Immunoengineering Seed Grant Program

Georgia ImmunoEngineering Consortium (GIEC)

Agency: Foundation

GrantWatch ID #158631

Grant Description

Grants of up to $50,000 to Georgia higher education faculty members at eligible institutions to stimulate new, collaborative research in immune system engineering and to encourage scientists and engineers from diverse fields to come together, ask important questions and solve important and transformative problems related to the immune system.

Each proposal must have a minimum of one investigator from Georgia Tech and one from Emory. Additional co-investigators from either institute are welcome. Funds may be used for Ph.D. student and postdoc support, animal studies, supplies, and limited travel as related to the conduct of the research. For Georgia Tech students supported on these funds, tuition will be waived.

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Eligibility:

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

Additional Eligibility Criteria:

All faculty members with primary appointments at Emory or Georgia Tech are eligible to apply.

Proposals from investigators who are new to the ImmunoEngineering field and/or those addressing new questions or taking new approaches are encouraged.

New collaborations between Emory and Georgia Tech investigators (i.e., investigators who have no prior history of funding together) would be given preference.

Faculty salary support is not appropriate. Funds may not be used to pay any costs associated with institutional overhead.

Pre-Application Information:

Applicants are reminded that these are seed grants that are intended to promote the acquisition of extramural funding.

Proposals should be submitted as a PDF or Word document – all one document except for CVs which can be uploaded here: http://b.gatech.edu/1eBcBoB

The deadline for submission of proposals is August 3, 2015. Funds will begin November 1, 2015.