The overall goal is to support a robust local medical research community that benefits the people of Hawaiʻi. The overall goal is to support a robust local medical research community that benefits the people of Hawaiʻi.
Donor Name: Hawaiʻi Community Foundation
State: Hawaii
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/12/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The program’s areas of focus are:
- 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).
- Clinical/basic research – prevention or treatment of pulmonary diseases and infirmities.
Priorities
The intent of the Medical Research program is to support research proposals that are based on strong science and assist in advancing Hawaiʻi’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 Hawaiʻi.
- Are likely to lead to increased competitiveness for national funding by providing seed funding for gathering preliminary data.
- Support early career investigators.
- Support a new line of research in Hawaiʻi.
- Are a collaborative effort in Hawaiʻi-based research.
Funding Information
- Grants in these areas are up to $60,000.
- Research infrastructure – HCF invites applications that propose to develop novel research infrastructure that will advance the biomedical research conducted in Hawaiʻi with organizational change, support new or existing research collection and database systems, or assist with inter-organizational collaborative efforts. Through this award, investigators will endeavor to develop a sustainable research infrastructure to support projects that address key interdisciplinary research questions. This priority area is not intended to support a specific research project or purchase equipment for a research project/department.
- An example of a successful proposal was to build the infrastructure (education, scope of practice, credentialing, documentation, quality assurance, and maintenance of skills) for a point of care ultrasound program. With this infrastructure in place, the organization would be positioned to develop research projects using point of care ultrasound to improve care, enhance safety of invasive procedures, and decrease unnecessary radiographs and associated radiation exposure.
- Grants in this area are up to $25,000.
Grant Period
Researchers will have eighteen (18) months to complete their research project.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet the following conditions:
- The organization is a 501(c)(3) organization or a unit of government.
- The PI is based in and is conducting their research in Hawaiʻi.
- The PI is at least equivalent to an Assistant Professor, including Assistant Research Professorsand non-tenure track (clinical) Assistant Professors. Lecturers, Instructors, Junior Researchers, or post-doctoral researchers are not eligible.
- The PI does not have more than $250,000 in direct cost per year from other grants during the duration of the proposed project.
- Only one (1) grant application per PI will be accepted per grant round. This includes being identified as a Co-PI.
- All previous grants must be completed 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 may receive no more than two Medical Research grants within a 6-year period. For this round, the 6-year period is March 2020-present.
- A PI who became an Assistant Professor within the past five years is considered junior faculty and must identify a mentor based in Hawaiʻi with research experience and submit a Mentor Statement and Letters of Support.
- If multiple PIs are proposed, all must meet all eligibility requirements and have strong justification for the PI-ship.
- A member of the MRAC who applies will not participate in any committee activities for that grantmaking round.
For more information, visit HCF.
