2013 Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health
Centralized Seed Grant Program In Women’s Health and Sex and Gender Medicine
Full Proposal Guidelines
The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health (LWBIWH) is pleased to announce the first
Institute-wide grants program. Proposals are invited that represent a collaborative effort across
schools and campuses, addressing aspects of women’s health and/or health-related gender
differences/disparities.
A key LWBIWH goal is to catalyze research programs that bridge departments, schools, and campuses
and to facilitate the translation of basic and applied research into clinical care. This seed grant program
also supports faculty scholarship and professional development.
LWBIWH Types of Funding Considerations, 2013
Translational, Clinical and Population-based Research
Proposals in translational, clinical and population-based research will be considered if they are focused on
topics affecting women’s health and/or health-related gender differences/disparities or if they address
gaps in research concerning sex or gender, such as areas where the majority of research has been
performed in males with no or little published findings in females,
Educational Innovations
Proposals that develop and assess educational innovations will be also considered if they contribute to the
integration of evidence-based sex and gender content in health professions education. This may include
ongoing activities within the Sex and Gender-based Medicine Curriculum in the schools of Nursing,
Pharmacy and Medicine, audit of current curricula for sex and gender content with the goal of curriculum
development in the future, or development of inter-professional CME/CEU activities.
In each instance, the purpose of this grant program is to promote research that will improve
competitiveness for external funding.
Eligibility:
The PI must have a primary faculty appointment and more than 50% employment on the Amarillo, El
Paso, Lubbock or Permian Basin campus of TTUHSC or in the College of Health & Human Services at
Angelo State University and should not be considered in training. A faculty member may submit only one
application as a PI for a seed grant, but may serve as a Co-Investigator on another Grant application. Each
project investigator must be a member of the LWBIWH. See our website at www.laurabushinstitute.org
for membership information.
Proposal Types:
1) Large grant funding (up to $25,000): These projects should be multi-campus and/or interdisciplinary
in nature with a clear goal that results will contribute to extramural research funding application (if
there is an open external RFA which pertains to the project please include as an appendix with grant
application). It is anticipated that $50,000 will be available to fund large grants to project PIs on all
eligible campuses.
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2) Small grant funding ($10,000 or less): These projects may include smaller clinical, basic sciences or
educational projects; examples include generation of pilot data, educational program development, and
survey studies. Anticipated available funding for small grants as follows: Amarillo $50,000; El Paso
$25,000; Lubbock $20,000; Permian Basin $25,000; San Angelo $35,000.
In each category, study completion is expected within one to two years.
Multi- School/Campus Collaboration
Preference will be given to proposals that represent a true multi-school and/or campus collaboration, for
example:
 Projects involving more than one school and/or more than one campus within TTUHSC and ASU.
 Projects involving more than one of the TTUHSC Institutes – Garrison Institute on Aging, F. Marie
Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health and the TTUHSC Clinical Research Institute.
The application must provide evidence of collaboration by stating the specific role of each investigator on
the project, as detailed in the application forms. Investigators will be expected to submit semi-annual reports
with project reviews at 12-month intervals.
Allowable Costs
100% of these Seed Grant funds must be utilized for direct costs; these costs may include:
 Purchase and care of laboratory animals
 Small pieces of laboratory equipment costing less than $5000
 Laboratory supplies
 Salary for scientific (including postdoctoral fellows) and technical staff (including laboratory
technicians)
Costs not permitted:
 Facilities and administrative costs
 Salary recovery for the PI
 Foreign travel or domestic travel that exceeds 10% of the total budget
 Conference or seminar fees
 Tuition reimbursement
Forms and Approvals:
All investigators may submit LWBIWH proposals by completing the grant application form available at
www.laurabushinstitute.org and submit to the Office of Sponsored Programs at victoria.rivera@ttuhsc.edu
one week before the deadline to submit to the LWBIWH. If committee approvals have already been
completed for the project prior to requesting LWBIWH funding, please attach required approval
letters/certifications.
New laboratory personnel may require laboratory certification training. For Institutional Review Board
(IRB) questions, please contact the TTUHSC IRB Office at the Office of Human Research Protection
Program at http://www.ttuhsc.edu/research/hrpo/irb/ or contact beth.taraban@ttuhsc.edu. For questions
regarding animal use, please contact Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at
beth.taraban@ttuhsc.edu.
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Institutional Submission Approvals:
Investigators are responsible for following their institutional guidelines and obtaining the necessary
institutional approvals.
Deadline and Submission:
A PDF of the application including the OSP routing sheet should be submitted no later than 5 p.m.
on Sept. 7 via email to lwbi@ttuhsc.edu. Strict adherence to guidelines is required.
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Submit proposal to Office of Sponsored Programs and obtain routing sheet
Submit full proposal to LWBIWH due by 5:00 p.m. in PDF format
Notification of awards
Funding available
Announcement of award at 2nd Women’s Health and Gender Specific
Symposium in Lubbock
Send proposal to lwbi@ttuhsc.edu
For questions regarding this RFP, please direct them to the LWBIWH Chief Scientific Officer Dr.
Marjorie Jenkins at marjorie.jenkins@ttuhsc.edu. For administration queries, please contact the program
administrator Ms. Donna Fansler at donna.fansler@ttuhsc.edu or 806-356-4617 ext. 238.
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