Stanford Internal Funding Opportunities:
Pilot Projects, Developmental Projects, Seed Grants,
Fellowships and Training Programs
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This webpage contains internal Stanford: Pilot Grants, Developmental Projects, and Seed Grants for faculty; Postdoctoral fellowships and training programs; and Graduate Student dissertation grants and fellowships offered by Stanford departments, institutes and programs.
Faculty/Departments/Centers/Institutes: if you would like assistance with the distribution of your announcements, please contact Jeanne Heschele at jheschele@stanford.edu.
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Spreadsheet containing over 80 internal Stanford funding opportunities offered throughout the year:
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Institutional representatives: you do not need to submit your internal Stanford funding opportunity proposals through your institutional representative (RPM in RMG; OSR contract officer). You can submit them directly to the programs per their instructions.
Programs Currently Accepting Applications
Arranged by category:
For Faculty
For multiple positions (including faculty)
For Postdoctoral and/or Clinical Fellows-fellowships and training programs
For Medical StudentsPrograms For faculty TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Sustainable Energy Seed Grants
Amount of funding: up to $100,000 per year for up to 2 years (up to 4 grants to be awarded)
Eligibility: Stanford faculty
TKC is pleased to invite proposals for seed funding of research projects that support Distributed Production and Energy Generation. Distributed Energy Generation encompasses the localized generation, storage, distribution and management of energy and includes relevant sub-categories such as solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, batteries (and other storage technologies), smart grids (hardware and software), and demand response.
To address these challenges, TKC is seeking research proposals in the following four thematic areas: (1) sustainable energy conversion devices; (2) energy storage; (3) electricity distribution, control, and integration (micro-grid, smart-grid, demand response) and (4) distributed production.
Questions? Contact Danica Sarlya at dsarlya@stanford.edu
Letter of intent (encouraged but not required): May 15, 2015
Full proposal: June 29, 2015
GuidelinesStanford University Mass Spectrometry-Vincent Coates Foundation
FY16 SUMS Seed Grants
Amount of funding: Maximum request is $15,000; typical awards will be $5,000 - $10,000. The funding will be applied toward SUMS user fees. Matching funds are encouraged.
Eligibility: Stanford faculty who are members of the Academic Council. Preference will be given to projects new to SUMS.
The objectives of the SUMS Seed Grants are to encourage new projects and new methodologies within SUMS, and to support proposals for research grants from external funding agencies. Exciting, groundbreaking research happens where different fields, technologies and knowledge come together. SUMS is particularly interested in the following:
-Supporting the application of our existing capabilities to emerging research areas
-Developing new workflows with our existing instrumentation base to advance research
-Helping PIs generate preliminary data to use in proposals for larger research grants
Some of the existing mass spectrometer systems available at SUMS are nanoLC-Orbitrap, LC-triple quad, GC-triple quad, LC-Q-TOF, LC-ion trap, and MALDI-TOF
Questions? Contact Allis Chien at allis@stanford.edu
Deadline: July 1, 2015
GuidelinesStanford Neuroscience Institute
Two-Photon Microscopy Pilot Grants
Eligibility: Stanford faculty with PI eligibility
Up to $7k, for training and two-photon microscope time at Neuroscience Microscopy Service (NMS)
This program provides seed funding for neuroscience-related projects requiring two photon microscopy (either tissue slice or in vivo preparations). These grants will provide funding for training and use of an NMS) two photon microscope for a limited time period (up to 6 weeks).
Questions? Contact Andrew Olson at aolson6@stanford.edu
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis as funds permit through July 1, 2015
GuidelinesStanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF)*
(*Note: Stanford Nano Center (SNC) & Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory (SNL) have combined to form SNSF)
Bio/Medical Mini Seed Grants
(*revised 06/05/15*) Amount of funding: Maximum request up to $10,000, usually $2,000 - $5,000 in direct cost.
Eligibility: Stanford University faculty holding University, Research, or Medical Center line positions. Preference will be given to new users of the Nano Shared Facilities.
Questions? Contact Tobias Beetz at tobi@stanford.edu
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis as funds permit.
