SOURCE: Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Pre-proposal deadline: Sept. 10, 2021. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal by Dec. 6, 2021.
$ AVAILABLE: Amount awarded is between $30,000 to $300,000 and must be used in the specific time for which it has been awarded. Funding can be used over the course of multiple years.
ELIGIBILITY:
• Applicants must demonstrate experience in the relevant field of research. The applicant must have access to the necessary resources, including the proposed patient population, facilities, and other resources.
• Applicants outside the U.S. are eligible to apply; however, payment of award funds must be accepted by the institution in U.S. dollars.
• Applicants who are the Principal Investigator on a currently-funded MTF grant are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants must be presently associated with or have secured the cooperation of a university, independent research organization, health center, or other institution (the “Sponsoring Organization”). A Sponsoring Organization must have sufficient facilities as well as human and informational and Institutional Review Board (IRB) resources available to support the proposed research project and to perform the proposed work and expected outcomes.
• Research Grants are not awarded to individuals.
• Research Grants will not be awarded to Sponsoring Organizations which employ or otherwise have an ownership or contractual relationship with officers or trustees of the Massage Therapy Foundation, members of the Research Proposal Review Committee (“Review Committee”) or any spouses, domestic partners, children, descendant, spouses of descendants, or any other individual related to any officers or trustees of the Massage Therapy Foundation or to members of the Review Committee.
PURPOSE: Awards are granted to support high quality, independent research which contributes significantly and directly to the knowledge of massage therapy or its application. Basic, applied, and translational research studies which investigate massage therapy as a wellness, medical, or
health/mental health treatment or prevention intervention are supported.
CONTACT: Gini Ohlson, Executive Director. Phone: 847-905-1520.
Email: gohlson@massagetherapyfoundation.org. Principal Investigators wishing to apply for a Research Grant must complete the application online www.grantinterface.com/Home/Logon?urlkey=massagetherapy.
For more information, go to massagetherapyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/Fall-2021-Research-Award-guidelines.pdf.
From Massage Therapy Foundation website, accessed Aug. 3, 2021.
Subject(s): mental health, health promotion/wellness.