Eligibility and Restrictions

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.

Credentials

To be eligible for our Developmental grants, you must possess a doctoral-level degree and have an academic appointment at or above the Assistant Professor level or equivalent at one of our member institutions.

Applicant priorities

The NIH, which funds the SD CFAR, intends Developmental grants to be awarded to early stage investigators who are committed to a career in HIV research. Accordingly, we prioritize applicant submissions as follows:

1. Early stage investigators who have not yet received their own R01-level NIH funding. If you are unfamiliar with the NIH funding process, please view  a quick guide to NIH grants  (Powerpoint 2007).
2. Senior (post-R01) investigators who are new recruits to SD CFAR member institutions. 

Restrictions

1. Postdoctoral fellows may not apply for Developmental grants, and these grants may not be used to provide salaries for postdoctoral fellows.

2. Applicants may submit only one Developmental grant application per cycle.