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FY08 FSURF Indirect Cost Distributions Complete
The FSU Research Foundation posted indirect cost distributions during February. These distributions represent a portion of indirect costs assessed during Fiscal Year 2006-2007, except that amounts less than $500, where there is not a IDC account already established, will not be distributed. Detailed information about this distribution will be available on the FSURF website this month. Refer to http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/index.html. If you have any questions about distributions, please feel free to contact the Research Foundation at 644-3989.
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Patent Workshop
If you have wondered what it takes to get a patent for idea or invention, or how to seek a patent, join us as the Office of IP Development hosts the Spring 2008 workshop - “Demystifying Patents."
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.
Place: 2000 Levy Avenue, Research Building A (Innovation Park)
Box lunches will be provided for attendees.
The program will feature a presentation by Malvern U. “Griff” Griffin III, a partner with the Sutherland Asbill & Brennan law firm, who will discuss a variety of issues related to patents. Additional perspectives will be provided by Jack Sams, Director of IP Licensing at FSU.
After lunch, an expert panel will share their patent experiences, offer valuable advice, and field questions from the audience. If you are interested, please contact Vallie Stewart at vastewart@techtransfer.fsu.edu by March 31.
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CRC and Cornerstone Updates
Council on Research & Creativity (CRC)
- The Spring Small Grant Proposals funding decisions will be announced on/about March 12.
- For a listing of all recent CRC awards, watch for articles in issues of STATE.
- During March, the CRC will advance its recommendations to the University President for Developing Scholar and Distinguished Research Professor awardees as well as the newest program Distinguished University Scholars. Decisions will be announced at the Faculty Awards program, scheduled for Monday, April 5. The Faculty Awards planners will be releasing publicity regarding the location of the awards program at a later date. Watch for the information.
Cornerstone
- External review of the AHPEG and SSPEG Cornerstone proposals continue. Funding decisions will be made on/about April 1. Stay tuned.
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Equipment Grants Awarded
The FSU Research Foundation Board members met February 14, 2008 and voted to fund the following EIEG Program Round 5 requests:
- Drs. Gilbert, Tang, Kostka, and Gunjan for “ NimbleGen Microarray Facility for Functional Genomics Analysis" $52,965
- Drs. Logan, Taylor, Stagg, and Hare for “Equipment to Enhance Recombinant Protein Production in Insect Cells” $51,900
- Dr. Englander for “Acquisition of a Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Desposition Tube Reactors for Optimized Nanostructure Synthesis” $40,000
- Drs. Collier, Ramakrishnan, Alamo, Arjmandi, Van Sciver, Zhang, Hirst, and Schlenoff for “Dynamic Light Scattering – A Tool for Characterizing Nanomaterials Insitu” $22,000
Reminder for First Round (Fall 2005) Equipment Grant Awardees: The deadline for 30 month reports for faculty received EIEG grants in the Fall 2005 competition is April 18, 2008. Performance Questionnaires are available online at www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/eieg for downloading and submitting. If you have any remaining questions about this program, please contact Eric McNair, at 644-3328 or emcnair@techtransfer.fsu.edu.
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Next Equipment Grant Deadline Quickly Approaching
Equipment Grant Proposals for the 6th Round will be accepted until 4:30 pm on Monday, March 21, 2008. The total available funding for this round is $98,377 with grants typically in the $30K-$40K range.
This program is designed to enable FSU faculty and staff to purchase equipment and infrastructure-enhancing tools to augment their research and creative activity. Grants will be awarded in the Fall 2008 semester. More information and instructions for submitting proposals can be found at the program website: www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/eieg/. If you have questions, please contact Eric McNair at 644-3328 or emcnair@techtransfer.fsu.edu
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NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards – FY 2008
This notice provides guidance about the NIH Fiscal Operations Plan for FY2008 and it implements the FY 2008 Congressional action that provided NIH with $29.2 billions or 1 percent more than FY 2007 funding. The NIH will continue to manage its portfolio of investments in biomedical research as described in the FY 2007 Fiscal Policy Notice (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-030.html and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-07-049.html). This includes continuing to address the need for a highly productive pool of researchers by providing support for new investigators and sustaining established investigators who have little or no additional research support.
