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Seed Funding Competition

 

In celebration of the Center for Engineering in Vision and Ophthalmology’s founding, seed funds are available for innovative collaborative research in Spring 2024Applications will be accepted through May 30th, 2024, and can be submitted here:

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The full call for proposals, submission instructions, and review information can be found here.  Key aspects of the proposed funding mechanism are as follows:

Eligibility and Allowable Costs 

Each faculty member may serve as lead PI for only one proposal, and all associated PIs must be Northwestern faculty members. 

There must be two PIs, one from McCormick and one from Feinberg  

Funding is available in any area of research related to vision and ophthalmology, but priority will be given to: 

Award amounts for this program will typically be $50,000 per project. 

Direct questions regarding eligibility, research topics, or funding guidelines to Hao Zhang (hfzhang@northwestern.edu). 

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