Huck Institutes and Penn State Hershey Medical Center announce grants concept development initiative
Portfolios are requested for high visibility, high risk, transformative research projects.
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The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Penn State Hershey Medical Center would like to build a portfolio of high visibility, high risk, transformative research projects that can be submitted to funding sources such as the W.M. Keck Foundation.
This goal can be achieved by collaboration between faculty of the Huck Institutes and Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Penn State's Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations.
About the Program
The Keck Foundation Grants Program encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact including those that “push the edge of the field, present unconventional approaches to intractable problems, or challenge the prevailing paradigm,” and they use the term “transformative” to mean “the creation of a new field of research, development of new instrumentation enabling observations not previously possible, or discovery of knowledge that challenges prevailing perspectives.”
Please visit the following links to see summary abstracts of recent awards in the Medical Research and Science and Engineering programs.
Funding and submissions
Funding requests are capped at $1,000,000 for projects of three years duration or less.
There are two submission cycles each year (May and November), for each of the two program areas, (Medical Research and Science and Engineering) for which faculty of the Huck Institutes and Penn State Hershey Medical Center are eligible.
The relationship with the Keck Foundation is centrally managed and Penn State is able to submit one application per program during each cycle.
Typically no more than three project concepts per program area are discussed with Keck Foundation program officers prior to the Phase I submission deadline.
Since the submission process is multi-staged, and successful projects can take several months or years to develop, the Huck Institutes and Penn State Hershey Medical Center are looking to build a portfolio of potential projects for submission to the Keck Foundation over the next several submission cycles.
If you have potential projects that meet the high-risk and transformative basic research criteria established by the Keck Foundation and would like to consider developing these further, the Huck Institutes and Penn State Hershey Medical Center would be happy to work with you in the development of concept papers that can be shared with the Keck Foundation Grants Program.
Contacts
Faculty interested in submitting grants or in need of additional information should contact one of the following two individuals:
University Park campus
Penn State Hershey Medical Center
- Ernest Johnson (researchdevelopment@hmc.psu.edu)
