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Issue 45 | June 2024

NEWS f rom ORG Desk

Dear Campus Researchers,
USIEF is hosting a mentoring session on June 5th, 2024, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm (IST).
This session will provide guidance on writing proposals, obtaining host institution
invitation letters, and identifying referees for the Fulbright Fellowships. To register for
the mentoring session, please click here.
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, has announced a Special
Call of Proposals on Carbon Capture Utilisation (CCU) deployment in Cement Sector.
To provide clarity on eligibility, criteria, funding guidelines, and address applicants’
queries, DST will host a webinar on June 10th, 2024, from 15:00 - 16:00 hrs (IST).
Interested applicants should register by emailing basic information to
ccus.dst@gmail.com by June 8th, 2024 (17:00 hrs IST). For more details on registration,
please Click Here
As part of the MBBS/MPH internship program, Team ORG is hosting a ‘Meet ‘N Greet’
event for the selected interns on 20th June, 2024 at the Faculty Hall Foyer, IISc Main
Building from 3.00 - 5.00 pm. The ‘Meet ‘N Greet’ aims to facilitate networking among
interns and provide an opportunity to interact with esteemed faculty members over
a cup of coffee.
For any inquiries, please contact us at office.org@iisc.ac.in
Best regards,
ORG Team

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SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIPS
Department of Health Research (DHR)
- Ministry of Health & Family Welfare |
Short-Term Fellowship Abroad
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
This program provides funding for specialized
training in niche areas of biomedical research and
technology, enabling participants to excel in their
fields of interest over a period of 1-3 months. It
aims to strengthen the capacity of regular Indian
faculty and researchers.
Department of Health Research - Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare | Long-Term
Fellowship Abroad
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
Aiming to create a pool of trained and experienced
human resources in India, this fellowship provides
opportunities for advanced training in biomedical
and health research, supporting regular faculty.
Department of Health Research - Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare | Short-Term
Fellowship at Indian Institute
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
The scheme offers support to access specialized
training in niche areas of interest within the field of
biomedical research to strengthen the capacity of
regular Indian faculty/researcher.
Department of Health Research - Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare | Long-Term
Fellowship at Indian Institute
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
This fellowship is for individuals employed as regular
faculty with at least three years of experience in a
college or institute, providing advanced training in
biomedical and health research.
Funding Newsletter from Office of Research Grants
Department of Health Research - Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare | Biomedical
research grant for NRI/OCI/PIO
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
This Scheme is designed to provide contractual
research positions to the Indian scientists settled
abroad who are willing to come back to India on
a full-time basis or for a short duration to pursue
medical/health research in India and take up health
research projects in collaboration with Indian
scientists, particularly in areas of national priority.
Department of Health Research - Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare | Women
Scientist fellowship
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage
women scientists who are presently unemployed
having at least 1 year of recent career break to
return and pursue their career in biomedical/health
research.
United States – India Educational
Foundation (USIEF) | Fulbright-Nehru
Academic and Professional Excellence
Fellowships 2025-26
Submission Deadline: 01 July 2024
The objective is to provide Indian faculty,
researchers, and professionals the opportunity to
teach, conduct research, or carry out a combination
of teaching and research at a U.S. institution.
USIEF | Fulbright-Kalam Climate
Fellowships for Doctoral Research 2025-26
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024
To build long-term capacity to address climate
change-related issues in India and the U.S., this
program provides fellowships for Indian scholars
who are registered for a Ph.D. at an Indian
institution.

SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIPS
USIEF | Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research
Fellowships 2025-26
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024
The program offers fellowships for Indian Ph.D.
scholars enrolled at Indian institutions, providing
opportunities to audit non-degree courses, conduct
research, and gain practical work experience in
appropriate settings in the U.S.
RESEARCH GRANTS
DST | New and Emerging Energy Storage
Technologies (NEST)
Submission Deadline: 07 June 2024
The program seeks to support research that will lead
to the development of energy storage technologies
that can demonstrate techno-economic scalability,
indigenized and support energy transition.
Human Immunome Project (HIP) -
Michelson Medical Research Foundation |
Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants
Submission Deadline: 09 June 2024
An international prize that supports early-career
researchers who are applying disruptive concepts
and inventive processes to advance human
immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy
research.
BIRAC | Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG)
Submission Deadline: 10 June 2024
The initiative aims to identify and invest in innovative
biotech ideas, supporting technology innovators and
entrepreneurs in developing and validating proof of
concepts (POC) in specific areas of focus.
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PC: Dr. Karthik Ram
Simons Foundation | 2024 Pilot Award –
Request for Applications
Submission Deadline: 13 June 2024
The goal of this award is to provide early support
for exploratory ideas considered higher risk but with
the potential for transformative results, particularly
those with novel hypotheses for autism.
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) |
Call for Proposal- Improvement in the
understanding of Indian monsoon
teleconnection on intraseasonal, seasonal,
interannual and decadal scales.
Submission Deadline: 14 June 2024
The call for proposals aims to fund projects from
universities and research institutions in India that
focus on enhancing the comprehension of Indian
monsoon teleconnections across various time scales,
including intraseasonal, seasonal, interannual, and
decadal scales.
MoES | Call for proposal - Impact of
climate change on the probability and
intensity of extreme weather events over
Indian region
Submission Deadline: 14 June 2024
The objective is to provide financial support for
research proposals that investigate the effects of
climate change on extreme weather events in the
Indian region.
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RESEARCH GRANTS
IAEA | Call for Proposal: Understanding
Hydrological Processes in Glacierized
Catchments under Changing Climate using
Isotope Techniques
Submission Deadline: 17 June 2024
This new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) aims
to support Member States (including India) to
develop and apply isotope-based methodologies to
improve water resource management in glacierized
catchments under changing climate.
NIH | Adaptation of Diabetes Control
Technologies for Older Adults with T1D
(R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Submission Deadline: 17 June 2024
The main objective of this funding notification is
to foster development and testing of technologies
adaptable to aging-related changes in older adults
(aged 65 years or older) with T1D to improve
diabetes management and quality of life.
NIH | NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer
Research for Years 2023, 2024, and 2025
(NCI Omnibus) (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
Submission Deadline: 20 June 2024
This funding opportunity offers support to small
research projects on cancer that can be carried
out in a short period of time with limited resources
including, pilot and feasibility studies; secondary
analysis of existing data; small, self-contained
research projects; development of research
methodology; and development of new research
technology.
NIH | Research on Biopsychosocial Factors
of Social Connectedness and Isolation on
Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery
(R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
Submission Deadline: 21 June 2024
The call aims to facilitate research projects that seek
to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes,
and trajectories of social relationships and how
these factors affect outcomes in health, illness,
recovery, and overall wellbeing.
Funding Newsletter from Office of Research Grants
NIH | Research on Biopsychosocial Factors
of Social Connectedness and Isolation on
Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery
(R01 Basic Experimental Studies with
Humans Required)
Submission Deadline: 21 June 2024
Under this initiative, NIH invites research projects
that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms,
processes, and trajectories of social relationships
and how these factors affect outcomes in human
health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing.
Wellcome | Infectious Disease Award:
Understanding Dengue and Zika spread,
immunity and clinical outcomes.
Submission Deadline: 25 June 2024
This initiative is designed to assist multidisciplinary
teams to generate evidence on where dengue
and Zika viruses co-circulate and investigate the
implications this has on host immune responses and
clinical outcomes.
NIH | Optimizing Health of Children and
Adolescents with Perinatal HIV Exposure
(U19 Clinical Trial Optional)
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
The objective of this call is to generate information
needed to develop and to test interventions for the
early detection and reduction of long-term effects of
in utero/perinatal exposure to antiretroviral therapy
(ART) and/or HIV among individuals who are HIV
exposed but uninfected (IHEU).
DST | Call for Proposals - Recovery and
Recycling of End-of-Life Solar PV panels/
modules
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
This call seeks innovative proposals for the
development of efficient, environmentally
sustainable methods for the recovery and recycling
of end-of-life solar PV panels/modules.

