Fisher Center Discovery Program (FCDP)

To develop excellence in clinical research regarding environmental infectious pathogens, the Center has created the Fisher Center Discovery Program (FCDP).  Goals of the FCDP include:

• Funding of grants for clinical research related to environmental infectious diseases
• Provision of resources for studies that lack traditional funding mechanisms
• Promotion of cross-disciplinary collaborative research
• Provision of mentoring opportunities for early career investigators

We award a maximum of $50,000 to individual Johns Hopkins researchers during a single annual grant cycle.  Notifications about the grants opportunity are distributed by email via individual schools of the Johns Hopkins University and pertinent faculty list serves.  All full-time faculty members of the Johns Hopkins University, especially junior faculty, are encouraged to apply. For questions concerning the grants program, please email fishercenter@jhmi.edu or call 443-287-4840.

These Discovery Program grants are possible through the generous support of Sherrilyn Fisher.

Thanks to Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher’s continued generosity, the Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases is pleased to announce the 2021 Fisher Center Discovery Program (FCDP) grants, as listed below.  In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical or translational research proposals were solicited for both environmental infectious diseases and SARS-CoV-2. Of awarded proposals, four were related to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2, two concerned environmental infectious diseases, and two included aspects of both environmental infectious diseases and SARS-CoV-2.

Information about the 2022 FCDP grant cycle will be published in the summer of 2021.  Please return to this page at that time.

Principal Investigators were Johns Hopkins University faculty at the time of award. Co-investigators are not listed.