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Internal Funding Sources at Penn
For additional information on each resource listed, click on the
title, email, or Call for Proposals as directed.
This list will be updated as new
information comes in, so please check back periodically.
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SON Sources:
P20 Hampton-Penn Center
for Reducing Health Disparities
Provides pilot funding to faculty and fellows with the goal of fostering the
conduct of research designed
to reduce health disparities.
P30 Center for Nursing Outcomes Research (CNOR)
This center grant supports the development of measures and methods for studying
variation in patient outcomes,
and applies them to the evaluation of the effectiveness of nursing
care. One of the cores provides pilot funds
for faculty. Click
here for the Call for Proposals. Contact
Amy Miller for
more information.
Hartford Center of Nursing Geriatric Excellence (HCGNE)
Pilot Research Program and
Frank Morgan Jones Fund
These pilot funds are
available to faculty, pre-docs, and post-doctoral scholars with a research focus in
geriatrics,
to serve as a catalyst for preliminary research and to enhance
opportunities for submission of larger scale
research grant proposals.
Click here for the application. Contact
Monda Spool for more information.
ONR Jr. Faculty Pilot Awards and ONR International Research Pilot Awards
Contact Dr. Linda McCauley in the Office of Nursing Research for
information: (215) 898-3151.
Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research
Initiative (INQRI)
in Partnership with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
INQRI will generate, disseminate, and translate research to improve the quality
of care provided in hospitals.
Faculty, post-docs, and doctoral students are eligible to apply.
Click here for the
Call for Proposals.
University Sources:
Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Penn-CFAR is one of 20 NIH-funded CFARs and includes HIV and AIDS investigators
at Penn, CHOP, and
the Wistar Institute.
University
Research Foundation (URF)
This is an intramural resource to support faculty research for a variety of
purposes, including conference support.
Payne-Cheyney EXPORT Center
(PCEC)
The goal of the EXPORT Pilot and Feasibility Studies Core is to stimulate
innovative, interdisciplinary, intra/inter-
institutional research that will
increase the understanding of health disparities and potential ways to address
them.
Eligible investigators will be faculty. Click here for the current
Call for Proposals.
Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Pilot Projects Program
LDI conducts an integrated, collaborative research program in
health care evaluation, delivery, economics,
management, and policy. LDI funds pilot studies in order to
help senior fellows attract external support
for large-scale studies.
Institute on Aging (IOA)
Pilot Grant Program
The goals of this program are to support new faculty entering the field of
aging, and to stimulate multi-disciplinary
projects that focus the diverse
expertise at the University of Pennsylvania toward aging research.
Center for Undergraduate Research and
Fellowships (CURF)
CURF provides information, advice, resources, and support for Penn students
seeking to become involved
in faculty research or to initiate research projects of their own.
Penn Undergraduate Urban
Research Course, at the Penn Institute for Urban Research
This innovative research program pairs faculty conducting urban-focused
scholarship with undergraduates that
have an interest in developing research
skills in a semester-long, credit-bearing seminar. Selection is
competitive.