UNC NORC call for Pilot Award applications - underrepresented groups
The primary objective of this request for applications is to support the development of innovative research in nutrition and obesity at UNC-Chapel Hill. This award cycle is specifically designed for researchers from underrepresented groups at UNC-Chapel Hill to collect preliminary data that supports a grant application for independent research support and published work.
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) will award one grant of $40,000 in direct costs. Projects may be biomedical, epidemiological, or clinical. They may include laboratory or non-laboratory research projects that focus either on human nutrition, animal work that could be translated to human nutrition, or basic research related to nutrition or obesity. Human nutrition or human obesity projects may focus on inpatient or outpatient studies or on epidemiological or community-based research that is social or behavioral in nature.
To support their projects, investigators are strongly encouraged to use one or more of the services offered by the four UNC NORC cores. NORC welcomes applications intended to generate pilot data that will address reviewers' comments from recently scored grants.
Eligibility
Faculty members and senior postdoctoral scholars at UNC-Chapel Hill who identify as a member of an underrepresented group and who fall into one of the following three categories are eligible to apply:
- Applicants must be new investigators without current or past NIH research support (R01, P01 or R24) as a PD/PI. Current or past K01 awards are acceptable. —or
- Applicants must be established, funded investigators with no previous work in nutritional sciences and/or obesity and who wish to test the applicability of their expertise to a nutritional science and/or obesity-related problem. —or
- Applicants must be established investigators in nutrition/obesity research who propose testing innovative ideas that represent a clear departure from their ongoing research interests.
Deadline: August 8, 2022
View the newly revised guidelines for proposals (pdf). Complete applications must be submitted as a single PDF file by 5:00 PM ET on Monday, August 8, 2022, using the online submission form. For more information about the application process, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
