Overview
Philanthropic donations to the Center for Genomic Medicine will support two to three pilot awards up to $50,000. The mission of the Center for Genomic Medicine is to bring together patients, providers, and researchers to discover the genetic causes of disease and translate these discoveries into better diagnoses, treatments, and prevention strategies.
Timeline
- Deadline for submission is Friday, March 31st, 2023, midnight local time.
- Decisions will be made by Friday, June 2nd 2023
- Funding will start July 3rd, 2023
Research Scope
We invite applications that build upon the mission of Center for Genomic Medicine as stated above. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Clinical or public health translation and impact of genomic medicine and discoveries
- Large scale screens of functional variants in human susceptibility genes
- Therapeutics to solve key problems in diseases with a strong genetic component and/or use of genetic or genomic approaches as part of their therapeutic development
- Implementation of clinical testing for disease-causing genetic variants
- Multi-omic integration in genomic medicine
- Studies exploring the variability of penetrance and expressivity of human genetic conditions
- Development of new computational or statistical methods that empower genomic medicine
- Health economics of genetic testing
- Intersection of health disparities with genomic medicine and/or genetic variation
We encourage projects to consider the following:
- Clinical implementation
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusiveness (EDI)
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI)
- Genetic counseling
Eligible Applicants
- Only one research proposal per principal investigator (PI) will be reviewed.
- PI must be an early career investigator (Assistant Professor) OR an investigator who has not received R01-level funding associated with genomic medicine (new to this field) OR faculty who started at the University of Utah between January 2020 and January 2023.
- PI must be a member of the Center for Genomic Medicine. If you are not already a member, you may join by completing a brief survey. Please contact chelsie.smith@hsc.utah.edu if you have any questions.
- PI must be a tenure- or career-track faculty at the University of Utah.