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Intramural Funding Opportunities and Resources

Temporary funding support for projects while full, outside support is being sought, and seed money for innovative, interdisciplinary, team research.

 

The Office of Research has re-envisioned the New Grant Support and Bridge Funding programs to better serve our faculty. These internal, intramural funding mechanisms will now be known as Finish Line Grants and Bridging Awards. These funds are designed to support faculty in their quest to become nationally competitive and secure extramural funding.

The intramural Finish Line Grant and Bridging Award program supports full-time UTHSC faculty members as they enhance their scholarly and research activities to increase the strength and competitiveness of a future proposal submission. Applications are considered for this internal, Office of Research managed, competition-based program if the submitted proposal is: 1) a previously submitted and unfunded grant application or 2) an expired grant, or unfunded renewal.

Bridging Award

 
Bridging Awards are available to UTHSC investigators whose renewal application for an expiring grant was not funded. It is intended to provide temporary, reduced support (up to $25K for up to 2 years) in order to retain key personnel and continue laboratory or research operations, while full-support is being sought from outside agencies.
 
Competitions are held in the spring, summer, and fall. Deadlines will be announced.

Finish Line Grant

Provides limited, interim funding (up to $20-$30K, depending on submitted grant type, for up to 2 years), to UTHSC investigators who have submitted a new grant that was scored but not funded. This funding mechanism allows investigators to continue research activities and gather additional data to strengthen the unfunded grant, in response to reviewer comments, for the subsequent submission.
 
Competitions are held in the spring, summer, and fall. Deadlines will be announced.

 

InfoReady Review

InfoReady Review (IRR) is our internal funding competition management tool. IRR is used for the routing, reviewing, and selection of UTHSC nominees for limited submissions, and the submission and review of intramural funding opportunities.

Create an Account

  1. From the UTHSC InfoReady website, click "Log In" in the upper right corner of the screen (in the green header)
  2. Click the blue box labeled "University of Tennessee Health Science Center Login"
  3. Log in using your UTHSC NetID and password
  4. Click on your name in the upper right hand corner of the screen (in the green header). This will take you to your User Profile page
  5. On your User Profile page, scroll down to Organizational Levels and click "Add Primary Organization"
  6. Choose your affiliation from the drop-down menu (it drills down to the departmental level)
  7. Click "Save and Close"
  8. Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of your User Profile page
  9. Click "Home" (orange writing under green header) in the upper left to go back to the IRR home page

Submitting an Application

  1. If you do not have an IRR account already, create one following the steps listed above
  2. Log in to your IRR account via the UTHSC InfoReady website
  3. On the IRR homepage, click the title of the competition you are applying to
  4. Click "Apply" in the right column
  5. Enter all required information in the fields marked with an asterisk(*). Enter "n/a" for any field that does not apply.
  6. Click "Submit Application"
  7. You will receive an automated confirmation email from IRR within five minutes of submitting your application. If you do not receive this email, please contact Jamie Whartenby. 
  8. Templates for Face Sheet, Budget Page, NIH-Style Biosketch, and other support can be downloaded from the UTHSC InfoReady Review website under "Support Documents".

 

Intramural Funding No Cost Extension Request
Intramural Funding Research Progress Report
Grant Prospecting Request

 

Jun 4, 2024