All, 

The iQBS Center for Integrative Biomedical Sciences (CIBS), in partnership with SYNERGY, has funding to develop two new collaborative projects/studies.  The goal of CIBS is to develop teams of researchers who bring together a diversity of expertise that are highly complementary and likely to bear fruit on complex problems in biomedical research. The successful proposals will merge teams of population and quantitative researchers with teams of clinical and basic science investigators who by translating research from their own fields to a wide group of collaborators can more successfully address important issues of biomedical science. These teams should include researchers who use computational approaches such as text and/or data mining as well as more traditional biostatistical or mathematical methods. Evidence that interactions with bench and clinical researchers will be developed and be used to promote better and more directed functional analyses of hypotheses is critical to successful requests for support. Iterative refinements of testable hypotheses are encouraged as part of the team driven research process. 

Any area of research may be supported as long as it provides a plan to bring together appropriate teams of quantitative scientists with both clinical and basic researchers who can use multi-disciplinary approaches to address complex problems of common interest. 

Funds up to $40,000 are available for each project.  Support can be for preliminary data collection, organization of research teams, mini-retreats to brainstorm, bringing in outside consultants to help focus local researchers on common problems, or any approach that will promote broad-based research interactions that are likely to results in successful research agendas and grant applications.  

Each funded team will be required to develop a manuscript from their support that outlines their research agenda, promoting appropriate means to address complex problems and demonstrates ability of the research team to productively work together. In addition, each funded group will have access to a research navigator paid for by CIBS who will interact with the teams to develop appropriately diverse and productive groups. 

Applications will be internally reviewed and should include the overall approach and justification for the specific scientific problem.  Emphasis will be on the development of teams that may evolve over the course of funding, but a clear preliminary team will be essential for support.   The narrative should be no more than 2 pages, single spaced. A separate document should include a list of the collaborators/team members and their proposed roles as well as a brief budget and justification. 

Proposal should be emailed by June 17 to: 

Scott M. Williams, Ph.D.

Director, CIBS

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Funding decision will be made by August 1^st, 2013

 

Funding will begin September 1^st, 2013

 

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Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.

Third Century Professor

Professor of Genetics

Professor of Community and Family Medicine

Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

Associate Director, Norris-Cotton Cancer Center

Associate Director, SYNERGY

The Geisel School of Medicine

Dartmouth College

 

Editor-in-Chief, BioData Mining

 

Mailing Address:

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, NH 03756

 

Phone: 603-653-9939

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