SMALL GRANT PROJECTS IN PHASE 2

Title: Novel Targets of the Endocannibioid and Opioid Systems for Potential Drug Development and Research Tools (Small Grant Recipient)

Announcement Type
New

Request for Applications (RFA) Number: RFA-COBRE-CORE-NPN 2013.
NOTICE: Applications submitted in response to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) must be submitted electronically using the SF424 Research and Related (R&R) forms and the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.

APPLICATIONS MAY NOT BE SUBMITTED IN PAPER FORMAT.
This FOA must be read in conjunction with the application guidelines included with this announcement in Grants.gov/Apply for Grants (hereafter called Grants.gov/Apply).
A registration process is necessary before submission and applicants are highly encouraged to start the process at least four (4) weeks prior to the grant submission date.

Key Dates
Release/Posted Date: May 15, 2013
Opening Date:  May 15, 2013 (Earliest date an application may be submitted to cobre@olemiss.edu)

NOTE: On-time submission requires that applications be successfully submitted to Grants.gov no later than 5:00 p.m. local time (of the applicant institution/organization). 
Application Due Date(s):  June 10, 2013
Peer Review Date(s): June 2013
Council Review Date(s): June 2013
Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s): September 2013
Expiration Date: August 2015

SMALL GRANT PROJECTS IN PHASE 1

The goal of Small Grant Projects is to provide a mechanism that will allow rapid transition of investigators and their approved projects as COBRE-sponsored junior investigators. Since COBRE funds cannot be carried over from year-to-year, it is important to have junior investigators and projects waiting in the wings for rapid transition into fully-funded junior investigator slots as they become available (e.g. when an existing junior investigator project is funded as an independent R01).  Therefore, the CORE-NPN supports Small Grants to junior faculty who conduct research at the interface of natural products and neuroscience. 

Most-recent Small Grant Recipients under Phase I:

	Project: Back-of-the Eye Delivery of the Bioflavonoid Hesperidin and Its Aglycone Hesperetin (2009 -2011) JIT MAJUMDAR Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics Mentor: Walter G. Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutics
	Project: Chemical and Biological Evaluation of Psychoactive Plants (2010 -2011) David Murray Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology Mentor: Larry Walker, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology