Fisher Center Impact Award (FCIA)
The Fisher Center Impact Award (FCIA) aims to support research projects focused on improved understanding of human illness, patient outcomes, or public health in North America. The award is open exclusively to full-time Johns Hopkins faculty and is designed for experienced investigators to expand on previous Fisher-funded projects or new proposals related to the Center's dedicated topic areas. Past Fisher Center award funding is not required. The goals of the FCIA are:
- To promote research by awarding funds to support projects focused on clinical or translational research in one or more of THREE topic areas:
- Environmental infectious diseases, which include human disease-causing agents found in ecological environments such as air, soil, and water; vector-borne or zoonotic diseases; and those found in built environments like home, hospital, and community
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Post-infectious conditions such as long COVID or persistent symptoms after Lyme disease treatment
- To provide expertise, resources, and mentorship opportunities for pilot or clinical studies with a relative lack of traditional funding mechanisms
- To promote novel, cross-disciplinary, collaborative clinical research among schools at Johns Hopkins University and with non-Johns Hopkins research partners
Basic laboratory research proposals will not be reviewed. Laboratory-based research will only be considered if it is directly related to clinical or translational research. International projects may be considered only if relevant to North American healthcare, and if the work cannot be readily performed domestically. Any full-time faculty member from Johns Hopkins University, including the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Engineering, Business, Arts and Sciences, and Applied Physics Lab, may apply and act as principal investigator. Eligible applicants must hold a terminal degree (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, DVM, or equivalent) and faculty appointments must be in place at the time of application.
Application Timeline
Letter of Intent Deadline: November 29, 2024
Application Deadline: December 20, 2024
Award Notice: On or before March 7, 2025
Release of Funds: April 7 - April 30, 2025
Fisher Center Impact Award (FCIA) |
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| Project Topics | Must involve one or more of three areas:
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| Eligible Applicants | Full-time JH faculty from any school or department/division |
| Eligible Principal Investigators | Full-time JH faculty from any school or department/division |
| Budget | Up to $250,000.00 |
| Personnel Support | Salary support allowed for all levels from student through Professor |
| Number of Available Grants | One (1) |
| Grant Period | Up to 3 years (36 months after start date) |
| Project Start Date | April 7 – April 30, 2025 |
| Application Deadline | Friday, December 20, 2024 |
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Application Documents |
2025 FCIA Document Library may be found at the links below or by submitting a request to Diane Lanham (dlanham1@jhmi.edu): |
| Other Application Documents (To be created by the applicant) |
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To apply for the Fisher Center Impact Award (36 months, $250,000)
- Submit all documents via email to fishercenter@jhmi.edu before 11:59pm on December 20, 2024
- Save all documents as individual files; do not combine documents
- The complete FCIA application package is composed of the following:
- FCIA Application Form 2025
- Protocol: Abstract, background, objectives, methods, timeline, proposal benefits, endnotes
- Biosketch, Curriculum Vitae, or resume (saved as individual files) for:
- Principal investigator
- Co-investigator(s)
- Staff receiving salary support
- Optional, but encouraged: Letters of support from collaborators and research partners (saved as individual files)
- FCIA Budget Template 2025
- Written justification of salary requests exceeding 70% of the monetary award, if necessary
Fisher Center Impact Past Awardees
| Year | Principal Investigator | Project Title | ||
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| 2025 | Sabra Klein, PhD Andrea Cox, MD, PhD (co-PI) |
Immunobiology of neurologic long COVID
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| 2024 | Cherie Marvel, PhD | A Pilot Study of the Overlapping Neurological Effects of Long COVID and Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Using Brain Imaging and Blood Markers | ||
| 2024 | Malcolm Brock, MD Sanjay Jain, MD (Co-PI) Frank Bosmans, PhD (Co-PI) |
A Genetic Vulnerability Due to Ion Channelopathies is Required for Neuroinflammation to Cause Post-COVID Cognitive Impairment/Brain Fog |