The Flash Grant program aims to identify and energize creative ideas that exhibit early indications of commercial potential. Like a flash of inspiration, Flash Grants infuse a quick jolt of funding at a critical early point when a small, targeted influx of funds can be crucial to shaping innovative research ideas into high potential life sciences technologies.
Flash Grants support short, tightly focused research projects that are designed to:
· Demonstrate the disruptive potential of a life sciences technology
· Prepare a technology for translational development
Funds are available to researchers at any North Carolina university or non-profit research institute.
FY26 Deadlines:
Cycle 1
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (noon)
Cycle 2
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 (noon)
Cycle 3
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (noon)
At the time of submission, the Principal Investigator (PI) must hold a full-time, tenure-track, or tenured faculty appointment, or an appointment as permanent, full-time, clinical or research faculty at the applicant institution or hold an equivalent position.