Overview
The Kellner Center Small Grants will fund interdisciplinary research projects that integrate human and non-human models to understand the etiology of mental health or related social, affective, and behavioral functioning. In line with part of the Kellner Center mission, projects should lay the groundwork for creating new syntheses to advance our knowledge of the complex processes by which biology, behavior, and the environment shape individuals. The projects are expected to generate preliminary data or findings that will lead to future grant proposals to external funding agencies.
Proposed projects can take a variety of forms; key is that they combine approaches from human and non-human animal models. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Secondary analyses of human and non-human animal data sets (including publicly available data) that together provide innovative insights
- A study with humans that is informed by and can add to a non-human animal study to advance understanding in a way that neither alone could
- A non-human animal study that is informed by and can add to a human study to advance understanding in a way that neither alone could
- A meta-analysis or systematic review that brings together human and non-human animal research and models to advance theory
Award Range: up to $50,000
Project Duration: two-year project performance period
Please refer to the
Kellner Center Small Grant website for more information.
Eligibility
- Projects must involve collaboration between at least one human-focused and one non-human animal-focused researcher.
- The principal investigator must be a tenure-system faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Co-investigators may include tenure-system faculty, research professionals, or specialized faculty from any of the three campuses in the University of Illinois System (Urbana-Champaign, Springfield, and Chicago).
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