Deadline for applications:   Friday, January 30, 2015, 5:00 p.m.

IPR offers seed grants to nurture research projects consistent with IPR’s mission to promote population science research.  IPR favors multi-disciplinary collaboration.  We especially encourage applications from junior faculty, and from faculty new to population and health research.

Funding for this seed grant program is drawn primarily from our NICHD P2C award.  See attachement for the scientific mission of the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch [PDB].  Priority is given to research which falls within one or more of IPR's four thematic areas:  (i) Fertility and Reproductive Health;  (ii) Union Formation/Dissolution;  (iii) Health and Development through the Life Course;  (iv) Migration.  If you are unsure if your research fits, you are welcome to discuss with IPR Director John Casterline.  
See: https://ipr.osu.edu/seedgrants for examples of past IPR seed grants.

The goal of this program is to seed projects which have the potential to compete successfully for external awards -- NIH, NSF or other agencies that fund research encompassed by the NICHD/IPR mission.  Hence it is expected that seed grants will lead to the submission of a grant proposal.  It is also expected that IPR will receive a portion of the indirects (e.g. 10%-20%) when an external award is secured.

The structure of seed grant projects, and the activities which they fund, can take many forms.  We are deliberately flexible, within the boundaries set by the above criteria.  In general, seed grant projects fall into one of two classes:

Small and focused.  One class is the "traditional" IPR seed grant.  Typically these projects will have 1-2 investigators, twelve months’ in duration (with an option for no-cost extension), and a budget of $15,000 - $30,000.  R01, R21, and R03 applications to NIH are common outcomes

Large multi-investigator project.  This class of IPR seed grant is new in this Call for Proposals. These projects should involve 3+ investigators; maximum duration is twenty-four months, and maximum budget is $75,000.  The expected outcome is a program project submission to NIH (P01), or multiple NIH R01 applications, or the equivalent.  IPR has established this new mechanism because we appreciate the challenge of organizing the scientific team and preparing the preliminary evidence and infrastructure required to compete successfully for external funding for large projects.  We give priority to multi-disciplinary teams of scholars who propose projects with innovative scientific aims and/or research designs, projects which will contribute to building IPR as a research center, and projects which effectively take advantage of other emerging strengths and investments at Ohio State, in particular the Discovery Theme initiatives.

Please see Seed Grant Announcement or the attachment for more information or email Jill Morris.

2015 Seed Grant Call For Proposals [pdf] - 107.33 KB

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