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Submissions will require an institutional letter of support. Because of this support requirement, this is an Institutionally Coordinated Submission. For questions, please contact sponsored projects at sponsor@arizona.edu. 

E. Enikov (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)
S. Limesand (Animal and Biomedical Sciences) 
A. Gallitano (Basic Medical Sciences, COM-P)
M. Herbst-Kralovetz (Basic Medical Sciences, COM-P)
N. Chiamvimonvat (Basic Medical Sciences, COM-P))
B. LaFleur (BIO5 Institute)
G. Mouneimne (Cancer Center)
M. Kuhns (Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies)
M. Cai (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
E. Forzani (Child Health, COM-P)
K. Taraszka Hastings (Dermatology, COM-P)
J. Roveda (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
S. Adhikari (Emergency Medicine, COM-T)
I. Gladysheva (Internal Medicine, COM-P)
B. Tanriover (Medicine, COM-T)
G. Sutphin (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
J. Schroeder (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
K. Huntoon (Neurosurgery) 
J. Pilitsis (Neurosurgery)
S. Park (Nursing) 
H. Morrison (Nursing)
R. Goyal (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
T. Sawyer (Optical Sciences) 
B. Song (Optical Sciences)
L. Rimsza (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, COM-T)
C. Cartmell (Pharmacology)
P. Ronaldson (Pharmacology)
J. Streicher (Pharmacology) 
G. Thatcher (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
R. Goyal (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
X. Wang (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
J. Karnes (Poison Control Center)
H. Tseng (Radiology and Imaging, COM-T)
R. Witte (Radiology and Imaging, COM-T)
Y. Zhang (Translational Cardiovascular Research Center, COM-P)
H. Qiu (Translational Cardiovascular Research Center, COM-P)

Program Overview
Each year, the Flinn Foundation funds about 10 research teams affiliated with an Arizona university, research institution, or health-care system that are advancing new products or services addressing significant clinical needs.

The Flinn Foundation Translational Seed Grants Program awardees each receive a $100,000 grant over 18 months, plus programmatic benefits. At the end of the grant period, the most successful projects may receive up to an additional $100,000 over the following year.

Each supported team will use the 18-month grant period to de-risk its product/process, refine its design, and/or acquire key validation data and stakeholder feedback—and secure, or have a well-defined plan to secure new sources of funding to advance toward positive patient impact.

The application for the 11th cohort of grantees is open Sept. 3, 2025 through Oct. 31, 2025. Learn more about requirements, eligibility, and benefits on our RFP page.

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An applicant may only submit one application in response to this NOFO. That application can apply to only one category of the NOFO. An entity may be proposed as a subrecipient in more than one application. 

Executive Summary
This NOFO supports programs designed to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence. Please see the Eligible Applicants section for the eligibility criteria. 

• Category 1: States (Anticipated Award Amount: $2,000,000) Category 1 will support states to implement training, develop school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or apply other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. 

• Category 2: Localities, Federally Recognized Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, and School Districts (Anticipated Award Amount: $1,000,000) Category 2 will support localities, federally recognized tribal governments, nonprofits, and school districts to implement training, develop school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or apply other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. 

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Research Grant - Limit 1 // Tickets Available: 1 
Scholar (CDA) Grant - Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0
K. Huntoon (Neurosurgery) 
International Scholar Grant - Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1
One additional LOI is allowed only if it focuses on one of the areas listed below: 

• Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and glioblastoma (GBM)
• Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic
• Rhabdoid tumors - Extrarenal 

Program Descriptions: 

St. Baldrick's Scholars

• The three (3) year Scholar (Career Development) Award, with an option for two (2) additional years based on progress, is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. Recipients are called St. Baldrick's Scholars. Up to $110,000/year, three-year minimum.
• Scholar (Career Development) Award LOI instructions
• Scholar (Career Development) Award Guidelines

St. Baldrick's International Scholars

• This three (3) year award, with an option for two (2) additional years based on progress, is to train researchers from low-and middle-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) to prepare them to fill specific stated needs in an area of childhood cancer research upon returning to their country of origin. Recipients are called St. Baldrick's International Scholars. Up to $110,000/year, three-year minimum.
• International Scholar LOI instructions
• International Scholar Award Guidelines

Research Grant

• These grants are for specific research projects which are hypothesis driven and may be either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological in nature. Grant will be $100,000/year for two years.
• Research Grant LOI instructions
• Research Grant Guidelines

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B. Kim (Materials Science and Engineering)
H. Kim (Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics) 

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Only two nominations are allowed per institution.

