HARDSHIP AWARDS

Project Award Amount $30,000

Description of Grant Area
Hardship proposals are for investigators who are experiencing a temporary interruption in extramural funding and can document hardship. 

Each funded grant will have a maximum budget of $30,000. Funding in this category may not be used for investigator salary support. Projects are for one year and are not renewable. To determine what budget items are allowable please refer to the application form.

Each funded proposal will require an end of grant progress report and a second report 12 months following the end of funding identifying resulting publications and subsequent funding recruited to support the expanded/extended projects. Any resulting publication must directly cite REAC funding.

Note: For Hardship Awards, priority is given to applicants who have never received funding in this category

Eligibility
School of Medicine Faculty in the ladder rank, in-residence, adjunct, or clinical series, and Appointees in the Professional Research series. All applicants must be salaried at 50 percent or more time.

Criteria for Review/Evaluation of Applications
The degree to which a PI's ongoing (funded) research program will be hurt by the anticipated loss of funding, and the likelihood of continued funding after resubmission of extramural grants, will be the primary review criteria. Evidence of the quality and significance of the work will also be considered. Hardship awards are stop-gap measures to maintain a baseline level of laboratory activities. Maintenance of a breeding colony of transgenic mice, partial support of a long term research associate, supplies to allow a defined set of experiments needed for grant resubmission, are examples of previous approved proposals.

Contact:
Geri T. Ehle
Administrative Assistant
Office of the Dean
UCSF School of Medicine
Tel: 415-476-2342
Email: ehleg@medsch.ucsf.edu