Technology Development Seed Grants
The seed grant program stimulates collaborations across disciplines so research discoveries can be translated into therapeutic applications.
Seed Grants to Foster Innovation
Projects selected for funding feature novel ideas and represent high-risk, high-reward research that could potentially attract larger federal grant awards. Preference is given to research that is collaborative and multidisciplinary, and that forges interfaces between the basic and clinical sciences, so that laboratory research and discovery can be “translated” into new diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
Teams are composed of two or more researchers, including combinations of physician investigators, basic scientists, applied scientists, and others. Since its inception, more than 60 grant awards have been made to faculty researchers across campus, drawn from the schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Humanities and Sciences.
The Technology Development Seed Grant projects have resulted in promising outcomes that include significant research data, published papers, grant and patent applications, and media coverage.
Grant Eligibility and Funding
Applicants for Technology Development Seed Grant awards should be Stanford University faculty members holding university, research, or medical center line positions (UTL, MCL, or NTLR faculty appointments). PMGM advisory committee members evaluate the proposals and the center provides $100,000 per year, for a two-year period, to the best proposals.
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Discover the Technology Development Seed Grant Awards
Current Technology Development Seed Grant Awards
- A New Tool for High-Density Thalamic Neural Signal Recording and Modulation for Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disease Diagnosis and Treatment. Zhenan Bao, Department of Chemical Engineering; Vivek P. Buch, Department of Neurosurgery
- A Proteomic Biosensor Platform for Multiplexed Readout of Endogenous Kinase Activity with Subcellular Resolution. Ruth Huttenhain, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology; Alice Y. Ting, Departments of Genetics and Biology
- All-Optical Platform for Probing Single-Cell Neuropeptidergic Connectivity in the Central Nervous System. Rongxin Fang, Department of Neurosurgery; Kang Shen, Department of Biology
- Enabling Cryo-ET of Tissue-Derived Specimens via Custom Grids and Needle Biopsies. Daniel Bernstein, Department of Pediatrics - Cardiology; Peter Dahlberg, Departments of Structural Biology and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Alexander Dunn, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Innovating Far-UVC Led Technologies for Scalable Pandemic Prevention. Jason Andrews, Department of Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases; Srabanti Chowdhury, Department of Electrical Engineering; Daniel Congreve, Department of Electrical Engineering; Stephen P. Luby, Department of Medicine – Med/Infectious Diseases
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