Where to Get Funding for New Technology
Three Sources of Funding - Practice, Industry and Grants
- Extramural Research Grants
- NSF - National Science Foundation
- Second most common source for informatics proposals
- Has a separate Database Study Section
- Department of Defense (DOD) grants are popular today as we redeploy defense and aerospace technology:
- ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Technology transfers - Using military computing developments for basic and clinical informatics
- Infrastructure grants aimed at a “Information Superhighway”
- Small business opportunities for proprietary concerns
- Department of Commerce
- REA - Rural Electrification Administration
- Bring technology to underserved communities (Telepathology)
- Medical College of Georgia
- University of Pittsburgh, Temple and Penn State