as registered, the applicant’s group can then apply for any federal grant on the Grants.gov web site. Complete details about utilizing Grants.gov is out there on the Grants.gov Applicant Sources webpage: https://www.grants.gov/internet/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) gives directions relating to the technical preparation of proposals through Grants.gov. For Grants.gov consumer help, contact the Grants.gov Contact Middle at 1-800-518-4726 or by e mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Middle solutions normal technical questions associated to the usage of Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation ought to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.

Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Licensed Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the applying to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the applying is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the applying to Grants.gov. The finished utility might be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.

Proposers that submitted through Analysis.gov might use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted through Grants.gov, till an utility has been acquired and validated by NSF, the Licensed Organizational Consultant might verify the standing of an utility on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov ought to be used to verify the standing of an utility.

VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW PROCEDURES

Proposals acquired by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for overview. All proposals are fastidiously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and often by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re consultants within the specific fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the overview course of. Proposers are invited to counsel names of individuals they imagine are particularly effectively certified to overview the proposal and/or individuals they would favor not overview the proposal. These ideas might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nevertheless, is optionally available. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers haven’t any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might get hold of feedback from website visits earlier than recommending last motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional overview suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts all the NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.

A complete description of the Basis’s advantage overview course of is out there on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.

Proposers must also pay attention to core methods which can be important to the achievement of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Improvement and the Supply of Advantages from Analysis – NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 – 2026 . These methods are built-in in this system planning and implementation course of, of which proposal overview is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented via the mixing of analysis and training and broadening participation in NSF applications, initiatives, and actions.

One of many strategic aims in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and training via the applications, initiatives, and actions it helps at educational and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, prepare, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based economic system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis underneath the steering of the Nation’s most artistic scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps improvement of a powerful science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM educating and studying.

NSF’s mission requires the broadening of alternatives and increasing participation of teams, establishments, and geographic areas which can be underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is important to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of range and deems it central to the applications, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Advantage Overview Rules and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to spend money on a sturdy and various portfolio of initiatives that creates new data and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and training. To determine which initiatives to help, NSF depends on a advantage overview course of that includes consideration of each the technical features of a proposed venture and its potential to contribute extra broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to advertise the progress of science; to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare; to safe the nationwide protection; and for different functions.” NSF makes each effort to conduct a good, aggressive, clear advantage overview course of for the collection of initiatives.

1. Advantage Overview Rules

These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when getting ready proposals and managing initiatives, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program employees when figuring out whether or not or to not advocate proposals for funding and whereas overseeing awards. On condition that NSF is the first federal company charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in primary analysis and training, the next three ideas apply:

All NSF initiatives ought to be of the best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not rework, the frontiers of data.
NSF initiatives, within the mixture, ought to contribute extra broadly to attaining societal targets. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved via the analysis itself, via actions which can be immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or via actions which can be supported by, however are complementary to, the venture. The venture actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or modern strategies and approaches, however in both case should be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives ought to be based mostly on applicable metrics, holding in thoughts the doubtless correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources supplied to implement initiatives. If the scale of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation just isn’t more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might finest be completed at the next, extra aggregated, stage than the person venture.

With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific initiatives is completed at an aggregated stage, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded venture. Thus, particular person initiatives ought to embrace clearly said targets, particular descriptions of the actions that the PI intends to do, and a plan in place to doc the outputs of these actions.

These three advantage overview ideas present the idea for the advantage overview standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the factors can higher perceive their intent.

2. Advantage Overview Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated via use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board permitted advantage overview standards. In some situations, nevertheless, NSF will make use of extra standards as required to focus on the precise aims of sure applications and actions.

The 2 advantage overview standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration through the overview and decision-making processes; every criterion is critical however neither, by itself, is enough. Due to this fact, proposers should absolutely tackle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). incorporates extra data to be used by proposers in improvement of the Venture Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to overview the factors, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the overview of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers might be requested to contemplate what the proposers need to do, why they need to do it, how they plan to do it, how they may know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages may accrue if the venture is profitable. These points apply each to the technical features of the proposal and the best way by which the venture might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers might be requested to judge all proposals towards two standards:

Mental Advantage: The Mental Advantage criterion encompasses the potential to advance data; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.

The next components ought to be thought of within the overview for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to

Advance data and understanding inside its personal subject or throughout totally different fields (Mental Advantage); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?


To what extent do the proposed actions counsel and discover artistic, authentic, or doubtlessly transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and based mostly on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How effectively certified is the person, staff, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there ample sources obtainable to the PI (both on the dwelling group or via collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be achieved via the analysis itself, via the actions which can be immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or via actions which can be supported by, however are complementary to, the venture. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embrace, however should not restricted to: full participation of girls, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM training and educator improvement at any stage; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and expertise; improved well-being of people in society; improvement of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, business, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of america; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and training.

Proposers are reminded that reviewers may even be requested to overview the Knowledge Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as applicable.

Extra Solicitation Particular Overview Standards

The proposals may even be evaluated based mostly on:

Collaboration and Administration: The work to be funded by this solicitation should make basic contributions to 2 or extra disciplines and tackle a key well being drawback. The collaboration plan ought to reveal lively participation of this multidisciplinary group, which incorporates, however just isn’t restricted to: basic science and engineering researchers; biomedical, well being and/or scientific researchers; different mandatory analysis experience; shopper teams; and, expertise distributors/industrial enterprises. The collaboration plan ought to embrace the roles and reveal the extent to which the group is built-in, has a typical focus and the standard of the collaboration plan.

Extra NIH Overview Standards:

The mission of the NIH is to help science in pursuit of data concerning the biology and conduct of residing techniques and to use that data to increase wholesome life and cut back the burdens of sickness and incapacity. Of their evaluations of scientific advantage, reviewers might be requested to contemplate the next standards which can be utilized by NIH:

General Affect. Reviewers will present an total influence/precedence rating and criterion scores to mirror their evaluation of the probability for the venture to exert a sustained, highly effective affect on the analysis subject(s) concerned, in consideration of the next 5 core overview standards, and extra overview standards (as relevant for the venture proposed).

Significance. Does the venture tackle an necessary drawback or a important barrier to progress within the subject? If the goals of the venture are achieved, how will scientific data, technical functionality, and/or scientific follow be improved? How will profitable completion of the goals change the ideas, strategies, applied sciences, therapies, providers, or preventative interventions that drive this subject?

Investigator(s). Are the PD/PIs, collaborators, and different researchers effectively suited to the venture? If Early Stage Investigators or New Investigators, have they got applicable expertise and coaching? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing document of accomplishments which have superior their subject(s)? If the venture is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and built-in experience; are their management method, governance and organizational construction applicable for the venture?

Innovation. Does the applying problem and search to shift present analysis or scientific follow paradigms by using novel theoretical ideas, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the ideas, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to 1 subject of analysis or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, enchancment, or new utility of theoretical ideas, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed?

Method. Are the general technique, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and applicable to perform the precise goals of the venture? Are potential issues, various methods, and benchmarks for achievement offered? If the venture is within the early phases of improvement, will the technique set up feasibility and can significantly dangerous features be managed? If the venture includes scientific analysis, are the plans for 1) safety of human topics from analysis dangers, and a pair of) inclusion of girls, minorities, and people throughout the lifespan justified by way of the scientific targets and analysis technique proposed?

Atmosphere. Will the scientific surroundings by which the work might be completed contribute to the chance of success? Are the institutional help, gear and different bodily sources obtainable to the investigators ample for the venture proposed? Will the venture profit from distinctive options of the scientific surroundings, topic populations, or collaborative preparations? The place relevant, the next gadgets may even be thought of:

Protections for Human Topics. For analysis that includes human topics however doesn’t contain one of many six classes of analysis which can be exempt underneath 45 CFR Half 46, the committee will consider the justification for involvement of human topics and the proposed protections from analysis danger referring to their participation in response to the next 5 overview standards: 1) danger to topics, 2) adequacy of safety towards dangers, 3) potential advantages to the themes and others, 4) significance of the data to be gained, and 5) information and security monitoring. For analysis that includes human topics and meets the factors for a number of of the six classes of analysis which can be exempt underneath 45 CFR Half 46, the committee will consider: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human topics involvement and traits, and three) sources of supplies. For added data on overview of the Human Topics part, please discuss with the Human Topics Safety and Inclusion Pointers.

