Advanced Research Program Advanced Technology Program 1999 Program Announcements Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board P. O. Box 12788 Austin, Texas 78711-2788 http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/divisions/research/arpatp/arpatp.htm Biological Sciences, Biomedicine and Medical Biotechnology Research Areas Electronic Date Stamp Deadline for Pre-Proposals (Required) 12:00 noon, June 3, 1999 Postmark Deadline for Proposals August 13, 1999 All Other Research Areas Electronic Date Stamp Deadline for Notices of Intent to Submit (Required) 12:00 noon, June 8, 1999 Postmark Deadline for Proposals July 13, 1999 Note: These guidelines and schedule are being presented now to provide investigators lead time for proposal preparation. Funding and program guidelines depend upon legislative approval of an appropriation. Awards cannot be made until the legislative process is complete. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Pamela P. Willeford (Chair) Austin Martin Basaldua, M.D. (Vice Chair) Kingwood Joseph R. Krier (Secretary of the Board) San Antonio William C. Atkinson Bryan Dolores Hutto Carruth, M.D. Irving Joaquin G. Cigarroa, Jr., M.D. Laredo Kevin P. Eltife Tyler Robert I. Fernandez Fort Worth Douglas S. Harlan, Ph.D. San Antonio Jodie L. Jiles Houston Steve Late Odessa Adair Margo El Paso Wendy Marsh Amarillo Janie S. McGarr Dallas Tom C. Nichols Lubbock Leonard Rauch Houston Robert W. Shepard Harlingen Carlos Villa El Paso Coordinating Board Mission The mission of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is to provide the Legislature advice and comprehensive planning capability for higher education, to coordinate the effective delivery of higher education, to efficiently administer assigned statewide programs, and to advance higher education for the people of Texas. Coordinating Board Philosophy The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will promote access to quality higher education across the state with the conviction that access without quality is mediocrity and that quality without access is unacceptable. The Board will be open, ethical, responsive, and committed to public service. The Board will approach its work with a sense of purpose and responsibility to the people of Texas and is committed to the best use of public monies. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age or disability in employment or the provision of services. FOR 1999 U The 1999 ARP/ATP Program Announcements contain the first step in an effort to re-allocate funds to strategically address some of the priorities identified by the Texas Science and Technology Council, the Texas Strategic Economic Development Plan, interests of the Legislature, and the rapid development of some fields of science. U The preliminary allocation of funds includes increased funding for BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICINE, and MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, reflecting a priority placed on the LIFE SCIENCES for future economic development. Increased funding is also being provided for TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, and WATER RESOURCES. TRANSPORTATION research will be separately funded for the first time, reflecting the importance of this area in the Texas economy. In selecting proposals, reviewers will also place particular emphasis on projects that address the ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER RESOURCE ISSUES OF THE BORDER REGION. U MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY now exists as a separate research area and AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY is recognized as a component of agriculture. U The upper limit used to define small research institutions has been changed from $6 million to $8 million U A pilot two-step review process will be used for submissions to the biological sciences, biomedicine, and medical biotechnology research areas. U Electronic submission will be required for Pre-proposals and Notices of Intent. U An additional review of Technology Development and Transfer (TD&T) proposals will focus on matching contributions. Advanced Research Program Advanced Technology Program 1999 BACKGROUND be available for Advanced Research Program competitions and approximately $40 million will be available for Advanced Technology Program The 70th Legislature (1987) of the State of and Technology Development and Transfer Texas created the Advanced Research Program and competitions. Up to 20 percent of the amount the Advanced Technology Program as allocated to ATP may be awarded as Technology complementary, statewide research programs. Both Development and Transfer grants. programs were created as peer-review, competitive grants programs that support individual investigator Legislative actions may result in changes to research. these programs that are not reflected in this The Advanced Research Program supports document. Please monitor our web site at the research designed to attract and retain the best address listed on the cover for information on students and researchers and help provide the such changes. knowledge base needed for innovation. WHO MAY SUBMIT The Advanced Technology Program is designed to promote the state's economic growth and Competition is restricted to Texas institutions of diversification by increasing the number and quality higher education. To be eligible, institutions must of scientists and engineers in Texas, enlarging the be accredited by the Commission on Colleges of technology base available to business and industry, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. creating new products and services, and attracting In addition, each institution must have adopted an new industries to Texas. intellectual property policy meeting the minimal standards set out in Section 51.680 of the Texas In 1999, three different types of awards will be Education Code. A copy of the policy must be on made under these programs: file at the Coordinating Board. < Advanced Research Program (ARP) grants will Public institutions are eligible to receive grants support basic research in 9 specified areas. through all three competitions, but independent institutions are eligible for only Advanced < Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grants will Technology Program or Technology Development support applied research in 12 specified areas. and Transfer grants. < Advanced Technology Program - Technology The principal investigator of each project must Development and Transfer (TD&T) grants will be a faculty member, which is defined as a person support the further development of technology who is tenured or in a tenure-track position, or a created under previous Advanced Research research professional in a permanent position (a Program or Advanced Technology Program person other than a post-doctoral appointee with grants and the transfer of that technology to the academic qualifications equivalent to faculty but private sector. without instructional obligations). A separate competition will be held for each type A co-principal investigator from the same of award. Support may be requested for periods of institution who meets the same eligibility criteria up to 24 months. and shares responsibility for the project may be named. The co-principal investigator’s name must An appropriation had not been made for these appear on the cover sheet. On single institution programs at the time this document was printed. It proposals, the maximum number of investigators is is anticipated that approximately $20 million will - 1 - two — one principal investigator plus one co- Advanced Technology Program principal investigator. Aerospace $1,600,000 Agriculture/Aquaculture/ A consortium proposal includes more than one Agricultural Biotechnology $4,500,000 institution. A lead principal investigator who will Biomedicine $6,500,000 assume management responsibility for the project Computer and must be identified. A co-principal investigator at the Information Engineering $3,200,000 same institution as the lead principal investigator Energy $3,200,000 may also participate, but only one principal Environmental Science and investigator at each collaborating institution may Engineering, Recycling, and participate in a consortium proposal. Water Resources $4,500,000 Manufacturing Technology $3,600,000 An investigator must submit a Notice of Intent or Materials Technology $3,800,000 a Pre-proposal (for the biological sciences, Medical Biotechnology $4,200,000 biomedicine and medical biotechnology research Microelectronics $2,300,000 areas) for each proposal that he or she intends to Telecommunications $1,800,000 submit. Although the number of proposals that may Transportation $600,000 be submitted by an institution is not limited, the number of proposals that may be submitted by each investigator is limited. An individual may participate AWARDS as an investigator on a total of two proposals, no more than one in each competition (ARP, ATP or An investigator may receive a maximum from all TD&T). One additional bonus proposal may be three competitions of either: (a) one award on submitted to the Advanced Research Program or to which he or she is the sole investigator, or (b) two the Advanced Technology Program if the proposal is awards on which he or she appears together with a consortium proposal that includes both: (1) one or at least one other investigator. more institutions reporting more than $8 million in total research and development expenditures during In the event that multiple proposals involving a Fiscal Year 1998 and (2) one or more public given investigator are selected for funding by the institutions reporting less than $8 million in total