Funding Opportunities

Pilot or Intramural Funding

A listing of funding opportunities available only to UAMS researchers.

Campus-wide Funding

New TRI Awards for Innovative Clinical and Translational Research. These awards are intended to support novel research studies; these awards will not support projects that are minor offshoots of ongoing research or provide bridge funding to investigators. The awards encourage individual investigators to develop research programs that successfully compete for outside funding. The ATRI will support investigators by providing guidance, resources, and feedback.

New KL2 Career Development Awards Program. KL2 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program has been established within the Arkansas Translational Research Institute (TRI).The KL2 Awards provide didactic and mentored research training for PhDs or professional doctorates (MD, PharmD, DrPH, DO, etc) that are committed to academic careers in clinical or translational research. Didactic coursework leading to a PhD, MS, MPH or graduate certificate may be pursued. Generous financial support and benefits are provided for post-doctoral scholars, fellows, and junior faculty.

Arkansas Biosciences Institute/Tobacco Funding - Variable Awards. These grants provide support to start new research projects, purchase scientific equipment, fund core facilities and recruit new faculty. A description of the proposed activity, a budget, and budget justification are required for review by the Tobacco Allocation Committee.

Medical Research Endowment Fund - $10,000 to $15,000 maximum. These grants provide pilot research funding that has the potential to develop into extramurally funded, scientifically significant research projects. Support is focused on new areas of research for young faculty investigators and new avenues of research for mature investigators.  

Center for Translational Neuroscience (CTN) COBRE - $50,000 award. Only current UAMS faculty (tenure/non-tenure track) who have never been awarded a NIH R01 grant as PI may apply. Preference will be accorded to projects involving substantiated collaboration between basic and clinician scientists. The Project PI should devote no less than 25%. The requirements are very specific and the applicants should address any questions to the Director (GarciaRillEdgar@uams.edu) before submitting a proposal. For more information.

Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute - ACHRI administers competitive funding programs for scientists employed by UAMS and affiliated with Arkansas Children’s Hospital. For more information.

College of Medicine

COM Pilot Study Grants - $25,000 maximum. These grants are designed to provide support to start new projects. New investigators or senior investigators moving into a new area of research are particularly encouraged to apply. A research description, budget, and budget justification are required for Research Council review.

COM Bridging Grants - $15,000 maximum. These grants are designed to provide bridging support to investigators who are unsuccessful at renewing a federal or foundation grant. In addition to a research description, budget, and budget justification, the proposal requires submission of a critique from the funding agency/foundation and letter of commitment from the faculty member’s Chair is required for Research Council review. COM Bridging Grant awards require a significant match from the faculty member’s Department. A research description, budget, and budget justification required for Research Council review.

Hornick Endowment for Research into Stroke and Related Disorders Variable awards. These grants are designed to promote research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of stroke and related disorders.

Instrumentation Grants - $30,000 maximum. The College of Medicine recognizes that start-of-the-art instrumentation is essential for conducting modern biomedical research that is capable of attracting extramural funding. Such instrumentation is increasingly expensive and difficult to acquire through such normal extramural grant mechanisms. The purpose of this program is to provide a mechanism or researchers in the College of Medicine to obtain relatively small pieces of research equipment for shared use.

Translational Pathology Grant Program- Funding available to Department of Pathology faculty only. Variable awards and amounts; subject to interdepartmental and extra-departmental peer-review process. Purpose of grant support is to promote translational research, which generates data supporting extramural grant applications. For more information, Email Patty Gminsky

College of Nursing

College of Nursing Intramural Grant - $3,000 maximum. Only full-time faculty members of the College of Nursing are eligible. These one year grants provide seed money for research projects that has the potential  to develop into extramural funding. There are 4 submission cycles per year. A letter of intent is required. Please contact the College of Nursing, Scholarship and Research Center for more information.

College of Public Health

info in process

Arkansas Area Health Education Centers Program (AHEC)

info in process

Collaborative Funding Opportunities

NIH, NSF, and others - Various grants have been submitted with components that provide for pilot funding grants in basic science, clinical, and translational research. After UAMS is awarded these grants, the pilot funding opportunities will be posted here.

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