Seed Grant Program
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Purpose
The UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders has received a five-year grant on Mind-Body Interactions and Health from the National Institutes of Health (Gastrointestinal Biopsychosocial Research Program -- R24 DK067674-01) to foster interdisciplinary research on interactions between the mind and body in health and disease, specifically with regard to the causes and treatment of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders. The NIH grant includes funds for a new Seed Grant Program, whose purpose is to encourage and develop new investigators by providing: (a) the funds to collect pilot data essential to successful NIH applications, and (b) mentoring in grant writing as well as the conduct of research.
Eligibility
Seed Grant Program Home Application Procedure Review Structure and GuidelinesPurpose
The UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders has received a five-year grant on Mind-Body Interactions and Health from the National Institutes of Health (Gastrointestinal Biopsychosocial Research Program -- R24 DK067674-01) to foster interdisciplinary research on interactions between the mind and body in health and disease, specifically with regard to the causes and treatment of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders. The NIH grant includes funds for a new Seed Grant Program, whose purpose is to encourage and develop new investigators by providing: (a) the funds to collect pilot data essential to successful NIH applications, and (b) mentoring in grant writing as well as the conduct of research.
Eligibility
- The Seed Grant Program is open to any new investigator at UNC (whether a member of the Center or not) and to any new investigator in the Research Network associated with the Center.
- Investigators who have already received NIH support as a principal investigator are not eligible for Seed Grant funds. The only exception to this restriction is PI’s who have received only conference or educational grants from NIH; these PIs are considered inexperienced in securing NIH research grants.
- Proposals that are extensions of already-funded grants are also not eligible for Seed Grant Program funds.
- All proposals must identify a senior research mentor for the proposed project, and include a letter of support from the mentor agreeing to provide supervision and semiannual reports.
- This program supports three grants up to $37,500 per grant in direct costs each fiscal year.
- Support may be provided for up to two years, but only through successful competition (re-application) for a second year of funding.
- Application deadline: August 1, 2006.
- For multiple requests from one person, separate applications must be submitted.
- Miranda Van Tilburg, PhD -- Development of a Standardized Hypnotherapy for Chronic Abdominal Pain in Children
- Denesh Chitkara, MD -- Functional abdominal complaints from childhood to adulthood: evaluation of early environmental influences using a population based birth cohort
- Yehuda Ringel, MD -- The association between intestinal microflora and mucosal inflammation and immune activation in patients with IBS – a pilot study
- Susan A. Gaylord, PhD –- Mindfulness for irritable bowel syndrome
- Kimberley A. Brownley, PhD –- Endogenous ghrelin and gastric emptying in patients with functional dyspepsia
- Michael J. Jones, MD -– Stigma in IBS: Development of a condition-specific measurement and relationship to quality of life
