BrightFocus awards grants internationally, supporting pioneering research capable of leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. BrightFocus grants provide significant funding to researchers who have preliminary data, but still need additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.
The Innovative Research Grants track is for high-risk/high-gain research into age-related macular degeneration. Designed to attract established investigators who wish to pursue outside-the-box ideas that are novel in the field. Towards this end, experts from other fields are encouraged to apply their talents to proposing innovative research in the macular degeneration field.
Seedcorn awards help researchers to generate high-quality preliminary data to advance innovative and novel ideas on prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of human diseases. This grant encourages early-stage research in human health and is intended to help generate initial data that can lead to substantial future funding proposals. The foundation is interested in 'out-of-the-box' ideas that have the potential to transform the field.
Pioneering Research - Exploring the 'Unknown Unknown'
This call is for basic research projects that venture beyond the familiar frontiers of science to explore the 'unknown unknown'. This initiative is designed to support pioneering studies that may lead to major scientific breakthroughs.
Pioneering projects must fulfill the following criteria:
radically explorative basic research
new scientific ground
high scientific relevance
high knowledge potential with the expectation of achieving important scientific breakthroughs or even triggering a paradigm shift
The violence research awards are for work in the social and natural sciences that will increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the contemporary world. Priority is given to work that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
Research topics include:
War
Crime
Terrorism
Family and intimate-partner relationships
Climate instability and natural resource competition
Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict
Political extremism and nationalism
Budget: Up to $45K Total
Duration: 1 - 2 years
Special note: German lead applicant required. International co-applicants possible.
The Department of Science and Technology in MAFAT, Ministry of Defense, in collaboration with the Medical Corps, is pleased to announce a call for research proposals in the field of military medicine for 2024.
Establishing research based on medical data repositories managed according to the international OMOP standard for medical research
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The goal of this call is to expose researchers in government hospitals in Israel to the international standard OMOP (OHDSI's research data model) and its ecosystem, as a means to promote future international collaborations, while conducting research focused on treatment and clinical processes managed in hospital wards and emergency units.
The track encourages applied research with innovative technological feasibility originating in academia. The main goal is to bring the project to a stage where an Israeli commercial industrial company will adopt it with the aim of developing a product.
Priority fields by Israeli innovation authority:
Carbon capture and storage
Protein structure prediction
Semiconductor-2D
Bioelectricity
4D Printing
Organ-on-a-Chip
Single Cell analysis
Triboelectric nanogenerator
Drug Delivery
Bio-manufacturing
Additional Details: Please send abstract (up to 600 words) describing desired research to: [email protected].
BGN business development team will contact applicants with further instructions and guidance for the submission process.
Budget: An institution that operates alone will receive an investment of 75%-85%, with a maximum amount of 440,000₪ per year
Duration: Up to two years
Deadlines (2 Submission Rounds):
1. The first round is open for submissions until 08/07/2024. Those who submit in this round are expected to receive the Authority’s answer by mid-October 2024.
2. The second round is open for submissions until 21/08/2024. Those who submit in this round are expected to receive the Authority’s answer by mid-December 2024.
Collaborative Research Opportunities with Elbit Systems
We invite researchers to submit abstracts related to the below mentioned areas of research as we explore potential collaboration with Elbit Systems.
Main Research Areas:
Energetic materials, deep penetration
Miniaturization of Electronics and Electro-Optic Components
Navigation systems based on electro-optics, laser, and GPS
Tiny rocket propulsion
Metamaterials
High-power laser bean delivery technologies
Fiber transmission
Cooling and heat dissipation technologies
Silicon photonics
Other topics includes 3D printing in Aluminum, materials for lasers and optics, Calibration algorithm for hyperspectral sensing, high-power lasers, video and analytics, space cameras, energy weapons.
For more details and to submit an abstract, please email Liat Vatary, BD Engineering and Exact Sciences. Abstracts should highlight the significance of your research and its potential impact.
Possible Collaboration with Google
We invite researchers to submit short abstracts related to the below mentioned AI and cybersecurity areas of research as we explore potential collaboration with Google.
Key Areas of Interest:
Security Research
AI-Powered Security: Malware analysis & detection
Hardware Security: Side channel discovery & mitigation
Novel AI Threats & Mitigation
Privacy Research
Browser Privacy
Synthetic Data
Cryptography
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Secure Multiparty Computation
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Please send short abstract with your unique capabilities in the above related fields to Liat Vatary
Events
ISERD and the European Research Council (ERC)
ERC Synergy Information Session
Tuesday, July 9 | 11:00
ISERD will hold the ERC Proof of Concept info session hosting Dr. Line Fredslund Volkers, the ERC Call coordinator.