Grant Process Terms of Support

Note: The following is subject to change. 

Requirements for awardees:

1. Progress reports:  Progress reports are due every six months.  A final report is due within 60-days of the study’s conclusion.  The following are penalties for missing Progress Report deadlines:
   1. late by 30 days or less – 10% penalty in future grant monies
   2. Late by 30-60 days – 20% penalty
   3. Late by 60-90 days – 30% penalty
   4. Late by 90 days or more, all remaining funding is terminated
2. Required participation in NephCure’s bi-yearly Scientific Advisory Board/Grant Investigator meeting.  Note that travel expenses should be covered by the $1200 travel stipend provided by the grant.
3. Financial accountability:  Grantees are expected to account for the monies expended under any NephCure Foundation grant; any monies spent either not in accordance with the approved research project or prior to preapproval of any material change in your project are both (i) recoverable by, and subject to restitution by you, to the NephCure Foundation and (ii) may be cause for immediate termination of funding by NephCure. 
4. Grantees are expected to meet scheduled milestones and deliver deliverables on time, and failure to meet milestones, furnish scheduled deliverables, including any reports, or to comply with the terms of the grant may serve as one or more bases for termination of funding by NephCure.  Additionally progress reports must be favorably reviewed by the NephCure staff if funding is to continue. 
5. Applications should be emailed by the application deadline to:  research@nephcure.org.

Terms of Support:

1. Funds are provided to investigator’s institution for use by the applicant; it is the applicant institution’s obligation to ensure proper use of funds and timely submission of progress reports. For the post-doctoral fellowship, and at the discretion of the applicant institution, awards can be made in the mentor’s name for use by the fellow.
2. Disbursal of grant funds will be made in quarter-annual payments at the end of each fiscal quarter.  Final quarter payments will be made only after receipt of an annual progress report.
3. No indirect cost support will be provided to participating institutions
4. Principal investigators must comply with human institutional review board requirements and demonstrate current approval of these committees.  Similarly, investigators must comply with local animal use committee requirements.
5. Reporting requirements: Principal investigators must provide an annual report by August 1 describing briefly progress made during the previous year.  This report should include a short summary written in language understandable by the non-scientist and that is suitable for publication on the Nephcure website.
6. It is expected that discoveries made using Nephcure grant funds will be published expeditiously in peer reviewed journals.  Nephcure requires that awardees share reagents, databases, and other intellectual property created with these funds with other qualified investigators.
7. Nephcure Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religious, or ethnic group.
8. Members of the Nephcure Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) may apply for Nephcure funds; however, SAB members will not participate in peer review sessions when applications are received from these individuals.