Sponsor
California Table Grape Commission
Program
2016-17 Health Research Grant Program – Letter of Intent (LOI)
For More Information
Please see the sponsor’s website for more information including the sponsor’s guidelines.
Description
The California Table Grape Commission seeks to fund research projects that assess the benefits of table grapes to human health, using a freeze-dried powder made from fresh grapes. Research should focus on the beneficial effects of grapes as a food, in pursuit of health.
Eligibility
Candidates must have a medical or other doctoral degree and be a faculty member or project leader at a college or university, teaching hospital, or established research institute or organization. Preference will be given to researchers with previous experience in related research. Prior grantees are eligible to apply for a new grant, but previous grantees must also submit a progress report on the state of their original commission-funded research, which should demonstrate results from that previously funded research and evidence of effort to extend that research through other funding resources.
Funding Availability
Three (3) awards of $30,000 each
Maximum Project Value
$30,000
Indirect Costs
20%
Project Duration
1 year maximum
Letter of Intent
Complete Letter of Intent must be submitted electronically as a single pdf file to healthresearch@grapesfromcalifornia.com and received no later than Tuesday December 1, 2015 at 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Special Notes
Full proposals will be solicited in December. If invited for full proposal, PI submits signed OR-5 along with copy of full proposal to: Research.Services@uoguelph.ca 5 business days in advance of the external deadline.
Full Proposal Internal Deadline
Please submit your application/proposal, along with an OR-5 Form to research.services@uoguelph.ca five business days in advance of the external deadline.
Full Proposal External Deadline
To be established late January 2016 (to be confirmed by sponsor if invited to submit).