The Health Sciences Research Grant Committee is currently soliciting applications for research support. Funds will not be provided for expenses incurred prior to the submission deadline date. Incomplete or undocumented applications will be deferred to the Committee's next regularly scheduled meeting.
The next deadline for submission of applications is March 31, 2021. Late applications will not be considered, no exceptions. If you miss this deadline, the next deadline will be in October 2021.
Applications are created and submitted electronically through eGrants. Information about eGrants is available at /online-tools/interactive-utilities/egrants.
Effective 2020/21, applications for non-senate members should include the following checklist in their application, to be fllled out by Department Chairs (or the Division Chief endorsed by the Department Chair).
Members of the Academic Senate are eligible to apply for individual grants. Financial support may be provided for individuals with academic appointments who are not members of the Academic Senate (i.e. Adjunct and Clinical Professors, Research Scientists, and assistant-level Project Scientists). For non-Senate members, a letter from the Department Chair or the Division Chief endorsed by the Department Chair is required in support of the applicant's request and advising the Committee of his/her status in the department. Applications for a non-Senate member received without a support letter will not be considered. The Committee does not support individuals such as associate and full project scientists, post-docs, clinical instructors and non-salaried faculty appointments.
Project descriptions should be written in general terms and comprehensible to non-specialists. Justification of all items requested is essential. An application for seed money or for a project leading the investigator in an exciting new direction should represent innovative, currently unfunded projects or pilot studies that are likely to lead to extramural support. Incremental changes or additions to a currently funded project are rarely considered favorably. These applications may not exceed $15,000. Proposals that would reach a cumulative total of pilot grant support of $60,000 or more over a ten-year period to the same investigator are unlikely to be awarded.
The Committee will consider a small number of larger applications. An application for bridge funding is restricted to faculty who, after several years of demonstrated research productivity, have lost extramural research grants, and although they have proposals in the review cycle, bridge funds would support continued research activities in the short term. These applications may not exceed $40,000.
Early career faculty and Academic Senate members will be given priority over non-Senate members; however, all Academic Senate members are encouraged to apply for grants for innovative, unfunded projects; in particular, pilot studies that could lead to more substantive support from extramural agencies.
Expenditures of research grant funds must conform to the Committee allocations by categories and purpose (pre-approval of changes in use of funds is mandatory).
The grantee is responsible for the administration of the grant, any overdrafts, and must review the budget and encumber or return promptly any funds that will not be spent before the ending date of the grant. Any unexpended funds on that date will automatically revert to the Committee for redistribution.
Any equipment purchased from an Academic Senate research grant becomes the property of the University upon acquisition and reverts to the University upon completion of the project for which the funds were awarded.
All expenditures are subject to applicable University regulations.
Please acknowledge the UCSD Academic Senate in publications benefiting from these funds.
Any unexpended balances returned prior to the ending date of the grant will be credited towards grantee's ten-year cumulative total.