Brown School of Social Work School of Medicine

Here and Next Awards Spring 2024

The Research Development Office in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to announce the final awardees from FY 2024 of the Here and Next Seed Grant Program. The program’s broad goal is to encourage novel, innovative interdisciplinary research excellence amongst Washington University researchers on both the Med School and Danforth Campuses. Largely writ, these programs aid them in laying the groundwork to be competitive and successful in submitting proposals to external funding opportunities, particularly complex, large proposals.

Proposed research projects and teams must be fundamentally interdisciplinary and innovative. Proposals also must address five key areas of focus within the Here & Next agenda: Public Health, Global Health, Environmental Research, Digital Transformation, and Research Impacting the St. Louis Community.

Congratulations to the below teams!

All programs are returning for FY 2025, but with new clarified names. Program details and application information can all be found on the Here and Next Research Seed Grant website. Questions can be directed to researchseedfunding@wustl.edu.

Transcend Initiative Grant Awardees — Fiscal Year 2024

Formerly, Tier 3: University-Wide Research Initiatives, five teams have been awarded Transcend Initiative Grants from the Fiscal Year 2024 cycle. These grants are meant to support collaborative teams of research in interdisciplinary research that will position WashU as a leader in the region, the nation, and the globe.

  • Geospatial Research Initiative Public Health and Environmental Research; Leadership: Nathan Jacobs, Alexander Bradley, Michael Frachetti, Jennifer Moore
  • Improving Mental Health, Poverty, and AIDS Research and Training in Global Contexts (IMPACT GLOBAL) Center Public Health, Global Health; Leadership: Fred Ssewamala, Mary McKay, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg
  • Air Quality & Health Public Health and Environmental Research; Leadership: Randall Martin, Ziyad Al-Aly, Jay Turner, Victor Davila-Roman, Yin Cao
  • Center for Education Research, Practice, and Policy Partnerships (CERP³), Digital Transformation, Public Health, & Research Impacting the St. Louis Community; Leadership: Jason Jabbari, Kelly Harris, Allison King, Andrew Butler, Victoria May, Rachel Ruggirello, Michael Wysession, Young-Shin Jun, Casey Reimer
  • Center for Holistic Interdisciplinary Research in Psychedelics (CHIRP), Public Health & St. Louis Community; Leadership: Ginger Nicol, Leopoldo Cabassa

Teams that show great promise have been awarded partial Transcend Initiative Grants to further develop their initiatives.  

  • University-Wide Research on Vector-Borne, Public Health, Research Impacting the St. Louis Community; Leadership: Solny Adalsteinsson, Jacco Boon, Michael Landis, Susan Flowers
  • Children and Youth Collaborative Network, Public Health; Leadership: Melissa Jonson-Reid, Brown School; Anneliese Schaefer, WUSM; Kimberly Johnson, Brown School
  • EnviroTex: Advancing Interdisciplinary Environmental Solutions in Textiles Design to Adoption, Environmental Research; Leadership: Marcus Foston, Arpita Bose, Dino Christenson, Mary Ruppert-Stroescu
  • WashU Synthetic Biology Initiative of Plants and Microbes, Environmental Research; Leadership: Joseph Jez, Fuzhong Zhang, Himadri Pakrasi

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