Dean’s Intramural Grants Program

Research Seed Awards

The lead PI must be a full-time faculty member at SHP.  Co-PIs and other investigators may be from any school at Rutgers or outside Rutgers.  All full-time faculty are eligible to apply regardless of stage in career and regardless of prior or current research funding.  Lead PI must hold a doctoral degree (PhD or clinical doctorate; PhD preferred), but co-investigators may hold any degree as long as they have the experience and skills necessary to participate in the study.  If the PI has a clinical doctorate, but does not hold a PhD, they should provide evidence that they have had research training, or they should team with a co-PI who has had research training.

Additional Eligibility Information

• If you were awarded a Research Seed Award in the previous year, you are not eligible to apply again for 2 years.
• The proposal must be distinct from existing funded awards.
• If you receive an extramural award for the proposed project after submitting the intramural grant, your Dean’s Grant Program application should be withdrawn.
• Awardees of Research Seed Award grants should aim to submit an extramural grant application within 3 years of their award, otherwise they will not be eligible for future awards.

Funds from $5,000 up to $35,000 may be requested.  All costs are eligible, including publication costs, but must be justified.  Salary may not be requested for Rutgers faculty, but may be requested for research support staff, graduate assistants, and consultants (i.e. methodologist, statisticians or content experts). The Department Chair must indicate their support for the project in a letter of support which must be included in the application.

The Chair’s support letter should confirm that the faculty member will conduct the work within their current workload and that further costs to the Department will not be incurred as a result of the award of this intramural grant. In other words, teaching reduction or teaching overload payments will not be provided to conduct the research supported by the Dean’s Intramural Bridge Grants program.  Co-PIs and Investigator roles are reserved for Faculty only.

Research Proposals are to be a maximum of 5 pages in length, including figures, should use a font no smaller than Arial Narrow 11, and margins at least 0.5 inch all around.

Applications should include the following sections, in the following order:

PART 1:
Face Page (see attached)

PART 2:
SHP Internal Submission Form (see attached) 

PART 3:
T able of Contents (see attached)

PART 4:
200-word Abstract summarizing the proposal (see attached)

PART 5:
NIH Style Biosketch (maximum 5 pages) or key personnel in order of PI, co-PI, co-investigators, other key personnel (see attached)

PART 6A/6B:
Budget Request/Justification (see attached)

PART 7:
Research Proposal (maximum 5 pages) that must include the following sections:
Specific Aims, Importance of the Research (Significance and Innovation), Rigor and Feasibility (Approach, Rigor, Feasibility), and Expertise and Resources (Investigator and Environment). (see attached)

If the proposed study involves human subjects, the PI must provide evidence that the research team has the ability to recruit from the target population.
References not included in page limit.

PART 8:
Plans for extramural funding applications (ranging from 3-year to 5-year extramural grant mechanisms) that carry full indirect cost recovery. (see attached)

PART 9:
Letters of support starting with the Chairperson’s letter of support.

Faculty who have attained extramural funding in the past and who have a plan to re-submit an application to an extramural agency for continued funding, or who are preparing a competitive renewal or re-submission in response to reviewers concerns.  Must be full time SHP faculty with a doctoral degree (PhD or clinical doctorate; PhD preferred).

Funds from $5,000 up to $35,000 may be requested, reflective of project needs.  All costs are eligible, including publication costs, but must be justified.  Salary may not be requested for Rutgers faculty, but may be requested for research support staff, graduate assistants, and consultants (i.e., methodologist, statisticians or content experts).

The Department Chair must indicate their support for the project in a letter of support which must be included in the application. The Chair’s support letter should confirm that the faculty member will conduct the work within their current workload and that further costs to the Department will not be incurred as a result of the award of this intramural grant. In other words, teaching reduction or teaching overload payments will not be provided for the applicant to conduct the research supported by the Dean’s Intramural Research Seed Grants program. Co-PIs and Investigator roles are reserved for Faculty only.

