ADAI Small Grants Program

ADAI Small Grants Program

A primary mission of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute is to facilitate research in substance abuse at the University of Washington. One way in which this goal is realized is by awards to University of Washington faculty in the Small Grants Program for substance abuse research at the UW. Drug abuse research is interpreted broadly to include a full range of topics from basic studies of the pharmacology of drugs of abuse to studies of clinical treatment strategies, prevention, and social policy issues. Funding decisions for ADAI Small Grants are based on scientific merit assessed by peer review, relevance of the question to the field, and potential for new insights into the problems of substance abuse. The intention is to stimulate research by providing initial funding for promising pilot projects which may ultimately be developed into full research studies with outside grant support.

Since 1973, ADAI has awarded more than $3,200,000 to researchers from forty departments at the University of Washington, funding more than 325 projects out of approximately 675 applications submitted since the beginning of the program. The limit for funding is $20,000. Awards are made twice yearly through a peer review process and are based on scientific merit and relevance to the alcohol and substance abuse fields.

There are two grant cycles each year (deadlines March 15 and October 15). At an initial review meeting, each proposal receives a detailed review by at least two members of the Small Grants Review Committee, a careful discussion of scientific merit by the full committee, and then a vote on the grant's overall merit. Written comments and documentation of the committee's discussions are presented to a Final Review Committee, which selects the top grants for funding. Anonymous comments of the reviewers are returned to the investigators to provide constructive feedback, which is often used to improve a non-funded grant for future re-submission.

For more information about the Small Grants Program, contact ADAI staff at adai@u.washington.edu or John F. Neumaier, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the ADAI Small Grants Program, neumaier@u.washington.edu.

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Updated January 16, 2008
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