dhawan Sun, 05/24/2026 - 08:59 Special Announcements   NIH Point of Care Research Network (POCTRN) CentersUpcoming Events and Webinars  CAPCaT Annual Point-of-Care ShowcaseTuesday, June 2 | Boston, MA For the seventh consecutive year, the UMass Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies (CAPCaT) in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders is pleased to present this high-energy, high-value event for the entire digital health innovation ecosystem. Join us and open the door to investment, big company/little company strategic partnerships and grant funding opportunities. Register______________________ Webinar - Accessible by Design: The Story of the NIH RADx Accessibility InitiativeWednesday, June 10 @ 11AM ET | Virtual This webinar explores the NIH RADx Accessibility Initiative, a national effort to improve the accessibility of home diagnostic tests through inclusive design, research, and collaboration with disability communities and industry.  Attendees will learn:How accessibility barriers were identified across the testing processHow users with lived experience helped shape solutionsHow the initiative led to best practices, research publications, and emerging standards that influence future consumer health products. Register_______________________ ACME POCT GLUE Webinar - Positive Results: Human Factors Insights for Better Diagnostic POCT DesignWednesday, June 10 @ 12PM ET | Virtual Attendees will learn:The role of human factors expertise in diagnostic test designBest practices for developing usable tests for various users and contexts of useCritical human factors touchpoints throughout the diagnostic test development lifecycleRecommended resources to aid the design processRegister_______________________  2026 BRAIN Initiative Biennial ConferenceTuesday, August 11 - Thursday, August 13 | Rockville, MD The 11th BRAIN Conference convenes grant awardees, staff, leadership from the BRAIN Initiative’s federal and non-federal partners, and anyone interested in neuroscience and BRAIN Initiative-funded research. Conference participants will discuss the latest scientific developments and exciting research priorities for technology-driven innovation in neuroscience. This biennial event provides a forum for collaboration, discussion, and coordination across the BRAIN Initiative community.Register  Grant Opportunity Alerts NSF: Gravitational Physics (GP): Transport Phenomena; Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems; Electronic, Photonic, Magnetic, and Quantum Devices (EPMQD)NIH: Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U01); Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01); Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes for the Nervous System (R01)Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: DoW Melanoma Research Program Team Science Award; DoW Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Translational Research Award; DoW Epilepsy Research Partnership AwardDepartment of Energy: Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2026 (IGNIITE 2026)NASA: ROSES25: F.17 Research Initiation Awards; NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II Recent Research Grant and Contract Awards US NIH Functional Networks of White Matter in Alzheimer's Disease and their Associations with Cognitive Decline Principal Investigator: Bharat Biswal Co-Principal Investigator: Xiaobo Li Department: Biomedical Engineering Duration: Thursday, August 1, 2024 to Monday, April 30, 2029 US Dept of Energy Nonreciprocity and light-controlled phenomena in low-symmetry antiferromagnets: neutron and optical vortex beam studies Principal Investigator: Andrei Sirenko Department: Physics Duration: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 to Friday, July 31, 2026 American Orthopaedic Foot And Ankle Society Inc Software to detect, track and evaluate physiologic below knee amputation motion within a dynamic stereo X-ray video system Principal Investigator: Salam Daher Department: Informatics Duration: Friday, May 1, 2026 to Friday, April 30, 2027 National Science Foundation SaTC: CORE: Small: Improving the Security of Large Language Model-Assisted Coding Principal Investigator: Zhihao Yao Co-Principal Investigator: Iulian Neamtiu Department: Computer Science Duration: Friday, May 15, 2026 to Monday, April 30, 2029 In the News  Commerce commits to funding incentives with 9 companies to spur quantum development: The Commerce Department signed letters of intent with nine quantum computing and quantum foundry companies to provide funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to support innovation in quantum computing. Announced on Thursday, $2.013 billion in CHIPS funding will go to IBM, GlobalFoundries, Atom Computing, Diraq, D-Wave, Infleqtion, PsiQuantum, Quantinuum and Rigetti to spur different components of the burgeoning quantum computing ecosystem. IBM and GlobalFoundries will receive $1 billion and $375 million, respectively, to build quantum tech-specific foundries. IBM will focus on manufacturing quantum-grade superconducting wafers, while GlobalFoundries will be tasked with scaling components of leading quantum computing architectures and modalities, such as superconducting circuits, photonics, trapped ions and more.  The remaining seven companies will use Commerce’s funding to improve their proprietary quantum computing technologies and modalities. Infleqtion, for example, manufactures quantum computers powered by neutral atom systems, and will receive $100 million to further scale its work.  