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The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development announces a call to provide pursuit funding for faculty teams to prepare large-scale extramural grants. The intention is to support the expansion or formation of multidisciplinary teams in order to pursue large-scale grants and contracts in the areas of animal, human, plant, and environmental health that would otherwise not be attainable. The deadline for submission is September 21, 2012.

Only one application per principal investigator (PI) is permitted; however, a PI may be a co-PI on other applications.

Three levels of funding are available:

• ISU-HRI-1 Pursuit Funding Existing teams (as evidenced by previously submitted substantive grants or in-process applications) will be comprised of three or more faculty members from different disciplines. Funding levels will be up to $150,000. The expected outcome of funding will be submission of one or more grant application(s) of $1,000,000 or more to an external agency.
• ISU-HRI-2 Pursuit Funding New teams will be comprised of three or more faculty members from different disciplines with a clearly defined funding road map. Funding levels will be up to $50,000. The expected outcome of funding will be submission of one or more grant application(s) of $500,000 or more to an external agency.
• ISU-HRI-3 Pursuit Funding Funding may be used to support a conference or research meeting with the intent of identifying collaborators who will address the ISU-HRI Research Blueprint. Funding levels will be up to $10,000. The expected outcome of funding will be one or more conference(s) and/or meeting(s) that result in development of collaborative research teams, including collaborators from the Regent Universities, medical schools, and others.