UCI School of Medicine and the UCI Samueli School of Engineering deans’ offices are pleased to support the School of Medicine-Samueli School of Engineering (SOM-SSoE) Incentive Program to promote collaborative grant submissions between our schools. The program is specifically for multi-PI (MPI) research grants with one MPI from the School of Medicine and the other MPI from Samueli School of Engineering at the NIH R01 level or similar (not R03 or R21).

The SOM-SSoE Incentive Program details include:

•  Faculty must have a primary appointment in either the School of Medicine or Samueli School of Engineering.
•  Eligible Dates of Grant Submission: 6/1/24–6/30/25
•  For each award submitted, one incentive payment will be paid to the MPI from the School of Medicine and one incentive payment will be paid to the MPI from Samueli School of Engineering.

Incentive Program Details:

•  Submitted grants: $2,500 per MPI
•  Funded grants: An additional $2,500 per MPI
•  If there is more than one MPI from either school, the $2,500 incentive(s) would be shared equally among them.
•  Only MPI opportunities are eligible.
•  There are funds available to incentivize a maximum of 10 award submissions per year.

To be eligible for these funds, one faculty member of the team must fill out the SOM-SSoE Incentive Form prior to submission.

We require the following for provision of incentive funds:

1.    A draft of the project summary/abstract uploaded to the form at least four weeks in advance of the FOA deadline to ensure adequate time for the deans’ offices to review/approve, and

2.    The lead PI notifies the school’s contracts and grants staff who will facilitate the proposal submission at least three weeks before the submission deadline. It is also imperative that PIs follow the submission timeline requirements as outlined by the Contracts and Grants staff facilitating the proposal submission to SPA. If the lead PI is from the School of Medicine, they should contact SOM Research Support Services, SOMProposalReqs@hs.uci.edu. If the lead PI is from SSoE, they should complete the SSoE Engineering Research Management (ERM) Proposal Request Form.

For more information, and additional grant submission support, please contact the Research Development Unit in the School of Medicine or Helen Lee in the Samueli School of Engineering.