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: 12/03/2025
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 that are designed to:
- Demonstrate the disruptive potential of a life sciences technology
- Prepare a technology for translational development.
This solicitation is open to proposals focused on topics related to military service member health research within North Carolina, except agricultural applications, personal protective equipment, Class I medical devices, over-the-counter hearing aids, consumer products, and/or mobile apps.
Specifically, for this cycle of the Flash Grant program, military service member health topics of interest include:
- Traumatic brain injury diagnostics, devices, and/or therapies
- Hemorrhage control technologies
- Burn injury treatments and devices
- Therapies, diagnostics, and devices for military personnel exposed to toxicants (burn pits, air pollution, chemicals, etc.) or radiation
- Therapies and devices to address hearing loss and tinnitus (excluding over-the-counter hearing aids)
- Amputation and limb salvage technologies
- Pain management drugs, devices, and strategies for chronic pain
- Blast injury/exposure diagnostics and/or therapies.
Funding Information
A maximum of $30,000 may be requested for projects of up to 12 months in duration.
Elements of the Project
All projects must meet the following requirements:
- Directly addresses a recognized unmet need.
- Describes a well-defined scientific or technical project that definitively:
- Addresses a specific question.
- Has well-defined, measurable success/completion metrics
- Has a clear endpoint
- Describes a well-defined scientific or technical project with aims that are achievable within the requested budget and timeline.
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.
- Any North Carolina university or non-profit research organization may apply.
- 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 any project with an associated intellectual property filing or award [e.g., invention disclosure to a university technology transfer office or patent committee/counsel, trademark, copyright, provisional patent application, full patent application, PCT filing, or awarded patent], the technology transfer office of the applicant institution must provide a letter of support attesting that the IP rights are assigned to the institution and have not been committed through license or exclusive option to license to any third party at the time of application.
For more information, visit NCBC.
