Archive: Past Funding Opportunities

MEDX Pilot Project RFP - 2020

MEDx is pleased to announce a call for proposals for pilot project grants that will facilitate forming new collaborations or expanding existing collaborations between regular rank faculty in Medicine and Engineering. 

Proposed projects should benefit human health by

  • providing important disease insights, or
  • developing technologies to aid in disease prevention, diagnosis or treatment.

The desired outcomes of the projects are eventual development of a commercial product and/or translation of the research into clinical practice. These grants should also catalyze research that will be competitive for follow-on support and further development through grants, not-for-profit or industry partnering, sponsored research, licensing, or new company formation.

MEDx Colloquia Series - 2020

MEDx is pleased to offer support for interdisciplinary colloquia that bring together physicians, engineers, computer scientists, data analysts, and basic and/or clinical researchers with a common desire to combine the elements of medicine and engineering to solve complex problems and inspire innovation. The typical award is $2,500 to support each successful proposal. If larger amounts can be well justified, awards of up to $5,000 may be considered. Funds can be used to cover food, meeting venues, external speakers or other meeting costs. Awardees should expend funds within one calendar year.

MEDX BIOMECHANICS OF INJURY OR INJURY REPAIR RFA

MEDx is pleased to announce a call for proposals for interdisciplinary research in biomechanics of injury and injury repair. Applicants research should address one of the following:

  • the biomechanics of injury
  • the cellular or tissue response to injury or injury repair
  • the development of biomechanical methods to evaluate cellular or tissue injury or regeneration
  • injury treatments that involve a biomechanical modality
  • biomechanical approaches that aid in the clinical evaluation of injury or recovery from injury

The proposals may address basic biomedical questions or may be translational, but each application must represent a collaboration between a regular rank faculty member in the Pratt School of Engineering and a regular rank faculty member in the School of Medicine. 

Grant applications should request up to $50,000 in direct costs. Indirect costs are not covered by this grant mechanism. The term of the award will be one year. The intent of the award is to position investigators to obtain external funding.

FastTrack Medical Device Development RFA

FastTrack, a collaborative medical device engineering resource in the Duke Pratt School of Engineering, in conjunction with Duke MEDx, announces a competitive funding opportunity for the development and translation of medical device ideas.

Selected projects will receive

  • Full prototyping and engineering development services
  • Project management and market analysis
  • IP and Regulatory (FDA) guidance in collaboration with OLV and ORAQ
  • Support for finding industry partnerships for manufacturing and commercializing

Cardiovascular Disease Pilot Research Grant

Duke Health is requesting pilot projects proposals for high risk/high impact research in the area of the heart and disease. The funding amount is up to $100,000. This RFP is designed to support truly innovative approaches related to the Translating Duke Health’s focus on “Cardiovascular Robustness, Resilience, and Rejuvenation."

The intent of this RFP is to support one to four pilot projects that help us better understand how to prevent the transition from cardiovascular health to disease and/or facilitate the return to health. We are especially interested in

  1. Proposals that span multiple dimensions from basic to clinical to populations;
  2. Proposals that build new collaborations and/or new teams; and
  3. Proposals that might lead to extended productive and NIH-funded collaborations.

One of the awards will be in concert with Duke MEDx. For this award, there is an additional goal to facilitate the formation of a new collaboration between faculty in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering. Applicants should describe a new collaboration or a novel topic for an existing collaboration between regular rank faculty in Engineering and Medicine. 

MEDx & Translating Duke Health-Immunology Request for Proposals

This internal funding announcement will award funds of up to $100,000 for a single pilot project. The successful application will describe research that benefits patient health by providing important disease insights, or by developing technologies to aid in disease prevention, diagnosis or treatment in the field of immunology. The pilot projects represent collaborations between faculty members in the Pratt School of Engineering and the School of Medicine.

Beyond achieving new partnerships between the School of Medicine and Pratt, this opportunity should catalyze research or development that will lead to follow-on funding, which can take various forms (e.g. NIH, CTSI, or Coulter grant, SBIR).

Funding support for this RFP comes from both the Translating Duke Health Initiative for Immunology and MEDx. 

MEDx Translating Duke Health Pilot Project

This internal funding announcement will award funds of up to $50,000 for pilot projects that benefit health by providing important disease insights, or by developing technologies to aid in disease prevention, diagnosis or treatment. Applications are encouraged – but are not required to be – in areas of rehabilitation medicine or the challenges addressed by the Translating Duke Health initiative to include:

  • Keeping the Heart Young
  • Brain Resilience and Repair
  • Ending Disease Where it Begins
  • Controlling the Immune System
  • Solid Tumor Brain Metastases

Children's Health & Discovery Initiative (CHDI)/MEDx Pilot Research Grant 

Up to $50,000 to one research team that includes one PI from the School of Medicine and one PI from Pratt School of Engineering.

