Stanford Childern's Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease - Intramural Seed Grants Research Program

The Stanford Children's Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease offers Intramural Seed Grants to promote innovative research in pediatric diseases. This program supports high-risk, high-reward projects, encouraging multi-PI collaborations across disciplines. Awards of up to $100,000 per year for two years are available, aimed at generating preliminary data for future funding applications. Eligible applicants include Stanford faculty holding specific university positions. Proposals should focus on advancing understanding of pediatric IBD and celiac disease through various research approaches.

Stanford Childern's Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease - Intramural Seed Grants Research Program
The Stanford Childern's Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease Intramural Seed Grants Research Program will support the work of scientists across Stanford and pivot their work toward pediatric disease and push research in novel directions to benefit children. The research awards will help fuel early-stage, high-risk, high-reward projects not yet ready for NIH or other government funding.
A multi-PI approach is strongly encouraged for this initiative where at least two of the lead investigators are from different disciplines. Collaborations between basic or data scientists and physician scientists are particularly encouraged. Single-PI applications will be considered if the scientific rationale is compelling. Proposals should demonstrate a clear potential for the research to generate robust preliminary data for future applications to external funding agencies.
The awards will provide up to 2 years of funding to support a wide range of scientific approaches with the potential to advance our understanding of pediatric IBD and celiac disease including but not limited to the following areas:
Basic and translational research of disease mechanisms, therapeutic strategies, or treatment response in the areas of epithelial biology, microbiology, immunology, enteric nervous system.
Development of novel technologies to advance IBD research, diagnosis or evaluation, disease monitoring, treatments, or disease/response prediction (biomedical or chemical engineering, computer science).
Clinical research of novel treatment strategies or impactful health services, epidemiologic, outcomes, or health care disparities research.
Computational or systems biological approaches to advance understanding of disease mechanisms, treatment targets, or treatment response.
Funding
Total seed funding award is $100,000 / year for up to two years. Applicants may request support for personnel (undergraduate or graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research assistants, associates, or faculty) and research-related expenses.
If a substantial portion of the budget will be used to support a post-doctoral fellow, please consider the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease Postdoctoral and Early Career Support Awards funding opportunity.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants must be Stanford faculty holding Clinician Educator (CE), University Tenure Line (UTL), Research (NTL-Research), or University Medical Line (UML) positions for the duration of the award. Applications may include co-investigators from other research organizations.
You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. Additionally, the primary research mentor and applicant must also be a Member of the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease.

Ineligibility

Visiting scholars are not eligible to serve as PI or Co-PI. They may serve as collaborators or sub-investigators. Funds cannot be used for student tuition or fees, computer equipment, office supplies, journal subscriptions, membership dues, poster presentations, abstract submissions, or any indirect research costs.