(Precision Health)
U-M’s Precision Health initiative is accepting applications for Investigators Awards of up to $300,000 each over two years to support research projects that advance the field of precision health. Precision Health expects to fund up to 12 Investigators Awards in 2018 as well as additional new projects in 2019. The awards are open to U-M full-time faculty members with a primary appointment in research, instructional (tenure) or clinical tracks. A second grants program, the U-M Precision Health Scholars Awards, is designed specifically to support early-career investigators — postdocs, graduate students, residents and trainees — and will be announced in April.
Precision health uses advanced tools and technology to discover the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors that influence a population’s health and provides personalized solutions that allow individuals to improve their health and wellness. One of the key components of the initiative is to provide the support and infrastructure to enable sophisticated and timely data access and analysis, including the deployment of an effective compute and storage infrastructure, as well as providing tools for data cleaning/retrieval/management, analysis/visualization and analytics reporting. Learn more.
