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CIBR Center for Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Seed Grants  
  The Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research (CIBR) Center is pleased to announce Seed Grant Awards sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine.

The purpose of these awards is to support the mission of the CIBR Center by fostering novel collaborations that aim to bridge the translational gap from data to models, and from models to drug discovery and personalized therapy. The CIBR Center awards aim specifically to bring together research questions and methods from two or more labs that include substantive new analytical, statistical, or computational components. Successful proposals should aim to generate preliminary data leading to new R01 submissions by the following October.

Six awards will be funded at $15,000 each in unrestricted funds.

  • The awards are open to all BCM faculty members; adjunct faculty, research faculty and instructors are eligible as collaborators. Previous awardees may reapply for up to a maximum of 4 years of funding on the same project; or they may apply for a new project.
  • Applicants should be prepared to serve as reviewers if requested.
  • Reviews will be conducted through November and awards announced in December. All awarded funds must be spent by June 30, 2015. RO1 proposals should be submitted by October 2015 with terminal reports to CIBR due in December 2015.

  • The application review and selection process will be overseen by members of the CIBR faculty and appropriate BCM scientists.

  • Applications will be scored on a 1-9 NIH scale in the following categories: Significance, Innovation, Feasibility, Collaboration, and Computation.


    Documents must be uploaded separately.

    Applications should be in Arial 11 point font with one-half inch margins. Each application must contain the following items in the order outlined below:
  • Cover sheet.  Cover sheet MS Word format
  • Abstract (1000 characters).
  • Application body: the text should be no longer than 2 pages, excluding figures and references.
  • Figures and References, 2 pages.
  • Budget and justification: Complete budget form and include justification. Budget should not include subawards, consulting fees, indirects, travel, major equipment, faculty or administrative salaries.   Budget form MS Word format
  • NIH 4-page biosketch, including current support.   Biosketch Instructions,   Sample Biosketch,   Biosketch MS Word format
  • Assurances and compliance: Neither pending nor approved protocols are required with this application. However, if funded, researchers must obtain institutional approval for proposals involving human subjects, animals, radioisotopes, or biohazardous materials.

  • Progress reports (1-2 page PDF, Arial 11 point with ½” margins) will be required within two months after completion of the award.   Progress report MS Word format


Application submission is closed.



Note: Application submissions require BCM ECA authentication. Please use your BCM user name and your BCM password to login. Enter your BCM user id as BCM\your_username. (E.g. If your username is 'jsmith', then enter 'BCM' followed by back-slash '\' followed by 'jsmith' without any spaces i.e. BCM\jsmith).

If you have general questions regarding CIBR Center for Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Seed Grants, please review Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Section located on the left panel of this page or email us at meddaugh@bcm.edu

Important Deadlines

Application Submission:   October 24, 2014 (6:00 PM)
 
 
 
 
   
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