Research Proposals are to be a maximum of 5 pages in length, including figures, should use a font no smaller than Arial Narrow 11, and margins at least 0.5 inch all around.

Applications should include the following sections, in the following order:

PART 1: Face Page (see attached)

PART 2: SHP Internal Submission Form (see attached)

PART 3: Table of Contents (see attached)

PART 4: 200-word Abstract summarizing the proposal (see attached)

PART 5: NIH Style Biosketch (maximum 5 pages) for key personnel in order of PI, co-PI, co-investigators, other key personnel. (see attached)

PART 6A/6B: Budget Request/Justification (see attached)

PART 7: Research Proposal (maximum 5 pages) that must include the following sections:
Specific Aims, Importance of the Research (Significance and Innovation), Rigor and Feasibility (Approach, Rigor, Feasibility), and Expertise and Resources (Investigator and Environment) (see attached).
References not included in page limit.

If the proposed study involves human subjects, the PI must provide evidence that the research team has the ability to recruit from the target population.

PART 8:  Plans for extramural funding applications that carry full indirect cost recovery. (maximum 2 pages – see attached).

PART 9: Letters of support starting with the Chairperson’s letter of support for the PIs and Co-PIs.

PART 10: Response to previous reviewer’s concerns (maximum 2 pages- see attached)

PART 11: Reviewer’s Comments: Please include the reviewer’s comments in the original form (e.g. NIH Summary Statement).

Preference will be given to interdisciplinary projects that address multiple priority areas as listed below:

1. SHP student involvement
2. Community Impact
3. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4. Simulation and/or emerging technologies
5. Clinical experiences
6. Faculty capacity

The Principal Faculty Member or members must be at least a 0.5 FTE, non-tenured track faculty member at SHP, holding any degree or rank. Awardees of this grant should aim to publish a peer reviewed manuscript within 3 years of their award to be eligible for future grants.

Proposals are to be a maximum of 5 pages in length, including figures, using font no smaller than Arial Narrow 11, and margins at least 0.5 inch all around.

Applications should include the following sections and be submitted in pdf format with sections bookmarked in the following order.

1) PART 1: Face Page (see attached)

2) PART 2: SHP Internal Submission Form (see attached)

3) PART 3: Table of Contents (see attached)

4) PART 4: 200-word Abstract summarizing the proposal. (see attached)

5) PART 5: NIH Style Biosketch (maximum 5 pages) for key personnel in order of PI, co-PI, co-investigators, other key personnel (see attached)

6) PART 6A/6B: Budget Request/Justification (see attached)

7) PART 7: Proposal (maximum 5 pages) and include the following sections (see attached):

• Project Description
  • Problem or gap to address
  • Aims
  • Theoretical framework or model supporting project design
• Implementation Plan
  • Study design
  • Methods
  • Participants
  • Valid Measurable outcomes (including efforts to ensure reliability)
  • Data Analysis plan
• Assessment Plan Innovative Aspect
• Timeline
• Sustainability and Scaling
• Innovation and Expected Impact/Significance –Targeted journal(s)

8) PART 8: Letters of support

• Chairperson of the PI or lead program
• Chairs of collaborating faculty partners/programs
• External/community collaborators

Funds from $5,000 to $35,000 may be requested, reflective of project needs. Requested budget line items must be allowable items within Rutgers policy; most would be permissible, including publication costs, but must be justified. Salary may not be requested for Rutgers faculty, but may be requested for research support staff, graduate assistants, student workers, and consultants (e.g., content experts, simulationists, methodologists, statisticians, etc.). However, faculty must use workload already allocated for scholarship and/or new course development in place of salary support for development and execution.

Additionally, program directors and department chairs must be consulted to ensure that the needed resources and faculty time are appropriate and covered without request for teaching reduction or overload pay and will not conflict with any other special department or program projects that may be ongoing within the academic year.