QBI-Qlife RFA on QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES FOR STUDYING COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA

Shaeri Mukherjee (QBI) and Bruno Goud (Qlife): "An investigation into how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks Rab GTPase function to promote virion assembly and exocytosis"

Judy Sakanari (QBI) and Gilles Gasser (Qlife): "Novel Bioorganometallic Drugs to Treat Neglected Tropical Diseases"

Orion Weiner (QBI) and Hervé Turlier (Qlife): "Quantitative approaches for studying complex biological phenomena"

Steve Altschuler (QBI) and Auguste Genovesio (Qlife): "Deciphering spatial patterning in the gut epithelium by computational tissue shuffling"

QBI, in collaboration with the PSL-Qlife Institute at the Institut Curie in Paris, is announcing a 600k$ RFA aimed to connect the quantitative biology worlds at UCSF and PSL-Qlife through a funding mechanism, QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES FOR STUDYING COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA RFA.

We will award one-year collaborative pilot projects where quantitative approaches are used to study complex biological problems. Awards will be given to collaborating researchers based at QBI and PSL-Qlife and we encourage original, bold studies that would be unlikely to be supported through conventional grants. We are anticipating awarding 3-6 grants. 

The QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES FOR STUDYING COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA RFA will be reviewed in this process: 

Applications are limited to one page (11-pt Arial font, 1⁄2-in margins, single-spaced), with an additional one page for figures and legends and one page for supporting references. A 3-line summary (for website communication of awardees) should be included. Preliminary data are not required, nor pre-existing relationships between PIs. Justification of why this work would not be funded by more traditional means such as NIH or French ANR should be included.  

Applications should be sent to admin-qbi@ucsf.edu and qlife@psl.eu 

Any investigator of QBI and PSL-Qlife may apply for this award. 

Ideas will be judged on the following criteria:   

    • At least two investigators involved, at least one from QBI and one from PSL-Qlife

    • Explanation of why research could not be done without the other side, and why it would not be funded through conventional mechanisms

    • What makes this a higher risk, bolder project by its approach and idea