Thanks to the generosity of a number of donors, including the Audacious Project, we are now soliciting applications for our second round of funding. We expect to make at least $20 million of grants. For the second round of Fast Grants, decisions will be made within 14 days of application submission. We will close application...

Learn about the SBIR/STTR Program & COVID-19 Funding Presented by the University of California Riverside’s SBIR/STTR Resource Center Friday, June 12, 2020 ● 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 PST CLICK HERE to Register The federal SBIR/STTR program is the leading resource for small businesses looking for commercialization and contracting support. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has resulted in a...

The FBI is investigating the targeting and compromise of U.S. organizations conducting COVID-19-related research by PRC-affiliated cyber actors and non-traditional collectors.

Subject: JUST RELEASED! FY20 DoD Pre-Announcements This e-mail is to notify the research community of recently released Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) pre-announcements for the Department of Defense (DoD) programs managed by the office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). CDMRP understands that applicants are impacted by COVID-19. Submission deadlines for pre-applications and full applications...

In light of the emergence and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in California and beyond, the statewide funding programs of the University of California Office, of the President (UCOP) Research Grants Program Office (California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP),Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP)) and the Type 1 Diabetes...

This award will be presented to a single investigator or team of up to two investigators that develops a “transformative idea” to resolve challenges, advance frontiers, and set new paradigms in areas of immense potential benefit to DoD and the nation at large. Proposals should aim to produce novel conceptual frameworks or theory-based approaches that...

Dear Faculty Colleagues, As a follow-up to the message sent yesterday about curtailment of on-campus research and plans for a possible research shutdown, attached is a recommended checklist to follow for those who are submitting a shutdown plan for their lab. This checklist is modified from similar lists other universities that find themselves in a...

Dear Faculty Colleagues, As you have been hearing on the news and seeing on social media, state and local authorities are closing schools, restaurants and bars, and in the Bay Area ordering people to stay at home. In a very short period of time here at UCR, we have gone from “continue research to the...

Interim Guidance by Institutional Review Board (IRB) - approved Human Subjects Research and other research activities involving visits and in-person interactions with participants, subjects or patients at University of California, Riverside (UCR) during COVID-19 Outbreak 
 - Effective March 13 th, 2020 Background This is a follow up to the message from VC RED Torres...

Dear UCR research community, I would like to follow up on the Chancellor’s message this afternoon about academic continuity and campus operations. As mentioned in the message, we are NOT suspending research activities at this time but want to share several actions and recommendations. Despite many uncertainties about how the COVID-19 epidemic will affect the...