Celiac Disease Foundation/NASPGHAN Foundation Celiac Disease Pilot Grants

Application Process

Application Submission:

Required Application Materials:

1. Biographical Sketch
- For principal investigator, key personnel, co-investigators, and/or mentor (if applicable)
- 2025 or 2026 NIH biosketch format required
- Instructions available at grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/biosketch.htm (non-fellowship format)
- Must list specific aims of all active research funding to permit assessment of scientific overlap with investigator's existing extramural funding

2. Research Plan (maximum THREE single spaced pages)
- Specific Aims: Explain the rationale for the study, overall hypothesis, aims, and significance if successful
- Background and Significance: Explain the importance of the problem or critical barrier to progress in the field that the proposed project addresses; explain how the proposed project will improve scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice
- Innovation: Explain how the application challenges and seeks to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms; describe any novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation or interventions to be developed or used, and any advantage over existing methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions
- Approach: Describe the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses to be used to accomplish specific aims; include how data will be collected, analyzed (including statistical or other relevant analytic plan), and interpreted as well as any resource sharing plans as appropriate; discuss expected results, potential problems, alternative strategies, feasibility, timeline, and benchmarks for success; power calculation encouraged where relevant to underscore feasibility; if project is in early stages of development, describe strategies to enhance feasibility and address management of any high-risk aspects
- Future Directions: Application must indicate how the principal investigator will use the pilot data as an extension of their work that will allow them to apply for additional funding through another agency

3. Detailed Budget and Budget Justification (one page maximum)
- Salary, equipment, supplies and costs may be budgeted
- In accordance with NIH policy, salary requests may not use an institutional base salary in excess of the current federal salary cap at the time of submission (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/salcap_summary.htm)
- Fringe benefits may be requested if they are treated consistently by the applicant institution as a direct cost to all funding agencies and foundation
- Indirect costs are not allowed