SMHS Faculty Funding Opportunities
The School of Medicine & Health Sciences offers the below awards for faculty members.
Meritorious Award Program
In order to support the research of the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) faculty members, the Dean’s Office in conjunction with Research Affairs and Compliance is offering the Meritorious Award Program. These funds will provide financial support for investigators to enable the generation of new data, to increase submissions and resubmissions of federal grants, and ultimately to increase the number of federal-funded grants in the UND SMHS.
To be eligible, a full-time member of the UND SMHS Faculty must have submitted their grant to a federal agency within the last year and that grant must have received a meritorious score. For the purpose of this opportunity, meritorious grants are defined as scoring in the top 30% of proposals (30th percentile for NIH). Awardees must agree to submit and/or resubmit their grant applications through the UND SMHS. If the grant is not resubmitted, it will affect the eligibility of the faculty member to receive future SMHS grants.
Meritorious Awards will be given as funding is available.
Eligibility
- All full-time faculty members conducting basic, translational, and/or clinical research at the UND SMHS.
- Eligible grant programs include federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DoD, HRSA, etc.)
- Must have received a grant score within the last year for a grant submitted through the UND SMHS.
- A UND SMHS faculty member can only receive one SMHS Meritorious Award per fiscal year and only one award can be made for a given grant.
Funding
- A meritorious grant with direct cost >250K/year for ≥3 years submitted by a UND SMHS faculty member as the PI is eligible to receive $35,000 in direct costs for proposal resubmission needs.
- Meritorious grants with direct cost 100-250K/year for at least 2 years submitted by a UND SMHS faculty member as a PI is eligible to receive $15,000 in direct costs for proposal resubmission needs.
- No salary support for the PI is provided, but salary support for technical staff and trainees is allowed.
- Equipment costing more than $5,000 will not be allowed.
- At the end of the one-year funding period, the PI must submit a report detailing how the funding was used, what progress was made, and when the grant was resubmitted.
- Applicants recognize that the School may announce the title and awardee for any Meritorious Grant Award.
Application information
Only one submission per PI is allowed in a fiscal year. Applications must include the following:
- A cover letter that includes the project title, grant type, scores, investigator(s) name and affiliations.
- A copy of the specific aims page (for information purposes only).
- A copy of the summary statement for the grant.
- Application materials must be assembled and submitted as a single PDF file.
Applications can be sent to Brittany Haugen in the Office of the Associate Dean of Research at brittany.haugen@UND.edu.