Funding and Proposals

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The Pivot database is available to help all RUSH University Medical Center (RUMC) faculty, staff, researchers, research administrators, and students find funding opportunities.

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The following local, state, and federal databases often include different opportunities that can help fund research. We recommend using all that seem relevant to your research project. If you still are not sure if your research matches the funding opportunity area of focus and if you are eligible, we suggest contacting the sponsor to discuss.

Federal Grant Opportunities

• Grants.gov
• Department of Defense
• Department of Energy
• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health

State Grant Opportunities

• Chicago Department of Public Health
• Illinois Department of Public Health

RUSH curates a list of research funding opportunities from philanthropic sources. Proposals should be submitted through the RUSH Research Portal by selecting “Non-Profit: Philanthropy” as the “Funding Source”when creating a new master project and grant within the portal.

Certain opportunities are limited to a selected number of applications per institution. An internal selection will take place to fill the slot(s). Individual instructions for each opportunity are listed. 

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Many federal agencies and foundations offer grants, awards and fellowships that limit the number of applications that can come from one institution. To increase the chances of RUSH succeeding in these "limited submission opportunity" applications, a pre-proposal submission and internal selection process has been established. This procedure applies to all RUSH University faculty, staff and students applying for to grant opportunities in which the sponsoring agency limits the number of applications that can come from our institution.

Individual instructions are included for each opportunity listed.

• View the limited submission procedure
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Pilot grants are designed to provide seed funds for investigator-initiated research. The intent of these grants is to enable data gathering and/or encourage collaborative research activity that could provide preliminary data for larger grant proposals.

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In addition to the categories above, we've compiled additional funding opportunities that may be available to support your work.

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