Targeted Proposal Teams (TPT)

Overview

With available funds totaling $5 million, TPT offers seed funding to innovative research projects in three categories:

• Collaborative Seed Grants will support high-risk, high-reward projects in their early stages to enhance research capacity, allowing up to $60,000 for personnel costs, research supplies and project-specific travel over 12 months, with approximately 12 awards granted per call.
  • Apply for the Collaborative Seed Grants

• Proposal Planning Grants aim to facilitate interdisciplinary teams in preparing large-scale proposals to targeted external sponsors, allowing up to $100,000 for personnel costs, proposal-specific travel, hosting team meetings, and data compilation over 12 months, with approximately 12 awards granted per call.
  • Apply for the Proposal Planning Grants

• Grants on the Edge enhance previously unfunded proposals by addressing reviewer feedback and generating additional data, with awards of up to $25,000 (for proposals under $2 million) or $50,000 (for proposals over $2 million) over 12 months, with approximately eight awards per call.
  • Apply for the Grants on the Edge

Eligibility

• Open to faculty from Texas A&M University (including Galveston and other branch campuses) and Texas A&M System partner research agencies who are eligible to act as principal investigators for external funding.
• Proposals must involve at least two eligible faculty investigators from different disciplines.
• Current TPT awardees are not eligible for this round.

Key Dates

• An information session is scheduled for Sept. 6, 2024.
  • Register for the Sept. 6 information session
• Proposal submissions are due by Oct. 15, 2024, 5 p.m. CDT via the InfoReady portal.

Contacts

• Dr. Gerianne Alexander, galexander@tamu.edu
• Dr. Henry Fadamiro, henry.fadamiro@tamu.edu