  • Purpose: To support pilot studies that lead to the development of diagnostics, prognostics or biomarkers for early life risk factors for disease or biological processes associated with diseases that initiate early in life, or methods/technologies to detect exposures that will influence childhood or life-long health.

Student Biodesign Funding RFA 

MEDx will provide funding for teams of trainees to design and prototype a clinically useful device or application, or a device or application that is useful for biomedical research undertaken in the School of Medicine. The teams should be composed primarily of undergraduate or graduate students from any Pratt department, but some team members may be from other Duke schools. Interdisciplinary teams are highly encouraged. Teams may be part of an ongoing design class in Pratt, or may form outside of formal classes.

MEDx Colloquia Series  - 2018

MEDx is pleased to offer support for interdisciplinary colloquia that bring together physicians, engineers, computer scientists, data analysts, and basic and/or clinical researchers with a common desire to combine the elements of medicine and engineering to solve complex problems and inspire innovation.

See 2017 MEDx Colloquia or 2015-2016 MEDx Colloquia funding recipients.

CFAR/MEDx Proposal 

The Duke Center for AIDS Research has partnered with MEDx to provide funding of up to $60,000 Direct Costs for one-year pilot projects.

The proposal must represent a collaboration between faculty of School of Medicine and School of Engineering, and address an NIH HIV/AIDS Research Priority.

Call for SMIF SUUP Proposals 

The SMIF Undergraduate User Program (SUUP), Duke University Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF)

The Lord Foundation has provided funding to continue the SMIF Undergraduate User Program (SUUP).  This program provides a hands-on undergraduate research experience at Duke University to enable undergraduate students to access the Duke University cleanroom and materials characterization shared facility, called the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF).   These funds will support undergraduates in the hands-on fabrication and measurement of materials, structures, and devices in SMIF.

MEDx Biomedical Research RFP 

This MEDx funding announcement will award funds of up to $50,000 for novel pilot projects that investigate a basic biomedical question or for the development of tools or technologies that enable biomedical discovery. The pilot projects must be collaborations between faculty members in the Pratt School of Engineering and the School of Medicine.

Beyond achieving new partnerships between the School of Medicine and Pratt, this opportunity should catalyze research or development that will lead to follow-on funding, which can take various forms (e.g. NIH, CTSI, or Coulter grant, SBIR).

MEDx is joined in funding these successful applications by the Departments of Pathology and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center from the School of Medicine, and the Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Material Sciences and Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering.

MEDx Call for Pratt/SOM Proposals for Pilot Research Projects in Diagnostics and Devices 

This request for proposals is targeted to enhance collaborations between the School of Medicine and Pratt facuty in the area of diagnostics and devices.  MEDx is leading a syndicate of highly interdisciplinary partners – The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI), the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgey and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science – to fund these pilot projects. The goal of this opportunity is to catalyze the development of collaborative proposals that will lead to external funding within 12 months of completion of this project.

Seed Funding for Collaborative Quantitative Approaches 

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research, MEDx and other Duke entities are co-sponsoring a seed funding program to support "Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and Clinical Sciences." Research collaborations between campus and School of Medicine faculty are eligible for up to $50,000 in support.

DIHI 2018 Innovation Pilots 

The Duke Institute for Healthcare Innovation (DIHI) will provide funding for projects to promote transformative innovation in health and healthcare. This RFA is open to all faculty, staff, students, and trainees across Duke campus. Areas of interest include Population Health and Analytics, Building Resilience and well-being, Novel Patient Interactions, Team-based and new care models, Optimizing patient flow, and Enhanced transitions of care. Up to 9 applications will be selected for support up to a total of $400,000. Most proposals are expected to request funding in the range of $25,000 to $70,000 over a one year period. Funding for successful applicants will start in March of 2018.

Regeneration Next Fellows Program 

This fellowship will provide two years of funding (up to $110,000 total funding) for a postdoctoral fellow in a Duke lab, joining our inaugural group of RNI fellows. This mechanism is designed to help recruit to the Duke community those top junior scientists interested in the broad field of tissue regeneration. Funding for successful applicants will start in July 2017.

Student Travel grants

Travel grants of up to $1,000 are available for Duke graduate students to present work relevant to tissue regeneration/ developmental biology at scientific conferences.

Mouse Vouchers

This voucher program is aimed at stimulating new research reagent creation at Duke by subsidizing creation of transgenic or genetically modified mouse strains. We will be offering vouchers of up to $5,000 to Duke investigators for this purpose.

Packard Fellowship

 Duke application process and support:

  • Duke’s Office of Research Support will hold an internal competition to select two nominees.
  • Nominees will work with Foundation Relations (Vera Luck and Steve Murray) and Research Development (Carmel Lee) to refine their research statements.
  • Red Teams of senior faculty, department chairs, and Duke’s past Packard Fellows will review the nominees’ research statement drafts. The nominees will receive suggestions for further revision.
  • Nominees will submit their final applications to Packard.