Questions? Please contact Todd Barnash (barnash@ufl.edu).
| Funding Opportunity | Eligibility | Award Amount and Duration | LOI Due | Full application Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | N/A | 10/10/2025 |
| 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. *Please note that we have dedicated funds for VA Faculty who have more than 2/8ths of their assignment to the VA. | A maximum of $50,000 can be requested. | N/A | 11/17/2025 |
| 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) | N/A | 10/15/2025 |
| 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) | N/A | 10/15/2025 |
| AI Catalyst Awards | UF faculty members who are members of the Intelligent Clinical Care Center (or have membership pending) | $25,000 | N/A | 11/7/2025 |
| Programmatic Accelerator (P Accelerator) Award | The Contact PI for this application must be a faculty member with a primary academic appointment in the UF College of Medicine. Two co-investigators must be UF faculty but may be in other colleges. Preference will be given to teams with members in multiple COM departments, UF colleges, or UF Health sites (Jacksonville, Scripps, Lake Nona, Gainesville, etc.). | Only proposals budgeting at least $750,000 in annual direct costs will be considered. | N/A | 2/3/2026 |
| COM Equipment Catalyst Program | We invite faculty to submit brief concept pitches for major equipment or shared instrumentation needs that could form the basis of competitive external grant applications (focusing on NIH S10, but could be applicable to NSF MRI, or similar mechanisms). | N/A | N/A | 12/15/2025 |