EAM Near-Miss Awards

DUE DATE: Friday, April 5, 2010 For Carbondale Applications: The electronic version of the grant application must be submitted by the deadline noted above. An identical hard copy must be postmarked by April 6, 2010.

EAM Near-Miss Awards
	A. Eligibility
	School of Medicine faculty based on both the Springfield and Carbondale campuses 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 Instructor) or above and hold a terminal degree appropriate for their area of expertise. Unscored applications are eligible as long as a critique has been received. 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.
	*B. Guidelines for Financial Support*
	A maximum budget of $25,000 can be requested from EAM Near-Miss funding. 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. The following budget lines are appropriate: personnel other than faculty, commodities, contractual services (up to $2,000), and miscellaneous. Funds cannot be used to support travel. a). Equipment is defined as durable items costing over $5,000 and is not eligible for EAM funding. Durable items that cost less than $5,000 require strong justification. b) A grant closure form will be due within two months after the end of the funding period. If a PI is funded through this mechanism, the revised application must be re-submitted to NIH within 12 months after receiving the EAM Near-Miss award.
	C. Allocation Priorities
	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 a) have not submitted an application for EAM Near-Miss funding for the current RFA, b) have current NIH funding or have received funding from NIH in the past, and c) are experienced at grant review. 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.
	D. Submission of Applications
	To apply for funding through this program, submit the following documents (assembled in the following order) by email in one PDF formatted document in the order listed on the checklist to Kristi Katcher kkatcher@siumed.edu by 4:00 PM on the date indicated at the beginning of this document: (A) EAM Near-Miss cover/face page. (B) Cover letter (limit to 2 pages) explaining how the PI will use EAM funds to address the concerns raised in the critique. (C) A one-year itemized budget for a maximum of $25,000. (D) The NIH critique and score for the original NIH application. (E) The original application that was submitted to NIH.
LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Applicants will be notified of the funding decision by approximately the end of November. 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.
EAM Near-Miss 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 in from your word processing program.
EAM Near Miss Face Page
EAM Near Miss Budget Page

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).