Questions? Please contact Todd Barnash (barnash@ufl.edu).
| Funding Opportunity | Eligibility | Award Amount and Duration | LOI Due | Full application Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COM Bridge Funding | The College of Medicine bridge funding program is designed for researchers who have an unexpected gap in their NIH research funding portfolio. It is open to full-time COM-Gainesville faculty members who have submitted an application to the NIH and received a score within 20 percentile points of the Institute's funded percentile. Applicants must have a scored, pending application in the most recent cycle to be eligible for this program. | A maximum of $50,000 can be requested. | 04/15/2023 | 04/15/2023 |
| ARPA-H Seed Funding | Proposals are invited from teams across all UF Colleges. To remain responsive to ARPA-H, teams need to include faculty from UF College of Medicine and/or UF Scripps. The contact PI must: » Be UF faculty or faculty equivalents, including tenured, tenure-track, tenure-eligible, and non-tenure- track research scientists. » Be eligible to apply for external funding. » Have experience and track record of leading high-risk high reward innovative team projects (previously funded P, U or NSF program grants will be considered as competitive advantage). » Will commit to undergo a tailored training and feedback on their responses to the Heilmeier Questions. » Collaborating teams of faculty from multiple units and colleges are highly encouraged. | Up to $75,000 | N/A | 02/15/2023 |
| 2023 Research Opportunity Seed Fund (ROSF) College of Medicine internal selection competition | The total number of faculty allowed on a proposal is 3, a PI and 2 co-PIs. A faculty member can serve as a PI on only one ROSF proposal. A faculty member may serve as a co-PI on only one other proposal. If not serving as lead PI on any ROSF proposal, a faculty member can serve as co-PI on a maximum of 2 proposals. » Faculty members eligible to submit a proposal to an external funding agency (see Principal Investigator Eligibility - UF Research (ufl.edu)) are eligible to apply for ROSF award. » Courtesy, Adjunct, Visiting, OPS faculty, Assistant In, Associate In, Senior Associate In, Research Associates and Postdoctoral associates are not eligible to be PIs on ROSF. They may participate as co-PIs or co-investigators. » To avoid potential conflict of interest, Deans at all levels (Assistant, Associate, etc) are not eligible. » Faculty who have previously received ROSF award (either as PI or co-PI) are not eligible to submit another proposal for 2 years after the completion of the first award. For example, FY2018 ROSF PI or co-PI recipients may not submit another proposal until FY2023 competition (RFA-23-ROSF-COM, October 2022) | Up to $100,000 for up to a two-year period. | October | November |
| Thomas H. Maren Research Excellence Program - Faculty Award | » Must be an Assistant Professor (tenured, non-tenured, Research Assistant Professor and Clinical Assistant Professor all acceptable) with a primary academic appointment in the College of Medicine » Must be a principal investigator of a currently active nationally peer-reviewed grant (i.e., NIH, NSF, FL DOH, ACS, JDRF, etc.) | $40,000 per year for two years (2nd year contingent on 1st year progress) | September | November |
| Thomas H. Maren Research Excellence Program - Postdoctoral Award | » Must be a postdoctoral fellow (with a PhD and/or MD) with a full-time research assignment in a College of Medicine department » Must have no more than three (3) years of cumulative postdoctoral training at the time of LOI submission (including postdoctoral training at other institutions) » Must have demonstrated productivity as a postdoctoral fellow (e.g., awards, presentations, publications) » Mentor must have research funding in the amount of one R01 equivalent or more | $20,000 per year for two years (2nd year contingent on 1st year progress) | September | November |