NC Agriculture and Life Sciences Research Foundation Innovation Fund Grant
Enhancing research programs and creating opportunities.
The NC Agricultural and Life Sciences (NCALS) Research Foundation seeks to increase public and private support to enhance research programs and create new opportunities for CALS faculty, staff and students to innovate and pursue excellence in research.
The foundation seeks proposals for entrepreneurial research projects in new, high-impact, interdisciplinary research areas where its short-term investment will have a high probability of leading to more considerable funding opportunities.
Examples:
- testing a high-risk, high-reward idea
- proof of concept to move preliminary results forward for a specific funding opportunity
- innovative, interdisciplinary projects that follow up on or move toward invention disclosures
View the RFP and submit proposals through InfoReady Review, NC State’s internal grant management software.
Past Award Recipients
- 2018 – Terri Long From Lab to Field: Developing Agro-Textile Nanotechnology for Accelerating the Development of Stress Tolerant High-Yield Crops
- 2017 – Ralph Dean Plant Electronics: Real-time Sensing and Analysis of Stress in Living Plants
- 2016 – Ross Sozzani Harnessing the Power of Plant Stem Cell Regulation for Addressing the World’s Demand for Food, Fuel, and Fiber