You may be interested in these recent funding opportunity announcements (FOAs): Bridges to Baccalaureate Program (R25) (PAR-13-333) Purpose: Promote partnerships/consortia between community colleges or other 2-year post-secondary educational institutions granting the associate degree and colleges or universities that offer the baccalaureate degree, with the goal of increasing the pool of community college students from underrepresented backgrounds who pursue research careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and who will be available to participate in NIH-funded research Application due dates: October 18, 2013; September 25, 2014; September 25, 2015 NIGMS contact: Michelle R.J. Hamlet, 301-594-3900 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1) (RFA-RM-13-006) Purpose: Support exceptionally creative individual scientists at any career stage who propose pioneering, and possibly transforming, approaches to major challenges that have the potential for unusually high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research Application due dates: October 18, 2013; October 10, 2014; October 9, 2015 NIH contact: Ravi Basavappa, 301-435-7204 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2) (RFA-RM-13-007) Purpose: Support exceptionally creative early stage investigators who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential for major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research Application due dates: October 25, 2013; October, 17, 2014; October 16, 2015 NIH contact: Ravi Basavappa, 301-435-7204 Limited Pilot for NIGMS Legacy Community-Wide Scientific Resources (R24) (PAR-13-324) Purpose: Maintain existing NIGMS research resources that demonstrate a high value to a community of NIGMS-supported researchers and that are no longer eligible for support under their original initiatives Letter of intent due date: 30 days before the application due date Application due dates: October 15, 2013; October 15, 2014; October 15, 2015 NIGMS contact: Mary Ann Wu, 301-435-0787 Research Centers in Injury and Peri-Operative Sciences (P50) (PAR-13-291) Purpose: Improve understanding at all levels of the biological processes invoked after traumatic or burn injury, or in critically ill patients, including pertinent aspects of wound healing; and foster translational research, bringing basic scientific observations and principles into the clinical arena and using clinical observations to generate or validate mechanistic hypotheses Letter of intent due date: 6 weeks before the standard due date Application due date: Standard dates apply NIGMS contact: Scott Somers, 301-594-3827