EAM Near-Miss Awards

DUE DATE: To Be Announced
Calendar of Events for EAM


EAM Near-Miss Awards
	1. Eligibility
	(A) Only School of Medicine faculty based on the Springfield campus are eligible to be principal investigators on EAM Near-Miss funding. To be eligible a faculty member must be at the assistant professor level (including Research Assistant Professor but excluding Lecturer) or above and hold a terminal degree appropriate for their area of expertise. Carbondale faculty members can be included as Co-investigators, but the NIH grant must have originated on the Springfield campus and have a Springfield faculty member as PI. (B) Both established and unestablished investigators are eligible to submit an application. (C) An applicant must have already submitted the original grant application to NIH and have received critiques at the time of the application for EAM Near-Miss funding. Triaged applications are eligible as long as a critique has been received.
	*2. Guidelines for Financial Support*
	(A) A maximum budget of $25,000 can be requested from EAM Near-Miss funding. (B) Salary support for personnel such as post docs, residents, researchers and graduate students is acceptable. However, EAM- Near Miss fund will not support the salary of faculty members, as defined in 1.A. above. (C) The following budget lines are appropriate: personnel, commodities, equipment (up to $2,500), contractual services (up to $2,000), and miscellaneous. Funds cannot be used to support travel (D) If a PI is funded through this mechanism, the revised application must be re-submitted to NIH within 6 months after the start of the EAM award..
	3. Allocation Priorities
	(A) The The applications will be evaluated and prioritized by the Near-Miss Review Committee. Members will be appointed on an ad hoc basis by Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs. The committee will be comprised of three faculty members who 1) have not submitted an application for EAM Near-Miss funding for the current RFA, 2) have current NIH funding or have received funding from NIH in the past, and 3) are experienced at grant review. (B) Allocation of funding will be prioritized toward those applications that the committee views as most likely to use the funds to successfully address concerns raised in the NIH critique.
	4. Submission of Applications
	To apply for funding through this program, submit the following documents by email in PDF or Word format to Kristi Katcher kkatcher@siumed.edu by 4:30 PM on the date indicated at the beginning of this document: (1) the original application that was submitted to NIH (2) the NIH critique and score for the original NIH application, (3) cover letter (limit to 2 pages) explaining how the PI will use EAM funds to address the concerns raised in the critique, (4) a one-year itemized budget for a maximum of $25,000.
LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Applicants will be notified of the funding decision by approximately the end of March. Reviewer comments will not be provided. The funding decision is final. Resubmission of the same NIH critique for future EAM Near-Miss funding will not be accepted. If the study receives external funding during the period of EAM support, remaining EAM funds will revert back to the ADRFA. All publications arising from work supported by EAM funds must acknowledge that support. If you have any questions, please contact Kristi Katcher kkatcher@siumed.edu or call at 217-545-7936

Linda Toth, D.V.M., Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs Professor, Department of Pharmacology Southern Illinois University School of Medicine 801 North Rutledge Street Box 19616 Springfield, IL 62794-9616 Phone 217-545-7936 Fax 217-545-7873
For further information please contact the Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs. Hours are 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (545-7936).