The Stanford Pediatric IBD and Celiac Disease Research Awards Program aims to spark innovative and transdisciplinary research and develop new treatments to improve the lives of all children with IBD and celiac disease for generations to come. Through this mechanism we can harness the expertise of scientists already in place across Stanford and pivot their work toward pediatric disease and push research in novel directions to benefit children. The research awards will help fuel early-stage, high-risk, high-reward projects not yet ready for NIH or other government funding.

Proposals should demonstrate a clear potential for the research to generate robust preliminary data for future applications to external funding agencies

The awards will provide up to 2 years of funding to support a wide range of scientific approaches with the potential to advance our understanding of pediatric IBD and celiac disease.

Research must be primarily related to maternal and child health. All areas of research are eligible: basic, translational, clinical research, epidemiology/statistics, informatics, health services, or health policy.