PennCHOP Microbiome Pilot and Feasibility Grant Program

The Pilot and Feasibility Grant Program issues up to seven awards per annual cycle: up to five general microbiome pilots, one matching pilot with the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine, and one with the Institute for Immunology. Awards are $40,000 per year for up to two years (year-two funding is a competitive renewal, not automatic). All applicants must be Penn faculty (Instructors and Research Associates included) who are US citizens or permanent residents holding an MD, PhD, MD-PhD, or DVM credential. Every funded project must use at least one of the six PennCHOP Program Cores, and awardees must articulate a path to extramural funding (R01/P01) in a required future-directions paragraph. The program is explicitly internal — external, for-profit, or non-Penn researchers are ineligible.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.