napari Plugin Foundations Grants

10 May 2022

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for the second round of grants to support plugin projects for the napari image analysis platform. This round focuses on ensuring the quality of existing plugins through improvements to documentation, user support, usability, and reliability, and establishing foundational plugins for cell biology analyses.

Deadline: 1 June 2022 at 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)

Funding Agency: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Duration: 12 months

Types of Grants:

  1. Quality improvement grants are for the plugins that have strong potential for increased impact through quality improvements such as documentation, user support, usability, and reliability. Plugins supported by quality improvement grants must be available on the napari hub and source code on a public repository before the final grant submission date of June 1, 2022.
  2. Cell biology grants are for those to convert existing open-source tools, methods, or processing steps that support common cell biology workflows into one or more napari plugins. Priority will be given to plugins that provide image analysis, processing, and quantification solutions that are currently lacking in the napari plugin ecosystem through the napari hub.

Award: $20,000 USD total costs (inclusive of up to 15 percent indirect costs). Indirect costs cannot exceed 15 percent of direct costs.

Eligibility:

  • Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations; including public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local government, and eligible agencies of the federal government. Software projects operating independently must be affiliated with an organization, as described below. Grants are not permitted to individuals; only to organizations. For-profit organizations are not eligible.
  • Each application must designate one principal investigator (PI) as the Coordinating Principal Investigator (Coordinating PI). The Coordinating PI will act as the administrative contact between CZI and all PIs on the grant (Co-PIs). The Coordinating PI must submit the application on behalf of all PIs. Grant funds will be awarded to the organization designated by the Coordinating PI (either their organization or fiscal sponsor), which will take responsibility for distributing funds to any other institutions.
  • Each application must have a minimum of one PI, but may designate up to three total PIs (one Coordinating PI and up to two Co-PIs).
  • PIs and Co-PIs must each be permitted to receive grant support by the organization they are applying with. This criteria may be defined differently in different types of organizations. Examples of eligible positions are:
    • Tenure track faculty;
    • Non-tenure track faculty or staff scientists who lead a lab or are engaged in academic activities and are permitted to apply for grants by their institution;
    • Researchers with expertise in the relevant areas that are affiliated with or supported by an institution and permitted to apply for grants; and
    • Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students who are permitted to apply for grants by their institution and apply through the institution at which they will conduct the research.
    • For graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who wish to participate in a grant but are not eligible to apply for grants through their institution, applications must be submitted through one of the eligible parties listed above.
  • PIs/Co-PIs on one application may be employed at the same or at different institutions.
  • Coordinating PIs are eligible to apply for a maximum of two grants, but each one must be in a different category (one in quality improvement and one in cell biology).
  • PIs may only serve as the Coordinating PI on one application of each type (quality improvement and cell biology), but may serve as a Co-PI on applications different from those they submitted.
  • Co-PIs may serve as a Co-PI on multiple applications.

How to Apply?

All applications must be completed and submitted through CZI’s online grants management portal at https://apply.chanzuckerberg.com. It is recommended that applicants familiarize themselves with this portal well in advance of the application deadline. Detailed application instructions are available on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative website, as well as in the grants management portal.

For more information:

Chula GRIP: GRIP.OIA@chula.ac.th or Tel. +66 22183124