The Hawaii Community Foundation is accepting applications for its Medical Research Program.
Donor Name: Hawaii Community Foundation
State: Hawaii
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $25,000 – $60,000
Grant Duration: 18 Months
Details:
The goal of the program is to support a robust local medical research community that benefits the people of Hawaii.
Priorities
The intent of the Medical Research program is to support research proposals that are based on strong science and use proper protocols and assist in advancing Hawai‘i’s medical research community. Priority is given to research projects that advance as many of the following elements as possible:
- Articulate biomedical relevance and potential to impact health care delivery to benefit the people of Hawai‘i.
- Are likely to lead to increased competitiveness for national funding by providing seed funding for gathering preliminary data.
- Support junior faculty.
- Support a new line of research in Hawai‘i.
- Are a collaborative effort in Hawai‘i-based research
The following are the program’s areas of focus:
- Clinical/basic research – Alzheimer’s disease, mental or physical diseases related to old age
- Clinical/basic research – cancer, heart disease, or lung disease
- Clinical/basic research – general
- Clinical/basic research – immunology, genetics, or the medicinal uses of Hawaiian plants
- Clinical/basic research – prevent blindness, with particular emphasis on macular degeneration
- Clinical/basic research – type I diabetes (juvenile diabetes)
Grants in these areas are up to $60,000.
- Research infrastructure – The focus of this priority area is to support organizational and/or systems change in Hawai‘i to increase research capacity. Projects can support organizational change, support new or existing research collection and database systems, or assist with inter-organizational collaborative efforts. This priority area is not intended to support a specific research project or purchase equipment for a research project/department.
Grants in this area are up to $25,000.
Award Period
Researchers will have eighteen (18) months to complete their research project.
Eligible Criteria
Organizations are eligible to apply for a grant if:
- An organization is a 501(c)(3) organization or a unit of government.
- The PI is based in and is conducting their research in Hawai‘i.
- The PI is at least equivalent to an Assistant Professor, including Assistant Research Professors and nontenure track (clinical) Assistant Professors. Lecturers, Instructors, Junior Researchers, or post-doctoral researchers are not eligible.
- Only one (1) grant proposal submission per PI will be accepted. This includes being identified as a CoPI.
- All previous grants must be complete with the submission of a final report, including a narrative and financial report before a PI is eligible to apply for a new grant.
- A PI can receive no more than 2 grants within a 6-year period.
- A PI who became an Assistant Professor within the past five years is considered junior faculty and must identify a man.
For more information, visit Medical Research Program.
