A wide variety of funding opportunities are available for researchers at the IU School of Medicine.
Large Collaborative Grants
Large, collaborative, interdisciplinary grants are the focus of this program and include, but are not limited to:
- Program project grants (P01s)
- Center grants (P30s, P50s, P60s)
- Cooperative agreements (U54s)
- Large DoD proposals.
This initiative aims to bring together IU School of Medicine faculty to work together to generate innovative ideas that further the school's mission and research goals. Funding must be used for experiments to generate data supporting the grant application.
Full-time IU School of Medicine faculty are invited to apply. Please note that faculty holding visiting appointment status are not eligible to serve on these applications, postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to serve as PIs or co-PIs and collaborations with out-of-state faculty and fees as consultants for out-of-state faculty may be considered but must be strongly justified. Up to $75,000 may be available for each application. This is the total amount that can be requested regardless of how many submissions are made. All requests for funds must be matched one-to-one by non-dean’s office resources such as departments, institutes or centers.
Showalter Trust Grants
This externally funded grant program is designed to stimulate “the type of medical research that is most likely to permanently benefit mankind.”
Showalter Trust Grants are open to full-time faculty members of assistant professor or assistant scientist rank with a primary appointment at the IU School of Medicine. There is a single round of competition per year, which will open in September. Up to $75,000 can be awarded for a one-year project.
Biomedical Research Grants (BRG)
This program is open to all IU School of Medicine faculty that are full-time, regardless of tenure status, having an appointment of assistant/associate/full professor and assistant/associate/full scientist.
Two categories of research projects will benefit from this program:
- Research projects of investigators new to the IU School of Medicine who lack extramural funding and need support to acquire the preliminary data necessary to compete for extramural funding.
- Research projects of established IU School of Medicine investigators who are between funding periods from extramural sources.
Applications are considered small grants and should have a maximum requested amount of $50,000 while being limited to a duration of one year.
Research Enhancement Grants (REG)
This program is designed to stimulate research productivity at the IU School of Medicine’s statewide Centers for Medical Education (regional campuses) including the Bloomington Medical Sciences Program and with the exclusion of the IU Indianapolis campus.
All full-time center/medical sciences faculty, regardless of tenure status, having an appointment of assistant/associate/full professor or assistant/associate/full scientist at time of submission are eligible to apply for a REG.
Primary appointment must be in the School of Medicine. Faculty in visiting ranks are not eligible for funding through this mechanism. Applications are considered small grants and should have a maximum requested amount of $50,000 and be limited to a duration of one year.
Opportunities available through the Indiana CTSI
More funding opportunities are available to IU School of Medicine faculty through the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). Visit the Indiana CTSI website to learn more.
Opportunities available through Indiana University
More funding opportunities are available to faculty through the IU Office of the Vice President for Research. Visit the IU Research website to learn more.