JDRF Funding Opportunity: Beta Cell Regeneration and Survival Innovative Grants

Here is the information from JDRF:

"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 Beta Cell Regeneration and Survival research priority area can be found here.
  
• ? The proposal must not be related to existing JDRF-funded research unless it involves a novel concept or hypothesis.?
  
• The concept does not require preliminary evidence in T1D but must be applicable to T1D in the future.?
  
• The Innovative Grant Mechanism is not intended to support proposals aiming to incrementally advance existing hypotheses or ongoing areas of research, or proposals with the sole goal of generating novel reagents or resources.?
  
• Applications proposing novel strategies for targeted delivery of beta cell therapeutics are of particular interest."

Application deadline: Oct. 31, 2018

More information: http://grantcenter.jdrf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Beta-Cell-Regeneration-Innovative-RFA-FY19.pdf