Purpose

To attract General Surgery Residents into the field of colon and rectal surgery by providing opportunities to engage in clinical or laboratory-based research focused on diseases of the colon, rectum and anus.

Funding

$20,000 per year for 1 year. An opportunity for a second year of funding is available via a competitive renewal application. A complete application the following year with a full review by the Research Foundation is required to obtain a second year of funding.

• GSRRIG may be used for research activities, salary and living expenses.
• GSRRIG is limited to “Direct Cost Only” budgets. Additional indirect costs will not be approved.

Proposal Deadline

August 15 

Review/Notification Date

October/November

Eligibility

• Must be General Surgical Residents or recent (within 2 years) Graduates of a US or Canadian approved General Surgery Training Program.
• Applicant must have designated time for research and no clinical responsibility.
• Preference is given to applicants with research or clinical career goals in the field of Colon & Rectal Surgery and whose research Mentor or Co-Investigator is a Fellow of ASCRS.

Submissions

• Keep a record of Control ID number, which can be found on the top right corner on each page of the submission template. When communicating with the Research Foundation and the ScholarOne Customer Care Team, please include the Control ID as a reference.
• Note that some institutions have firewalls that make it difficult to receive communications from the submission site. To ensure uninterrupted email delivery, please whitelist amazonses.com and abstractcentral.com domains.
• Do not forget to click the submit button (at the bottom of Step 6: Review and Submit). If the system is exited without submitting, the submission will be saved and will appear in the “DRAFT” section of the system “View Submissions” page upon re-entering the system.
• Notifications and correspondence will be sent to the email address in the ASCRS account. Correspondence can be obtained by clicking on the Messages in the grey bar at the top right of the screen in the system.
• Applicants should receive a confirmation email after submission (please check spam/junk folders for this email). To prevent this, add [email protected] and [email protected] to address book. If an email confirmation is not received, please contact [email protected].
• Applicants should use Chrome to submit grant applications. Pop-up Blocker must be turned off for submission.

Application Review

Re-Submitting a General Surgery Resident Research Initiation Grant

• In the web-based portal, step 5, indicate the applciation is a resubmission.
• Upload the letter from the Research Foundation indicating what needed to be altered in your original MSRRIG application. 
• Include document highlighting what has been altered from the original submission.
• Compile all documens into a singe PDF for upload.