Research Program Development Office

Services provided by the Research Program Development Office:

  • Identify and publish new funding opportunities for faculty seeking funding. To receive email alerts when new funding opportunities have been posted on the website, email the Research Program Development Office.

  • Coordinate the selection of UF’s nominees to limited application programs

  • Coordinate the annual Research Opportunity Seed Fund program

  • Coordinate the annual selection of the UF Research Foundation Professorships

  • Perform personalized funding searches to help University of Florida faculty members identify external support for their specific research projects. If you wish to utilize this service and are a UF faculty member, please fill out this form and submit it.

  • The Research Program Development Office provides consulting proposal developers to support faculty producing large-scale proposals for graduate fellowships and multidisciplinary research. There is no charge to departments or colleges for our services. The Research Program Development Office supports only multiple-investigator proposals over $1 million. Our services include:

    • Consultation on proposal strategy

    • Project team meeting facilitation to clarify project goals, implementation plans, and budget

    • Management of proposal schedule and communications

    • Location of additional faculty expertise and resources

    • Planning and writing non-technical portions of the proposal (e.g., diversity, K-12 outreach, management, broader impacts, international program logistics, assessment, technology transfer, and/or economic development)

    • Institutional data acquisition

    • Proposal drafting, editing, and formatting

    • Collection and formatting of CVs, current and pending support forms, conflict-of-interest lists, and other information required from each participating researcher

    • Drafting of letters of support/commitment for UF and partner organization officials

For more information or to request our services, contact Dr. Sobha Jaishankar at (352) 392-8247 or sjaishan@ufl.edu.