Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: Charles H Hood Foundation 2023 Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health
Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: Charles H Hood Foundation 2023 Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health
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OBJECTIVES:
The Charles H. Hood Foundation is pleased to announce its 2023 Major Grant Initiative to Advance Child Health. This Award Program supports outstanding senior investigators conducting innovative and transformative research in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. The overall goal of the Program remains the funding of translational or clinical research that will improve child health, children’s clinical outcomes, or health care access, affordability, and quality. The Major Grant Initiative is a component of the Hood Foundation’s research funding portfolio. Since 1942, the Foundation has supported investigators at New England research institutions to improve the health and quality of life for children.
The Trustees will use the following criteria as a guide in selecting which candidates to invite back for Full Proposal submissions:
- Investigators: Qualifications of the Principal Investigator and evidence of exceptional creativity. Where applicable, the qualifications of the entire collaborative research team will be considered.
- Innovation: Research Project is highly innovative in methodology, research hypotheses, or patient population.
- Impact: Successful proposals must describe research that would likely lead to important improvements in child health, knowledge of child health and disease, or children’s clinical outcomes or health care access, affordability, and quality.
FUNDING INFORMATION:
$450,000 Distributed over a two year period
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
Institutional Limit of 1 submission
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by DATE: 4/15/22
- Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application;
- A brief (no more than 2 pages) statement by the candidate describing his or her significant scientific work and immediate research plans, including a clear statement on the project’s potential impact on child and adolescent mental health;
- Up-to-date CV in current Biosketch format (must use biosketch format)
- A brief budget overview for the proposed project
A faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review internal proposals and select nominees. Foundation Relations will work with the nominees to develop and submit the institutional nomination letter and applicant materials by Tuesday May 17th, 12:00pm.
DEADLINES:
Internal Materials Due: Friday, April 15, 2022
Sponsor Deadline:
LOI: Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 12:00pm
Full Proposal (if invited to submit): Monday, September 12, 2022, 12:00pm