EAM

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

EAM Near-Miss Awards - Call for Proposals info

EAM Regular Funding

Eligibility

(A)  School of Medicine faculty based on both the Springfield and Carbondale campuses are
       eligible to be principal investigators on EAM Regular funding. A faculty member must be
       at the assistant professor level (including Research Assistant Professor but excluding
       Lecturer or Instructor) or above and hold a terminal degree appropriate for their
       area of expertise.

(B) Both established and unestablished investigators are eligible to submit an application.
However, senior investigators are encouraged to apply for EAM Near-Miss funding or
to actively seek external funding.

(C) During any one grant cycle, a faculty member may act as principal investigator on only
one grant. A faculty member may be a co-investigator on any number of grants.

Guidelines for Financial Support

(A) Up to $50,000 may be requested from EAM Regular funding.

(B)  Request of salaries for personnel such as post docs, residents, researchers and graduate
       students is acceptable. However, EAM Regular funding mechanism will not support
       PI's salary.

(C)  The following budget lines are appropriate and will be considered by Allocation
       Committee: Personnel, Commodities, Equipment (up to $2,500), Contractual service,
       Travel (up to $2,000) and Miscellaneous (up to $2,000).

(D)  Principal Investigators (PIs) of EAM awards can request a one-time six-month extension
       of the funding period. To request an extension, the PI must submit the following to the
       ADRFA Office 2 months prior to the end date of the grant award: (1) an explanation
       regarding why the funds were not expended as proposed, (2) a description of achievements
       relevant to the specific aims of the funded proposal during the funding period, (3) a budget
       for utilization of the carry-over funding and (4) a draft re-submission of an NIH grant.

Allocation Priorities

(A) The applications will be evaluated by at least three reviewers based on scientific merits,
and further discussed and scored by Central Research Committee.

(B)   As the major goal of the EAM award is to obtain funding from NIH, the criteria for the
       evaluation follows the standard criteria of NIH, i.e. "Significance", "Innovation",
       Approach", "Investigator" and "Environment". The definition of each criterion is
       found under "Allocation priorities (B) " in the EAM Guidelines.

Submission of Applications

(A) Deadline for Regular EAM is usually in the fall and depends on when the school receives
funding from the state. Exact date will be announced by ADRFA.

(B) The following documents should be submitted to the office of ADRFA in the following order:
       cover page, application forms, research plan (6-page limit) including Introduction
       (if appropriate), significance, preliminary study, research methods. The project must be
       completed within one year. "Introduction" section may be used to explain the relationship
       of the proposed project to a pending NIH application.

EAM Forms

Click on the documents below and follow the instructions on the pop up window. If that doesn't work proceed as follows: click your right mouse button once on the link you need. A drop down menu will appear. Choose the "Save Link As" selection. When the "Save As" dialog box appears, you will need to chose which drive and folder you want the information saved to and then click the save button. You can then access the form and fill them using Microsoft Word. These forms were obtained from the NIH site in part to simplify your potential submission to that organization. Instructions for filling out the forms are available on the NIH site by linking here.

Rich Text Documents

Checklist

EAM Cover/Face Page

EAM Near-Miss Cover/Face Page

PAGE 2 (abstract)

PAGE 3 (table of contents)

PAGE 4 (budget)

PAGE 5 (budget justification)

PAGE 6 (biosketch and other support)

PAGE 7 (Other Support)

PAGE 8 (resources)

Continuation Page

(Continuation Page to be used for second page of biosketch and scientific portion)

Summary Page

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).