The College of Medicine Bridge Funding supports investigators with established clinical or basic research programs during periods when a competitive renewal or "next stage" application is not funded. Applications are accepted three times per year - April 15th, August 15th, and December 15th of each year.

Application Due:  August 15, 2016

COMETS provides support newly established research teams of two faculty members with different by complementary expertise to conduct basic, translational, or clinical research.  The program targets mid-career and senior investigators with a strong funding and publication history, and difficulty obtaining R01 (or equivalent) support in the past 18-24 months.

Letter of Intent:  September 15, 2016

The SCIRF Bridge Funding program provides an investigator, with a research program in spinal cord injury with a research grant whose federal competing continuation application was not funded, an opportunity to obtain one year of bridge support. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  This mechanism is open, so there is no specific deadline.

SC  Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund: Investigator Initiated Research
The SCIRF Investigator Initiated Research grants are for clinicians, therapists, educators and scientists in South Carolina researching aspects of spinal cord injury in an effort to develop a better understanding and ultimately treatment for paralysis and other consequences of spinal cord injury and spinal cord disease. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  Recurring deadlines of January 15 and August 15

MedTransTech, Education and Outreach Activities Support Program

The South Carolina Medical Translational Technology Program is a partnership of academic, healthcare, and industry organizations aimed at enabling biomedical innovation (discovery put to use), accelerating the transfer of resulting advances to the patient community, and facilitating education and outreach to the healthcare community. Proposals are being accepted to support education and outreach activities for healthcare organizations participating in the MedTransTech Program. The funding supports (l) conduct of short-term (one day or less) events such as seminars, courses, workshops, and retreats aimed at training and communicating information to patients and staff; and (2) travel to courses or conferences that offer specialized education or outreach opportunities.

Accepting proposal through July 31, 2016

The SCIRF Student Research Internship grant application should to be submitted by a mentor to a student in medicine, nursing, health professions, epidemiology, neuroscience or other related fields that apply to basic, clinical or translational research with spinal cord injury or spinal cord disease. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  This mechanism is open, so there is no specific deadline.

The SCIRF Postdoctoral Research grant application should to be submitted by a mentor with the goal to increase the number of individuals with doctorates who seek postdoctoral training in spinal cord injury, working with a mentor who has an independent program of research in spinal cord injury. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  This mechanism is open, so there is no specific deadline.

The SCIRF Conference/Education/Training grants are to support entities that will improve the knowledge of people with spinal cord injury and/or healthcare professionals that provide care for people with spinal cord injuries in South Carolina.  Areas of potential research interest for all proposals include: basic neurobiology; pre-clinical studies; translation of pre-clinical findings into treatment; clinical issues; outcomes of rehabilitation; epidemiology; education and prevention, including education curriculum for people and families in appropriate and adequate spinal cord injury care, community, and health care providers. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  This mechanism is open, so there is no specific deadline.

The program’s goal is to facilitate new, meaningful clinical and translational research; promote scientific interactions between basic and clinician-scientists and between clinician-scientists and the community; and accelerate the process from discovery to improved patient care.

• High Innovation-High Reward Grant Pilot Projects stimulate innovative collaborations leading to substantial development of intellectual property and/or commercialization opportunities.

• Discovery Grant Pilot Program supports support new and innovative, scientifically meritorious high-impact interdisciplinary translational research from basic to clinical to community/population health with emphasis on diseases demonstrating significant prevalence in South Carolina.

• Translational Roadblock Studies (TRB) Pilot Project Grants supports new and innovative projects that hold considerable promise to streamline the research pipeline by characterizing and removing barriers to translational research.

The Clinical and Translational Pilot Grants Program solicits applications. The technical scope of the research plan should be related to clinical and translational research (see Rubio et al., 2010). Areas of high importance to the DE-CTR ACCEL program include:  Rehabilitation, Stroke, Cancer, Obesity, Cardiovascular Diseases, Women’s Health and Infant Mortality and community Engaged Research.  Pilot Grants provide funds for a one-year period that will allow a research team to develop a more substantial basis for independent external support from the NIH.

Application Deadline:  July 18, 2016

The SCIRF Pilot Grants program's goal is to support investigators who need to collect pilot data to position themselves for extramural grants. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  This mechanism is open, so there is no specific deadline.

The SCIRF Recruitment/Seed Funding is used to promote the recruitment and seed funding for scientists and clinician scientists who specialize in the area of spinal cord injury to the state of South Carolina. The funding opportunity announcement provides additional details.

Applications Due:  This mechanism is open, so there is no specific deadline.