2011 IMGC PCD Award

2011 IMGC Portal Content Development Awards

Research Project Proposal Goals

These awards are designed to increase IMGC portal content development efforts to accelerate the understanding of the biological processes underlying the genomics of mammalian milk. The areas covered by this call for proposals are: mammary-specific functional gene annotation, curation of lactation microarray, proteome and oligosaccharides data sets.

Note: These are research project proposals for upload and/or analyzing of existing data and not for new research projects.

Eligibility Information

Awards are open on a competitive basis to U.S. and international universities and research institutions. Candidates must be enrolled as graduate or undergraduate students or have a post doc or staff position at the time of the application and duration of the award period.

Award Information

Individual awards: $4,000 per project
Number of awards: Four awards
Project period: Six months with a project start date of May 9th, 2011
Total budget for 2011: $16,000

Proposal Submission

Deadline: Monday, March 28th, 2011, 5pm U.S. Pacific Time.
Process: Applications will only be accepted via submission of this online form.

Review process

The IMGC Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) will review proposals by April 15th, 2011. Final decisions will be made by the IMGC Steering Committee (SC) by April 29th, 2011.

Proposal Format

To submit your proposal, please fill out this form completely. Your project description should include specific objectives, background and significance to field and research method (not to exceed 500 words). You may either enter the project description directly into the Project Description field below or upload it as a single-page PDF-formatted file from your computer using the Browse button at the bottom of the form.

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