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Award Level:
- Maximum amount of the award is $2,500.
Application Review Timeline:
- Applications are accepted anytime and are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Award Requirements:
- Funds can be used to pay fees charged at specified University of Nebraska Medical Center core facilities (see below for eligible cores).
- Funds will not be awarded directly to the applicant, but a cost center will be provided to the Financial Administrator designated by the applicant.
- Funds must be used within one year of award date.
- Awardees agree to acknowledge the Center for Heart and Vascular Research, Vascular Research Program Pump Priming Grant in any publications resulting from the use of these funds.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Student, staff, postdoctoral researcher, or faculty at UNMC, UNO, UNL, or UNK.
- Applicants may submit one application every two years. Subsequent applications must be a project that is distinct from the prior application.
- Projects must be focused on a topic related to vascular biology or disease.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to meet with the Director of the Vascular Research Program, Pooneh Bagher (pbagher@unmc.edu), to exchange ideas about their project and to discuss the application process before submitting.
- CHVR member in good standing (as defined on the CHVR website and summarized below):
- Actively participates in at least one focus group.
- Attend the center's meetings, seminars, review committees, retreats and related activities as appropriate. It is expected that members will attend a minimum of five events per year.
- List the center as an affiliation on all publications (manuscripts, reviews, book chapters), in oral/poster presentations, grant submissions and media announcements.
- Agree to maintain an updated CHVR membership profile and complete assigned surveys regarding funding and publications within Piestar.
Eligible Core Facilities:
CHVR Animal Cardiovascular Physiology Core | Biological Irradiator Core |
CHVR Bioassay Core | Research IT Office |
CHVR Nebraska Cardiovascular Biobank & Registry | Bioimaging Core |
Multiomics Mass Spectrometry Core Facility | Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Core |
Flow Cytometry Core Facility | Small Animal Imaging Core |
Genomics Core Facility | Animal Behavior Core |
Advanced Microscopy Core Facility | ECHO Core - Small Animal Ultrasound |
Electron Microscopy Core Facility | Multiphoton Intravital Tissue Imaging Core (MITI) |
Research Editorial Office | Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience Shared Resources Core |
Electronic Health Record Data Research Core | Core for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core Facility | BSL3 Shared Resource |
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core | Image Guided Radiation Core |
Nanomaterial Core Facility | Mouse Genome Core |
Nanoimaging Core Facility | Preclinical PET Core Facility |
Tissue Sciences Facility | Center for Intelligent Health Care Supercomputer Core |
Click here for more information about these resources (https://go.unmc.edu/ResearchResources)
Selection Process:
- Applications will be reviewed by a committee of external reviewers.
- Preference will be given to early career researchers, applicants collecting data for a grant application and/or publications, applicants demonstrating a need for the funds, and vascular-related projects.
