The Brigham Research Institute (BRI) has made funds available in FY17 to support projects/activities aligned with the BRI’s mission through the BRI Director’s $500K Transformative Award.  Funds will be awarded on a competitive basis.  Applications will be evaluated and prioritized on the basis of a strategic and scientific review by an internal faculty Review Committee and BRI leadership. The final selection round will be a live review session with the BWH Scientific Advisory Board. $500,000 is available to this RFA; requests for up to $500K will be considered.

Letters of intent (due May 2, 2017) will be reviewed and a subset of applicants will be invited by June 13th, 2017 to submit full applications due Aug 8th, 2017; monies are expected to be made available on December 1^st 2017.  The BRI anticipates funding one project, however, there will be no obligation to spend any or all of the funds and projects may be partially funded.