Seed Grants
Ohio State University's Seed Grants support faculty conducting innovative, early-stage population research to generate pilot data and collaborations for future external funding.
Funder: Ohio State University
Due Dates: February 1, 2027 (Seed Grants full application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $40,000 per project for 12 months; larger proposals considered up to $85,000 in rare cases.
Summary: Supports early-stage population research by Ohio State faculty to generate pilot data and collaborations for future external funding.
Key Information: Applicants must be Ohio State faculty or have PI status; projects must align with IPR/NICHD themes and funds must be spent in the U.S.
Description
The Institute for Population Research (IPR) at Ohio State University offers Seed Grants to support innovative, early-stage population research projects that have strong potential to attract external funding, particularly from the NIH’s Population Dynamics Branch. The program funds activities such as data collection, preliminary analyses, and the development of new collaborations. Projects should align with IPR’s core thematic areas—family demography, sexual and reproductive health, health and mortality, adolescent to young adult development, and spatial analysis—and advance the scientific mission of the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch. The primary aim is to help researchers establish foundational work that will lead to successful external funding applications and advance the field of population and health sciences.
