Funding Opportunities

Emory Primary Care Consortium Grants

The Emory Primary Care Consortium provides up to $3,000 to support any project that involves research, quality improvement, advocacy, development of clinical decision support tools, or educational activities in support of advancements in primary care. Details and application   

SOM Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I³) Awards

Innovation is the cornerstone of the emerging SOM Strategic Framework and is key to all three SOM missions: research, education, and clinical care. A key innovation strategy is to 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. Problems in biology, medicine, and education today are often so complex that such approaches are necessary to tackle them successfully. Often novel insights emerge only when you juxtapose individuals with deep but disparate expertise around a common goal. Award details

SOM IMAGINE, INNOVATE, AND IMPACT (I³) MED TECH AWARDS: Due 5:00 pm on March 30, 2023

The Dean of the Emory School of Medicine (SOM) is soliciting innovative research proposals to catalyze promising early-stage concepts with commercial potential that do not yet qualify for funding from external sources. The I³ Med Tech Research Awards aim to cultivate inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve medicine’s challenges and create patient impact through an interface of medicine and technology, in the areas mentioned below. Grants will be considered for: 

• I³ Med Tech Research Awards: Proposals with the potential to shape, de-risk, or scale up a potential new medical technology, in the areas of diagnostics, devices or digital technology (e.g., wearable devices, point of care diagnostics, novel assays) in less than one year. Drug development is excluded, but drug formulation or drug delivery is not. If successful, the proposal would ready the project for the next stage of translation (not necessarily to market readiness).  Particularly creative ideas, even without preliminary data, will be considered provided compelling impact, feasibility and commercial potential is demonstrated.
• Note that an invention disclosure to the Emory Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is not necessary in order to submit and be eligible. Also, the opportunity being developed does not necessarily have to be fit for development into a startup company. RFP details

SOM Imagine, Innovate, and Impact (I³) Nexus Research Awards: Due 5:00 pm on April 25, 2023

The Dean of the Emory School of Medicine (SOM) is soliciting proposals to develop new interdisciplinary research projects that have the potential to impact health or generate biomedical knowledge. In the current round, grants will be considered for: 

• I³ Nexus Research Awards: Proposals to spur interdisciplinary research are solicited. The I³ Nexus Research Awards will provide seed money to fundamental biological and translational investigators for obtaining sufficient data to ultimately develop external collaborative funding applications, and to investigators who may not otherwise engage in multi- and interdisciplinary research. The goal is to take programs to the level at which extramural funding may be pursued. These awards require interdisciplinary team collaboration, with at least one collaborator outside of the home department/division (within the SOM) who brings a different discipline, expertise, or methodology to the project. RFP Details

Emory Imagine, Innovate, and Impact (I³) SOM/Atlanta VA Research Awards: Due 5:00 pm on June 5, 2023

The Interim Dean of the Emory School of Medicine (SOM) and the Assistant Dean for VA Research at the Atlanta VA Medical Center are soliciting proposals that will enhance collaboration among existing VA and Emory scientists. These collaborative awards are intended to spark synergistic interactions among investigators, at least one from Emory SOM and Atlanta VA each. The awards will be administered through the Emory SOM Imagine, Innovate, and Impact (I³) awards program. 

• I³ Emory SOM/Atlanta VA Research Awards: Proposals to spur interdisciplinary research are solicited. The I³ Emory SOM/Atlanta VA Research Awards will provide seed money to fundamental biological and translational investigators for obtaining sufficient data to ultimately develop external collaborative funding applications, and to investigators who may not otherwise engage in multi- and interdisciplinary research with each other. The goal is to take programs to the level at which extramural funding may be pursued. These awards should support projects that expand the Emory investigator’s program to the VA, the VA investigator’s program to Emory, or define a new collaborative project. The awards require interdisciplinary team collaboration, with at least one collaborator from the Emory SOM and one collaborator from the Atlanta VA. RFP Details

Bridge Funding Program 

Applications are Due April 15 and December 15

To assist investigators who have temporarily lost significant federal research funding, and to facilitate carefully planned changes in research direction, the School of Medicine offers a Bridge Funding Program. Bridge funding up to $100,000 (including Department support/matching funds) will be available to investigators based on merit, potential for renewal of external funding, and availability of SOM funds. View eligibility criteria and application details. 

Emory Medical Care Foundation

The Emory Medical Care Foundation (EMCF) offers two different types of grants: research grants and service, education, and advocacy grants. Proposals are due on February 1, June 1, and October 1 annually. View eligibility criteria and application details. 

The Office of Foundation Relations (OFR)

The Office of Foundation Relations (OFR) team builds partnerships across Emory's schools and units to increase foundation support for Emory University where mutual impact, interests and strengths align. OFR raises the faculty profile with foundations by submitting thoughtful, strategic proposals and building strong, reciprocal relationships with funders. In addition to providing helpful insight about foundations and their grantmaking processes, OFR serves as an advocate for Emory faculty with potential funders. For additional information, please email the team at EMORYOFR@LISTSERV.CC.EMORY.EDU.