Program Description
Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at ORAU member institutions within two years of their tenure track appointment at the time of application. If there is a question about eligibility, your ORAU Councilor makes the final determination. Only two nominations are allowed per institution.

Research must fall within one of the following five disciplines: 

• Engineering and Applied Science
• Life Sciences
• Mathematics/Computer Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Policy, Management, or Education

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A. Sachdeva (Management Information Systems)

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Up to two (2) preliminary proposals per lead organization are allowed. NSF will review the preliminary proposals and provide a binding "Invite" or "Do Not Invite" response for each preliminary proposal. Invited organizations will be allowed to submit a full proposal on the project described in the preliminary proposal by the full proposal submission deadline.

Description
Vulnerabilities in an open-source product and/or its continuous development, integration and deployment infrastructure can potentially be exploited to attack any user (human, organization, and/or another product/entity) of the product. To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security, and privacy of open-source ecosystems (OSEs), NSF is launching the Safety, Security, and Privacy for Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) program. This program solicits proposals from OSEs, including those not originally funded by NSF’s Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, to address significant safety, security, and/or privacy vulnerabilities, both technical (e.g., vulnerabilities in code and side-channels) and socio-technical (e.g., supply chain, insider threats, and social engineering). 

Although most open-source products are software-based, it is important to note that Safe-OSE applies to any type of OSE, including those based on scientific methodologies, models, and processes; manufacturing processes and process specifications; materials formulations; programming languages and formats; hardware instruction sets; system designs or specifications; and data platforms. The goal of the Safe-OSE program is to catalyze meaningful improvements in the safety, security, and privacy of the targeted OSE that the OSE does not currently have the resources to undertake. Funds from this program should be directed toward efforts to enhance the safety, security, and privacy characteristics of the open-source product and its supply chain as well as to bolster the ecosystem’s capabilities for managing current and future risks, attacks, breaches, and responses.

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H. Haeger (STEM Learning Center)
R. Gutenkunst (Molecular and Cellular Biology) 

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Please note, in accordance to the updated eligibility criteria, the University of Arizona is only eligible for tracks 2 and 3. Per S-STEM restrictions and current U of A S-STEM projects and proposals, applicants may not target STEM students in the following disciplines: Engineering, computer science, information science. The following majors may also be excluded: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Geosciences, Geosciences and Society, Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences, Applied Biotechnology, Biosystems Analytics & Technology, Environmental & Water Resource Economics, Environmental Science, Microbiology, Plant Science, Sustainable Plant System, BAS Applied Computing, BAS Cyber Operations, BAS Intelligence & Information Operations

For a given S-STEM deadline, an institution may submit up to two proposals in which it will be directly involved in providing scholarships. Multiple proposals from an institution must not overlap with regard to S-STEM eligible disciplines. See Additional Eligibility Information below for more details (see IV. Eligibility Information).

Institutions with a current S-STEM award should wait at least until the end of the third year of execution of their current award before submitting a new Track 2 or Track 3 S-STEM proposal focused on students pursuing degrees in the same discipline(s).

Program Overview 
The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable academically talented, low-income students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of academically promising low-income students who graduate with an S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs) not only to fund scholarships, but also to adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricular[a] activities that have been shown to be effective in supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.

To be eligible, scholars must be domestic low-income students with academic ability, talent, or potential and demonstrated unmet financial need who are enrolled in an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree program in an S-STEM eligible discipline. Proposers must provide an analysis that articulates the characteristics and academic needs of the population of students they are trying to serve. NSF is particularly interested in supporting the attainment of degrees in fields identified as critical needs for the Nation. It is up to the proposer to make a compelling case that such a field serves a critical need in the United States.

