Intramural Funding

In addition to research funding from donors, corporations, foundations and federal sources, UAMS offers internal funding opportunities. These are open to research faculty and have various deadlines.

Campus-wide Funding

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. Annual funds are limited. For guidelines click here.

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. Application deadline is 6/30/09. For more information, click here.

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, click here. 

College of Medicine Funding

The purpose of the COM Intramural Grant programs is to advance the research mission of the institution and provide seed money to full-time faculty members to advance/develop their individual research programs and careers.  Specifically, intramural grants are designed to:  1) assist the researcher in obtaining extramural funding for new research programs by generating preliminary data; 2) protect and nurture existing extramural funding by providing bridging/interim support between funding periods for productive investigators; 3) assist in the acquisition of shared equipment to improve the position of COM researchers in competing for extramural funding. 

The following grants are included in the Intramural Grant program:

• Pilot Study Grants 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. Annual funds are limited.
• Bridging / Interim Funding Grants 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.
• Instrumentation Grants to provide a mechanism for researchers in the College of Medicine to obtain relatively small pieces of research equipment for shared use.
• Hornick endowment for research into stroke and related disorders designed to promote research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of stroke and related disorders. 
  
  For guidelines for all these grant types, click here.
   

Department Specific Grants

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.

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, click here.