Joint Calls for Research Proposals
UC-UNAM Call for Proposals 2023
Climate Resilience and Challenges for Urban and Rural Areas
Alianza MX launched a joint call for research proposals with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in February 2023. Proposal submissions were required to include at least three PIs, including at least two from the UC, and selected projects were eligible for up to USD $50,000 in total funding per year over two years.
Following evaluation of the proposal submissions by a binational review committee, three were selected for funding support. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these exciting new joint research projects.
Research questions:
How does sustainable food production using CO2 feedstocks affect metabolic constraints in E. coli?
Can cells be engineered to overcome these limitations and address climate-related problems, including efficient carbon fixation and increased efficiency of food production?
Principal Investigators:
José A. Farias-Rico, Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM
Neema Jamshidi, Radiological Sciences, UC Los Angeles
José Utrilla-Carreri, Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM
Daniel C. Zielinski, Systems Biology Research Group, UC San Diego
Research questions:
Can nanomaterials mitigate and arrest the degradation of construction materials used in historic buildings by contaminant gases and bacteria?
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Rubén Darío Cadena Nava, Center of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, UNAM
Dr. Luis Cedeño Caero, Department of Chemical Engineering, UNAM
Dr. Sergio Fuentes Moyado, Center of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, UNAM
Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli, Dept of Materials Science & Engineering, UCLA
Dr. Francisco Zaera, Dept of Chemistry, UCR
Research questions:
How do climate-driven mechanisms of upwelling, nutrient transport, and algal blooms on the northern Yucatan continental shelf affect local fisheries?
Principal Investigators:
Daniele Bianchi, Dept of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, UC Los Angeles
Jorge Alejandro Kurczyn Robledo, Institute of Engineering, UNAM
Nick Nidzieko, Dept of Geography, UC Santa Barbara
Alejandro J. Souza, Center for Research & Advanced Studies (Cinvestav-Mérida)
Joint Calls for Research Proposals
UC-Cinvestav Call for Proposals 2022
Agriculture, Plant Genomics, Marine Sciences, and Health
Alianza MX launched a joint call for research proposals with the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) in September 2022. Proposal submissions were required to include at least three PIs, including at least two from either Cinvestav or the UC, and selected projects were eligible for up to USD $100,000 in total funding over two years.
Following evaluation of the proposal submissions by a binational review committee, two were selected for funding support. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these exciting new joint research projects.
Principal Investigators:
Dr. R. David Britt, Dept of Chemistry, UC Davis
Dr. Glenn L. Millhauser, Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Liliana Quintanar Vera, Dept of Chemistry and Center for Research in Aging, Cinvestav Zacatenco
Dr. José Segovia Vila, Physiology, Dept of Biophysics & Neuroscience, Cinvestav Zacatenco
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Maribel Hernandez-Rosales, Dept of Bioinformatics & Complex Systems, Cinvestav Irapuato
Dr. Gabriela Olmedo-Álvarez, Dept of Molecular Biology & Microbial Ecology, Cinvestav Irapuato
Dr. Adam Olshen, Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Dr. Alejandra Rodríguez-Verdugo, Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine
Joint Calls for Research Proposals
UC-UNAM Special Call
Binational Collaborative Projects Addressing COVID-19
Alianza MX launched a Special Call in 2020 with support from UC MEXUS, the UC Berkeley Health Initiative of the Americas, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), through its Coordinación de Vinculación y Transferencia Tecnológica (CVTT) and InnovaUNAM. A second round of the call was launched in 2021 to provide additional funding support for a subset of projects from the first round. Research projects were required to promote binational collaboration by including at least one principal investigator from the UC and at least one principal investigator from UNAM.
Phase I of the Special Funding Call received 137 proposals. These included 25 in the biomedical sciences, 32 in health systems, and 59 on the social and economic consequences of the pandemic, while an additional 21 proposals covered multiple topics. Researchers, academics, and students from more than 40 UNAM entities and nine campuses of the University of California participated. A total of 19 projects were selected to each receive USD $5,000 in funding support.
In October 2021, Phase I projects were invited to submit proposals for a second funding stage. From the initial group of 19 projects, 12 submitted proposals for Phase II, with special consideration given to the possibility of licensing technology or establishing new companies that could help secure additional funding. Five projects were selected to each receive USD $25,000 in funding support:
YangQuan Chen, UC Merced
Rafael Ángel Barrio Paredes, UNAM Physics Institute
William H. Fenical, UC San Diego
Rachel Mata Essayag, UNAM Department of Chemistry
Lucia Abascal & Jamie Sepulveda, UC San Francisco
Dania Lima Sánchez, UNAM Department of Biomedical Informatics
Claudia Wehrhahn Cortes & Zehang Richard Li, UC Santa Cruz
Luis Vaca Domínguez, UNAM Institute of Cellular Physiology
Manuela Raffatellu, UC San Diego
Araceli Pérez López, UNAM Biomedical Research Unit (FES Iztacala)
