The NCBiotech’s Flash Grant program is seeking applications for its Flash Grant program identifies and energizes the most creative ideas that exhibit early indications of exceptional commercial potential.
Donor Name: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The Flash Grant program identifies and energizes 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 is 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
- To conduct the final experiment(s) needed to advance a basic life sciences research program into the translational research phase of development
These micro-grants provide funding for projects that ultimately generate follow-on funding, intellectual property filings, licenses, and startup company formation; however, the projects are too early for traditional grant funding mechanisms.
Proposals associated with technical innovations in the following topic areas are particularly encouraged:
- Global health
- Pandemic preparedness
Funding Information
A maximum of $20,000 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.
- 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 is required in order to submit a Flash Grant proposal.
- For any project with an associated intellectual property filing oraward [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 areassigned 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.