Funding Opportunities

UK Office of the Vice President for Research Support Grants

Internal grants are designed to enhance UK's research enterprise by assisting investigators in accelerating their research programs and to be successful in obtaining external funding.

University Research Professors

This $10,000 award recognizes a tenured faculty member who has a distinguished record of achievement in their field and a record of outstanding research accomplishments within the past five calendar years.

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UKinSPIRE

UKinSPIRE (Seeding Partnerships for International Research Engagement) is an internal funding opportunity for UK faculty that is jointly funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the UK International Center. UKinSPIRE is intended to stimulate high-impact research projects in any discipline linking UK faculty and international collaborators, and to establish collaborations with new international partner institutions or add greater depth to existing institutional partnerships.

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Equipment Managed Maintenance Program

The Office of the Vice President for Research coordinates the Research Equipment Managed Maintenance Program. This program’s objective is to provide maintenance of critical research equipment throughout the university at a reasonable cost.

UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science

The UK CCTS provides multiple types of pilot funding to catalyze collaborative, translational research. They prioritize multidisciplinary research and projects that focus on health disparities, particularly in Appalachia.

Center for Health, Engagement and Transformation

The mission of the CHET Just-in-Time grant mechanism is to enable health equity researchers to obtain small funding amounts to support competitive extramural grant applications, manuscripts submission fees, conference registrations or support critical health equity training directly related to an health equity research project. This small grants program is designed to support CHET members and affiliates in conducting health equity related work.

UNITE

A critical component of UNITE’s vision is to synergize efforts that elevate research focused on racial equity at the University of Kentucky. UNITE has developed a mechanism to sponsor the efforts of University of Kentucky researchers by way of small-scale research pilot funding, research support for scholarship focused on racial equity and support for research conducted by underrepresented racial/ethnic minority scholars.