The following NIH fiscal policies are instituted in FY2008:
Non-Competing Research Awards: The FY 2008 appropriation as specified in P.L. 110-161 provides NIH a 1 percent inflation allowance to NIH investments in research supported by research grants. Implementation requires a reduction to previously established commitments, based on a 3 percent inflation allowance. Accordingly, each Institute and Center (IC) will use its own discretion to allocate the adjustment among its non-competing research grants (modular and non-modular) to ensure compliance with the 1 percent inflation allowance provided in its FY 2008 committed level. Future year commitments will be adjusted accordingly, as consistent with the FY 2007 fiscal policy. This policy does not apply to Career Awards, SBIR/STTRs, and Ruth L. Kirschstein-National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowships & Institutional Training Grants. Non-competing awards previously issued in FY 2008 at reduced levels will be revised to restore funds to the level indicated above. (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-001.html ).
Competing Research Awards: Each NIH Institute and Center (IC) will manage its competing portfolio using funds that have not been committed for non-competing awards. Consistent with the FY 2008 Congressional action, the FY 2008 average cost of competing grants is allowed to increase by 1 percent over FY 2007 when compared to similar policies. It is estimated this will allow ICs to support the NIH investigator pool with approximately 9,700 new and competing RPGs. The following guidelines will apply to competing research awards in FY 2008:
- Maintain the number of new investigators comparable to the average of the most recent five years.
- Continue to use The NIH Director's Innovator Awards within the Common Fund ( http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-08-014.html) and NIH Pathway to Independence Awards ( http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-297.html) as previously described.
- Continue to use the NIH Directors Bridge Award Program ( http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-07-056.html), which provides continued but limited bridge funding to meritorious investigators whose applications were close to the funding range of the relevant IC and have minimal other support. This program provides NIH with a flexible NIH-wide tool to help balance the grant cycling variation challenges and support other approaches to sustain established grantees and first time competing renewals. As in FY 2007, this program is designed to provide only one year of continued but limited funding.
Each IC will establish fiscal policies consistent with these NIH-wide policies according to its specific scientific and programmatic imperatives. Additional information on FY2008 Fiscal Operations, including specific funding strategies for ICs will be posted on February 6 at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/financial/index.htm.
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA): Funds for stipends, tuition and training-related expenses are held at FY 2007 levels http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-057.html.
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FY 2008 Awards for the FSU Research Foundation (FSURF) GAP Program.
The GAP Program funds projects that FSU researchers and other interested parties agree will quickly improve the odds that current research results will lead to public availability of a new product or service. FSURF allocated up to $250,000 per year, beginning in FY 2006, for at least four years, of grants under this program. GAP projects should reach completion in a year or less. Funded tasks will be performed under the supervision of the proposing faculty member; but may include third party efforts within or outside of FSU.
Awards authorized in February, for the 2007-2008 fiscal year were:
- Dr. Gregory Dudley SYNTHESIS OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS $46,400 to extend the capability and usefulness of a family of organic reagents that have simplified and promise to enhance the yield in synthesis of important, but chemically challenging target drugs with the complexity of paclitaxel and discodermalide.
- Dr. Bruce Locke H2O2 PLASMA GENERATOR $49,000 to create and test a prototype of a portable, pulsed arc generator for a cold plasma /hydrogen peroxide stream to provide hard surface disinfection. Hydrogen peroxide is generated from water within the plasma arc, and electric power can be taken from a typical household outlet or a portable generator.
- Dr. David Whalley and Dr. Gary Tyson LOOKAHEAD FETCH ENGINE $44,673 to introduce a small look-ahead cache into the architecture of new micro processors to reduce power consumption and/or instruction fetch time. The investigators have obtained the cooperation of a major computer company for this test and hope to see wide adoption of their invention.
- Dr. Wei Yang. DRUG AND PROTEIN DESIGN SYSTEM $50,000 to perform blind testing in collaboration with Biogen-Idec Corp. to confirm the effectiveness of his “FEB Designer” computer program suite in predicting the structure of molecules that bind optimally to receptors on target proteins, thus accelerating the development of safe and effective pharmaceuticals.
- Dr. Jim Zheng HYBRID FUEL CELL $47,700 to fabricate and test a methanol fuel cell with an integral capacitance capability, using an anode structure that supports its platinum catalyst on a hydrated ruthenium oxide structure. The resulting hybrid fuel cell can supply both continuous and surge currents without elaborate external capacitors and control electronics.
Congratulations to all of the awardees.
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