RESEARCH GRANTS
Radala Foundation | Research Grants
in (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) ALS
Research
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
Support active Investigators in ALS research or in
broadly related fields to study and understand the
basic causes of the disease.
DST | Special Call for Proposals - Carbon
Capture Utilisation (CCU) deployment in
Cement Sector
Submission Deadline: 13 July 2024
The Special call proposes to develop and deploy
innovative CCU Test bed in Cement Sector with
thrust on Developing CO2 capture + Utilization
integrated unit in an Industrial set up that uses a
method intended to retain 95 - 99% of CO2 from
cement kiln gas with a purity exceeding 95% (1-2
TPD of CO2 Capture).
NIH | Chronic, Non-Communicable
Diseases and Disorders Across the
Lifespan: Fogarty International Research
Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN) (D43
Clinical Trial Optional)
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024
This funding opportunity invites applications for
institutional research training programs in low-
and middle-income countries. The proposed
training program aims to sustainably enhance Non-
Communicable Disease (NCD) research capacity and
train local experts to develop and conduct research
on NCDs across the lifespan.
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Congressionally Directed Medical Research
Program (CDMRP) | Patient-Centered
Outcomes and Survivorship Award
Submission Deadline: 17 July 2024
The intent is to promote evidence-based and patient-
centered approaches to improve health and lung
cancer related outcomes and enhance the patient
experience in defined populations by supporting
high-risk, high-reward research studies.
NIH | Partnerships for the Development
of Tools to Advance Therapeutic Discovery
for Select Antibiotic-Resistant Gram-
Negative Bacteria (R01 Clinical Trial Not
Allowed)
Submission Deadline: 21 July 2024
The purpose of this call is to support milestone-
driven projects focused on developing and utilizing
novel predictive models, assays, tools, and/or
platforms based on penetration and efflux of
small molecules to facilitate therapeutic discovery
for select Gram-negative bacterial pathogens:
carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter, carbapenem-
resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and multidrug-
resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
NIH - National Human Genome Research
Institute (NHGRI) |The Genomic
Community Resources (U24 Clinical Trial
Not Allowed)
Submission Deadline: 27 July 2024
NIH seeks to facilitate genomic research and the
dissemination of its products by supporting both new
and existing genomic resources of demonstrated
broad value to the research community.
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RESEARCH GRANTS
Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF) |
Research Grants
Submission Deadline: 30 July 2024
The CAIF is seeking proposals to support research
that will improve the cooperative intelligence
of advanced AI systems for the benefit of all of
humanity.
National Eczema Association | Eczema
Champion Research Grant
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024
This award provides funding support for experienced
researchers with recognized productivity – either
within or outside the eczema field – to conduct
highly innovative, cutting-edge investigations related
to eczema.

NIH | BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation

Devices for Recording and Modulation in
the Human Central Nervous System (UG3/
UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024
This NIH opportunity aims to encourage investigators
to pursue translational activities and small clinical
studies for recording and/or stimulating devices to
treat central nervous system disorders and better
understand the human brain.

PC: Mahesh Patil

AWARDS
Applied Microbiology International | WH
Pierce Global Impact in Microbiology Prize
Submission Deadline: 26 July 2024
This Prize acknowledges and celebrates individuals,
teams, or organisations who have made
groundbreaking contributions to global challenges
through applied microbiology.
Applied Microbiology International |
Dorothy Jones Diversity and Inclusion
Achievement Award
Submission Deadline: 26 July 2024
This award aims to acknowledge individuals or
organisations those have made significant strides
in the areas alongside strategies for achieving
gender equality, eliminating disparities in education
outcomes, ensuring equal access to education for all,
and strengthening the global scientific workforce.

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POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
USIEF | Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral
Research Fellowships 2025-26
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024
USIEF offers fellowships for Indian faculty and
researchers who are in the early stages of their
research careers in India and provide opportunities
to strengthen their research capacities in areas of
their interest.
USIEF | Fulbright-Kalam Climate
Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research
2025-26
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024
The objective of the fellowship is to build long-term
capacity to address climate change-related issues in
India and the U.S. Early-stage faculty and researchers
from Indian are provided with the opportunity to
strengthen their research capacities under this
program.

VISITING SCIENTIST PROGRAM

USIEF | Fulbright-Kalam Climate
Fellowships for Academic and Professional
Excellence 2025-26
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2024
To build long-term capacity to address climate
change-related issues in India and the U.S., this
fellowship aims to provide Indian faculty, researchers,
and professionals the opportunity to teach, conduct
research, or carry out a combination of teaching and
research at a U.S. institution.

PC: Bitasta Das

MEETING GRANTS
IGSTC | Indo-German Bilateral Workshops
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024
With an aim to create platforms for substantive
interactions between scientists / researchers from
academia and industry, IGSTC invites applications
for organising Indo-German workshops on areas of
mutual interest.
PC: Saket Kumar
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