The Flash Grant program aims to identify and energize creative ideas that exhibit early indications of commercial potential.
Donor Name: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/19/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
NCBiotech’s Flash Grant program was created to identify and energize the most creative ideas that exhibit early indications of exceptional commercial potential. Like a flash of inspiration, Flash Grants infuse a quick jolt of funding at a critical early point when a small, targeted influx of funds can be crucial to shaping innovative research ideas into high potential life sciences technologies.
Flash Grants support short, tightly focused research projects in these two categories:
- To obtain initial exploratory, proof-of-concept, or feasibility data necessary to suggest the disruptive potential of a life sciences technology. and/or
- To conduct the final experiment(s) needed to advance a basic life sciences research program into the translational research phase of development.
Funding Information
A maximum of $30,000 may be requested for projects of up to 12 months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Institutions
- Any North Carolina university or non-profit research organization may apply.
- Companies and individuals are not eligible to apply for Flash Grants.
- Principal Investigator Eligibility
- At the time of submission, the Principal Investigator (PI) must hold a full-time, tenure-track, or tenured faculty appointment, or an appointment as permanent, full-time, clinical or research faculty at the applicant institution or hold an equivalent position.
- Postdoctoral research fellows, adjunct faculty, and non-permanent research personnel are not eligible.
- The PI may not have more than two active awards from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center at the same time.
- At the time of submission, the Principal Investigator (PI) must hold a full-time, tenure-track, or tenured faculty appointment, or an appointment as permanent, full-time, clinical or research faculty at the applicant institution or hold an equivalent position.
- Intellectual Property Eligibility
- No prior invention disclosure, patent application, patent award, or other intellectual property filing relating to the project is required to submit a Flash Grant proposal.
For more information, visit North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
