The McPherson Eye Research Institute is excited to announce our newest funding opportunity, the Grant Accelerator Program (GAP)! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest Needs Fund, the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, and additional donors to the McPherson ERI, the Grant Accelerator Program provides seed funding for innovative research that advances knowledge of the visual system in health or disease, and/or applies such knowledge to augment, protect, or restore vision or the visual experience. All GAP awards are intended to promote exploration of new ideas and generation of critical data to accelerate and strengthen subsequent grant applications to external funding organizations.
This inaugural year of the program, MERI will be offering up to six $50,000 GAP awards to support a broad range of vision research at UW-Madison, as well as one additional $50,000 AMD GAP award specifically designated for research in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). To be considered for one of these awards, you must (i) be a McPherson member at UW-Madison and (ii) be faculty, permanent principal investigators, or have limited PI status (see complete eligibility criteria here). Winners can expect to receive their award approximately 2.5 months after the application deadline, and must use their award within 12 months of receipt (unless a one year no cost extension is granted).
For more details and to apply, please visit our official GAP application webpage here.
Application Deadline: December 2nd, 2024 at 11:30pm CST
We look forward to receiving your applications!