In the future, competitive microgrants may be offered to enable internal and external Principal Investigators, especially new PIs, to initiate and support aims that involve longer-term access to core facility instrumentation at The Hormel Institute, which up until 2022 were accessible at no cost. There is also interest in other microgrant mechanisms that would support the research of postdoctoral students, that target certain diseases, or that supply Just-in-Time funding to allow quick access when impactful research is underway with very critical deadlines.

Please stay tuned here for any microgrant updates…