A new program aimed at fostering interactions between researchers in the School of Medicine and the campus has awarded its first round of seed grants to eight project teams. Among them are Biology Professors Katia Koelle and Gregory Wray.
“The overarching goal of this program is to encourage collaborations around quantitative basic and clinical research challenges,” said Larry Carin, vice provost for research. “For example, that might take the form of attacking problems of relevance to clinical sciences by applying ‘Big Data’ analysis to electronic health records.”
In addition to having at least one representative from both campus and School of Medicine, each proposal was required to identify a plan for obtaining external funding after the seed-funded phase.
“This is one of many things being done to bring the Campus and SoM into closer alignment,” Carin said. “That is one of Provost Sally Kornbluth’s key strategic goals.”
The eight teams selected will each receive $50,000 in support. The grantees for “Collaborative Quantitative Approaches to Problems in the Basic and Clinical Sciences” are: