Opportunity Awards

Theme

By this we mean proposals that take advantage of existing data from medicine, health systems, epidemiology, or any other health related professions to build, enhance, or improve mathematical, computational or statistical models that inform scientific understanding, clinical practice, and/or public policy.  Datasets such as the Cancer Genome Atlas, Cell and Brain Atlases, health records, and COVID-19 epidemiological data are some of the many types of starting points that could be considered.

Award Information

• Each winning proposal will receive $10,000 to be shared among the participating labs.
• For proposals submitted by a single student/postdoc, an additional $500 will given to the proposer for valid individual expenses.  For proposals submitted by two or more students/postdocs, an additional $1,000 with be divided equally among the proposers.
• Funds are provided from federal research grants (NIH and NSF); therefore, all submitted expenses for the award must be considered relevant research expenses, excluding travel and personal expenses.
• All awardees are expected to present the results of their project at the CCBS Annual Retreat, tentatively scheduled for March 26-28, 2021 in Pasadena, California.  Retreat registration fees for Opportunity Award presenters will be waived.

Eligibility

• Any UCI graduate student or postdoctoral researcher (including project scientists, specialists etc), either individually or as a team, may submit a proposal.

Application Criteria

• A short-term (up to 1 year), feasible research investigation that answers a research question related to this year’s theme
• Must involve participation from at least one lab/research group from a different discipline or department than your own
• Must be a “new” project

Proposal Submission

• Proposal submission period has ended. This year's award recipients will be announced shortly!