Inclusion of Girls, Minorities, and People Throughout the Lifespan. When the proposed venture includes human topics and/or NIH-defined scientific analysis, the committee will consider the proposed plans for the inclusion (or exclusion) of people on the idea of intercourse/gender, race, and ethnicity, in addition to the inclusion (or exclusion) of people of all ages (together with kids and older adults) to find out whether it is justified by way of the scientific targets and analysis technique proposed. For added data on overview of the Inclusion part, please discuss with the Pointers for the Overview of Inclusion in Medical Analysis.

Vertebrate Animals. The committee will consider the involvement of dwell vertebrate animals as a part of the scientific evaluation in response to the next 5 factors: 1) proposed use of the animals, and species, strains, ages, intercourse, and numbers for use; 2) justifications for the usage of animals and for the appropriateness of the species and numbers proposed; 3) adequacy of veterinary care; 4) procedures for limiting discomfort, misery, ache and harm to that which is unavoidable within the conduct of scientifically sound analysis together with the usage of analgesic, anesthetic, and tranquilizing medicine and/or snug restraining gadgets; and 5) strategies of euthanasia and motive for choice if not according to the AVMA Pointers on Euthanasia. For added data, see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/VASchecklist.pdf.

Biohazards. Reviewers will assess whether or not supplies or procedures proposed are doubtlessly hazardous to analysis personnel and/or the surroundings, and if wanted, decide whether or not ample safety is proposed.

Finances and Interval of Assist (non-score-driving). Reviewers will take into account whether or not the price range and the requested interval of help are absolutely justified and affordable in relation to the proposed analysis.

B. Overview and Choice Course of

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation might be reviewed by Advert hoc Overview and/or Panel Overview, or Joint company overview.

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation might be reviewed by Advert hoc Overview and/or Panel Overview, or joint company overview.

Reviewers might be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board permitted advantage overview standards and, if relevant, extra program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will usually be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s overview will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a advice.

NSF will handle and conduct the peer overview course of for this solicitation; the Nationwide Institutes of Well being will solely observe the overview course of and have entry to proposal and overview data, akin to unattributed evaluations and panel summaries. NIH and NSF will make impartial award selections.

After scientific, technical and programmatic overview and consideration of applicable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal ought to be declined or beneficial for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform candidates whether or not their proposals have been declined or beneficial for funding inside six months. Giant or significantly advanced proposals or proposals from new awardees might require extra overview and processing time. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer’s advice.

After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals beneficial for funding might be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Assist for overview of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative overview has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers carry out the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer might make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF ought to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own danger.

As soon as an award or declination determination has been made, Principal Investigators are supplied suggestions about their proposals. In all instances, evaluations are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of evaluations, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying data, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Venture Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain a proof of the choice to award or decline funding.

Overview Course of and Deviations from the NSF PAPPG

This part gives agency-specific steering for the SCH program.

NSF will take the lead in organizing and conducting the overview course of in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

Along with any battle kinds required by NSF, an NIH Submit-Overview Certification Kind might be circulated at or close to the tip of the second day of the overview assembly and picked up by the NIH Scientific Overview Officer (SRO). By signing the Submit-Overview Certification Kind, panelists will certify for NIH that confidentiality and conflict-of-interest procedures have been adopted. Conflicts of curiosity are dealt with in a way much like NSF procedures: these in battle might be requested to step out of the room, or as applicable, NSF’s Designated Ethics Official or designee might advocate cures to resolve particular conflicts on a case by case foundation. Co-investigators and investigators that may immediately profit ought to the grant be awarded are ineligible to function reviewers.

Roughly seven to 10 overview panels, equal to NIH examine sections, might be organized every year, with the precise quantity and topical clustering of panels decided in response to the quantity and topical areas of the proposals acquired. Panel administration might be performed by the 4 NSF directorates, with the bulk performed by CISE. Co-review throughout clusters, divisions and directorates might be carried out the place applicable. SROs from the CSR on the NIH might be assigned to work cooperatively with NSF employees on every proposal panel. Collectively, they may have the accountability to work out the small print of the overview course of such that each one companies’ wants are met. Earlier than the overview panel conferences, the representatives from the NIH SROs will work along with the NSF employees to organize written directions for the reviewers and to develop and implement an NIH-like scoring system (1-9) for NIH use on proposal panels. The representatives of all collaborating NIH Institutes and Facilities may even be invited to attend the overview conferences to make sure that this overview is performed in a way that’s according to the agreements between NSF and the NIH.