Of the seven companies funded to continue innovation in their individual quantum computing spaces, Diraq, which specializes in quantum computing via silicon spin qubits, received $38 million. The other six each received $100 million. More information is posted on the NextGov website._______________________________ Tech bills of the week: Mitigating risks to critical infrastructure; incentivizing domestic high-tech manufacturing; and more: Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., introduced two measures on Tuesday to combat cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure services.  The first, the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act, would establish a joint interagency task force to detect, analyze and respond to Chinese-connected threat actors.  Scott’s office said in a press release that the group would be helmed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and would “align and reinforce the work of Sector Risk Management Agencies and other key departments by sharing analysis, inspections, audits, and other relevant information.” A House version of the measure was introduced by Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., last year. That bill overwhelmingly passed the House in November. Scott, alongside Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also rolled out the Maritime Cybersecurity Act to address digital threats to critical waterways and related systems. That proposal would direct the Department of Homeland Security to conduct annual vulnerability assessments of the software and hardware used at maritime facilities to identify cyber weaknesses. More information is posted on the NextGov website. Webinars and Events National Science Foundation NSF BIO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences Date/Time: Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 13:00 - Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 14:00 National Science Foundation Intro to the NSF I-Corps Teams program Date/Time: Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 13:00 - Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 14:00 National Science Foundation Introduction to the NSF X-Labs Funding Opportunity on Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging Date/Time: Thursday, May 28, 2026 - 13:00 - Thursday, May 28, 2026 - 14:00 Research Grant Opportunities:  National Science Foundation Gravitational Physics (GP) RFP Number/Website: NSF PD 26-1243 Awards: Various Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Full Proposal Submission Deadline: November 25, 2026, for fiscal year 2027 Transport Phenomena RFP Number/Website: NSF PD 26-366Y Awards: Various Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Full Proposal Submission Deadline: Full proposal accepted anytime  Electronic, Photonic, Magnetic, and Quantum Devices (EPMQD) RFP Number/Website: NSF PD 26-1517 Awards: Various Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Full Proposal Submission Deadline: Full proposal accepted anytime National Institutes of Health Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U01 Clinical Trial Optional) RFP Number/Website: RFA-CA-27-019 Awards: Budgets are limited to $300,000 Direct Costs (excluding consortium F&A) per year. Letter of Intent: Not Required Full Proposal Submission Deadline: July 01, 2026; October 19, 2026 Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) RFP Number/Website: PAR-27-072 Awards: Application budgets are limited to less than $500,000 (direct costs) per year. Letter of Intent: Not Required Full Proposal Submission Deadline: October 05, 2026 Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes for the Nervous System (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFP Number/Website: PAR-27-081 Awards: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. Letter of Intent: Not Required Full Proposal Submission Deadline: June 05, 2026; October 05, 2026 Department of Defense DoW Melanoma Research Program Team Science Award RFP Number/Website: CDMRP HT942526MRPTSA Awards: Expected Awards: 9 Anticipated Funding Amount: $18,900,000 Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Preliminary Proposal Deadline: Pre-Application Due: July 13, 2026 Full Proposal Submission Deadline: October 14, 2026 DoW Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Translational Research Award RFP Number/Website: CDMRP HT942526TBIPHRPTRA Awards: Expected Awards: 6 Anticipated Funding Amount: $9,000,000 Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Preliminary Proposal Deadline: Pre-Application Due: July 13, 2026 Full Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2026 DoW Epilepsy Research Partnership Award RFP Number/Website: CDMRP HT942526ERPRPA Awards: 1 Award  Anticipated Funding Amount: $2,000,000 Letter of Intent: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), August 3, 2026 Full Proposal Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, August 17, 2026 Department of Energy Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2026 (IGNIITE 2026) RFP Number/Website: Department of Energy DE-FOA-0003624 Awards: ARPA-E may issue one, multiple, or no awards under this NOFO. Individual awards may not exceed $500,000. Awardees may, at the discretion of the Director of ARPA-E, be selected to receive an additional $250,000 Director’s Award to continue project work started under the award. Anticipated Funding Amount: Approximately $10 million, subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Letter of Intent: Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: 9:30 AM ET, May 29, 2026 Full Proposal Submission Deadline: 9:30 AM ET, TBD NASA ROSES25: F.17 Research Initiation Awards RFP Number/Website: NASA NNH25ZDA001N-RIA Awards: About $300,000 per award Anticipated Funding Amount: $2,000,000 Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Full Proposal Submission Deadline: August 18, 2026 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II RFP Number/Website: NASA NNH26ZTR001N-26NIAC-A2 Awards: TBA Letter of Intent: Please contact the program director Full Proposal Submission Deadline: TBA