Research Innovation/Pilot Grant Program

Applications Due: Monday, May 12, 2025 by noon.

No late applications will be accepted.

Background: The Research Innovation/Pilot Grant Program was established to assist College of Medicine faculty with generating preliminary data necessary to develop highly competitive NIH or other grant applications, or to take their research in a new direction.

This program seeks to support the development of innovative studies with a high potential for future extramural funding and is designed to enhance new or current faculty research programs. A research study is responsive to the RFA if it:

Uses innovative approaches or discoveries to address relevant problems in the field of biomedical science;
Contributes critical experiments or data gathering to an existing research program that will enhance funding success;
Brings interdisciplinary expertise to initiate a new research direction for the principal investigator.

For more information, please see the RFA: https://www.med.uc.edu/research/internal-awards/research-innovation-pilot-grant

For questions please contact Brieanne Sheehan, sheehabe@uc.edu.

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Have you received funding from this award mechanism in the past?

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Please attach a statement that outlines how your previous funding has contributed toyour research program, e.g., resulted in an R21, R01. (limit to 1 page)
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Please suggest 2-3 UC faculty researchers who may be a good fit to review your grant.
Please do not list anyone is your department or you have collaborated with for this application.

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Application:
Please attach one .pdf document containing the following documents:

Composition of applications:

Face page, budget, budget justification, NIH biosketch, current and pending internal and external funding (use required forms). Be sure to include a biosketch for PIs and all Co-Is. You must use this application package: CoM Research Innovation Application
Application to include specific project details with sufficient rationale and appropriate background/significance information. (limit to 3 pages)
Outcomes of Research. Must include specific information and a plan of how this pilot funding will be specifically used to support a future grant submission, including the broad hypothesis and/or specific aims to be examined. Applications will not be reviewed if this section is missing from the application package. (limit to half a page, not included in the 3-page application page allocation).
- Example: "We propose to use (enter expected pilot data or innovation) obtained from this funding to support our central hypothesis of XXX and thus expand the study into an R01 grant through the following aims...."
- Include an estimated timeline for a subsequent extramural grant application.

Literature cited (limit to 1 page, not included in the 3-page application page allocation)
Applicants who have received CoM Research Innovation/Pilot funds in the past should include the impact of the previous funding as demonstrated by any extramural funding (e.g. R01, R21) received based on pilot funding data. (limit to 1 page)

Please be sure to read the RFA before submitting your application.

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