NSF Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Big Data: Deadline

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Unsolicited Proposals for Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Big Data
OSP deadline: July 30, 2015
Sponsor Deadline: August 6, 2015
Award Information: Up to $100,000 for one year planning grants

Through this Dear Colleague Letter, NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, aims to foster inter- and multi-disciplinary, exploratory collaborations leading to new research directions and contributing to the enhancement of the mathematical sciences infrastructure. Proposals should explain how this new collaboration will address a biomedical challenge and describe the use of large-scale publicly available biomedical datasets to illustrate the proposed models and methodology. Data science topics of interest in this context include, but are not limited to, network analysis, causal analysis, and machine learning. The National Institutes of Health , through the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative, will be participating in this effort and plans to jointly sponsor these grants. The planning grants are intended to stimulate and facilitate collaborations that may lead to the development of full submissions to the funding agencies.