Pilot Grants for Faculty
Pilot Grants for Faculty
The SUPRA Pilot Grants invest resources in faculty-led substance use pilot projects. Ideally, these pilot projects will increase the competitiveness of extramural applications, and expand UK’s federal substance use research portfolio. Pilot projects must align with SUPRA’s mission and support innovative, collaborative substance use research from a basic science, clinical, or community research perspective. Requests for Applications (RFAs) will be released every 12 to 18 months.
Current Faculty Pilot Opportunities
Markey Cancer Center & SUPRA Research Collaborative
Deadline to Apply: March 26, 2025.
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (MCC) and the Substance Use Priority Research Area (SUPRA) are proud to introduce a new funding opportunity for collaborative pilot projects in the area of substance use and cancer research. The purpose of this collaborative pilot funding award is to provide resources to support innovative and collaborative research from a basic science, pre-clinical, clinical, and/or community research perspective.
More information and application here!
Questions and applications can be sent to supra@uky.edu.
Current Awardees: Faculty
- Anna Smith, Ph.D., Statistics
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Title: High-Risk Connections: Large Scale Social Network Modeling of Opioid and Benzodiazepine Coprescriptions in Kentucky (Start Date: January 1, 2025)
- “Our team is leveraging Kentucky's prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) to construct opioid prescribing "social networks" and using advanced latent embedding techniques to map patients' probability of high risk benzodiazepine coprescriptions.”
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- Waren Alilain, Ph.D., Neuroscience
- Title: Identifying Brainstem Neuronal Populations Driving Respiratory Depression After Fentanyl Treatment (Start Date: January 1, 2025)
- “Our funded SUPRA research project aims to understand the mechanism behind a recently discovered drug here at UK which can provide significant pain relief without accompanying respiratory depression.”
- Hartley Feld, Ph.D., Nursing
- Title: Building Recovery Capital by Reducing Barriers to Reproductive and Perinatal Health for People with a Substance Use Disorder (Start Date: April 1, 2023)