Our Medical Education and External Research Grant Programs

Independent Medical Education

Independent Medical Education (IME) is defined as education for the advancement of excellence in medicine and healthcare in order to improve patient health outcomes by enhancing the knowledge of the medical community.

Emergent will consider funding educational grants that support independent, accredited and non-accredited medical education for health care professionals (HCPs). Regardless of whether a program is accredited or non-accredited, Emergent expects the same high standards to apply for all IME activities for HCPs and patients.

Funding Priorities

• Opioid Antagonists in the Treatment of Opioid Overdose Emergencies

There is limited funding currently available across all therapeutic areas. 

Funding Requirements

IME grant requests must (a) identify unmet educational needs related to Emergent’s therapeutic areas of focus, target audiences, and (b) demonstrate how the program will address such unmet educational needs. The educational design (the process of designing learning activities, content, tools and supports to enable a learner to meet a specific learning goal) should align with the proposed educational needs, audience(s), learning preferences, regionality, and content that enhance educational effectiveness within the proposed IME grant request.

Emergent personnel do not have any involvement with the development of content, organization and/or operations of its supported medical education programs.  Responsibility and control over the selection, content, faculty, educational methods, materials, and venue for an IME event belongs solely to the organizers/providers of the event. Emergent will not provide any advice or guidance to the IME provider regarding the content or faculty for any program that has received or will receive support from Emergent.

Externally Sponsored Research

The Externally Sponsored Research program supports non-clinical and clinical studies that further research aimed to expand the understanding and knowledge of our products and disease states/therapeutic areas of interest. Externally Sponsored Research Studies are conducted by an external Investigator with support from Emergent. The Investigator is accountable for the conduct and management of the study and must comply with all applicable ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements.

Emergent may provide support for the following two types of externally sponsored research:

1. Investigator-Initiated Studies

Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS)  are designed and conducted by independent researchers who serve as the legal/regulatory sponsor of the study. Emergent may provide support in the form of funding and/or product but are otherwise not involved in the research.

2. Collaborative Research Studies

Collaborative Research Studies (CRS) may be designed and conducted by independent researchers who serve as the legal/regulatory sponsor of the study. Emergent may provide support in the form of funding and/or product. Emergent may also provide certain Sponsor-related activities as specifically defined in a Research Agreement and listed below:

Type of Support

When appropriate and justified, we are able to provide the following support:

• Product: Commercial product can be provided depending on request and on current supply.
• Funding: Funding may include direct costs, i.e. procedural and personnel, as well as indirect costs (e.g. overhead), publications, IRB review, CRO / vendor fees, etc.
  • Emergent funds research at fair market value. Emergent is able to fund reasonable and customary services rendered that are needed to achieve the research objectives including procedural costs, personnel costs, vendor and outsourced costs, data acquisition costs, and publication fees. Personnel costs must be expressed as an hourly rate per function or role. Emergent will provide only limited coverage of travel costs and is not able to support capital equipment requests
• Collaborative Research Study Assistance
  • Medical writing: Assistance with writing of manuscript, posters, and the like by Emergent personnel or by contracting and managing vendors.
  • Data management: Assistance with data storage, review, handling, and cleaning.
  • Statistical analysis: Assistance with development of the sample size justification calculation and / or the statistical analysis plan.

Funding Priorities

There is limited funding currently available across all products/therapeutic areas.