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: 12/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
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 that are designed to:
- Demonstrate the disruptive potential of a life sciences technology
- Prepare a technology for translational development
The Cycle 2 solicitation is open to research proposals focused on topics related to sleep, hibernation, and the effects of space travel and micro- or reduced gravity on biological processes, except Class 1 medical devices, consumer products, and/or mobile apps.
Specifically, for this cycle of the Flash Grant program, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sleep
- Sleep Health
- Quantity or duration
- Continuity
- Timing
- Alertness or sleepiness
- Satisfaction and quality
- Sleep Medicine
- Circadian biology
- Circadian physiology
- Neural mechanisms of sleep
- Biomarkers to measure circadian phase
- Biomarkers of alertness or sleepiness
- Sleep disorders – diagnostics, therapeutics, and medical devices to treat sleep disorders
- Insomnia
- Sleep-related breathing disorders
- Sleep-related movement disorders
- Central disorders of hypersomnolence
- Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders
- Parasomnias
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Restless leg syndrome
- Narcolepsy
- Shift work sleep disorder
- Delayed sleep phase syndrome
- REM sleep behavior disorder
- Sleep Health
- Hibernation and Torpor
- Any physiological or biological processes relating to states of hibernation or torpor
- Space Biology
- Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on human biology and physiology
- Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on animal biology and physiology
- Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on plant biology and physiology
- Food production in space/reduced gravity
- Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on microbiology
- Impacts of space on developmental, reproductive, and evolutionary biology
Funding Information
- A maximum of $30,000 for project periods ranging up to 12 months may be requested.
- A $7,500 supplement is available exclusively to applicants at non-R1 universities to engage an undergraduate intern for a 12-month project. For semester-long interns, the maximum that can be requested is $3,750
Who may apply?
Any North Carolina university or non-profit research organization may apply.
For more information, visit NCBC.
