Internal Research Grants At VUMC

Melbourne-Vanderbilt University Partnership Grants – Award winners

Click here for more information about this program and other internal funding available through the University Office of the Vice Provost for Research.

Request for Proposals

Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Pilot RFA for Quality

The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) and the Office of Personalized Medicine are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity to support studies designed to address causes and targeted remedies for significant hospital quality and safety challenges. The proposals should focus on sustainable, pragmatic interventions that can be implemented in a cost-effective manner in a hospital or clinic setting.  Proposals that focus on personalized approaches to predicting, preventing, diagnosing, monitoring, treating, and managing these clinical events/complications will be given preference.

More detailed information can be found on this RFA.

ViSE: INTERVENTIONAL DEVICE PROTOTYPING FUNDING AND SUPPORT

The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE, www.vanderbilt.edu/vise), in partnership with the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC) and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research VICTR, is seeking to assist the Vanderbilt community in evaluating and developing early-stage ideas, and then turning them into proof-of-concept interventional device prototypes, with the goal of eventual translation to human clinical use.  To facilitate this, ViSE will provide (1) engineering support in assessing the feasibility of the idea and (2) financial and manpower support for the creation of prototype for feasible projects.

More detailed information can be found on this RFA.

Should you have questions, please contact Benoit M. Dawant, Ph.D., Director of Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering.

Internal Funding Sources

O’Brien Vanderbilt Mouse Kidney Physiology and Disease Center (MKPDC) PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROPOSALS
The O’Brien MKPDC has funds available for use in supporting pilot studies commencing June 1, 2012. The guidelines related to eligibility and application procedures are shown below and should be examined carefully prior to submission of a grant application. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2012. Grants receive review by a committee with internal and external members. For more information, click here

Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) [Cancer Center members only]
$110,000/year direct
1 year project period
Up to $35,000 direct costs
Application Deadline: May 1; award begins: September 1

Institutional Research Grant (IRG) [junior investigators only]
$170,000/year total
1 year project period
Up to $25,000 direct costs
Application Deadlines: April 1 or October 1; awards begin: July 1 or January 1

SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) in GI Cancer: Pilot Projects
$175,000/year direct
1 year project period
Up to $50,000 direct costs
Application Deadline: February 1; award begins: May 1

SPORE in Breast Cancer: Pilot Projects
$195,700/year direct
1 year project period
Up to $50,000 direct costs
Application Deadline: March 1; award begins: June 1

SPORE in Lung Cancer: Pilot Projects
1 year project period
Up to $50,000 direct costs
Application Deadline: January 1; award begins: May 1

Cancer Training Grants
The National Cancer Institute has awarded Vanderbilt a $4.4 million, five-year grant to fund training for senior fellows and junior faculty for careers in cancer-oriented research. This is a renewal of a current grant program. The goal of the Vanderbilt Clinical Oncology Research Career Development Program is to train skilled clinician scientists who can design and implement clinical oncology trial research and lead translational research projects.
The deadline to apply for the grant is Feb. 1, and awards will be announced in April.

Core Center in Molecular Toxicology pilot projects
All faculty in the University are eligible (including any research-track faculty eligible to submit other grants for external funding)
1 year project period with a possible second year of funding
Up to $40,000 per year
LOI due November 15
Full application due January 15

Vanderbilt Institute for Chemical Biology Pilot Projects
Applicants must be full members of the VICB
Preference for collaborative projects and young investigators
Projects should employ tools of chemical biology
Up to $40,000 for 1 year
Applications due in January, funding begins in March

Vanderbilt Physician-Scientist Development Program
$75,000/year; may be extended 2nd year
These awards are for mentored research with an established investigator and are given to newly appointed assistant professor physicians who wish to pursue a career in academic medicine. The award is $75,000/year; a second year of funding is dependent upon the awardee’s progress. The expectation is that the applicant will apply for a K- or R-type award during the funding period. The competition is held once a year with a deadline of March 1. Approximately five grants are awarded each year. Details of this award may be found at: https://medschool.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vpsd

Digestive Disease Research Center (DDRC) Pilot & Feasibility Project Funding Opportunity
$10,000 – $25,000/year for 2 years; 4 grants a year total
Applications are solicited for pilot projects to conduct basic, translational, clinical or collaborative research relating to digestive diseases. Applications will be considered in all areas of digestive disease research. Funds will support focused projects from individual investigators and are intended to provide support to collect preliminary data sufficient to support an application for independent research support through traditional NIH mechanisms. Funded projects will range from $10,000 to $25,000 per year. DDRC funding is limited to two years support at a maximum level of $25,000 per year.

DDRC Young Investigator
$25,000/year for 2 years
Exceptional applicants at the junior faculty level with a high likelihood for progression to extramural funding and a successful career in investigative gastroenterology are eligible to be named as a DDRC Young Investigator. Salary support for such an individual is limited to 24 months and cannot exceed $25,000/year and requires 80% of faculty effort to be focused on research. The deadline for submission of a complete application is listed on the DDRC website.

Nicholas Hobbs Discovery Award Program
This competition is open to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center faculty Investigators or Members for conducting pilot projects consistent with the mission of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center’s mission is to conduct and support collaborative research that investigates fundamental mechanisms of behavioral, cognitive, and brain development and plasticity relevant to developmental disabilities, across the lifespan. The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s aims are to better understand children’s development, to prevent and solve developmental problems, and to enable people with developmental disabilities to lead better lives. Due dates for submissions: annually in August

Pilot and Feasibility Grants for Research Related to Diabetes and Obesity
The Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC), and the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR) announce the availability of Pilot and Feasibility Grants in the areas below.  The deadline for application for all three types of pilot and feasibility grants is March 15, 2013, 11:00 PM, CDT. Investigators can apply to one or more of these funding mechanisms.

·      Translational or behavioral science research (Type 2 translational research) related to diabetes or obesity ($35,000/year for one-two years); this grant mechanism is open to junior faculty members, investigators from other fields wishing to bring their expertise to diabetes- or obesity-related research, and investigators currently conducting diabetes-related research who are proposing a new research direction.

·      Basic or clinical research related to diabetes, metabolism, or obesity ($45,000/year for one-two years); this grant mechanism is open to junior faculty members, investigators from other fields wishing to bring their expertise to diabetes- or obesity-related research, and investigators currently conducting diabetes-related research who are proposing a new research direction.

·      Diabetes- or obesity-related pilot studies that utilize one of these Vanderbilt resources: VICB High-Throughput Screening Facility, BioVU, or the Mass Spectrometry Research Center ($50,000 for one year); this grant mechanism is open to any Vanderbilt faculty member.

The deadline for application for all three types of pilot and feasibility grants is March 15, 2013. Investigators can apply to one or more funding mechanisms.  Additional information is available at this website: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/diabetes/vdc/pilot/index.php or from Deborah Brown (deborah.c.brown@Vanderbilt.Edu).