⚠ COVID-19 INFORMATION: Resources, Vaccine Information
Research InnovationToolkit Internal Funding Opportunities
The COVID-19 Springboard Exploratory Research Awards provide resources to allow research institute investigators to initiate new research efforts towards understanding aspects of COVID-19 and the impact of the pandemic while working to obtain extramural funding to sustain these new research collaborations. We congratulate the investigators who were awarded for their research on COVID-19 disease and related issues.
(Applications due on December 18, 2020)
The Internal Grant (IGA) program provides resources to a faculty member or other person who has PI-eligible status* to develop projects that will lead to a highly competitive extramural application for sustained research support within 18 months of receiving the award. The Winter 2020 IGA program will be accepting proposals for categories highlighted in the overview below.
(Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
The 2020 Interdisciplinary Colloquia and Scientific Advocacy Awards provide resources to a faculty member or other person who has PI-eligible status to: a) Bring together multi-disciplinary investigators from the Manne Research Institute, Lurie Children’s and Northwestern to share scientific knowledge and envision future research related to children’s health or b) Advocate for children’s health research at the regional and national level and raise the stature of the Manne Research Institute / Lurie Children's investigators in scientific advocacy.
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago are pleased to announce the 5 recipients of the 2020 Robert Louis Katz Summer Scholars Program. The following students, and their faculty mentors will participate in an 8 week program to provide students with a summer experience in research related to childhood health and disease. This summer scholarship program was established through the generosity of James and Ellyn Katz in memory of their son, Robert, to support research for diseases in children.
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, through the generous support of the Children’s Research Fund, is pleased to announce that Georgios Kellaris is the recipient of the 2020 Mary J. C. Hendrix Outstanding Graduate Student Award for his research project The Genetic Architecture of Congenital and Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Georgios is works in the Human Molecular Genetics and Physiology research neighborhood and The Advanced Center for Translational and Genetic Medicine (ACT-GeM) program.
The Perinatal Origins of Disease (POD) Strategic Research Initiative and the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute offers investigators at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (Lurie Children’s)/Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute (Manne Research Institute), Northwestern University (NU), Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) and the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (SRA) the resources to pilot new research that will bridge fetal, maternal, paternal, and pediatric medicine.
POD will fund three (3) studies up to $50,000 each. The purpose of these awards is to catalyze and innovate new research in perinatal health.