Reviewers might be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board permitted advantage overview standards and, if relevant, extra program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will usually be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s overview will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a advice.

NSF:

After scientific, technical and programmatic overview and consideration of applicable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal ought to be declined or beneficial for award. NSF is striving to have the ability to inform candidates whether or not their proposals have been declined or beneficial for funding inside six months. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director accepts the Program Officer’s advice.

A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative might be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer. In all instances, evaluations are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of evaluations, excluding the names of the reviewers, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Venture Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain a proof of the choice to award or decline funding.

In all instances, after programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals beneficial for funding might be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements for overview of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications and the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer might make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF ought to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own danger.

NIH:

For these proposals which can be chosen for potential funding by collaborating NIH Institutes, the PI might be required to resubmit the proposal in an NIH-approved format on to the Middle for Scientific Overview (http://www.csr.nih.gov/) of the NIH. PIs invited to resubmit to NIH will obtain additional data on resubmission procedures from NIH. An applicant won’t be allowed to extend the proposed price range or change the scientific content material of the proposal within the resubmission to the NIH as an NIH utility. Oblique prices on any international subawards/subcontracts might be restricted to eight (8) p.c. NSF will course of the proposals as “Withdrawn, funded elsewhere” reflecting switch to a different company for these proposals. The CSR SRO employees will obtain entry to written evaluations from the NSF reviewers and panelists and can use these critiques, together with the suitable data to organize a abstract assertion in the usual NIH format, and can enter the general influence/precedence and criterion scores and the human topic and vertebrate animals coding into the NIH IMPAC II system. A abstract of the dialogue might be ready by the NIH SROs to be included within the NIH abstract assertion. Feedback reflecting NSF-specific standards might be included within the NIH abstract statements. To meet NIH’s want for a listing of collaborating reviewers for Abstract Statements with out disclosing the precise reviewers of every proposal, NSF will present an aggregated checklist of the total set of reviewers for the SCH program to the CSR. This checklist might be communicated to NIH PIs within the assembly roster and NIH Abstract Statements. Since declinations might be dealt with by NSF, NIH Abstract Statements might be going solely to NIH award PIs. These NIH purposes might be entered into the NIH IMPAC II system. The outcomes of the overview might be offered to the concerned Institutes’ Nationwide Advisory Councils for the second stage of overview. Subsequent grant administration procedures for NIH awardees, together with these associated to New and Early Stage Investigators (https://grants.nih.gov/coverage/early-investigators/index.htm), might be in accordance with the insurance policies of NIH. Functions chosen for NIH funding will use the NIH funding mechanisms.

Proposals which can be funded by NIH are anticipated to be renewed as competing persevering with purposes. PIs ought to contact their NIH Program Officer for added data. For data functions, NIH PIs might want to seek the advice of the NIAID website, “All about Grants,” which gives wonderful generic details about all features of NIH grantsmanship, together with aggressive renewals (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/grants_process.htm).

VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION

A. Notification of the Award

Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer . Organizations whose proposals are declined might be suggested as promptly as attainable by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of evaluations, not together with the identification of the reviewer, might be supplied mechanically to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added data on the overview course of.)

B. Award Situations

An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the price range, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has based mostly its help (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award situations, akin to Grant Basic Situations (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Situations* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance which may be integrated by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Situations (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Situations. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group through e-mail.

*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

Extra complete data on NSF Award Situations and different necessary data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, obtainable electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

Administrative and Nationwide Coverage Necessities

Construct America, Purchase America

As expressed in Government Order 14005, Guaranteeing the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Staff (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the chief department to make use of phrases and situations of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, according to regulation, the usage of items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and providers supplied in, america.

In keeping with the necessities of the Construct America, Purchase America Act (Pub. L. 117-58, Division G, Title IX, Subtitle A, November 15, 2021), no funding made obtainable via this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award until all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the venture are produced in america. For added data, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.

Particular Award Situations:

Attribution of help in publications should acknowledge the joint program, in addition to the funding group and award quantity, by together with the phrase, “as a part of the NSF/NIH Sensible Well being and Biomedical Analysis within the Period of Synthetic Intelligence and Superior Knowledge Science Program.”

