PhRMA Foundation Translational Medicine Faculty Starter Grant
The PhRMA Foundation seeks research proposals that focus on identifying unmet clinical needs and developing new diagnostic, therapeutic, and computational approaches and technologies to improve patient care.
Requirements
All proposals must clearly state a therapeutically relevant hypothesis. Applicants are expected to work with clinical collaborators to identify unmet clinical needs. Proposals that aim to corroborate results from model systems must include methods to validate findings in humans or human-relevant systems. While preferences are given to studies where applicants collect human samples, reasoning must be clearly stated in the research plan if using only human data from pre-existing biobanks.
Eligibility:
- Applicants (U.S. and non-U.S. citizens) must be full-time, promotion-eligible, research-intensive faculty at a PhD-granting accredited U.S. university by the time of LOI submission.
- Applicants are ineligible if their faculty status began before January 1, 2025.
- Applicants are ineligible if their last terminal degree was conferred before January 1, 2017.
- Applicants must be eligible to apply for independent external research funding by their university.
- Applicants should not have other substantial sources of research funding, excluding intramural funding or startup funding from their university. Preference will be given to applicants with startup funding less than $750,000.
- Applicants are ineligible if they are the principal investigator (PI) of an R or K series award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, or other substantial financial award from any grant-making institution. Generally, funding over $250,000 a year is considered substantial, unless you are the PI of a grant where funds go to training others. If this is the case, explain in your extended letter.
- Applicants are ineligible if they do not have at least three first author publications.
- Only one applicant per lab may apply in the Translational Medicine Program. Labs must select either a predoc, a postdoc, or a faculty member.
Award amount is $100,000 for one year.