Funding Resources and Research Development at UCI

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Funding Resources and Research Development at UCI

• UCI Department of Education
• January 8, 2010

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Simple as Pie
Universities Grow Flat Budget Tougher
Competition
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How can an institution get a bigger slice of the
funding pie?

• More competitive proposals
• Larger proposals
• More collaborative proposals
• Greater persistence resubmissions

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Research Development at UCI

• RD Offices are distributed around the campus and
  UCIMC
• Not all have Research Development in the name
• Not all do the same things not all do RD full
  time
• The UCI RD Professionals Group shares information
  and collaborates on projects

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What does Research Development in the Office of
Research do?

• Writing and editing proposals

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Before . . .
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After
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How much writing and editing?
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Proposals Edited in 2009

• 787,590/3 years (RB) Wrote and edited proposal
  for LifeChips GAANN, G.P. Li, PI (December 2009)
• 787,590/3 years (BR, RB) Edited proposal for
  Physics GAANN, Asantha Cooray, PI (December 2009)
• 50,000/1 year (BR) Edited proposal for CRCC,
  Novel Liposome Nanocarriers for Targeted Cancer
  Therapy, Young Kwon, PI (December 2009)
• 536,052/3 years (BR) Edited proposal for NSF,
  Development of an Uncertainty Model for NMQ
  Rainfall Products in Regions with Poor or
  Nonexistent Coverage, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI
  (Amir AghaKouchak) (December 2009)
• 2 million/5 years (RB) Wrote proposal for NIH
  Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center, Ed Nelson,
  Greg Weiss, Kumar Wickramasinghe, PIs (November
  2009)
• 800,000/4 years (BR) Edited proposal for NIH
  Eureka program, Targeted Delivery and Controlled
  In Vivo Differentiation of Stem Cells, Young Jik
  Kwon, PI (November 2009)
• 136,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal
  for DOE graduate fellowship, Multidentate
  Hydrazone Ligands Potential Redox-Active
  Ligands, for Janice Wong (November 2009)
• 136,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal
  for DOE graduate fellowship, Detailed Molecular
  Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol
  Generated from the Photochemical Aging of
  Anthropogenic Primary Emissions using Methods of
  High Resolution Mass Spectrometry, for Tran
  Nguyen (November 2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB) Commented on proposal for
  NSF GRFP, micelles, Andrew Maycock (October 2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB) Commented on proposal for
  NSF GRFP, solar energy, Jeremy Pearson (October
  2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB) Commented on proposal for
  NSF GRFP, Web architecture, for Kyle Strasser
  (October 2009)

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Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)

• 121,500/3 years (RB) Commented on proposal for
  NSF GRFP, cell type-switching in Candida
  albicans, for Melissa Bilbao (October 2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal
  for NSF GRFP, Formation and Time Evolution of
  Molecular Orbitals, for Alejandro Rodriguez Perez
  (October 2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal
  for NSF GRFP, Machine Learning Techniques for
  Analyzing Data from Sky Surveys, for Darren Davis
  (October 2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal
  for NSF GRFP, computational model of part of
  brain involved in spatial learning, for Marianne
  Case (October 2009)
• 121,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on proposal
  for NSF GRFP, Everett, Quantum Mechanics, and
  Information Theory, for Sam Fletcher (October
  2009)
• 121,500/3 years (BR) Commented on proposal for
  NSF GRFP, Environmental Engineering, for Mani
  Firouzian (October 2009)
• 60,000/2 years (BR) Commented on proposal for
  Soros Fellowships for New Americans, for Mani
  Firouzian (October 2009)
• 25,000/1-2 years (BR) Commented on proposal for
  Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, The
  Transcendental Classroom Childhood Education and
  Literary Culture in Antebellum America, for
  Jessica Collier (October 2009)
• 574,178/5 years (RB, BR) Edits, bio sketches,
  upload for NSF REU, IM-SURE, G.P. Li, PI (Said
  Shokair Manager) (October 2009)
• 2,905,080/5 years (RB) Edited proposal for NIH
  CNPP, Dielectrophoretic Nanotweezer (DeNT)
  Nanotechnology Platform to Study Tumor Biology,
  Kumar Wickramasinghe, PI (October 2009)
• 300,000/3 years (BR, RB) Edited proposal for
  NSF Bayesian Model for Multiple Hypothesis
  Testing in Gene Set Analysis, Babak Shahbaba, PI
  (October 2009)

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Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)

