Preproposal
Limited Submission Competition
Purdue University

1.	Grant Competition: Keck Foundation – Medical Research
2.	Proposal Title: 
3.	Investigators: (include name(s), rank(s), and affiliations(s)
4.	Submitting Unit: (Department, School, College, or Center)
5.	Project Description (Total 3 pages maximum)
A brief description of the proposed effort including the following:  
•	Describe past and current efforts related to this project
•	Describe how this work is high risk and novel compared to related research in this field
•	Describe the potential transformative impact of this work (improvements should be exponential, not incremental)
•	Describe “why Purdue?” and “why this team?”  (institutional resources, unique expertise, past collaborative efforts, etc.)
•	Work should not have been previously funded in any significant way or likely to attract funding from federal or other major research funding sources. Describe any previous attempts to secure funds for this project and attach any reviews which demonstrate this can’t be funded elsewhere (inclusion of such feedback is required for both internal review and by Keck)

6.	Budget and budget justification
Conceptual budget of how the funds will be dispersed. Note that funds cannot be used for indirect costs/overhead. Cost share is expected although not specifically stated in the guidelines. Indirect costs may be counted as cost share.

Please include a 5 page (max) CV for each PI and co-PI. The CV should include Current and Pending Support with a description of the overlap between each of those grants and this proposal. If there is no overlap, this should be stated.

PLEASE COMBINE ALL DOCUMENTS INTO A SINGLE PDF FILE BEFORE SENDING to EVPRPlimited@purdue.edu.