Funding Opportunities
2013 Funding Opportunities
Imaging Pilot Awards
Below are descriptions of the awards and eligibility criteria.
Imaging Pilot Awards
The School of Medicine’s Office of Research has provided $25,000 to the Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) to facilitate access to advanced imaging technologies for use in studies of nutrition and obesity. Advanced imaging technologies can provide novel approaches to discovery in basic and clinical research, but there are considerable up-front costs to adopting these tools.
With the support of the Office of Research, the NORC will fund a total of $10,000 of awards in 2013 and $5000 for the 3 following years. These funds are specifically designated to cover the cost of scanner time at UW facilities.
Awards are $3000 for human studies and $2000 for animal studies. Technical expertise that is required to adapt existing protocols or create new protocols that meet investigator’s needs is available at no cost through the NORC Metabolic Imaging Sub-core.
Eligibility criteria:
Priority will be placed on supporting pilot studies that:
1. Are aimed at developing new techniques with potential applications for UW nutrition and obesity researchers
2. Bring together new collaborative teams
3. Are the first adoption of imaging technology by the NORC affiliate investigator, and/or
4. Are proposed by junior investigators
Procedure for Applying for a Technology Access Awards:
Click here for application guidline.
Proposals are due February 1st, 2013.
CONTACT FOR INFORMATION:
NORC Administrative Core, 206-221-5366
uwnorc@u.washington.edu
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Pilot and Feasibility Awards
Below are descriptions of the awards and eligibility criteria. Currently there is one slot available for the 2013 Pilot and Feasibility (P/F) awards.
Pilot and Feasibility Awards
The Nutrition Obesity Research Center supports up to 3 Pilot and Feasibility (P/F) awards, providing funding up to $45,000 annually for a maximum of 2 years.
Eligibility criteria:
P/F Awards are specifically designed to provide support for junior investigators to enable them to obtain sufficient pilot data to be competitive for receipt of peer-reviewed funding. They also are used to attract established investigators in other fields into the area of nutrition and/or obesity research. In this case, the established investigator must provide considerable evidence that the proposed research is a major departure from his/her usual line of research, and that it is likely to lead to an ongoing interest in nutrition and/or obesity. The P/F program also will, on occasion, fund research that is somewhat speculative, but in which a potentially important hypothesis can be tested. Eligibility is confined to faculty members within any school, department or division at the University of Washington. The proposed research has to have nutrition and/or obesity relevance.
Procedure for applying for a P/F Award:
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Letters of Intent are due March 5, 2013.
Full Proposal is due April 16, 2013.
CONTACT FOR INFORMATION:
NORC Administrative Core, 206-221-5366
uwnorc@u.washington.edu