Previous Seed Grant Winners
Where are they now?
In 2001, Stefan Judex of the Department of Biomedical Engineering was awarded a seed grant for his proposal "Chemical and Physical Factors Controlling Bone Fragility in Osteoporosis."
Funding that provided by
the Seed Grant towards this project has, as envisioned in the original grant
proposal, facilitated a successful collaboration between faculty at SUNY and
BNL. Data that were collected in laboratories of both institutions have been
used to write two manuscripts (one submitted, the other one to be submitted
this summer [2005]) and also established the basis of a major grant proposal
that was submitted to NIH in the Fall of 2004 through the RO1 mechanism. Even
though this was only the first (of three possible) submissions to this study
section, the grant proposal scored extremely well (22nd percentile). While this
score was not high enough to make the payline, the team is currently revising
the grant for a resubmission this Fall. The PI notes that his team is grateful
for the funding that they received and hope that this valuable seed-program
will stay in place in the future.