Michigan State University has reached a milestone for research and development expenditures, with $759.2 million for fiscal year 2022. The total is a $49 million increase over 2021 and demonstrates strong progress toward the strategic plan goal of $1 billion in research expenditures by 2030. Growth was primarily in federally funded expenditures, up 9% to $381.5 million.

Research supported through the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes funding from the National Institutes of Health, was up 23.7% at $105 million. Expenditures from Department of Energy funding increased 17.8% to reach $127.8 million. Research expenditures funded by the Departments of Defense and Agriculture, or USDA, also increased by 8% and 4% respectively.

While the final data and rankings for 2022 will not be published for several months, MSU currently, based on FY 2021 data, ranks 39th in research expenditures out of more than 900 colleges and universities across the country who participate in the Higher Education Research and Development survey.

Research expenditures — that is, the funds spent to conduct research — are the most frequently cited and provide consistency for comparison with other institutions. The National Science Foundation surveys all recipients of federal funds annually, asking about their research expenditures from all funding sources.

“This increase is an important accomplishment we should all be very proud of, and it is thanks to the hard work of our research faculty, support staff and students that we were able to achieve it,” said Doug Gage, vice president for research and innovation. “The MSU research enterprise is growing and thriving, and I have every confidence that we will reach our long-term goals.”

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The Dynamic Resilience application portal is now open and accepting submissions. Upload your abstract and submit your application before 25 May, 11:59pm ET.

Description: Human life expectancy has doubled in the past 100 years.

But for most people, our health span doesn’t match our life span. What if it could?

One of the greatest success stories of the last 100 years is the doubling in human life expectancy, from a global average of 35 years in 1900 to 70 years today1. Advances in medicine, public health, and infrastructure have greatly reduced the number of children dying before adulthood and increased the chances of most adults reaching old age. The rising number of centenarians and supercentenarians (people over 110 years) shows that it is possible for humans to live well for a very long time. Such exceptional individuals have encountered many challenges to their health over the course of their long lives, but they show a remarkable resilience – an ability to ‘bounce back’ after a significant stress event, whether that is a fall, infection, surgery, or major psychosocial stress. Resilience is the result of complex integrated physiological systems that usually maintain function and homeostasis through a series of feedback and feedforward mechanisms. Such biological resilience integrates several features including baseline reserve, ability to detect and adapt to stress, and the speed and appropriateness of responses including the ability to heal and repair. With a high baseline reserve along with correct and timely integration of other components of the stress response, the body can return to a state of homeostasis after disruption.

For most of us, however, our baseline reserves diminish as we get older and our biological maintenance systems start to fail, resulting in around half of adults over 65 suffering from at least two age-related long-term conditions (multimorbidity), increasing to ~80% of over 80s2. …

We are soliciting abstracts and proposals for work over three (3) years (with a potential additional one-year option) in one or more of the following thrust areas (see Thrust areas in full program announcement). Proposers should clearly relate work in these thrust areas to one or more of the program goals.

Important Dates:

• Day 1 - Submission deadline: 25 May 2023 - 7-page abstracts submitted (from individual organizations or teams) that address one or more program areas.
• Day 15 - Abstract feedback sent: 9 June 2023 - All submissions will receive technical and/or programmatic feedback as well as a recommendation to submit or not submit a full proposal.
• Day 45 - Submission deadline: 10 July 2023 - 25-page full proposals including technical approach, milestones, costs, and key personnel submitted. Proposals should specifically address abstract feedback.
• Day 75 - Proposal decision sent: 9 August 2023 - All submissions will receive a ‘selected for funding’ or ‘not selected for funding’ decision. Those selected will proceed to contract signature as the final gate with work expected to commence within approximately 30 days

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