NIH-Particular Award Situations: Grants made by NSF might be topic to NSF’s award situations. Grants made by NIH might be topic to NIH’s award situations (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/coverage/awardconditions.htm).

C. Reporting Necessities

For all multi-year grants (together with each commonplace and persevering with grants), the Principal Investigator should submit an annual venture report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the tip of the present price range interval. (Some applications or awards require submission of extra frequent venture reviews). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a last venture report, and a venture outcomes report for most of the people.

Failure to offer the required annual or last venture reviews, or the venture outcomes report, will delay NSF overview and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to study the codecs of the required reviews upfront to guarantee availability of required information.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, obtainable via Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and last venture reviews. Such reviews present data on accomplishments, venture members (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the venture. Submission of the report through Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The venture outcomes report additionally should be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a quick abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the venture. This report might be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

Extra complete data on NSF Reporting Necessities and different necessary data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, obtainable electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

NSF:

Extra information could also be required for NSF sponsored Cooperative Agreements.

Proposals that are initially funded by NSF at a stage of $300,000 of complete prices per yr as much as 4 years might be evaluated based mostly on the proposed work plan by groups of consultants periodically via the time period of the venture to find out efficiency ranges. All publications, reviews, information and different output from all awards should be ready in digital format and meet normal necessities for storage, indexing, looking out and retrieval.

NIH:

Contact the cognizant group program officer for added data.

VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS

Please notice that this system contact data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Basic inquiries relating to this program ought to be made to:

Goli Yamini,
Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-5367,

e mail: [email protected]

Thomas Martin,
Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-2170,

e mail: [email protected]

Steven J. Breckler,
Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences Directorate, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences,

phone:
703-292-7369,

e mail: [email protected]

Yulia Gel,
Arithmetic and Bodily Sciences Directorate, Division of Mathematical Sciences,

phone:
703-292-7888,

e mail: [email protected]

Georgia-Ann Klutke,
Directorate for Engineering, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation,

phone:
703-292-2443,

e mail: [email protected]

Tatiana Korelsky,
Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8930,

e mail: [email protected]

Laurel C. Kuxhaus,
Directorate for Engineering, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation,

phone:
703-292-4465,

e mail: [email protected]

Vishal Sharma,
Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Laptop and Community Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8950,

e mail: [email protected]

Sylvia Spengler,
Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8930,

e mail: [email protected]

Betty Okay. Tuller,
Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences Directorate, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences,

phone:
703-292-7238,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher C. Yang,
Directorate for Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Division of Info and Clever Techniques,

phone:
703-292-8111,

e mail: [email protected]

James E. Fowler,
Laptop and Info Science and Engineering, Computing and Communication Foundations,

phone:
703-292-8910,

e mail: [email protected]

Dana Wolff-Hughes,
Nationwide Most cancers Institute (NCI),

phone:
240-620-0673,

e mail: [email protected]

James Gao,
Nationwide Eye Institute (NEI), NIH,

phone:
301-594-6074,

e mail: [email protected]

Erin Iturriaga,
Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH,

phone:
301-435-0403,

e mail: [email protected]

Aron Marquitz,
Nationwide Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Pores and skin Ailments (NIAMS),

phone:
301-435-1240,

e mail: [email protected]

Qi Duan,
Nationwide Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH,

phone:
301-827-4674,

e mail: [email protected]

Samantha Calabrese,
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nationwide Institute of Baby Well being and Human Improvement (NICHD), NIH,

phone:
301-827-7568,

e mail: [email protected]

Susan Wright,
Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH,

phone:
301-402-6683,

e mail: [email protected]

Roger Miller,
Nationwide Institute on Deafness and Different Communication Problems (NIDCD), NIH,

phone:
301-402-3458,

e mail: [email protected]

Noffisat Oki,
Nationwide Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Analysis (NIDCR),

phone:
301-402-6778,

e mail: [email protected]

Xujing Wang,
Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Ailments (NIDDK), NIH,

phone:
301-451-2682,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher Duncan,
Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences (NIEHS), NIH,

phone:
984-287-3256,

e mail: [email protected]

David Leitman,
Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being (NIMH),

phone:
301-827-6131,

e mail: [email protected]

Deborah Duran,
Nationwide Institute on Minority Well being and Well being Disparities (NIMHD), NIH,

phone:
301-594-9809,

e mail: [email protected]