• 1.5 million/5 years (BR) Edited proposal for
  NIH New Innovators Award, Semi-artificial hybrid
  vector for multi-modal, targeted, and safe gene
  therapy, Young Jik Kwon, PI (October 2009)
• 25,000/1 year (BR) Commented on proposal for
  ACLS/Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American
  Art, Crafted Abstraction Three Nisei Artists
  Ruth Asawa, Kay Sekimachi, and Toshiko Takaezu,
  1942-1972, for Krystal Hauseur (October 2009)
• 3,000/1 summer (BR) Commented on Woodrow Wilson
  Womens Studies Fellowship, Changing Traditions
  The Role of Village Women in the Creation of
  Modern Japan, for Christina Ghanbarpour
  (September 2009)
• 13 million/5 years (BR, RB) Edited proposal for
  NIH Conte Center resubmission, to study sleep
  deprivation and ketamines effects on major
  depressive disorder, William Bunney, PI
  (September 2009)
• 33,000/1 year (BR) Commented on ACLS
  Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Woman in
  Revolution A Biography of Rosalie Ducrollay
  Jullien (1745-1823), for Lindsay Holowach
  (September 2009)
• 24,793/1 year (BR, RB) Commented on proposal
  for NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant,
  Critical Theory Digital Archive, Erin Obodiac
  (September 2009)
• 24,000/1 year (BR) Commented on Fulbright
  graduate proposal, Designing Development in
  India, for Lilly Irani (August 2009)
• 540,000/3 years (RB) Edited proposal for NOAA
  Climate Prediction program, A framework for
  improving land-surface hydrologic process
  representation in CLM over California, Soroosh
  Sorooshian, PI (JiaLun Li) (August 2009)
• 450,000/3 years (RB) Edited proposal for NOAA
  CCDD, Reconstruction and Analysis of High
  Resolution Precipitation Dataset, Soroosh
  Sorooshian, PI (Kuolin Hsu) (August 2009)
• 540,000/3 years (RB, BR) Edited proposal for
  NASA Precipitation Science, Effective Integration
  of Multi-Satellite Observations for Precipitation
  Retrieval, Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Kuolin Hsu)
  (August 2009)
• 24,000/1 year (BR) Commented on proposal for
  Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship to Taiwan,
  for Diana Yanez (August 2009)

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Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)

• 121,500/3 years (RB, BR) Commented on NSF GRFP,
  2-Dimensional Infrared Spectra of Chemical
  Systems, for Nick Preketes, (July 2009)
• 500,000/5 years (RB, BR) Edited NSF CAREER
  proposal, Bayesian Methods for Probabilistic
  Graphical Models, Babak Shahbaba, PI (July 2009)
• 522,288/5 years (BR) Edited NSF CAREER
  proposal, Acid-transforming Polypeptides as
  Stimuli-responsive, Efficient, Biocompatible, and
  Tunable Nonviral Gene Carriers, Young Jik Kwon,
  PI (July 2009)
• XX/1 year (BR) Commented on proposal for
  Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship program,
  to Taiwan, for Diana Yanez (July 2009)
• 457,278/5 years (BR, RB) Edited NSF CAREER
  proposal, Models of Fermion Masses, Flavor
  Mixing, and CP Violation at the Electroweak and
  Unification Scales, Mu-Chun Chen, PI (July 2009)
• 2,385,000/5 years (BR, RB) Edited proposal for
  NIH R01 renewal, Mitochondrial RNA processing
  machinery in Trypanosomes, Ruslan Aphasizhev, PI
  (July 2009)
• 15 million/1 year (RB, with Jacobs group) NIH
  C06 proposal, for stem cells, Sue Bryant, PI
  (July 2009)
• 6 million/5 years (RB, BR) Wrote and edited
  NIST TIP proposal, Robotic Rehabilitation of
  Aging Water Pipeline, Heath (industry partner) as
  PI, for Maria Feng (June 2009) (The proposal is a
  total of 18 million for 5 years, with UCIs
  portion being 6 million, of which 3 million is
  from NIST and another 3 million is matching UCI
  overhead plus Fyfe's contribution).
• 750,000 ?/2 years (RB) Wrote proposal for
  NCMHD ARRA Health Disparities Research,
  Community-Based Health Disparities Research, Al
  Manetta, PI (June 2009)
• 14,999,079/1 year (RB, with Jacobs group)
  Wrote and edited proposal for NIH C06 ARRA
  construction grant, Gross Hall basement retrofit,
  Sue Bryant, PI (June 2009)
• 2,596,937/5 years (BR, RB) Edited proposal for
  NIH R01, Pinpointed and Targeted Multimodal
  Theragnostics for Early-Stage Cancer, Young Jik
  Kwon, PI (June 2009)

