International Neutrophil Institute Grant Opportunity
Grant Overview
Background
The International Neutrophil Institute (INI) was founded in 2022 to catalyze basic and translational
neutrophil-centered research that enhances our understanding of neutrophil biology and leads to
treatment strategies that advance human health. Through our multi-year grant program and annual
conference initiatives, we are committed to achieving our goals through innovation and collaboration. The
INI is applying a disease-agnostic, people-first approach to our endeavors. Our organization takes a
long-term perspective to contribute to generating the next wave of therapies and strategies to treat
patients across a broad spectrum of diseases.
Research Hypothesis
Our grant program’s goal is simple: we are interested in funding novel research that elucidates neutrophil
biology with the eventual objective of treating patients. This requires a basic understanding of neutrophil
functions in homeostatic and disease conditions as well as a translational component to identify
clinically-actionable therapeutic pathways that manipulate neutrophil activities. A variety of tools,
methods, perspectives, and techniques will be necessary to achieve our goals; we are committed to
funding it all. We similarly recognize the importance of collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches and
welcome applications that reflect this.
Grant Content Requirements
We emphasize that proposals are content-focused. We do not have requirements for formatting, length,
etc. We strongly believe the current grant process as a whole has become too convoluted and taken
researchers’ time away from the bench. With this in mind, we have narrowed in on a few key questions:
- Why are you interested in studying this?
- What are your aims?
- How do you plan to measure your results?
- Why is it important in the context of our goals?
- A general budget
- “Personal Focus” In a short paragraph or so, briefly describe what excites you most/occupies most of your mental real estate that pertains to either neutrophil biology or technology engineering. This, ironically, doesn't need to relate to the proposed project if such is the case.
These questions/sections can be answered in a variety of formats. We are also open to receiving
applications submitted to other organizations.
Length of Grants
The grant length will be 4 years. In an effort to reduce superfluous researcher workload throughout the
process, we do not require formal 6-month progress reports. We would prefer to have periodic
conversations and informal updates as exciting data unfolds as well as information about publication
submissions. Likewise, as science may lead us down unexpected paths, we accept changing the aims to
reflect new directions based upon these findings.
Grant Amounts
Each grant opportunity consists of an approximate annual budget of $100,000 including a maximum of
12% for indirect costs. We strive to work with our researchers to accommodate for changes as we are
committed to accomplishing our scientific goals.
Submission
Grants can be submitted in PDF or Word Document format via email to [email protected].
For more information about grants and our organization, please contact [email protected].
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