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Research Support & Services: Funding: Intramural Funding Opportunities

Extended Research Bridging Program for Instructional Track Faculty

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University of Michigan Medical School
Research Bridging Guidelines for Instructional Track Faculty
After Recent Termination of Major Research Funding
(Endorsed by Executive Committee February 22, 2007)

Some of our faculty, after successful careers as independent investigators, have had difficulty securing outside funding to continue their research program. It is in the Medical School’s interest to maintain our faculty as contributing members of the academic community. As such, in selected cases it is appropriate for the Department and/or School to provide support to the faculty member to maintain his or her laboratory. As differing levels of resources are available to faculty members based on Departmental membership, it is our desire to have a fair and transparent process for determining levels of support for all faculty. These principles provide the basis for this process.

1. Bridging support will be considered for investigators in the instructional track who have no external fund source and have exhausted their discretionary accounts*. Only faculty with recent reviews based on failed outside submissions will be eligible for consideration.

2. Bridging (including Departmental matching funds) will be provided for up to two years. The Chair and Dean ultimately arbitrate the sources of these funds.

3. The faculty member’s chair and/or division or section chief must sign off on any application for bridging funds, monitor the faculty member’s progress based upon agreed to goals, and be responsible for the faculty member’s progress towards competitiveness and independence. If progress is not made toward the agreed upon goals, funding will cease.

4. Faculty members will be required to submit a budget justification for requested bridging funds.

5. A review committee of peers will be convened including the chair and/or division chief of the affected faculty. One or two faculty members chosen by the investigator, and other members chosen by the Department Chair or Dean, including two external to the Department will attend an oral presentation by the investigator to review the bridging request and all available evidence including current pink sheet reviews to make the final recommendation on funding the bridging request as well as to provide feedback regarding preparation for resubmission. The decision of this group is advisory to the Chair/Dean or designees.

6. Faculty members whose independent investigative career has little likelihood of continuation, as assessed by their chair and/or division or section chief, will be considered for internal sabbaticals, new collaborations and other efforts to reassign their effort to maintain them as a vibrant contributing member to the academic community.

7. Salary will be adjusted over time, based on total effort.

8. Faculty members who have been without significant external funding for two years may have their laboratory space re-assigned.

 

* Recognizing that all accounts are ultimately regentally controlled.