Seed Grant Program
About the Program
The Seed Grant Program at Maryland has five goals for the development of faculty research:
- to facilitate the development of strong individual research proposals, especially NIH and NSF applications
- to support junior faculty in proposal development
- to encourage faculty in allied fields or faculty who have not previously sought funding from NIH to develop grant proposals
- to encourage grant development that involves faculty from more than one discipline
- to support high-risk / high-return projects or projects where time-sensitive funding is needed, and
- to support research related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Program Guidelines
The current Seed Grant Proposal Guidelines are available by reviewing the RFP, which is also available for download.
Contact
Submit your proposal using the Seed Grant Proposal Submission Form. For information, contact Susan W. Parker, Development Core Director.
COVID-19 Seed Grant Call
We are pleased to announce that in addition to our annual Call for Proposals for the MPRC Seed Grant program, MPRC is now seeking proposals for Seed Grant funding for projects directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These proposals will be evaluated on an ongoing basis with an expedited turn-around time for reviews, about 2-3 weeks. All of the standard criteria for population related research (see attached call for proposals) will be used to evaluate COVID-19-related proposals.
Program Guidelines
The COVID-19 Seed Grant Proposal Guidelines are available by reviewing the special RFP, which is also available for download. (While similar to the standard Seed Grant guidelines there are significant differences.)
Contact
Submit your proposal using the Seed Grant Proposal Submission Form. For information, contact Susan W. Parker, Development Core Director.
Seed Grant Report Form
PIs who have completed their Seed Grant research can report on their progress using this form :
Past Awards
Past Seed Grant awardees are listed below by academic year:
2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 |
2016-17 | 2015-16 | 2014-15 | 2013-14 | 2012-13 |
2011-12 |2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2006-07 |
2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002_03 | 2001-02
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