DHI Funding Opportunities
DIGITAL HEALTH INITIATIVE SEED GRANTS
The Digital Health Initiative is pleased to announce its Inspiring Digital Health Innovations Seed Grant Program. These grants seek to build upon existing strengths in digital health at UUH and develop the preliminary data and research collaborations required for developing competitive grant applications and/or commercialization opportunities.
2025 SEED GRANTS
The Digital Health Initiative is pleased to announce its third seed grant program aimed at catalyzing new collaborations and innovative research in digital health that will lead to federal extramural grant applications. Pilot awards will be supported up to $75,000 with a potential additional $25,000 if there is work that will be done by the Software Development & Systems Design Core (SD2C). Applications that do not utilize the SD2C will be supported up to $75,000. We anticipate funding three awards.
Applications will be due on March 17, 2025, 11:59 pm local time via InfoReady: https://utah.infoready4.com/#freeformCompetitionDetail/1958294.
The SD2C was founded in 2023 for the purpose of servicing the University of Utah research community through the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of custom technologies. The SD2C offers the following services:
- Custom database creation and deployment
- Tailored data analysis pipelines
- Embedded systems design
- Mobile app and video game development
- Dynamic web development
Please see https://cores.utah.edu/sd2c/ or contact Andrew Moran for more information on services and rates.
We invite applications that build upon existing strengths in digital health at UUH and develop the preliminary data and research collaborations required for developing competitive grant applications and/or commercialization opportunities.
Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Development of new digital health tools to address the needs of clinicians, individuals, and populations.
- Use of digital health to facilitate personalized, value-driven, and patient-centered care
- Integration of patient-generated health data with clinical data to improve outcomes
- Novel applications of gaming techniques to critical digital health research questions
- Novel visualization techniques and frameworks to support research and discovery
- Critical examinations of digital health infrastructure and/or policy
- Addressing digital health biases, disparities, ethical dilemmas, and historical realities
We encourage projects to strongly consider the following:
- Projects that utilize the SD2C
- New collaborations between clinical and research faculty, faculty from different departments, or cross-campus collaborations.
- Proposals from early career faculty or proposals from established investigators that represent new research directions
If you have any questions, please email Chelsie Smith at chelsie.smith@hsc.utah.edu.
2022 SEED GRANTS
Seven University of Utah Health projects have received seed grants that could promote the development and use of more scientifically based digital health applications in daily health care.
The seed grant projects will receive up to $50,000 for one year. The researchers will develop, test, and evaluate digital applications that fall within one of the four main areas of interest within the DHI:
- Mobile apps and games for health
- Virtual reality and sensors
- Clinical decision support tools
- Integration with electronic health records (EHR)
