Core Facility Support

Overview

The Rutgers Office for Research is announcing the 2023 voucher program designed to stimulate the use of Rutgers core facilities while at the same time providing funds for faculty to generate pilot data for future grant submissions. The vouchers have a maximum value of $5,000.

Funding

Funds are for the exclusive use toward data generation at one or more Rutgers core facilities*. Funds will be in the form of a one-time reimbursement of up to $5,000 to the faculty after submitting paid invoices for services rendered by one or more core facilities. Reimbursement requests must be made by June 30, 2023 and e-mailed to cores@research.rutgers.edu. Only the core(s) identified in your Core Facility Utilization Grant application will be reimbursed.

*A list of eligible core facilities can be found on the Core Facilities website. If an applicant is aware of a facility not on this list, please contact us to find out if it is eligible.

Eligibility

All tenured, tenure track and research track faculty are eligible to apply for this program. A full time Rutgers faculty position is required. Faculty at all levels are welcome to apply. Core Utilization grants are not available to faculty who previously received two or more awards.

Review Criteria

Preference will be given to projects that will clearly lead to more competitive grant submissions. Clear evidence that a specific grant submission will follow the generation of data supported by this grant is required (see submission requirements).

Submission Requirements

The submission consists of an on-line questionnaire embedded in the InfoReady platform. In addition, you will be asked to upload the following:

• Specific Aims page or a Project Summary. The Specific Aims or Project Summary (one page max) must be
  linked to an actual RFA or solicitation, and the intended date of submission is required (this information will
  be collected in the form).
• One page narrative describing how the core facility derived work will contribute to essential preliminary
  data for a future grant submission.
• Price quote from core facility for the proposed project.

No further narrative or documentation will be required or allowed.

Please note: When applying, InfoReady will automatically log you out of the system after 15 minutes of inactivity. When you are done working, please save your application as a draft and close your InfoReady window. Failure to save and close the window may result in the loss of your application data.