Overview: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Ono”) is a leading global healthcare company committed to delivering new, innovative pharmaceutical products to patients and championing the fight against disease and pain. Ono Pharmaceutical carries out these goals in cooperation with researchers, patients, their families, and healthcare providers. The Ono Pharma Foundation was established to support academic research of promising young and mid-career scientists in relevant scientific fields, who have the potential of making a significant impact on therapeutic approaches to disease. 52 universities are invited to nominate investigators.

Purpose: To support scientists with creative ideas and research at the interface between chemistry and biology

• This area is vital to the transformation of human health. Through studying biological systems at the chemical level, chemical biology helps answer biological questions and elucidate mechanisms of disorder, leading to the discovery and development of treatments for diseases.
• The criteria for this field are deliberately broad so as not to disqualify potentially innovative and groundbreaking projects.

Funding amount: $900K for a three year project, total amount with indirect costs up to 15% per year (total up to $1,035M)

PI Eligibility:

• Must have an MD and/or a PhD degree and be at a nominating institution
• Must be a new applicant to the Ono Initiative (previous nominees are ineligible)
• Must be a young and/or mid-career scientist (15 years or below of experience from starting independent academic position).
• May not already be engaged in other sponsored research with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and/or grant program with Ono Pharma Foundation.
• May not apply for funding to amplify current work. However, PIs may research a new idea based on a prior finding of the PI.

Selection Criteria:

• Scientific merit of the research proposal
• Relevance of the proposed research to the mission of the Ono Initiative (significance, innovation, approach)
• Technical considerations for the research
• Qualifications and relevant experience of the PI
• Evidence of suitable research environment

Internal Review deadline: January 4^th, 2023 – please follow the procedures outlined here and email limited@msu.edu with any questions regarding process.

Funder deadline for LOI submission: February 15th, 2023. Full proposal is by invitation.

Each Nominating Institution may nominate up to two (2) applicants.

• Total number of awards: 3
• Awardees will be invited to an annual science symposium.

Download information: Program Information Overview  -  FAQs

I would be happy to answer any questions regarding the opportunity. Please distribute widely. Deepa Srikanta, PhD, Corporate Relations (Biosciences), University Advancement (Michigan State University), Spartan Way | 535 East Chestnut Road, Room 300 | East Lansing, MI 48824, office: 517-884-1079, cell: 517-295-3508, email: srikanta@msu.edu

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to you because you have sent inquiries to the NSF about the 2023 MRI solicitation. I am pleased to inform you that the new solicitation has been published.

Please read the solicitation carefully to understand changes, which include the suspension of cost sharing, the inclusion of a helium management track, changes to institutional submission limits, changes between Track 1 and Track 2 project sizes, details on submission through research.gov or grants.gov (Fastlane is no longer an option), and other updates.

As ever, we are available to respond to your questions about the program. Any specific technical questions regarding the instrumentation for which you seek funding support and the science it will enable should be addressed to the relevant program officer. A list of these officials can be found under “Program contacts” towards the bottom of the MRI webpage.

With Regards, Jonathan S. Friedman, PhD, Program Director, IPA, Office of Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation, email: jfriedma@nsf.gov, phone: 703-292-7475

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NSF MRI Townhall Meetings - Dec. 7 and 8, 2022

Dear Colleagues:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Activity serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and for not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. MRI supports the acquisition or development of a multi-user research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. MRI is a Foundation-wide Program to fund instruments generally in the range from $100k up to and including $4M (see solicitation for exceptions). Recently, solicitation NSF 23-519 was published for the MRI program. The deadline for proposals is February 21, 2023.

On Wednesday, December 7 and Thursday, December 8, 2022 NSF will host outreach townhalls with information about the latest MRI funding opportunity. The session will begin at 1:00 p.m. EST and have two parts: 1) Session 1: a general MRI information session (1:00 p.m. -1:45 p.m. EST), followed by 2) Session 2: a Question and Answer Session.

There may be discipline-specific sessions to provide technical information and feedback. Please check with the cognizant Program Officer listed under "Program contacts" on the MRI Program web page (for program acronyms, see bottom of this message).

Please register for the Town Hall (required) here

• Please enter your name, organization, and email address.
• Click on the “Register” tab at the bottom of the page.

The NSF MRI Program Coordinators look forward to your attendance!

Regards,

The National Science Foundation

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is pleased to announce Dam Risk Reduction Grant Program Request for Pre-Proposals for a one-time release for up to $13M as appropriated by the Michigan Legislature under Section 1003 of PA 87 of 2021. This program will provide grant funds to dam owners for repair, alteration, or removal activities necessary to address risk associated with publicly or privately owned dams.

Entities that own or operate a dam in the state of Michigan are eligible to apply. Funding is restricted to projects that reduce or eliminate risk associated with dams. Eligible activities under the grant include:

• Planning, feasibility studies, or design of projects that reduce or eliminate risk of dam failure.
• Repair, alteration, or removal of dams.
• Post project monitoring and corrective actions.

For more information, please visit the Michigan Dam Safety Program website. For questions about this funding opportunity, please contact Mason Manuszak at 989-370-1528 or ManuszakM@Michigan.gov

or Luke Trumble at 517-420-8923 or TrumbleL@Michigan.gov.

This is not a funding opportunity, but rather a Request for Information (RFI). It represents an opportunity for researchers to try to influence policy and/or future funding by answering some questions related to a specific topic. In this case the topic is carbon storage technology. I’ve attached the RFI to this email. Responding to the RFI does not give any special consideration in future funding, but it is a way to try to inform, educate and guide government funding in the future.

The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) will consider whether to establish a multi-year field-based R&D initiative, to be named Carbon Storage Technology Operations & Research (CarbonSTORE), which provides funding to operators of facilities and support to researchers to help accelerate the development of enabling technologies needed to underpin the gigaton-scale infrastructure required to meet national goals for net zero CO₂ emissions. If funded, this initiative would establish multiple CarbonSTORE facilities serving as long-term carbon storage field laboratories, which may be aligned with the CarbonSAFE projects, other CCS projects or even non-storage sites that have applicable infrastructure. Example uses of these facilities for R&D activities would include:

• Field testing of site characterization and monitoring technologies
• Field validation of advanced simulation tools
• Providing data to FECM’s SMART and NRAP Initiatives
• Field sites to explore specific R&D issues (e.g., induced seismicity, above zone pressure monitoring, leakage detection and remediation)
• Advancing well integrity evaluation and mitigation tools and methods in new and/or legacy wells
• Demonstration of approaches for advanced operational control and decision support
• Comparison of newer technologies to older technologies being replaced
• Fast track field testing/validation of emerging technologies
• Collecting performance data of technologies over the lifetime of storage projects
• Providing cost data for future projects.

It is assumed that researchers would need access to either the subsurface, some part of the surface across the injection site, or both. Due to the long-time scales of carbon storage, developing these sites for long-term viability and flexibility will be key to their value and usefulness as field-based research facilities.

Through this RFI, FECM seeks input from CCS developers/operators, researchers, and others to assist in the development and deployment of the CarbonSTORE concept.

Should someone be interested in responding to the questions in this RFI their response needs to be submitted by January 9, 2023 to: RFI0002900@netl.doe.gov