GuidelinesPrograms for multiple positions (some include faculty) Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)
Seed Grants
$15K-$40K
Eligibility: Stanford faculty and Instructors who are members* of the CVI
*To become a CVI member, please see this webpage >>
Purpose: To ignite innovative cardiovascular research projects that contributes to basic or clinical understanding of cardiovascular diseases. We encourage projects that initiate new areas of pediatric and obstetric related research, develop new methods or technology for heart and vasculature biology.
Questions? Contact Ingrid Ibarra at iibarra@stanford.edu
Deadline: July 15, 2015
GuidelinesTranslational Research and Applied Medicine (TRAM)
Pilot Grant Program 2015-2016
Amount of funding:
Medical or Graduate Student Award up to $5k for one year
Postdoctoral, Clinical Fellow or Medical Resident Award up to $15k for one year
Faculty Award for up to $30k for one year
Eligibility: Proposals may be submitted by Stanford graduate students, medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, Instructors, and faculty.
Funds must be applied to specific translational research questions that require direct patient interactions. (Funds are not to be used for fellow or faculty salary support).
Postdoctoral and clinical fellows, medical residents, graduate and medical students must have a collaborating faculty member (PI) in the Department of Medicine (DoM)
Faculty grants must involve at least two faculty members, at least one of whom must primarily have a clinically-based program
Note: Clinician educator line faculty are eligible to apply.
Instructors are eligible to apply for a fellow grant with a collaborating faculty member (PI) from the Department of Medicine, or they can apply for a faculty grant together with at least two other faculty members (PIs)--at least one of the PIs must be from the Department of Medicine.
NOTE: Preference will be given to proposals with at least one of the faculty members in the DoM, however proposals from other departments will also be considered.
This must be a new collaborative translational project (the funds are not to support an ongoing project).
(See additional criteria in the guidelines)
Deadline: July 15, 2015
Guidelines2016 Spectrum Pilot Grants
Amount of funding: see the program description for each pilot grant
Eligibility: Open to all Stanford faculty and Instructors. Graduate students, clinical and non-clinical postdoctoral scholars are encouraged to apply and are required to include a Stanford-affiliated, faculty mentor who must be listed as co-PI on the application. Stanford faculty include anyone with Professor, Instructor or Lecturer in his or her official title.
In keeping with its core mission, Spectrum offers pilot grants for accelerating clinical and translational research (CTR) in these areas:
1. Spectrum Pilot Grants for SPARK
2. Spectrum Pilot Grants for Stanford Predictives and Diagnostics Accelerator (SPADA)
3. Spectrum Pilot Grants for Medtech
4. Spectrum Pilot Grants for Community Engagement
5. Spectrum Pilot Grants for Population Health Sciences
6. Stanford Learning Health Care Innovation Challenge
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2015, 6 p.m. PDT
GuidelinesTomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Education energyCatalyst Grants
Amount of funding: up to $1,500 per class per quarter
Eligibility: These grants are awarded to faculty and academic staff members and aim to cultivate interdisciplinary thinking and introduce sustainable energy concepts and opportunities to Stanford students, through fieldtrips, guest speakers, demonstrations, or other activities.
Questions? Contact Danica Sarlya at dsarlya@stanford.edu
Applications are accepted year round. Funds are limited; apply early.
GuidelinesTomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Innovation Transfer Grants
Amount of funding:
Proposals will generally be limited to grants under $50,000. Grantees that make significant progress toward validating the commercial viability of their invention can apply to renew their funding at a higher level. For more commercially advanced proposals larger amounts may be granted but only with significant budgetary justification. These grants are designed to help inventors bridge the gap between research and commercialization through the development of prototypes, market research, business plan refinement, and other activities that assist in the externalization of Stanford innovation.
Eligibility: Awarded to Stanford teams, in collaboration with a Stanford Faculty mentor, for terms of 3 to 12 months.
Award amounts based on the level of the commercial validation.
Questions? Contact Danica Sarlya at dsarlya@stanford.edu
Rolling applications accepted year-round; funds are limited.
