"Just Missed" Grant Support - 2025

The Georgia Cancer Center (GCC) announces a new initiative to support investigators' success at competitive revisions of peer-reviewed R level grants (submitted by a GCC investigator as a PI, or multi-PI) that have missed the payline. The intent of these awards is to provide funding to support revision of peer-reviewed grants and maximize the probability of securing the award.

This mechanism will support resubmissions of peer-reviewed grant submitted in the last year, and not selected for funding but with a score that is conducive to funding with additional data and revisions. Investigators planning a revision or a new submission based on the reviewer comments are highly encouraged to apply.

What To Include

For submissions to the "Just Missed" Grant Support RFA, be sure to include the following:

  1. Peer-reviewed grant.
  2. Summary statement.
  3. Proposed Plan for revisions (One page maximum, Arial 11, margin 0.5 all sides).
  4. Budget and timeline for proposed revised experiments.
    • Maximum budget of $50,000 for one year maximum.
    • Funding can include salary support for laboratory personnel, animal and operational expenses, shared core services support, or other reasonable expenses.
    • This bridge funding may not be used to support PI or co-PI salary. Travel or publication expenses are also not allowed.
    • If the revised grant is funded any unused expenses will transfer back to GCC.

 The deadline for submission is May 1, 2025.