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Start-Up Awards

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Purpose

The purpose of the KY INBRE Faculty Start-Up Award program is to facilitate the recruitment of qualified junior faculty at Kentucky colleges and universities who have the background, training, and motivation to establish an externally-funded biomedical research program involving undergraduate students. 

Start-up awards should be used to establish a competitive research lab. This includes purchasing supplies and equipment needed to conduct research, hiring students, etc. NOTE: These funds cannot be used to purchase animals or pay research participants.


The KY INBRE will match institutional seed money (up to $25,000) to eligible institutions to create a first-year research start-up package to offer to potential candidates for tenure-track assistant professor positions in research areas consistent with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) priorities. 


Requests must be made before the potential candidate is hired in a tenure-track position at the recruiting institution. The recruited candidates will become members of the KY INBRE and will receive additional research and proposal development support through the KY INBRE Mentoring Core.

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