Vice President for Research

UofU Faculty and Postdocs,

We are pleased to announce a new Request for Proposals from the Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Diseases Initiative for Team Grants on Environmental Impact on Human Health.

Information Session: February 19, 2025

Proposals Due: March 24, 2025

Purpose: The Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Disease (3i) Initiative at the University of Utah aims to strengthen research areas addressing the environmental impact on human health and disease. As such, this request for proposals is to establish and support the development of new collaborative teams and provide resources to help generate preliminary data that are needed for multi-PI extramural funding applications.

This request for proposals will fund two-year $75K pilot projects.  By the end of the funding period, teams should have demonstrated progress through the production of research that will be utilized in a publication or extramural funding application (multi-PI R awards, P awards, U awards) within two years.  Please see details below for a virtual information and Q&A session for this opportunity.

Research Scope: We invite applications that are hypothesis-driven and will lead to competitive extramural grant applications from the University of Utah. Areas of interest include research endeavors that are at the crossroads of immunology, inflammation, and infectious disease and environmental impact on human health and disease.

Eligibility: 

• Proposals must be a collaborative effort amongst at least two independent investigators from two separate laboratories at the UofU, with each contributing substantially to the scientific development and execution of the project.
• Each applicant may submit only one proposal as the primary investigator. However, applicants may participate as team members on multiple proposals, but only on one funded team.
• All primary applicants (PIs) must be at least 0.75 FTE tenure-track faculty or 0.75 FTE clinical/research faculty at the University of Utah/VA or 1.0 FTE postdoctoral research fellow/associate. (If a postdoc is the PI on the seed grant proposal, the final grant submission must be from a University of Utah PI).

Please see the downloadable RFP for full details.

Applications and all supporting documents should be submitted electronically through the University of Utah’s Competition Space interface by March 24, 2025. A direct link to this competition is HERE.