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Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University

Osher Pilot Research Awards

2025 Osher Research Grant Funding Opportunity-Guidelines for Full Application Submission

 

Please find below the specific guidelines and instructions for submitting a full proposal.

Deadline: Applications are due on May 12th, 2025 by 5 PM US Central Time.

 

Full Application Required Documents

Please create 1 PDF document with the following:

  1. Cover letter (1 page) – please address how your proposed project meets the review criteria and addresses the mission and research interests/strategic themes of the Osher Center for Integrative

 

  1. Title page (1 page), including:
    1. Title of research project to be supported
    2. Applicant's Name, Department/Division, Hospital and FSM professional appointments, office or laboratory address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.

 

  1. Scientific Proposal (No more than 5-pages – single spaced, Arrial 11 font, .5” margins and inclusive of all figures and tabels, excluding references), including:
    1. Background/Significance (include preliminary data if relevant)
    2. Specific Aims and associated hypotheses
    3. Innovation
    4. Research Approach (include clear study design and procedures, experimental details, timeline, detailed analysis plan, plans for future funding, contributions of each team member).

 

  1. Biosketch(es) of Principal Investigator, co-investigators, and significant key personnel in NIH format.

 

Please submit all required application through Competitions: 2025 Link Coming Soon!  

 

 Eligibility & Criteria

The mission of the Osher Center for Integrative Health is to provide leadership in integrative medicine that fosters inclusive whole-person healthcare via innovative and impactful research, education and advocacy. This funding opportunity will consider proposals that align with the mission of the Osher Center and support innovative, collaborative, cross-disciplinary research. Proposals should be scientifically meritorious and aligned with one of the Osher Center’s research focus areas.

 

Proposals will be evaluated primarily for their potential to advance the mission of the Osher Center through collaborative, cross-disciplinary innovative research. Projects must be scientifically meritorious and should represent novel ideas/programs which require funding to gather essential pilot data, add an innovative, transdisciplinary research aim to a currently funded project, and/or to sustain on-going research progress and momentum. Competitive projects are ones that clearly lead to external funding and will be prioritized.

 

All members of the Northwestern University research community, including postdoctoral fellows, research faculty and clinician-researchers are invited to apply. Individuals may serve as the PI of only one proposal.

 Selection Process

Full applications will undergo a formal peer-reviewed process and will be scored by the Osher Center Pilot Grant Review Committee. Top proposals will be reviewed by the Osher Center Leadership, then final decisions will be announced. Written critiques will not be provided. Proposals are reviewed internally and are considered confidential information, not to be disclosed to anyone outside the review process.

 Reciprocity Requirements

  • Progress update meeting at 6 months
  • Deliver an oral or poster presentation at IPHAM research conference that features Osher Center work or upon completion of the one-year study period.
  • Notification of Osher Center staff when other grants are received as a result of pilot funding.
  • Written acknowledgement of the Osher Center in publications resulting from Osher Center grant support and will notify the Osher Center when such papers have been submitted.

 Indirect Cost Policy

The intention of the Osher Center Pilot Research Awards is to foster multidisciplinary collaborative projects across Northwestern affiliated institutions. Please plan for a one-year budget between $15,000 and $50,000 with a project start date of July 1st, 2025. No indirect costs will be allowed by this grant, including any indirect costs associated with sub-awards. PI’s may use funds for any purpose that is deemed necessary and sufficiently justified to successfully carry out this research. 

 

Contact Us

Questions about eligibility and the application process may be sent to the Osher Center research coordinator.

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