The Center for Personalized Health Monitoring is offering grants to incubate the development of research thrusts. Our goal is to provide ‘scaffolding’ for interdisciplinary groups of researchers to coalesce and form strategic partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations towards the goal of submitting proposals for future funding and broader impact.
Funding
Typical Research Thrusts will be funded at up to $25K/year (depending on the scope of the proposed activity). Research Thrusts may be further sub-divided into cores with identified core leads, if applicable (for example, a clinically-oriented core and more technology-oriented core).
Requirements
- 2 page overview of research thrust
- Brief bio-sketch of thrust lead(s).
- Core team members and additional potential participants in the research thrust and how they will contribute. (The core team must be interdisciplinary across departments or colleges. Core team members must provide letters of support.)
- Budget and justification
Each thrust should include both internal workshops as well as public-facing events. All meetings can be online or in-person as appropriate. Please include any honoraria/travel/other costs of these activities in the budget.
- A kickoff meeting at the beginning of the thrust activity followed by meetings at a regular cadence throughout the year (e.g. weekly/monthly seminars, brainstorming meetings, journal club, etc)
- One mid-year internal workshop advertised internally and open to campus researchers to encourage interdisciplinary discussion and highlight activities of the research thrust (For example, an agenda for such a workshop may be 45 minutes of presentations; 45 minutes of breakout groups; 45 minutes of post-breakout discussion and 45 minutes of discussion on future steps).
- One end-of-year workshop with external invited speakers and lightning talks by campus researchers (For example, such an event might have talks from industry speakers, prominent academics from other institutions, program managers from NIH/NSF/other agencies, series of lightning talks, breakout sessions moderated by faculty.)
- Thrust leads must present an end-of-year report or slide deck outlining activities, outcomes, grant proposal submissions, and future plans to sustain the activity.
Deadlines, Award Disbursal and Stipulations
CPHM Thrusts are reviewed quarterly and are due on the 15th of January, April, July, and October.
Submitted applications are reviewed by CPHM Leadership Committee. Applications may be approved or returned for further questions.
Upon application approval, the full approved amount will be set up in a new non-sponsored project chart string for the lead PI. Summit access will be given to the PIs and business managers.
Research Thrusts
View current Research Thrusts.