GuidelinesPrograms for Postdoctoral and/or Clinical Fellows Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)
Postdoctoral Travel Award
$750
Eligibility: Stanford postdoctoral fellows (also open to nurses)
For travel to conferences
Remaining Deadlines:
Sept. 10, 2015 (to attend a meeting in October-December)
Questions? Contact David Preston at preston@stanford.edu
GuidelinesStanford Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)
T32 training program in “Mechanisms & Innovation in Vascular Disease”
Eligibility: You must have a PhD, MD or equivalent degree by the start of training. You must not have already received more than 2 years of post-doctoral funding from NIH training grants (e.g., T32, NRSA) in order to be eligible for this award
U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required.
Questions? Contact David Preston at preston@stanford.edu
Deadline: June 30, 2015
GuidelinesStanford Cancer Imaging Training (SCIT) Program
SCIT Fellowship
NIH NCI T32 two-year training program
Eligibility: M.D. or Ph.D.
At the time of the award the applicant must be U.S. citizenship or non-citizen national, or a permanent resident.
Questions? Contact Sofia Gonzales at sofias@stanford.edu
Deadline: July 1, 2015
GuidelinesNIH/NHLBI Funded Stanford Career Development Program in ‘Omics’ of Lung Diseases (K12)
This NIH NHLBI K12 institutional training program) has a major focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Our goal is to equip the next cadre of MD and PhD scientists with interdisciplinary and bioinformatic skills to integrate new high throughput genomic, proteomic and metabolomic platforms.
Eligibility: Applicants must have an M.D., M.D./Ph.D., or Ph.D., or an equivalent degree.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or permanent residents
Questions? Contact Michelle Fox at mfox1@stanford.edu
Deadline: Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
GuidelinesStanford Cancer Systems Biology Scholars (CSBS) Program
Postdoctoral Training in Systems Biology of Cancer
The Stanford Cancer Systems Biology Scholars (CSBS) Program is an NIH-NCI funded two-year postdoctoral multidisciplinary training program for cancer and biocomputational researchers who want to embark on a systems biology approach to discover clinically-relevant cellular and molecular networks underlying cancer risk, initiation, progression and treatment response.
This is for well-qualified individuals with various backgrounds:
1) cancer biologists who want to be cross-trained in computational sciences and
2) computational scientists who want to be cross-trained in cancer biology.
Applicants must have a M.D., M.D./Ph.D. or a Ph.D. (see the eligibility criteria)
Questions? Contact Holly Chung at chungh@stanford.edu
(REVISED) Deadline: Open until filled
GuidelinesDepartment of Anesthesiology-Division of Pain Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Research Training in Pain and/or Substance Abuse Disorders-T32 Program
NIH NIDA T32 2 year training program for M.D./Ph.D., M.D. and Ph.D. postdoctoral researchers in pain, substance abuse disorders and their intersection. See the guidelines for additional information.
Questions? Contact Sara Miller at smiller9@stanford.edu
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis
GuidelinesCenter for Health Policy (CHP)/ Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR )
VA Advanced Fellowship in Geriatrics
Two year advanced postdoctoral research fellowship for those interested in a career in academic geriatrics researdh and leadership. See the guidelines for additinional information.
Questions? Contact Dr. Terri Huh at terri.huh@va.gov or Dr. Mary Goldstein at Mary.Goldstein@va.gov
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis for Sept. 15, 2015 start date
GuidelinesCenter for Health Policy (CHP)/ Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR )
VA Post residency Fellowship in Health Services Research and Development
Questions? Contact Samantha Chiu at skchiu@stanford.edu
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis
GuidelinesCenter for Health Policy (CHP)/ Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR )
Medical Informatics Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars
Questions? Contact Contact Samantha Chiu at skchiu@stanford.edu
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis
GuidelinesCenter for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR)
Research Training in Child Psychiatry and Development
Two year NIH NIMH T32 training program for Ph.D. and M.D. postdoctoral researchers
Questions? Contact Reiko Rain Riley at reikor@stanford.edu
No specific deadline
GuidelinesMedical Students Cardiovascular Institute
iHeart Research (Dorothy Dee & Marjorie Helene Boring Trust)
$15K stipend for medical students dedicated to cardiovascular research
Eligibility: Stanford medical students who have at least one quarter of MedScholars Research or previous research experience at Stanford (during medical school) (see guidelines)
Questions? Contact Ingrid Ibarra at iibarra@stanford.edu
Deadlines: June 28, 2015 and Oct. 1, 2015
Guidelines
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