Deadline: Research Grant

A $5000 research grant will be available in the 2026-2027 year. This research grant is to encourage pharmacists to contribute meaningful research to the field of veterinary pharmacy.

Research Grant Program Description:

Please submit your application by 5:00 PM on May 31, 2026. Awards will be announced by June 30, 2026, with funds available shortly thereafter. The recipient will be required to present a poster as well as a 50-minute presentation at the following year’s SVHP Annual Meeting.

Presentations at other scientific meetings are encouraged but not required.

1. Applications should focus on novel areas of veterinary medicine that are pertinent to veterinary pharmacists and have not previously been studied. Examples of research include dose response studies, compatibility/stability studies, etc. This grant also encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, and submissions with veterinarians, students, and/or physicians will be given priority. These collaborations may span institutions and as such, collaborators do not have to be within the same institution. However, the primary investigator (PI; or co-PI) must be the veterinary pharmacists wishing to obtain grant funding.

   1. Awardees may not receive this grant in consecutive cycles (i.e. minimum one cycle between grant awards).

   2. Should one of the grant committee members apply for consideration, they will recuse themselves from the committee until a decision is made.

2. Each written grant submission should be a maximum of 5 pages or 2,500 words, typed. The submission should include the following sections:

   1. Title, authors, and affiliations

   2. Abstract: a single paragraph description of the proposal

   3. Background and significance: information necessary for the committee to understand why the work is significant and how it will contribute to the field

   4. Plan of work: experimental methods and procedures, including expected results and alternative approaches if necessary; must also included targeted journal for publication

   5. Budget: outline of proposed expenditures with estimates from pertinent companies/labs Note: grant award may not be used for salary release.

   6. Plan for funding: realistic plan of how the expenditures will be utilized to complete your research plan

Please submit your application to wmdtms@ufl.edu by 5:00 PM on May 31, 2026.