Seed Grants

The Institute of Medicine regularly posts calls for proposals to support affiliated faculty. Recent seed grants included summer stipends for graduate students, funds to travel to conference and small equipment grants. Preference is given to projects that are aligned with the goals of the institute and will generate grant proposals to NIH or other funding agency. Current opportunities will be listed here and in the UMaine InfoReady platform.

Summer research seed grants awarded to Institute of Medicine affiliated faculty

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The Institute of Medicine awarded summer research seed grants to six affiliated faculty members. IoM requested proposals in the areas of health and life sciences. The program is meant to support the goals and objectives of the Institute and aims to generate new grant proposals for research funding from federal agencies, especially NIH. Applicants were […]
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Institute of Medicine Internal Seed Grants Announced

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The Institute of Medicine (IoM) requests proposals in the areas of health and life sciences for a seed grant program. This grant program for University of Maine faculty is meant to support the goals and objectives of the Institute. In particular, this program aims to generate new grant proposals for research funding from federal agencies, […]
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Institute of Medicine Seed Grant Awardee

July 2024

Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Maine

Dr. Armstrong’s project, “Rural Overdose Response Team Participant and Staff Experiences, Retention, and Wellbeing,” examines how overdose response teams operate in rural Maine and how both participants and staff experience and sustain engagement with these services. Through longitudinal qualitative interviews with individuals who have survived a nonfatal overdose and with the behavioral health clinicians and first responders who support them, the study explores barriers to engagement, collaboration quality, compassion fatigue, burnout, and overall wellbeing. The project will generate important pilot data to improve ORT operations statewide and support future external funding proposals.