SOM-BIO Incentive Program

The School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences Deans’ Offices are pleased to support the SOM-BIO Incentive Program to promote collaborative grant submissions between our two schools. Specifically, multi-PI (MPI) research grants with one MPI from UCI School of Medicine and the other MPI from UCI School of Biological Sciences at the NIH R01 level or similar (not R03 or R21) are eligible. Program details include:


  •    Eligible faculty must have a primary appointment in either SOM or School of Biological Sciences
  •     Eligible Dates of Grant Submission: 7/1/23 – 12/31/25
  •     For each award submitted, one MPI from School of Medicine and one MPI from School of Biological Sciences are eligible for the incentive payments

Incentive Plan Details:

  •     Submitted grants: $2500 per MPI
  •     Funded grants: an additional $2500 per MPI
  •     Incentive payments will be allocated as unrestricted funds to each MPI.
  •     If more than one MPI from each school, the $2500 incentive(s) would be shared equally
  •     Only MPI opportunities are eligible.
  •    There are funds available to incentivize a maximum of 8 award submissions per year in this program.


To be eligible for these funds, one faculty member of the team must fill out this SOM-BIO INCENTIVE FORM prior to submission. We request 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 or a simple description. 2) the lead PI notifies Research Support Services, SOMProposalReqs@hs.uci.edu, or any other contracts and grants staff who will facilitate the proposal submission at least six weeks before the submission deadline, and all submission timeline requirements are followed. Please note that faculty members are permitted to apply for only one School of Medicine (SOM) Incentive Program for each specific proposal.


For more information and additional grant submission support, please contact the Research Development Unit in the School of Medicine (somrd@hs.uci.edu) or in the School of Biological Sciences (bio-research@uci.edu).