University Technology Development Funding: Flash Grant

University Technology Development Funding: Flash Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Amount: Up to US $37,500
Last Updated: March 28, 2025

Summary

The University Technology Development Funding: Flash Grant supports innovative life sciences research with exceptional commercial potential. It provides rapid funding to help develop ideas related to sleep, hibernation, and the effects of space travel. Grants are offered in three cycles throughout 2024-2025, focusing on topics such as sleep health, disorders, and space biology, ensuring targeted support for transformative research that can lead to significant advancements in these fields.

Overview

NOTE: Important First Step: The Principal Investigator for the proposal must register for an account on the NCBiotech Funding Portal in advance of the deadline to submit a proposal. There are three cycles for this grant opportunity in 2024-25: Cycle 1 - September 11, 2024 (noon)Cycle 2 - December 4, 2024 (noon)Cycle 3 - March 19, 2025 (noon) Flash Grant The Flash Grant program identifies and energizes creative ideas that exhibit early indications of exceptional commercial potential. Like a flash of inspiration, flash grants infuse a quick jolt of funding at a critical early point when a small, targeted influx of funds is crucial to shaping innovative research ideas into high-potential life sciences technologies. Categories Flash Grants support short, tightly focused research projects that are designed to: Demonstrate the disruptive potential of a life sciences technology Prepare a technology for translational development The Cycle 2 solicitation is open to research proposals focused on topics related to sleep, hibernation, and the effects of space travel and micro- or reduced gravity on biological processes, except Class 1 medical devices, consumer products, and/or mobile apps. Cycle 2 Specifically, for this cycle of the Flash Grant program, agricultural bioeconomy topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Sleep Sleep HealthQuantity or durationContinuityTimingAlertness or sleepinessSatisfaction and quality Sleep Medicine Circadian biologyCircadian physiologyNeural mechanisms of sleepBiomarkers to measure circadian phaseBiomarkers of alertness or sleepiness Sleep disorders - diagnostics, therapeutics, and medical devices to treat sleep disorders Insomnia Sleep-related breathing disorders Sleep-related movement disorders Central disorders of hypersomnolence Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders Parasomnias Obstructive sleep apnea Restless leg syndrome Narcolepsy Shift work sleep disorder Delayed sleep phase syndrome REM sleep behavior disorder Hibernation and Torpor Any physiological or biological processes relating to states of hibernation or torpor Space Biology Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on human biology and physiologyImpacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on animal biology and physiology Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on plant biology and physiology Food production in space/reduced gravity Impacts of spaceflight and/or reduced gravity on microbiology Impacts of space on developmental, reproductive, and evolutionary biology Flash Grant FAQs are found here

Eligibility

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