From 2002-2007, SECEBT awarded 26 seed grants in amounts up to $50,000 for a total of $1,300,000.
SECEBT conducted a survey of the past seed grant awards and in a preliminary review of the data, we are pleased to report the following:
Follow-up Funding
§ Position on follow-up funding
- 53.1% - Seed Grant project is complete and have sought additional funding
§ Applications for additional funding
o 60.6% of responders have submitted applications for follow-up funding
o 33 applications have been submitted to:
– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
– National Institutes of Health
– National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
– U.S. Food and Drug Administration
– U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
– U.S. Department of Agriculture
– U.S. Department of Defense
– National Vaccine Program Office
– National Science Foundation
– Georgia Department of Agriculture
– Memphis-Shelby County
– SeaGrant (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
– Canadian NRC
– American Cancer Society
– Charles Morgan Carraway and Joanne M. Carraway Charitable Foundation
– The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
– SECEBT
– GRA
§ $12,305,492 – Total funds applied for
SECEBT former seed grant awardees have received $4,447,279 in additional funding based upon the research results garnered from the SECEBT Seed Grant Program.
Publications
§ Articles published or "in press"
o 24 – number of publications
o 43.7% of responders report a publication
§ Articles submitted for publication
o 11 – number of publications
Survey conducted 9-08. Formal report will be in the form of a thesis, expected by May 2009.
SECEBT 2008-2009 Seed Grant Awardees
Project Name: “Development of an in-vitro model system for assessing risk of progression to severe disease among Dengue, West Nile, and St. Louis Encephalitis infections”
PI: Azliyati Azizan, PhD, MSc, University of South Florida
SECEBT Partner(s): Florida Department of Health, Lillian M. Stark, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S
Project Name: “Movement of the human pathogen Rickettsia parkeri in its tick hosts throughout Mississippi: A model for predicting the spread of bioterrorism agents”
PI: Andrea Varela-Stokes, DVM, PhD, Mississippi State University
SECEBT Partner(s): Mississippi State Department of Health, Dr. Jerome Goddard
Project Name: “Stable isotope analysis to measure mosquito dispersal in urban environments”
PI: Daniel G. Mead MPH, PhD, University of Georgia
SECEBT Partner(s): The University of Georgia, Ray Noblet PhD - co-PI; Georgia Department of Human Resources, Rosmarie Kelly MPH, PhD – collaborator; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas Burkot PhD – collaborator
Project Name: “Occurrence and distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi in Tennessee”
PI: Abelardo Moncayo, PhD, State of Tennessee Department of Health
SECEBT Partner(s): The Tennessee Department of Health, Tim F. Jones, MD and John Dunn, DVM, PhD; The University of Georgia
Michael Yabsley, PhD
Project Name: “Baylisascaris procyonis: Distribution, Environmental Persistence, and Sterilization Factors of an Emerging Zoonosis in Georgia”
PI: Michael Yabsley, PhD, SCWDS, College of Vet Med, University of Georgia
SECEBT Partner(s): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; GA Division of Public Health; GA Department of Natural Resources (non-partner)
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