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Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)

• 500,000/1 year (RB, CH, BR) Wrote and edited
  proposal for NCRR Challenge Grant, PIBS
  (Procedural, Imaging, and Behavioral Suites),
  Jeff Goodwin, PI (May 2009)
• 5 million/5 years (BR) Edited proposal for NIH
  R24, brain tissue repository for psychiatric
  illnesses, William Bunney, PI (May 2009)
• XX/XX years (RB, BR) Edited proposal for NIH
  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant,
  Stephen Hanessian, PI (May 2009)
• 9,893,395 /5 years (BR, RB) Edited Admin Core
  for NIH ADRC grant, Carl Cotman, PI (May 2009)
  (they didnt use it because we got the text too
  close to their deadline)
• 1 million/2 years (RB) Edited NIH Challenge
  Grant, Isolation of Intact Protein Complexes for
  Structural and Functional Analysis, Young Jik
  Kwon, PI (April 2009)
• Salary and benefits/one year (CH, BR) Edited
  proposal for Kauffman Foundation Postdoctoral
  Fellowship in entrepreneurship, for Shinjae Chung
  (April 2009)
• 600,000/2 years (BR) Edited proposal for NIEHS
  Challenge Grant, Genome-wide strategies to study
  genetic interactions in complex diseases, Guia
  Guffanti, PI (April 2009)
• 600,000/2 years (BR, RB) Edited proposal for
  DOE, Enhancing cloud microphysics modeling using
  the system theoretic optimization approach,
  Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Xiaogang Gao) (April
  2009)
• 50,400/1 year (BR, CH) Edited proposal for NEH
  Fellowship, Empire and Nation Culture,
  Translation, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan
  from the 1920s through the 1960s, Serk Bae Suh,
  PI (April 2009)
• XX/XX years (RB) Wrote proposal for ED GAANN,
  LifeChips, G.P. Li, PI (March 2009) (not funded)
• 387,742/2 years (BR) Edited NIH R21
  resubmission, Nanoparticle carries for targeted
  cancer gene therapy, Young Jik Kwon, PI (March
  2009)
• XX/5 years (RB, BR, CH) Commented on
  pre-proposal for NSF IGERT, EARTH Idea, Diane
  Pataki, PI (March 2009)

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Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)

• 600,000/3 years (BR, CH) Edited proposal for
  NIH RO1, Combined Optical Imaging and Gene
  Therapy for Early-Stage Cancer by
  Stimuli-Triggered Transformation of
  Nanoparticles, Young Jik Kwon, PI (February 2009)
• XX/XX years (RB) Formatted graphics for NIH
  RO1, Genetic and Neuroanatomical Abnormalities in
  Suicide, William Bunney, PI (Marquis Vawter)
  (February 2009)
• 1.5 million/5 years (BR) Edited proposal for
  NIH RO1 renewal, How trypanosomes molecular
  machineries function together in defining a
  mitochondrial transcriptome at discrete
  developmental stages, Ruslan Aphasizhev, PI
  (February 2009)
• 7,500/1-2 years (BR, CH) Commented on proposal
  and formatted bio sketches for UC HRI California
  Studies Consortium, Place-Making Mapping
  Kumeyaay Placenames, Tanis Thorne, PI (February
  2009)
• 440,000/2 years (BR) Edited proposal for
  NOAA/NWS, Understanding and improving
  Californias river and water resource predictions
  using in situ and remote sensing data, Soroosh
  Sorooshian, PI (Xiaogang Gao) (February 2009)
• 408,000/4 years (BR, RB) Edited and commented
  on proposal for FIPSE Atlantis EU-U.S. Academic
  Cooperation, DUDECRONO, Dimitris Pavlidis, PI
  (from Germany), Jean-Luc Gaudiot, UCI Co-PI
  (February 2009) (awarded)
• 17,494,573/5 years (BR, RB, CH) Edited proposal
  for NIH Cancer Center Comprehensive Center
  designation, Frank Meyskens, PI (February 2009)
  Jacquie said these numbers are for Stage 1, while
  this application is for Stage 2
• 1,240,000/2 years (RB) Edited proposal for NSF,
  Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new
  production in the Sargasso Sea, Adam Martiny, PI
  (February 2009)

