RESEARCH & COMMERCIALIZATION NEWS

University Research News

• UM Research Board Deadlines Set for Oct. 6, 2008, and Feb. 16, 2009. Contact Shannon Nichols with questions.
• IT Enterprises: Incubator Looks to Give Tech Companies a Start St. Louis Post-Dispatch (07/08/2008)
• UMSL Chancellor's Latest Book, "Microcomputer Modeling of Growth Processes of Single-Crystal Sheets & Fibers" available from Nova Publishers

Commercialization Corner

• Has a discovery or invention come from your sponsored research or during your time as a University employee? Please contact Tamara Wilgers (516-6884) for help with invention disclosure policies and procedures, or visit the ORA web site's technology transfer section.

Other News of Interest

• A Musical Score for Disease: Converting genetic activity into music may be a way to monitor health
  When set to music, colon cancer sounds kind of eerie. That's the finding of Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School who is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music. In his acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and disclord indicates disease. MIT Technology Review (07/18/08)
• A New Frontier for Title IX: Science
  Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports. But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science. New York Times (07/15/08)
• Open-Source Biomodels: Molecules First, Then the World
  The open-source software movement has finally met the world of biological modeling. Both a language and a program, "little b" gives systems biologists an infrastructure for building and sharing models of cellular activity. Wired Science (07/22/08)

RECENT AWARDS

• External Funding Report, June 2008 Awards (PDF)

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• Recent Announcements - Federal Agencies, August 2008 (PDF)
• Grant Advisor Plus Newsletter & Deadline Memo, August 2008 (PDF)
• Opportunity Databases:
  • Grant Advisor Plus
  • InfoEd
  • Grants.go

GRANT BASICS

• Internal Controls -- effort verification, transaction approvals by PI, payroll, non-owned equipment (PDF)
• ORA Procedures & Deadlines -- budgets, NIH submissions, signature page (PDF)

The Office of Research Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis publishes the Spirit of Innovation Newsletter once each month. The online and e-mail publication is designed to inform the campus community of grants received; highlight the research and commercialization accomplishments of UMSL faculty, graduate students and staff; and provide information on important deadlines and events. Also included is recent news about research and commercialization at the University and elsewhere. Recipients are UMSL faculty, students and staff. E-mail wilgerst@umsl.edu if you have questions, comments or suggestions on content.

The Office of Research Administration provides leadership and support in the development, execution and operation of programs in sponsored research, technology transfer and economic development throughout the University of Missouri-St. Louis. (ORA Mission)

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