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National Institutes of Health(NIH): Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) PAR 10-140

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

• Thomas Royston, Bioengineering

Program Summary

This program encourages applications that propose to establish new or to enhance existing team-based design courses in undergraduate Biomedical Engineering departments or programs.This targets undergraduate students at the senior level but may also include junior undergraduates and first-year graduate students. Courses that address innovative and/or ground-breaking development, multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary training, and diversity recruitment are especially encouraged. 

Awards: Direct costs up to $40,000/year for five years.  

Limits: One application per deadline date.

Additional Information 
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-140.html

Deadlines

Letter of Intent Instructions

OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor. For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

1. Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
2. Open eLOI.
3. Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.
• To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
• To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.
4. Complete the form fields.
5. After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

• Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
• Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

Please contact Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 312-996-7036 with any questions.

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