The purpose of these funds is to provide seed money to test new ideas in the preliminary stages before enough data has been gathered to submit a proposal for external funding. Before filling out a request for funds, please consider the impact this may have on the field, your potential to obtain future funding, and the project’s design and procedures.

Below is a list of required information you need to provide committee:

• Name, co-investigator(s), department(s), contact(s)
• Full title (must match any other paperwork submitted)
• File name (short title)
• How will this funding resource help obtain external funding (provide specific RFA or PA if applicable)?
• What is the aim of your project?
• What are you doing that will make a significant impact?
• Innovation or project – what is new or different?
• How will you approach obtaining the information?
• Breakdown of how you are budgeting your request
• What facility(ies) are you requesting services from?
• Budget
• Information about any previous MIR requests (previous allotments, current status, did allotments result in any presentations, publications or extramural funding)