Emory Pilot and Seed Grants | Emory School of Medicine

Title of Grant	Description	Career Stage of Researcher	Deadlines:
Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Grants	The purpose of these grants is to allow trainees to generate preliminary data leading to additional external funding.	Early-career investigators	Funding period: December 1st to November 30th of each year
Biological Discovery through Chemical Innovation (BDCI) Accelerator Grant – contact Callie Wigington, Haian Fu, and Huw Davies	The purpose of these grants is to provide seed funding for new projects and recent collaborations that both enhance interdisciplinary research and drive innovation throughout the Emory scientific community.	All career levels	Application period: Fall
Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Pilot Grant – contact Galina Terbova	CFAR-03: The purpose of these grants is to generate data for an NIH application for early-stage investigators and independent investigators who are new to HIV research at Emory University.	Early-career investigators	Application period: Rolling
	CFAR-K: The purpose of these grants is to fill or extend research funding for an active NIH K award for NIH-K awardees at Emory University.
	CFAR-HBCU: The purpose of these grants is to promote HIV research collaborations between faculty at local HBCUs and Emory University for early stage and mid-career investigators at Atlanta-area HBCUs.
Center for Health in Aging Pilot Project Awards – contact Camille Vaughan	The purpose of these grants is to award up to $45,000 for research related to the health and well-being of older adults.	All career levels	Application period: Fall
Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research (GDTRC): Pilot and Feasibility Program	The purpose of these grants is to serve a pivotal role in catalyzing high-return investments by helping develop junior investigators, attracting transitioning investigators, and significantly growing the breadth and depth of NIH-funded collaborative interdisciplinary diabetes translation research in the Southeast region.	Early-career investigators	Application period: End of January
GA CTSA Pilot Grants	The purpose of these grants is to support one to two-year pilot projects consonant with the broad aims and objectives of the Georgia CTSA.	All career levels	Various; grant specific
Georgia State/Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) Seed Grants – contact Nikki Arrington	The purpose of these grants is to facilitate the future development of external grant applications. Seed grants are provided in the form of up to 20 hours of allocated MRI scan time and/or BrainForge data processing and analyses for up to 25 subjects.	All career levels	Application period: Beginning of March
Emory Global Health Institute Faculty Seed Grants – contact Keriann Roy	The purpose of these grants is to conduct interdisciplinary global health research or programmatic work.	All career levels	Application period: End of April
Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Pilot Grants	Areas of research can range from basic and clinical investigations to education and caregiving. Studies of pre-clinical phases of disease and approaches useful in differentiating disease processes from normal aging, as well as studies of early interventions, imaging & biomarkers, and minority issues are encouraged.	Early-career investigators; established researchers seeking new directions	Application period: End of November Funding start date: Beginning of May
Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP) Investigator-Initiated Seed Grants in Healthcare Innovation	The purpose of these grants is to support innovative approaches that address issues of healthcare quality, costs, and/or access from multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary teams examining healthcare services and clinical effectiveness.	All career levels	See FOA when published.
HERCULES Pilot Project Program – contact Carmen Marsit	The purpose of these grants is to expand and integrate exposome-related research on campus through focusing on cutting-edge technologies, interdisciplinary collaboration among environmental health science investigators at Emory, development of junior investigators through funding and mentoring and the promotion of translational research in environmental health sciences. Funds are meant to help generate new preliminary data to compete for NIEHS R-level grants while also building strong interdisciplinary research teams.	Early-career investigators	Application period: Fall
IDCRC Pilot Grant Program	The purpose of these grants is to support research projects and career development activities that will enhance the applicant’s ability to compete successfully for an independent R- or K-series award (e.g., acquisition of preliminary data, training in grant preparation).	Early-career investigators	Application period: End of June
Emory SOM Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Awards	The purpose of these grants is to support innovative research ideas that promote interdisciplinary and cross-departmental and -divisional research, i.e., collaborations at the boundaries of disciplines or research requiring input from scientists, clinicians, and/or educators in diverse disciplines.	All career levels	Application period: End of July
Emory Medical Care Foundation, Inc. (EMCF) at Grady – contact Nadine Kaslow	The purpose of these grants is to help individuals collect pilot data to be used for submissions to external grant agencies, as well as to encourage clinicians and educators to engage in clinical and basic science research.	Early-career investigators; Emory faculty based at Grady Health System for at least 50% of their time	Application period: February 1, June 1, and October 1 of each year
Emory National Primate Research Center Pilot Research Program	The purpose of these grants is to generate high-impact preliminary data that will result in research project grants from outside sources and in peer-reviewed publications.	All career levels	See FOA when published.
Pediatric Research Alliance Pilots	The purpose of these grants is to stimulate new research projects, build new collaborations, and increase extramural funding for pediatric research.	Early-career investigators, all stage investigators	Application period: mid-April (LOIs); Beginning of July (Full applications)
Peds and Pathology Pilot Grants	The purpose of these grants is to stimulate synergistic collaborations and research projects between adult and pediatric pathologists.	Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta	Application period: end of September
Emory Primary Care Consortium Grants – contact pc.consortium@emory.edu	The purpose of these grants is to support any Emory-affiliated project that involves research, quality improvement, advocacy, or education in support of advancements in primary care.	All career levels	Application period: End of September Funding period: January 1^st to December 1^st of each year
Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery – contact Molly Perkins	The purpose of these grants is to conduct NIH Stage I-III intervention research that will strengthen the context-specific role mastery of informal caregivers of persons living with a dementing illness.	Early-career investigators; senior investigators	Application period: Beginning of December Award start date: June 1
Emory SCORE – contact Igho Ofotokun	Pilot Funding: The purpose of these grants is to generate data for an NIH application.	All career levels	Application period: Middle of April
Emory SCORE – contact Igho Ofotokun	Accelerator Awards: The purpose of these grants is to remove obstacles to productivity among investigators who are conducting sex differences research.	All career levels	Application period: Rolling
University Research Committee (URC) Awards	Each year, all regular, continuing full-time faculty of Emory University are invited to submit one application in one of the six URC award categories.	All career levels	Application period: October - January Funding period: late Spring for 12 months
URC-Halle Institute Global Research Award	The purpose of these grants is to support international research projects.	All career levels	Application period: October - January Funding period: late Spring for 12 months
VISN 7 Research Development Award (RDA) – contact Mike Hart	The purpose of these grants is to conduct research that directly addresses health care needs in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).	All career levels	Annual solicitation goes out from the individual facility’s research office.
WHSC Synergy Research Awards	The purpose of these grants is to spark new, synergistic interactions among investigators and to enable scientific achievements of the highest quality and impact.	All career levels	Various; grant specific
Winship Pilot Grants	Winship Invest$ Pilot Grant Program: The purpose of these grants is to obtain preliminary data and results for publication and for subsequent peer-reviewed funding applications.	All career levels	Application period: Beginning on March (LOI)
	Winship Invest$ Prostate Cancer Research Pilot Grant: The purpose of these grants is to support innovative proposals that address prostate cancer research including but not limited to basic or translational research, investigator initiated clinical trials (related IRB submission must be either in review or approved), health disparities, imaging, survivorship, or quality of life will be considered for funding.	All career levels	Application period: Middle of March
	Winship Lung Cancer SPORE Pilot Grants: The purpose of these grants is to promote the advancement of early career lung cancer investigators through the conduct of a mentored Career Enhancement Program (CEP).	Early-career investigators	Application period: End of May