Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award (SC1)

The summary for the Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award (SC1) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award (SC1): -This PA provides updated guidelines for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Program SC1 mechanism for Research Advancement Awards. -The SCORE Program is a developmental program designed to increase the research competitiveness of faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and the research capabilities of MSIs To better achieve these objectives, the existing SCORE (S06) program, which had the structure of a non-thematic program project, has been revised so that separate funding opportunities exist for individual investigator-initiated research awards and for a stand-alone institutional award. The mechanisms used for these funding opportunities are the SC1, SC2 (PAR-06-492) and SC3 (PAR-06-493) awards for individual investigators and the S06 (PAR-06-490) award for institutions. The funding opportunities of the SC2, SC3 and S06 award mechanisms may be found at the NIGMS website, http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Minority/MBRS/. Research proposed under any of the investigator-initiated SCORE award mechanisms must fall within the scope of the NIH mission, which is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. -This announcement for the SC1 award outlines the investigator-initiated research project for faculty who are at the most advanced stages of development, i.e., who are engaged in state-of-the-art biomedical or behavioral research and productive as evidenced by a steady track record of peer-reviewed publications, yet they have not had significant non-SCORE support and are planning to transition to other major external sources of support. It is the expectation of this award that by providing support to conduct competitive research and mentoring to SC1 PIs through participation in grantsmanship workshops and biennial PI meetings, they will be successful in securing non-SCORE external support.