Accelerate your ideas through customer discovery and market opportunity validation!

KickStart Venture Services is recruiting community startups as well as faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students with innovations and an interest in commercialization to participate in their virtual NSF I-Corps program. They will teach you the principles of customer discovery to help you better understand the market potential of your innovation!

The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps) was launched in 2011 and has quickly become one of the world’s largest and most successful technology commercialization accelerators. The I-Corps regional program helps researchers and aspiring innovators determine if they are solving a real-world problem with true market opportunity. NSF’s I-Corps Program not only provides funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities to help commercialize promising technologies, it is offered at NO COST to the community.

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For more information about the I-Corps Program, visit KickStart Venture Services.

Curious How We Got Funded? Real World Strategies for Non-Federal Grants

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for their March research forum to hear from three faculty members in a facilitated conversation about how they successfully competed for non-federal research grants.

The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.

Questions? Contact the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The New NIH Public Access Policy: What You Need to Know

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy includes several significant changes from the previous policy, and applies to all NIH-funded manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. Learn more about what has changed, how to comply, and what to expect going forward.

This program is offered via Zoom by the Health Sciences Library and the Scholarly Communications Office, and led by Collin Drummond and Katherine Howell.

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The Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Research Program at NC TraCS is now accepting applications for its Innovation to Impact Awards. These awards support cutting-edge translational science research that addresses challenges along the translational research pipeline. Projects should integrate a translational science aim with a translational research question (e.g., develop methods that improve the research process while addressing a specific disease) and be aimed at removing major translational barriers with strong potential for rapid implementation at UNC Health and beyond. This i2i award will provide $125,000 of funding in years 1 and 2, and up to $250,000 of funding in year 3.

NC TraCS is holding an information session via Zoom for investigators interested in learning more about this funding opportunity. Topics covered will include: key details about the program and an overview of the funding opportunity, eligibility requirements, and the application process including important dates and contact information. Attendees will have the chance to ask questions at the end.

Presenters
Evan Dellon, MD, MPH
Director, CTS Research Program

Kaitlin Zalcikova, PhD
Program Manager, CTS Research Program
NC TraCS Institute

Leah Gardner, MIS, PMP
Project Manager, CTS Research Program
NC TraCS Institute

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