Deadline: Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences

Sponsor Deadline: September 23, 2013
Award Amount: $100,000 to $400,000 per year (total costs) with duration of 3-5 years
Eligible Disciplines: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, biology, biomedical sciences

The Division of Mathematical Sciences in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health plan to support research in mathematics and statistics on questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. This competition is designed to encourage new collaborations, as well as to support existing ones. Research teams that include scientists from both the life sciences community and the mathematical and statistical sciences communities are encouraged. Proposals from individual investigators will need to make the case that the individual has expertise in both fields. Successful proposals will either involve the formulation of new mathematical, computational or statistical models and tools whose analysis poses significant mathematical challenges or identify innovative mathematics or statistics needed to solve an important biological problem.