Grant Opportunities
Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center Pilot/Feasibility Grant Program
The purpose of the Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center (MMOC) Pilot /Feasibility (P/F) Grant Program is to promote research on the biological and behavioral determinants of obesity, and to develop interventions to reduce obesity and its disease sequelae using basic, clinical, or population approaches. The P/F program’s aim is to enable both new and established University of Michigan investigators to generate sufficient preliminary information for a successful application for major research funding from NIH or other national granting agencies. Grant proposals may be in areas of basic biomedical research or in clinical, epidemiological, or translational research, e.g., interventions in clinical or population-based settings. Animal or human models may be considered. Grant proposals involving cross-disciplinary expertise, faculty from different UM schools, and that utilize the core laboratories of the MMOC are especially encouraged.
Duration: One year
Amount: Up to $50,000
Application deadline: 5 p.m. Thursday, March 15, 2012
Funding begins: July 1, 2012
Please visit the MMOC website for more information amd to download an application.
MDRTC/MCDC Diabetes Interdisciplinary Studies Program (DISP)
The Diabetes Interdisciplinary Studies Program (DISP) is jointly sponsored by the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC) and the University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center (MCDC). Its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration between TWO members of the University of Michigan faculty from DISTINCT disciplines to focus their combined research strengths on cutting-edge areas in diabetes research. The intent is to foster synergistic collaboration between faculty members to advance scientific inquiry.
Grant proposals may be in areas of basic biomedical research, or in clinical, behavioral, epidemiological, health services, or translational research and should address key questions in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, or control of diabetes, its complications, or related endocrine or metabolic disorders (for example: counter-regulatory proteins, obesity, metabolic syndrome). The goal of the DISP is to enable investigators to generate a sufficient body of preliminary information for a successful application for major research funding from NIH or other national granting agencies.
ELIGIBILITY
A minimum of two Co-Investigators are required as DISP applicants. Individuals who have full-time instructional, research or clinical track faculty positions at the University of Michigan are eligible to apply as Co-Principal Investigators of a DISP proposal. Whereas the intent of this grant is to foster new collaborations on campus, applications for new research initiatives from productive ongoing collaborations will not be excluded from consideration. Each Co-Principal Investigator must provide critical intellectual as well as technical input into projects funded by a DISP grant. Individuals that receive the 2010–11 DISP grant (jointly sponsored by the MDRTC and MCDC) are not eligible to receive a 2010–11 MDRTC Pilot/Feasibility Grant.
Duration: One year
Amount: Up to $100,000
Application deadline: 5:00 PM Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Funding begins: December
Please visit the MDRTC website for more information and to apply.
Questions: Barbara Hawkins, 763-2561 or hawkinsb@umich.edu
MDRTC Pilot/Feasibility Study Grant
The purpose of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC) Pilot /Feasibility Grant Program is to promote research on diabetes by new and established University of Michigan faculty. Its goal is to enable investigators to generate a sufficient body of preliminary information for a successful application for major research funding from NIH or other national granting agencies. Grant proposals may be in areas of basic biomedical research, or in clinical, behavioral, epidemiological, health services, or translational research and should address key questions in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, or control of diabetes, its complications, or related endocrine or metabolic disorders (for example: counter-regulatory proteins, obesity, metabolic syndrome). Translational research projects should focus on the translation of research advances into clinical practice and include the identification of barriers to widespread adoption of new science and the testing of interventions to overcome these barriers.
ELIGIBILITY
Individuals who have full-time instructional or research faculty positions at the University of Michigan are eligible to apply as Principal Investigators of P/F proposals. Eligible applicants are: a) new investigators beginning careers in research on diabetes; b) established investigators in areas other than diabetes who wish to focus their expertise on a problem in diabetes research; or c) established diabetes investigators who wish to take an entirely new direction in diabetes research. This new direction cannot be an extension or outgrowth of research currently being undertaken by the applicant. Individuals who receive a 2011–12 Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program grant co-sponsored by the Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center and MDRTC are not eligible to receive a 2011–12 MDRTC P/F grant.
Duration: One year
Amount: Up to $50,000
Application deadline: 5:00 PM Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Funding begins: December
Please visit the MDRTC website for more information and to apply.
Questions: Barbara Hawkins, 763-2561 or hawkinsb@umich.edu
