Advanced Biosciences Initiative
With a $250,000 grant from the W.F. Keck Foundation, we launched the Advanced Biosciences Initiative (ABI) in 2011. The overarching goals of the ABI are to significantly advance SCU's undergraduate bioscience and bioengineering programs and provide workshops for middle and high school teachers through the Santa Clara County Biotechnology Education Partnership (SCCBEP) and the Bay Area Biotech Education Consortium (BABEC). ABI will involve faculty workshops on advanced instrumentation, curriculum projects, interdisciplinary research grants, an annual Biosciences Symposium, SCCBEP workshops and other Silicon Valley bioscience partnerships.
Up to 3 grants of $12,000 will be awarded with a deadline of February 24, 2012. The budget for each $12,000 grant will be $5,000 faculty summer salary and benefits, $5,000 for undergraduate student salary and benefits and up to $2,000 for consumable supplies. Selected projects must be collaborative, interdisciplinary, involve one or more microscopic methods, integrate a Silicon Valley partner in a meaningful way including campus visits, interactions with students and others types of project contributions, include a future external support plan and produce published research.
Proposals are due March 9, 2012 with awards announced in late March or early April, and project start dates of June 1, 2011. Full-time faculty are invited to apply. Proposals must be submitted electronically to grants@scu.edu with "ABI Grants" as the subject and must include:
a. Project Title, List of Participants, and Project Summary (1 page)
b. Project Description (3 pages) must include a description of how one or more microscopic methods are involved and how a Silicon Valley bioscience partner will be integrated in a meaningful way including a schedule of campus visits or off-site visits and a description of the partner's project contribution
c. Budget with budget justification (1 page)
d. Future external support plan (1 page)
e. Patent development plan (1 page; only required if potentially patentable inventions are anticipated)
f. Letter of Support from at least one Silicon Valley bioscience partner
For more information, please contact Amy Shachter, Associate Provost for Research and Faculty Affairs.
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