Eligible Grant Requests

ViroPharma may provide funding in the form of an unrestricted, educational grant to support bona-fide educational programs and activities which communicate the most current disease awareness.  These programs should strive to provide scientific and medical information to the medical and healthcare community to improve patient care.

The ViroPharma Educational Grant approval process is conducted in accordance with the recommendations and mandates of the Office of the Inspector General Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Guidelines, and the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, internal ViroPharma policies and other applicable guidelines.

Grant requests and approvals are never related to or otherwise conditioned upon the past, present or future prescribing, purchasing, or recommending of ViroPharma products. 

All grants are awarded at ViroPharma’s sole discretion.

Educational Grants, including Continuing Medical Education (CME), that may be considered for funding include, but are not limited to the following:

• Accredited educational activities and programs (e.g., ACCME, ACPE, ANCC)
• National/regional scientific and medical congresses, conventions, conferences and symposia
• Overall conference support for hospitals, medical centers, university medical schools, regional/local medical societies
• Enduring materials (e.g., CME publications, monographs, etc.)
• Fellowships and scholarships (only those affiliated with a teaching institution, hospital, or medical/scientific association or society and commensurate with activities to be performed where the individual recipients are not selected by ViroPharma or its business partners. Note: Scholarships to sponsored CME programs are not allowed)
• Medical education events delivered via the Internet, CD-ROMs, teleconferences, web casts, etc.
• Patient/caregiver education relating to medical or public health information (Materials must be developed by grant recipient)

Types of Requests that WILL NOT be funded by the ViroPharma Educational Grants Committee include, but are not limited to the following:

• Payments to individuals for any educational activity or program
• Costs associated with funding or sponsorship of meals at a CME conference
• Charitable contributions
• Runs or walks, gala events and other fundraisers
• Sponsorship of meetings where ViroPharma receives benefits such as corporate recognition, product logos, advertising in the activity (e.g., Gold Sponsorship of patient advocacy groups such as Hereditary Angioedema Association) without any educational program or activity
• Registration fees, travel expenses, continuing education credits and other costs for non-faculty participants or HCP attendees
• Support linked to product purchase, pricing or rebate negotiation, or access to formulary
• Consulting, professional or other business arrangements tied to educational programs and activities (e.g., advisory boards, commercial product booths, etc).
• Costs associated with display space, table top fees or exhibit booths for ViroPharma These costs may not be included in the educational grant request)
• Programs that plan to utilize ViroPharma personnel as speakers or consultants
• Recreational events or entertainment for meeting attendees
• Support of promotional activities and/or where ViroPharma selects the speaker or content of the program (e.g., lunch and learns, ViroPharma-sponsored speaker programs, branded Grand Rounds)
• Gifts
• ViroPharma may not support any meals that are disproportionate to the amount of time or funding spent on the accompanying educational activities