IHDD Pilot Grant

Amount: A maximum of $10,000 is allowed, but smaller grants are encouraged and we will balance total costs versus potential impact and try to maximize the number of grants given out.

Eligibility:

• Early Career Investigators: Fellows, Doctoral students, PostDocs, Junior faculty (first 5 years on faculty) without R01 level funding
• Experienced faculty changing fields

• Proposals will be evaluated by the IDDRC executive committee and they will make subsequent funding decisions based on evaluations and project feasibility.
• Core directors will evaluate whether the project is compatible with Core capabilities: Qin Qin (Brain Structure and Function Core), Kim Aldinger or Jessica Chong (Genomics Core), or Sara Jane Webb (Clinical Translation Core).

Awardees are required to:

• Present their preliminary data at an IHDD event at the end of the funding period describing the project, and how the data will be used to target an external funding opportunity.
• Confirm submission of the grant for which the pilot funds were used or describe why the grant will not be submitted (e.g., pilot data were not compelling).  Note that the grant does not need to be submitted during the funding period.
• Submit a progress report along with a core user survey at the end of the funding period. This progress report should describe the research activities undertaken, status of manuscript development if applicable and plans to secure extramural funding and any other research work that is planned. Awardees will be expected to cite funding support in any publication or grant that results from data collected through this award.

This publication (or project) was supported byP50 HD103524 provided by NICHD. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Funder. ^{a, b}

^aThe grant must also be associated with publications in “My Bibliography” on PubMed/NCBI.
^bPublications must be compliant with the NIH Public Access Policy