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Relevant Funding &
Resources 2021-2022

Last updated: 3 March 2021

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Organizational Grants

1. NC Biotech Flash Grants{:target="_blank"}
   • Flash Grants infuse funding at a critical early point when a small, targeted influx of funds can be crucial to shaping innovative research ideas into high potential life sciences technologies, particularly in emerging and converging life sciences sectors.
   • $20,000
   • Submissions due Wednesday, March 10 2021

2. UNC Global Partnership Awards{:target="_blank"}
   • $4,000
   • Submissions due March 15 2021

3. Z Smith Reynolds Foundation
   State-Level Systemic Change Grant{:target="_blank"}
   • ZSR is about improving quality of life for North Carolinians and funds initiatives for state-level systemic change
   • 2021 Application TBA
   • Pitch microscope video research as assisting rural communities with health disparities?

4. AMA Accelerating Change in
   Medical Education Innovation Grant{:target="_blank"}
   • 2021 Application TBA
   • Select 2020 Winner: Duke University Principal investigator: Mitchell Heflin, MD. The CO-TEACH Curriculum: Creating Opportunities for Telehealth Education, Assessment, and Care through Hotspotting

5. AMA Reimagining Residency initiative
   • 2021 Application TBA
   • Select 2020 Winner: University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Proposal title: Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST): Enhancing the Continuum from Medical School to Residency to Practice

6. Association for Surgical Education
   2021 Grants Program
   • $500 - $10,000
   • Annual application due end of February

7. Association for Surgical Education Multi-Institutional Education Research Collaborative Application
   • The ASE Research Collaborative is intended to support multi-institutional research projects (≥3 geographically distinct sites) that will advance scientific knowledge and aim to improve undergraduate, graduate, or continuing surgical education.
   • $5,000
   • Annual application due end of February

8. Society for Academic Continuing Medical
   Education SACME Research Grants
   • Application due January each year.
   • Annual meeting is in the end of February.

9. Society for University Surgeons
   Grants & Awards

10. Hearst Foundations Health Funding

11. Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Biomedical Research Program

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Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality

Funding Announcements The current overall rate of successful applications for AHRQ research grants is 28%. That includes a 42% success rate for F32 training grants, a 33% success rate for R01 investigator-initiated research grants, and a 15% success rate for R18 dissemination grants.” - 2016

1. PA-20-067: AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) - Candidates must conduct mentored K01 research projects which focus on health care delivery in the United States.

2. PA-18-793: AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18) - Harnessing Data and Technology To Improve Health Care Quality and Patient Outcomes and To Provide a 360-Degree View of the Patient

3. PA-17-077: Utilizing Health Information Technology to Scale and Spread Successful Practice Models Using Patient-reported Outcomes (R18) - improve patient-centered health outcomes and quality of care in primary care and other ambulatory settings through the scale and spread of successful, existing health IT-enabled practice models that use Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) measures

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Private Medical Device Companies

1. Stryker Medical Education Grants | Open submissions
2. Medtronic Research Grants | Open submissions
3. NuVasive Grants | Opens in June for 2021-2022 cycle
4. Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies | Open submissions
5. Smith and Nephew Medical Devices and Advanced Wound Care | Open submissions
6. Boston Scientific Grants | Monthly submission reviews *Areas of interest: endoscopy and neuromodulation
7. Abbott Grants and Charitable Donations | Open submissions
8. LiveNova Neuromodulation Research Grants | Currently not accepting new applications
9. Olympus
   • Funding specific to microscopy educational programs.
10. Olympus Investigator Initiated Trial Program | Open Submissions
    • Will fund projects using ORBEYE
11. Teleflex Medical Education Grants | Used to fund workshops
12. Karl Storz

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Relevant Conferences

1. ChangeMedEd 2021 hosted by AMA
   • Abstracts due March 24 2020

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