Interim Funding Policy

The purpose is to provide established investigators with interim support for competitive renewal grant applications which did not receive a fundable score.

Only those investigators whose funded grants were administered by the Biomedical Research Foundation are eligible. Only those applications that received scores within 10 percentile of the funding line will be considered for interim funding.

Funds equal to the final year of the grants IC (indirect costs) will be made available to the investigator to provide uninterrupted financial support during the resubmission process. It is the expectation that an application will be resubmitted within 2 funding cycles. The interim funds are expected to be used only for personnel salary support and necessary supplies, not equipment or travel.

If the resubmission is funded, any unused bridging funds will be returned to the Foundation upon grant activation.