Global Health Research Seed Funding Grant.Deadline 18 March 2025

About

A grant will be awarded to provide funds to develop exciting investigator-initiated concepts focused on global health research, which will hopefully lead to successful longer term project funding from the NIH or equivalent funding sources. Examples of global health research include, but are not limited to telemedicine (e.g., remote planning of radiotherapy, or AI-supported automatic cancer prediction from screening data of cancers common in LMIC), development of low-cost technologies for diagnostics and treatment (e.g., auto-contouring of clinical targets applied to clinical trials in LMIC). Inclusion of existing global health research resources (e.g., AAPM GRSIC open source tools, or international clinical trial data). 

Applications aligning with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine’s (AAPM) strategic priorities are especially encouraged, particularly in the following areas: 

• Strategic Priority 1: Global health research in emerging medical physics fields such as radiopharmaceutical therapies and expanding beyond the usual radiology and radiation oncology. 
• Strategic Priority 2: Global health research in computational physics integrating AI/ML/DT technologies. 

Eligibility

Must be a member of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) at the time of application (any membership category). Pending membership status not eligible. 10 years or less since receipt of a terminal research degree or medical physics residency, whichever is later. (Excludes those who have reached Associate Professor level; includes Postdoctoral Fellows with mentors and Research Scientists with mentors.)  

Amount

USD$25,000 

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