Grants Available for Green Chemistry Research

Green chemistry researchers could get a boost from the recently approved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

“Green chemistry and engineering for drug discovery, development and production” has been identified by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences as one of the specific challenge topics for the $200 million “NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research” initiative, which is part of the recovery and reinvestment act.

Award grants of up to $1 million each are available to help quickly advance the area in significant ways.

March 27-April 27 is the submission timeline for RFAs (requests for applications).

The Challenge Grant RFA is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html .

A complete list of NIGMS Challenge Topics can be found at http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/ChallengeAreas.htm. The green chemistry and engineering topic area is listed as 06-GM-109.