Leslie C. Osborne,
Nationwide Institute of Neurological Problems and Stroke (NINDS),

phone:
240-921-135,

e mail: [email protected]

Kristopher Bough,
Nationwide Institute of Nursing Analysis (NINR), NIH,

phone:
301-496-2604,

e mail: [email protected]

Yanli Wang,
Nationwide Library of Drugs (NLM),

phone:
301-594-4882,

e mail: [email protected]

Christopher Hartshorn,
Nationwide Middle for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS),

phone:
301-402-0264,

e mail: [email protected]

Joseph Monaco,
Mind Analysis By Advancing Modern Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,

phone:
301-402-3823,

e mail: [email protected]

Jacqueline Lloyd,
Workplace of Illness Prevention (ODP),

phone:
301-827-5559,

e mail: [email protected]

Fenglou Mao,
Workplace of Knowledge Science Technique (ODSS), Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI),

phone:
301-451-9389,

e mail: [email protected]

Jamie White,
Workplace of Analysis on Girls’s Well being (ORWH),

phone:
301-496-9200,

e mail: [email protected]

Adam Berger,
Workplace of Science Coverage (OSP),

phone:
301-827-9676,

e mail: [email protected]

For questions associated to the usage of NSF techniques contact:

NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532

For questions referring to Grants.gov contact:

Grants.gov Contact Middle: If the Licensed Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not acquired a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of utility, please contact through phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].

IX. OTHER INFORMATION

The NSF web site gives probably the most complete supply of knowledge on NSF Directorates (together with contact data), applications and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of latest NSF funding alternatives and publications, necessary modifications in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable via e-mail or the consumer’s Internet browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is out there on NSF’s web site.

Grants.gov gives a further digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed through this mechanism. Additional data on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

Most important Web sites for the Collaborating Businesses:

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

https://www.nsf.gov

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

http://nih.gov/

PUBLIC BRIEFINGS

A number of collaborative webinar briefings with query and reply performance might be held previous to the primary submission deadline date. Schedules might be posted on the sponsor solicitation web pages.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an impartial Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and training in all fields of science and engineering.”

NSF funds analysis and training in most fields of science and engineering. It does this via grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 schools, universities, Okay-12 college techniques, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal help to educational establishments for primary analysis.

NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, training and coaching initiatives, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand purposes for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does help Nationwide Analysis Facilities, consumer services, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and business, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each educational stage.

Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) present funding for particular help or gear to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions relating to preparation of a majority of these proposals.

The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Gadget for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Info Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF applications, employment or normal data. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.

The Nationwide Science Basis Info Middle could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.

The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in america by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and training within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.

To get the newest details about program deadlines, to obtain copies of NSF publications, and to entry abstracts of awards, go to the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314

For Basic Info
(NSF Info Middle):

(703) 292-5111

TDD (for the hearing-impaired):

(703) 292-5090

To Order Publications or Types:

Ship an e-mail to:

[email protected]

or phone:

(703) 292-8134

(703) 292-5111

PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS

The data requested on proposal kinds and venture reviews is solicited underneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal kinds might be utilized in reference to the collection of certified proposals; and venture reviews submitted by awardees might be used for program analysis and reporting throughout the Government Department and to Congress. The data requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and employees assistants as a part of the proposal overview course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or get hold of information relating to the proposal overview course of, award selections, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, consultants, volunteers and researchers and educators as mandatory to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing data relating to candidates or nominees as a part of a joint utility overview course of, or to be able to coordinate applications or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or social gathering in a court docket or Federal administrative continuing if the federal government is a celebration. Details about Principal Investigators could also be added to the Reviewer file and used to pick out potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of Report Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Information,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Information.” Submission of the data is voluntary. Failure to offer full and full data, nevertheless, might cut back the potential for receiving an award.

An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual just isn’t required to answer, an data assortment until it shows a sound Workplace of Administration and Finances (OMB) management quantity. The OMB management quantity for this assortment is 3145-0058. Public reporting burden for this assortment of knowledge is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback relating to the burden estimate and every other facet of this assortment of knowledge, together with ideas for decreasing this burden, to:

Suzanne H. Plimpton
Experiences Clearance Officer
Coverage Workplace, Division of Establishment and Award Assist
Workplace of Finances, Finance, and Award Administration
Nationwide Science Basis
Alexandria, VA 22314