At MedStar Health, we are committed to creating an academic health system that values and supports research. We realize that this does not happen overnight and that our clinical research activity, impact, and importance will be enhanced by ongoing efforts to build multi-disciplinary and cross-institutional partnerships. Below are several intramural grant funding opportunities that will be available this year. Each one has been developed to foster collaboration, support new investigators, enhance care to our communities, and continue to advance health.
Individual Requests for Proposals (RFPs) will be disseminated for each opportunity. If you have any questions about these grants or other aspects of research at MedStar, please email research@medstar.net
Funding opportunities
New investigator - associate giving grant fund
To stimulate support of scientific research for a MedStar Health new investigator that will advance health for patients in the communities we serve. Criteria for selection include: 1) The applicant must be at a faculty/attending level (i.e., no longer in a training program), within 5 years of joining MedStar Health as a faculty/attending (i.e., as a MedStar employee at any MedStar entity or location), and eligible to serve as principal investigator of a future NIH (or similar federal or foundation) grant; 2) The applicant must not have current or previous federally-funded research (excluding career development awards) as a Principal Investigator for any project funded at $100K/year or greater; 3) The proposed research will provide pilot data or demonstrate feasibility crucial to a planned, subsequent extramural research or career development proposal.
$25,000K/1 year
Spring 2020
MedStar diabetes research fund
To support investigators in the field of diabetes research who are interested in developing pilot data that can lead to additional, externally funded studies. This award is intended to support particularly innovative and transformational ideas that have the potential to have an exceptional impact on diabetes.
$25,000/1 year
Spring 2020
Greenspring Financial Insurance Limited, Inc (GFIL) grant program
To increase patient safety and prevent avoidable patient injury at MedStar through projects that identifies innovative ways to address prevention of losses in the areas of professional and general liability.
$25,000/1 year
TBD
CTSA - pilot awards for translational and clinical studies
Offered through the CTSA, these grants focus on health disparities, community engaged research, novel translational methods, and interdisciplinary team science. Proposals that involve collaborations with MHRI-CTSA partners at Howard University, Georgetown University, VA Medical Center, and ORNL are generally favored.
Up to $40,000 (includes Institutional cost share)
The 2019 application cycle is closed. The next application cycle will open in early 2020.
Charles and Mary Latham fund
MHRI coordinates with The Latham Fund to support research in the greater Washington, DC community. The goal is to support novel research projects that advance the health of our Washington, DC patients.
1-3 proposals will be funded; approx $10,000-$15,000/1 year
August / September 2020
Medical education research grants
This grant fund benefits MedStar investigators and the important educational research they are conducting to advance health and create new knowledge.
Pilot Studies- $10,000 Research Studies- $25,000
TBD
These are anticipated funding opportunities and can be subject to change. Please contact research@medstar.net for the current status of offerings.