The Foods for Health (FFH) Discovery Theme & Food Innovation Center (FIC) Seed Grant Competition is a university-wide initiative with a primary goal of advancing the use of metabolomics-based technology in food and nutrition research for the improvement of global health. Successful proposals will focus on food and nutritional metabolomics, are innovative, collaborative, create value, result in professional presentations and peer review publications, and stimulate the submission of competitive extramural grants.
Dates:
- RFP announced: February 3, 2017
- Proposal deadline: April 14, 2017
- Award notice: May 12, 2017
- Earliest start: May 22, 2017
- Midterm report due: 6 months after Official Start Date
- Final report: 11 months after Official Start Date
Budget:
Up to $25,000 in direct costs for 11 months per award. A total pool of $125,000 is available for distribution. No faculty salaries, fringe, or capital equipment (>$2,500 purchase price) are allowed. Travel essential for research is permitted while conference travel is not. Funds may be expended, starting at the earliest on May 22, 2017 and lasts 11 months past the start date. Funds will be incrementally transferred to the PI’s unit on award and again on receipt of a midterm report (50% to begin and 50% upon receipt of report). If awardee desires extension for use of funds, a maximum of 6 months will be allowed.
Eligibility:
Must have one faculty member as principal investigator (PI) per application along with one or more collaborating Co-PI(s). At least one co-PI must be from a different department than the PI.
No PI recipient of the 2016 FFH-FIC Seed Grant Award may apply as PI for the 2017 competition. However, there is no restriction on the number of awards for which one may serve as co-PI. Co-PIs may be OSU faculty, research scientists or post-doctoral researchers.
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