Committee on Funded Research

The ASA Committee on Funded Research (CFR) will again be hosting a meeting at JSM for attendees to learn about funding opportunities directly from representatives of funding agencies. "Funding Opportunities for Statistics" is scheduled for 12:15-1:45 pm on Sunday, August 9 in CC-4C1. [START TIME MOVED TO 12:15.] The committee is trying a new time this year because there will be fewer scheduling conflicts with the JSM sessions not beginning until 2 pm Sunday. Please watch this space for further details of location and confirmed speakers. This meeting has been very well attended in past years and I hope that you'll be part of it this year. 

Likely speakers include

• Cheryl Eavey, Program Director of the NSF Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate, 2014 JSM Slides, confirmed, Slides
• Gregory K. Farber, Director, Office of Technology Development and Coordination, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH, to speak on BRAIN Initiative opportunities, confirmed, Slides
  
• Jason Gerson, Associate Director, CER Methods and Infrastructure, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), confirmed, Slides
• Peter Kozel, NIH Scientific Review Officer, Biostatistical Methods and Research Design Study Section (BMRD), to speak on NIGMS funding opportunities, confirmed, Slides
• Deborah Lockhart, Deputy Division Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE), confirmed, Slides
• Stephen Marcus, NIH NIGMS, to speak on NIGMS funding opportunities, confirmed, Slides
• Michael Vogelius, Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, confirmed

If you have advice for funding for agencies/divisions not covered above, please let CFR Committee Chair Dave Higdon know. 

Each representative will speak for about ten minutes and then the rest of the 90 minutes will be Q&A. 

The ASA Committee on Funded Research also sponsors the ASA Community Group Funding Opportunities where solicitations for various funding opportunities are circulated. You can join the group here. See also their webpage listing funding sources and advice. You can learn more about the Funding Opportunities group in this August 2014 Amstat News article: Funding Opportunities Group Enters Second Year. See also Funding Opportunities Timeline, a blog entry of recurring solicitation deadlines of possible interest to statisticians.

See also this Amstat News article on a writing workshop at JSM: Writing Workshop Planned for Junior Researchers.

For the 2014 JSM funding opportunity meeting, see ASA Committee on Funded Research to Host Funding Opportunities Meeting at JSM.