Grants Services
Enrichment Programs & Services
Funding Programs
Higuchi Biosciences Center affiliated researchers may participate in the following Center funded programs:
Equipment
Requests will be reviewed and the investigator notified within 5 working days.
- Equipment Matches: Participation in University match for proposals which pay full indirect cost ONLY.
- Equipment Purchases: In the case of Federal Contracts, funds may be provided for the purchase of equipment essential to the conduct of the contract
- Annual Competition for Multi-User Equipment: Competition is held to benefit research and collaboration at KU.
- FY 1997: 5 funded requests totaling $40,000
- FY 1998: 4 funded requests totaling $53,400
- FY 1999: 5 funded requests totaling $58,600
- FY 2000: 7 funded requests totaling $63,464
- FY 2001: 6 funded requests totaling $82,300
- FY 2002: 5 funded requests totaling $87,440
- FY 2003: 9 funded requests totaling $120,494
- FY 2004: 7 funded requests totaling $82,693
- FY 2005: 7 funded requests totaling $91,000
Travel
Requests will be reviewed and the investigator notified within 5 working days.
- Grant Preparation: fund travel to meet with non-KU collaborators.
- Agency Representatives: fund travel to meet with agency representatives prior to proposal submission
- Reverse Site-Visit: fund travel for proposal review for program projects or center proposals
External Review
- Coordinate blind review of proposals:
- Up to 5 external reviewers may be recom09-Apr-2008
- Contact each potential reviewer to determine their willingness to participate
- Honorarium will be offered to each reviewer
- Mail draft proposal
- Receive and distribute the reviews to the PI
Please Note: Due to the lead time necessary to coordinate this program, HBC Grant Services must be contacted two months prior to submission deadline. Proposal draft (scientific text) must be completed at least one month prior to the submission deadline.
- Host on site review for program project or center proposals
Please Note: Due to the lead time necessary to coordinate submission of program project or center proposals, the HBC Grant Services must be contacted five months prior to planned submission date. Requests for on site review should be made three months prior to planned submission date.
Services
Center Hosted Seminars
- Host two workshops annually. One workshop will be devoted to grantsmanship issues and the other to specific scientific topics
- Grantsmanship issues include: writing skills, specific funding programs, mock competitions
- Specific scientific topics refer to narrowly defined research topics that are under serious consideration by several KU investigators as potential areas for proposal submission. The purpose of these seminars are two fold: To introduce the latest scientific findings in the field and to allow KU investigators an opportunity to present their proposal schemes to leaders in the field for evaluation.
Funding Source Identification
- Provide a new area on the Higuchi Biosciences Center web site (www.hbc.ku.edu)
with links to Federal Agencies, other funding sources, and search engines
Media Services
- Videoconferencing equipment available to share research with other institutions for a fee to non-HBC affiliated researchers. Some hourly charges for HBC affiliated researchers for certain types of videoconferencing connections.
- One free connection to the HBC Computer Network will be provided to the PI or Co-PI of grants administered by the HBC Grants Services Office
- HP Color LaserJet printer available free to HBC affiliated researchers, or as available and for a fee to non-HBC affiliated researchers
- Current word processing software in use by the Grants Services Office will be provided when requested. Current Software in use is Word for the Mac and Word or WordPerfect for the PC
- Recordable CD-ROM service available
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