The Research Development Office within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) is pleased to announce the awardees from the Fall 2024 semester through the Here and Next Seed Grant Program. The program’s broad goal is to encourage novel, innovative interdisciplinary research excellence amongst Washington University researchers on both the Medical School and Danforth Campuses. Largely writ, these programs aid researchers in laying the groundwork to be competitive and successful in submitting proposals to external funding opportunities, particularly complex, large proposals.
Proposed research projects and teams must be fundamentally interdisciplinary and innovative. Proposals also must address five key areas of focus within the Here & Next agenda: Public Health, Global Health, Environmental Research, Digital Transformation, and Research Impacting the St. Louis Community.
Program details for all open competitions and application information can all be found on the Here and Next Research Seed Grant website.
Questions can be directed to researchseedfunding@wustl.edu.
Congratulations to the below teams!
Transcend Initiative Grant Awardees
The Transcend Initiative Grant accepts applications on a rolling basis.
- AI Assistant for Biomedical Research, Leadership: Randall Bateman (Medicine), Yixin Chen (McKelvey), Albert Lai (Medicine), Digital Transformation
Fall 2024 Ignite Interdisciplinary Grant Awardees
Applications for the Spring 2025 Ignite Interdisciplinary Grant are due February 14, 2025.
Public & Global Health
- Measuring Health Equity in Public Health Practice; PIs: Ross Brownson (Brown), Douglas Luke (Brown), Sara Malone (Medicine), Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan (Brown)
- Collaborative for Nature and Health; PIs: Amy Eyler (Brown), Derek Hoeferlin (Sam Fox)
- Ultrasensitive Point of Care HIV-1 Antigen/Antibody test using Plasmonic-enhanced Lateral Flow Assay; PIs: Ige George (Medicine), Srikanth Singamaneni (McKelvey)
- Antimicrobial Coatings for Biomedical Devices by Atomic Layer Deposition: Innovations in Infection and Control and Public Health, PIs: Xiaowei Li (Medicine) and Xinhua Liang (McKelvey)
- Developing a Public Health Policy Sustainable Framework; PIs: Sarah Moreland-Russell (Brown) and Karen Joynt Maddox (Medicine)
- Rental Support for Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia: Assessing Early Evidence of Impact on Self-Reliance, Mental Health, and Social Selection for Female-Headed Households; PIs: Lindsay Stark (Brown) and Deanna Barch (A&S)
- NutureTrack: Assessing Consumer Behavior and Business Impact of Food Prescription Programs; PIs: Rachel Tabak (Brown), Lingxiu Dong (Olin), Mark Huffman (Medicine)
- A Pilot Study to Examine the Impact of Menstrual Practice Needs (MPNs) on Education Attainment among Adolescent Girls in the Southern Region of Uganda; PIs: Nhial Tutlam (Brown) and Candice Woolfolk (Medicine)
Digital Transformation
- Developing a proof-of-concept haptic interface system for human/computer partnership driving physical activity and movement; PIs: Jonathan Hanahan (Sam Fox), Shantanu Chakrabartty (McKelvey), Chuan Wang (McKelvey)
- A new interdisciplinary approach to an old problem: population dynamics as an emergent property of individuals; PIs: Kerry Kornfeld (Medicine), Ross Hammond Brown
- Microfluidic Models for Analyzing BTTS Thrombosis: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Pediatric Cardiovascular Care; PIs: Edon Rabinowitz (Medicine), David Bark (Medicine), Guy Genin (McKelvey)
Environmental Research
- Integration of genomic, archaeological and fine-grained morphological and nutritional analyses to explore Millet domestication and its future potential in food security; PIs: Xinyi Liu (A&S), Kenneth Olsen (A&S), Tao Ju (McKelvey), Lora Iannotti (Brown)
- Toward Next-Generation Urban Biodiversity Mapping: Field Biology Meets Artificial Intelligence in St. Louis; PIs: Jonathan Losos (A&S) and Nathan Jacobs (McKelvey)
Spark Funding Awardees
The Spark Funding program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
- Institute for strong foundations of policy analysis; Brendan Juba (McKelvey), Jacob Montgomery (A&S), Eugene Vorobeychik (McKelvey), Hannah Szlyk (Medicine), Eunhye Ahn (Brown); Proposal Development Track, Digital Transformation
- “In St. Louis for St. Louis” with the Collective Thread; Julia Walker (A&S) and Mitra Naseh (Brown); Proposal Development Track, Research Impacting the St. Louis Community