Here is the announcement from JDRF:

"JDRF REQUESTS PROPOSALS FOR:

PREVENTION INNOVATIVE AWARDS

DESCRIPTION

JDRF provides seed funding for highly innovative research with significant potential to accelerate the mission of JDRF. Proposals should address key outstanding questions and have the potential to lead to a change in the current paradigm or conventional wisdom and/or lead to a groundbreaking discovery. Preliminary data is not required in the proposal but the underlying premise, goal, or hypothesis must be plausible and testable and the proposal must be focused with a well- defined goal that is achievable within the timeframe of the award.

Specific Information regarding JDRF’s Prevention research priority area can be found here.

ELIGIBILITY

Proposals may be submitted by domestic and foreign non-profit organizations, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government. Innovative (but not pilot and research tool) proposals from for-profit organizations will also be considered. Applicants must hold an M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., Ph.D., or equivalent and have a faculty position or equivalent at a college, university, medical school, or other research facility. There are no citizenship requirements for this program. To assure continued excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, JDRF welcomes proposals from all qualified individuals and encourages proposals from persons with disabilities, women, and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences.

PROPOSAL

Access and submit full applications (including research plans) via RMS360. The application must be completed using the templates provided in RMS360.

RESEARCH PLAN

The research plan must be submitted using the template available on RMS360 and may not exceed 3 pages, including figures and tables, but not including references. The research plan should include the following information: Statement of Innovation, Specific Aims, Background and Significance to T1D, Research Design and Methods, Potential Impact and Next Steps if Successful. Note: For a project proposing Human Subject Research, please review the Scientific Guidelines.

REVIEW CRITERIA

Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria described below. Evaluations will be competitive and performed by an appropriate review panel convened by JDRF the review criteria include:

The Innovative Grant is not intended to support proposals aiming to incrementally advance existing hypotheses, ongoing areas of research or proposals with the sole goal of generating novel reagents or resources.

TERMS OF THE AWARD

Innovative grants provide one year of support for a maximum of USD 100,000 in direct costs and indirect costs of 10%, for a total of USD 110,000. These grants are not renewable. A final progress report is due within 75 days following the close of the award.

• ?  Research that requires collaborative or multi-disciplinary approaches to address a single hypothesis

• ?  Research that requires high-cost resources, e.g. costly reagents for genomics/ proteomics studies

• ?  Studies that employ large-animal models or animal models that require lengthy development or distant endpoints

DEADLINES

RFA Release Date:............................................................................August 24, 2017

Proposal Submission Deadline: .........................................................October 31, 2017

Response to Applicants Date: ............................................................March 31, 2018

Anticipated Earliest Start Date:..........................................................May 1, 2018

CONTACTS

PROGRAMMATIC

Olivia Lou, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Prevention +1-212-479-7606
? olou@jdrf.org

Jessica Dunne, Ph.D. Director, Discovery Research +1-212-479-7595
? jdunne@jdrf.org

ADMINISTRATIVE

Zenia Dacio-Mesina
Senior Program Administrator, Prevention +1-212-479-7635
? zdacio-mesina@jdrf.org

If you have any grant-specific questions as you work within RMS360, please contact the Administrative Contact listed above.

For any non-grant-specific inquiries or issues, please contact SmartSimple Support Services via email support@smartsimple.com or phone (866) 239-0991. Support hours are Monday through Friday between 5:00am and 9:00pm US Eastern Standard Time." 

More information: 
http://grantcenter.jdrf.org/rfa/prevention-innovative-grants/