Arkansas Children's Hospital Intramural Grants

Intramural Grant Opportunities at ACHRI

Each year ACHRI administers competitive funding programs totaling approximately $1.55 million for productive, young and clinician scientists employed by UAMS and affiliated with Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Along with this generous amount of funds, scientists are provided with a wide range of services and resources to assist with the grant submission and management process.
 

CUMG Awards

The CUMG Award Funds for the Children's University Medical Group (CUMG) award program originate from UAMS. ACHRI administers the fund. Twice a year, productive investigators, young investigators and clinician/faculty/trainee researchers may apply for awards in the amount of $40,000. The total amount awarded per cycle is usually approximately $250,000. The deadlines for submission are September 1 and March 1 of each year. Submissions are peer-reviewed and final funding decisions are made by the Dean of the College of Medicine at UAMS. Award recipients must submit a final report and meet requirements of the award. For eligibility and award requirements, and a full program description, click here.

The Marion B. Lyon New Scientist Development Program

A generous gift from a private donor endows the Marion B. Lyon New Scientist Development Program. The award was established to promote the career development of young investigators who are initiating independent research careers, but have not yet received NIH funding. Each year, one award in the amount of $50,000 is available on a competitive basis. Award recipients are required to submit two reports for the donor. For more info. click here Investigators must be based on the ACH campus.
 

The ACHRI/ABI Competitive Research Grant Program

This intramural grant program is made possible with funds provided to ACHRI from the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement via the Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI). The ACHRI/ABI Competitive Research Grant Program was designed to specifically promote the goals of the ABI. Award amounts vary each year. The submission deadline each year is August 1. The program limits eligibility to investigators who are either located or conduct research on the ACH campus and are not currently directly benefiting from an ABI-funded recruitment package. The ACHRI/ABI Review Committee reviews and scores applications, and the president of ACHRI approves final funding decisions. For more info. click here
 

Intramural Grant Program Application Process
 

Upcoming Deadline Reminder

Six weeks before each submission deadline, ACHRI will e-mail a reminder to all potential applicants. If you are not receiving these emails, please contact Amy Stalls (364-3627).

Resources for Intramural Applicants

Grant Writing and Editing

ACHRI offers assistance with grant writing. The assistance focuses on editing for grant applications and publication submissions. The service is offered on a first come, first serve basis. Applicants are encouraged to contact a science editor as early as possible in the process. This service has proven to be very valuable for new investigators as well as productive investigators. For more information, contact Phaedra Yount (364-2469) or John Gregan (364-6296).
 

Budgeting

If you have questions regarding budgeting, please contact Pediatric Grants Administration (364-4227).
 

Salaries

Applicants should verify all salary and fringe items with their home department’s office of accounting. The CUMG Award does not cover any salary or fringe items for any U of A system faculty member.
 

Supplies, Travel and Other Costs

The online program descriptions for each intramural program offer information pertaining to allowable and non-allowable costs. ACHRI is available to answer any questions regarding budgeting. For additional information, contact Amy Stalls (364-3627) or Leslie Montgomery (364-6546).
 

Clinical Human Studies

All applicants who plan to include clinical human subjects testing or any sort of clinical services at ACH in a project must contact Janet Storment (364-2760) prior to application submission. Janet can provide pricing for clinical human studies and assist with planning for nursing/coordinator support and other hospital services support.

Managing an Intramural Award

Institutional Approvals

Activation of an account for an intramural award is contingent upon ACHRI’s receipt of copies of IRB, IACUC or other pertinent institutional approvals. For questions regarding institutional approvals, contact Tanda Grisham (364-3571) about IRBs and Blake Harrison (364-2710) about IACUC.
 

Account Activation Process

Once institutional approvals are received, the account activation process begins. In this seamless process, post-award administration contacts an awarded investigator by email when the account is ready for expenditures.

For CUMG awards, ACHRI places any salary included on an intramural award in a 117 account through UAMS. The accounting section of the award recipient’s UAMS home department is the contact for this portion of the account.

ACHRI assigns all other items to a 036 account through ACH accessible via eRequest. ACHRI’s Post Award Administrator Leslie Montgomery (364-6546) contacts an investigator when his or her 036 account is established. She remains the contact for the 036 account throughout its duration.

Budget Revisions and Other Changes to Intramural Awards

Forms for completing budget revisions and change of PI can be accessed online.
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90-Day Review of Award Accounts

Ninety days prior to the end date of an award, Leslie Montgomery contacts the investigator to complete a 90-day account review. The review assists with budget reconciliation.
 

Intramural Award Tracking

During the year after an award ends, Amy Stalls will contact the investigator to request a final report. Information collected via final reports is entered into a database. The database allows ACHRI to monitor the impact of intramural funding. Generally, these final reports are a requirement of acceptance of an award and submission of the final report will impact eligibility for subsequent intramural awards.

For questions relating to the ACHRI intramural grant programs, please contact Amy Stalls (364-3627).