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 [1] for more information including the sponsor’s guidelines [2].

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 [3] 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 [4] 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).