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Now Accepting Proposals: Center Launch Seed Funds for Large Proposal Development

The Center Launch program provides seed funding to support teams of UC San Diego scholars in their efforts to pursue new large-scale, extramural funding.

The Office of Research Affairs (ORA) invites applications for one-time, non-renewable seed funding for planning and development activities leading to the submission of proposals for major extramural research support.

Awardees are expected to submit at least one proposal for major, external funding. Commitments to develop proposals to specific, large-budget funding opportunities will be prioritized in the 2017-18 competition. Applications involving co-investigators from other research institutions and multiple UC San Diego VC areas, i.e., General Campus, Health Sciences and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are encouraged but not required.

ORA intends to make up to three smaller ($20-30K) and up to three larger (up to $75K) awards for AY2017-2018.

NOTE: The deadline to apply for this funding opportunity has been extended to October 19, 2017, with funding to be available in December, 2017.

To access the application and find out more information, please visit https://ucsd.infoready4.comand log in using your Active Directory account.

Sandra A Brown Vice Chancellor for Research Miroslav Krstic Associate Vice Chancellor for Research