The San Diego Center for AIDS Research (SD CFAR) offers Developmental grants to investigators who meet the criteria below. If you have any questions about these criteria, please contact us. Primary academic appointments must be at SD CFAR member institutions. We welcome applications addressing NIH Research Priorities, including the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative and intersecting areas of substance use research.
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ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must be Junior Faculty* within one of our member institutions and meet the following criteria:
- Possess a doctoral-level degree
- Be an early-stage investigator without an R01 (or equivalent) NIH funding
- UCSD/SDSU: Be at the level of Assistant Professor, Project Scientist, or Research Scientist
- SCRIPPS/LJI: Junior faculty positions, staff scientists (with chair approval), institute investigators, and Scripps Fellows
* Newly recruited (within the last two years), established investigators may hold the rank of Associate Professor or higher (or an equivalent position) and may have existing R01 funding.
REQUIREMENTS
- Submissions should address at least one of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Priorities and/or an and an intersecting aspect of addiction science.
- Core Services (if needed): You must contact SD CFAR service cores by January 12, prior to your submission to discuss assistance needed.
- Mentor:
- Early stage (pre-R01) investigators must identify a mentor prior to submission of the proposal and for the duration of the project, if funded. Exceptions may be made for newly recruited senior investigators, yet even they may find a mentor to be quite helpful. Go to Resources and Mentoring for more information.
- Mentors must certify that they have reviewed and provided input on the application prior to submission. Applications will only be accepted after this pre-submission review. Mentors need not be HIV experts but should have received NIH R01 (or equivalent) funding and have experience with NIH grants. Qualifications will be evaluated during the review process.
- For assistance in identifying a mentor, please email cfar@ucsd.edu with any questions.
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RESTRICTIONS
- All work must be conducted within the United States, as foreign components are no longer allowed under the current NIH–CFAR funding structure.
- Applicants may submit only one Developmental grant application per cycle and may only serve as PI on one active Developmental grant at a time.
- Postdoctoral fellows may not apply for Developmental grants, and these grants may not be used to provide salaries for postdoctoral fellows.
- Developmental grants cannot:
- Support clinical trials or studies involving new drugs, treatments, or devices, or off-label use of a licensed drug.
- Fund travel to scientific meetings, with one exception: Early stage investigators may include travel to a scientific meeting to present the results of their Developmental grant research.
- If an awarded grant includes research in humans or animals, Institutional Review Board or Institutional Animal Care Use Committee approval must be submitted to the SD CFAR Developmental Core before funds may be spent. Regulatory approvals should be emailed to cfar@ucsd.edu.
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APPLICATION
Application Components to be submitted via REDCap: Cover and Face Page, Abstract, Goals & Mentoring Plan, Budget and Budget Justification, NIH Other Support, Biosketch of PI and Mentor(s), Environmental and Institutional Commitment, Service Core Checklist, 4-page Research Plan, Literature Cited. If applicable: Letters of Support and IRB.
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