Office of Research and Graduate Education
HSC Multi-Investigator Synergy Grants
The Office of Research and Graduate Education (ORGE) plans to fund a new round of Synergy Grants to facilitate team science and support development of collaborative extramural grant applications. Awards will comprise $100,000/year per team (with potential for a 2nd year renewal). Teams receiving the awards are expected to advance their collaborative projects to a point that a P01/RM1 (or comparable) grant application will be submitted during or shortly after the internal support.
Teams of three or more faculty investigators (maximum of 5) are encouraged to apply. The contact PI must have a primary appointment at the HSC. One member of the team may be a WVU faculty with a primary affiliation outside of the HSC.
WVU HSC Bridge Funding Grants (BFGs)
Bridge Funding Grants (BFGs) are intended to provide temporary support to continue operations of investigators whose extramural funding is ending. This program provides funds from the WVU HSC Office of Research and Graduate Education.
WVCTSI Funding Opportunities
Open Competition
The Open Competition RFA allows applicants to request up to $50,000 in funding which must be utilized over a 12 month period. This funding opportunity seeks to find innovative research that addresses healthcare needs in West Virginia. Examples include, but are not limited to, addiction and resultant emerging epidemics, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lung disease, and neuroscience.
Launch Pilot Grant
The Launch Pilot Grant program focuses on accelerating the translation of intellectual property developed by WVCTSI researchers into realized inventions and patents. Applicants can request up to $50,000 in funding, which must be utilized over 9 months.
Small Grant
The Small Grants RFA is an open competition where applicants can request up to $5,000 in funding to address the health care needs of West Virginia. The maximum project period for small grants is 6 months.
For information on Letter of Intent and full proposal deadlines for these funding opportunities, visit the WVCTSI funding page.
Other Funding Opportunities
WVU Research Corporation Investment in Research Stimulation
The WVU Research Office offers the PSCoR (Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). The primary intent for these funds is to increase faculty competitiveness in obtaining extramural research support, i.e., to support efforts that lead to proposal submission and external funding that will ultimately advance the WVU research enterprise.
NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium
WVSGC is a group of West Virginia academic institutions with industrial partners under the sponsorship of NASA. An important component of its mission is to help build research infrastructure at its member institutions. In addition to small seed grants, the consortium makes awards for different programs that are open to competition by all faculty from the consortium affiliates. Each award category is judged separately based on published criteria. WVU is a member of the consortium.