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Proposals Edited 2009 (continued)

• 752,738 /3 years (RB) Edited proposal for NSF,
  Collaborative Research Evolutionary Ecology of
  Marine Synechococcus-Cyanophage Interactions,
  Jennifer Martiny, PI (February 2009)
• XX/2 years (CH, RB, BR) Wrote and edited LOI
  for University of Chicago Arete, New Science of
  Virtues, The Etiology of Altruism, Its Causes
  and Consequences, Kristen Monroe, PI (February
  2009)
• XX/3 years (CH, BR) Wrote and edited LOI and
  proposal for NSF Gender in Science and
  Engineering, Gender Equality What Works and
  What Does Not, Kristen Monroe, PI (February
  2009) (LOI turned down)
• 60,000-90,000/2-3 years (BR) Edited proposal
  for NASA fellowship, A statistical
  model-selection approach for daily snow water
  equivalent estimation using in-site, satellite
  remote sensing and other data in California,
  Soroosh Sorooshian, PI (Xiaogang Gao) (January
  2009)
• 1.25 million/5 years (RB) Edited proposal for
  NIH RO1, M current regulatory mechanisms
  contributions to neuronal plasticity, Naoto
  Hoshi, PI (January 2009)

Total 69 proposals requesting 108,505,810
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Funded Proposals 2009

• 6.2 million/5 years Maria Feng (Heath industry
  partner as PI), NIST TIP proposal, Robotic
  Rehabilitation of Aging Water Pipeline (The
  proposal is a total of 18 million for 5 years,
  with UCIs portion being 6 million, of which 3
  million is from NIST and another 3 million is
  matching UCI overhead plus Fyfe's
  contribution.) (December 2009)
• 7,500/1-2 years Tanis Thorne, PI, UC HRI
  California Studies Consortium, Place-Making
  Mapping Kumeyaay Placenames (November 2009)
• 1,240,000/2 years Adam Martiny, PI, NSF,
  Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new
  production in the Sargasso Sea (October 2009)
• 408,000/4 years Jean-Luc Gaudiot (UCI Co-PI),
  Dimitris Pavlidis, PI (from Germany), FIPSE
  Atlantis EU-U.S. Academic Cooperation, DUDECRONO
  (August 2009)
• 500,000/1 year Jeff Goodwin, PI, NCRR
  Rederivation and Quarantine Suite (RIQS)
• 191,198/1 year Ruslan Aphasizhev, NIH R21,
  Functions of Nuclear Non-Canonical Poly(A)
  Polymerases in Trypanosomes
• 350,000/5 years Candice Odgers, W.T. Grant
  Foundation Scholars proposal, Macro-to-micro
  contextual triggers of early adolescent substance
  exposure, (February 2009)
• 144,590/1 year Dara Sorkin, NIDDK K01 Award,
  Using Social Ties to Reduce Disparities The
  Coached Care for Diabetes Program (April 2009)

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What else does Research Development do?

• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities

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UCI Fundopp

• Began as listserv in Contracts and Grants focus
  on NSF opps
• Research Development launches 1994 Fundopp
  expands agency coverage adopts summary format
• Fundopp edited by grad interns 1995-97
• Quantitative Increase 1996 (Beth Riley 600 -gt
  800)
• Quantitative Explosion (Beth full time)
• Now more than 1,200/year

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Does Research Development do anything else?

• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
• Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter

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Is there anything else that Research Development
does?

• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
• Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
• Hosts Funding Search Engines

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Funding Opportunity Search Engines
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Those search engines seem confusing. Any help for
that?

• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
• Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
• Hosts Funding Search Engines
• (with custom searches available by request)

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But does Research Development help Graduate
Students with Proposals?

• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
• Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
• Hosts Funding Search Engines
• Comments on Graduate Student Proposals

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What about faculty collaboration? Are there any
resources for that?

• Writing and Editing Proposals
• Disseminates Info on Funding Opportunities
• Publishes GrAnteater Newsletter
• Hosts Funding Search Engines
• Comments on Graduate Student proposals
• Support for Faculty Profiles

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Research Development in the Office of Research

• Operating since 1994
• Active Campuswide
• Staff of 2.5 Director, Editor and .5-time
  Undergraduate Intern
• Looking for opportunities to increase UCIs
  competitiveness for funding

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• Thank you for listening.

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