[a] an activity at a school or college pursued in addition to the normal course of study.

S-STEM Eligible Degree Programs

Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Engineering, and Associate of Applied Science

Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Applied Science

Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Master of Engineering

Doctoral (Ph.D. or other comparable doctoral degree)

S-STEM Eligible Disciplines

Disciplinary fields in which research is funded by NSF, including technology fields associated with the S-STEM-eligible disciplines (e.g., biotechnology, chemical technology, engineering technology, information technology, etc.).

The following degrees and disciplines are excluded:

• Clinical degree programs, including medical degrees, nursing, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, and others not funded by NSF, are ineligible degrees.
• Programs for STEM teacher certification or licensure currently covered by the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program (NOYCE) are ineligible for S-STEM funding.
• Business school programs that lead to Bachelor of Arts or Science in Business Administration degrees (BABA/BSBA/BBA) are not eligible for S-STEM funding.
• Masters and Doctoral degrees in Business Administration are also excluded.

Proposers are strongly encouraged to contact Program Officers before submitting a proposal if they have questions concerning degree or disciplinary eligibility.

The S-STEM program particularly encourages proposals from 2-year institutions, predominately undergraduate institutions, and urban, suburban, and rural public institutions.

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An institution may submit only one Center (and related Projects) application in response to this RFP.

Purpose
The intent of this initiative is to support a collaborative network of researchers whose collective efforts will lead to enhanced understanding of the earlier detection and/or delaying progression of valvular heart disease. Therefore, this Request for Proposals seeks applications that can address these critical questions and stimulate significant advances in these areas of valvular heart disease. All proposed projects must address valvular heart disease. Within that context and as presented above, an array of potential areas of investigation exists. Both human studies and appropriately designed animal models that can foster understanding of valvular heart disease may be proposed. 

STUDY POPULATION(S)

• For studies involving human subjects, researchers must ensure that participant populations accurately reflect those affected by the disease under investigation. Efforts should be made to include individuals whose health criteria align with the prevalence and impact of the disease, thereby enhancing the relevance and applicability of the study findings.
  
   
• Important: Applicants should design studies that incorporate both realistic recruitment goals and sufficient statistical power to ensure valid results.

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Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique DUNS number or NIH IPF number) is allowed.

Purpose
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs) award. The goal of the OAIC program is to establish centers of excellence in geriatrics research and research education to increase scientific knowledge leading to better ways to maintain or restore independence in older persons. OAIC awards are designed to develop or strengthen programs that focus on, and sustain progress in, a key area of aging research related to the mission of the OAIC program.

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J. Roveda (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

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Only one application per institution (normally identified by having a unique DUNS number or NIH IPF number) is allowed.

Purpose
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites Center Core (P30) applications for the National Institute on Aging's (NIA) Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITC) program. The AITC program promotes the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and technology through research projects for aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) research. All applications should propose strategies for addressing challenges surrounding AI and technology development and implementation, and to employ, when possible, best practices established in the fields of aging and AD/ADRD.

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K. Lutrick (Family and Community Medicine) 

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Only one person per organization may apply.

Program Description
The Innovation Awards in Community Health supports original and expanded programs that enhance care, improve prevention, expand treatment, and deliver education to underserved populations most vulnerable to infectious diseases. This proposed program will strengthen infectious disease prevention and response through community outreach, patient and staff education, expanded access, and trusted partnerships.

Aligned with the Innovation Awards’ goals, the program will:
• Expand access to vaccine-preventable disease, STI, and outbreak response services through
innovative outreach and delivery models.
• Provide education and awareness campaigns that build trust and improve staff and patient
understanding of prevention and treatment.
• Strengthen the capacity of safety-net providers to deliver high-quality infectious disease services.
• Share outcomes and strategies broadly, helping other clinics and community health organizations
replicate successful approaches.
By combining innovation with trusted, community-based delivery, this program will reduce disparities,
improve resilience, and protect the health of populations most at risk.