NOTICE OF FUTURE MBRS-SCORE GRANT APPLICATIONS TO NIH

Eligibility:

• UTSA full-time tenure-track and tenured (minority and non-minority) faculty who are actively engaging in the research training of minority students at UTSA.
• SCORE grants are to develop faculty for mainstream funding.  Therefore, faculty with current NSF or NIH (RO1) grants are NOT eligible to apply.

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The UTSA Minority Biomedical Research Support – Support of Continuous Research Excellence (MBRS-SCORE) Program funds diverse, biomedical and behaviorally related research projects. The SCORE program is opened to all UTSA full-time tenure-track and tenured (minority or non-minority) faculty, who are actively engaging in the research training of minority students. The SCORE Program plans to submit 10 new and revised investigator-initiated research proposals to NIH by the next submission deadline of September 25^th, 2008. All interested faculty, including those with research areas outside of Biology and Chemistry, are encouraged to submit their proposals to the UTSA SCORE program no later than July 28^th, 2008 for review and selection as SCORE research proposals to NIH

PLEASE visit this site http://www.utsa.edu/score/score_submission.htm  for SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS on the preparation and submission of a SCORE research proposal. For information on the MBRS-SCORE program, please go to:http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/Mechanisms/MBRSAwards.htm.

For information on research areas that are supported by NIH, please go to: http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/.

After reviewing these links, if you still have questions, please contact:

Dr. Andrew Tsin, Director of the MBRS-SCORE Program at UTSA (X6635)

E-mail: andrew.tsin@utsa.edu

 

Ms. Lachelle Dixon, SCORE Program Admin. Associate (X4185)

E-mail: lachelle.dixon@utsa.edu

 

Mr. Noe Saldana (X5194), Interim Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs

E-mail: NOE.SALDANA@UTSA.EDU

 

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