Pilot Grants for Faculty

The SUPRA Pilot Grants invest resources in faculty-led substance use pilot projects. Ideally, these pilot projects will increase the competitiveness of extramural applications and expand UK’s federal substance use research portfolio. Pilot projects must align with SUPRA’s mission and support innovative, collaborative substance use research from a basic science, clinical, or community research perspective. Requests for Applications (RFAs) will be released every 12 to 18 months.

Substance Use Priority Research Area (SUPRA) Faculty New to Substance Use Research. 

Deadline to Apply: September 20, 2024.

The purpose of this pilot funding mechanism is to support a pilot project from a faculty PI who is new to the substance use research area to engage in innovative, collaborative substance use research from a basic science, pre-clinical, clinical, or community research perspective. Applications should align with SUPRA’s mission to prevent and reduce the burdens of substance use disorders through conducting and translating transdisciplinary and innovative research to inform clinical services, public health practice, and policy. All applications must address how the pilot project will lead to future extramural applications. Eligibility is limited to full-time faculty (all title series including regular, research, clinical and special) at the University of Kentucky. Investigators must be new to substance use research, which is defined as not having received previous federal funding as a PI on a substance use related grant. The PI is encouraged to have at least one Co-Investigator who is established in the field of substance use research. Investigators in training, including residents, post-doctoral fellows, and clinical fellows are not eligible to serve as PI but may be co-investigators.

More information and application here!

Questions and applications can be sent to supra@uky.edu.

Jill Turner, Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Single Cell Resolution of Transcriptomic Changes in the Hippocampus During Nicotine Withdrawal

Hartley Feld, Ph.D., Nursing

• Building Recovery Capital by Reducing Barriers to Reproductive and Perinatal Health for People with a Substance Use Disorder