The partners of the Greenville Health System (GHS) Health Sciences Center are pleased to announce the 2018-2019 Call for Research Seed Grant applications.
Four separate funding opportunities are available, reflecting the research priorities of the Health Sciences Center. All applications must include an investigator from GHS and an investigator from an HSC partner (Clemson University, University of South Carolina and/or Furman University).
To access the funding opportunity guidelines, click on the appropriate link below. If you have questions, please reach out to your campus Health Sciences Center Research Director as listed in the ‘Contact Us’ section below. GHS affiliates should contact the Vice Chair of Academics for their department with questions
All Applications are due to ResearchGrants@ghs.org by 4:00 pm on Monday, December 3, 2018.
Funding Opportunities
Transformative Research Seed Grant
Cancer Care Delivery Research Seed Grant
Enhancing the Practice of Medicine
Contact Us
Windsor Sherrill, PhD
GHS Chief Science Officer
WSherrill2@ghs.org
Desmond Kelly, MD
Chief Medical Research Officer
dkelly@ghs.org
Larry Fredendall, PhD
Clemson HSC Director
flawren@clemson.edu
Ronnie Horner, PhD
USC HSC Director
hornerrd@mailbox.sc.edu
Rich Goodwin, PhD
USCSOMG HSC Director
GOODWIRL@greenvillemed.sc.edu
Lucia Gonzales, PhD
Associate Director for Nursing Research
luciag@clemson.edu
Erin Hahn, PhD
Furman HSC Director
erin.hahn@furman.edu
Matthew Hudson, PhD
Cancer Care Delivery Research
MHudson2@ghs.org
For questions regarding proposals for Enhancing the Practice of Medicine, please contact:
Molly Benedum, MD
MBenedum@ghs.org
GHS Office of Sponsored Programs
ResearchGrants@GHS.org
2017 Awarded Projects
Diabetes Seed Grants
- An innovative approach with group counseling and Mindfulness Training among prediabetes patients (JUMP 101) (Shi, Jindal) $29,461
- Implementation of Group Medical Visits for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at a Community-Based Primary Care Clinic (Stark Taylor, Emerson, Wiederman, Kennedy, Stancil, Asif, Patterson, Odom) $28,574
- Influencing Inflammatory Response in Diabetic Foot Ulcers through Multi-scale Scaffold Geometry (Gilmore, Kidd) $25,000
- Interactive insulin teaching by pharmacists prior to hospital discharge (Odom, Fair, Hestermann, Burns, Weber) $27,500
- Design and Implementation of a Multi-disciplinary Diabetes Focused Clinic within a Primary Care Center to Support Patient Self-efficacy and Improve Diabetes Outcomes in an Uncontrolled Diabetic Patient Population (Emerson, Stark Taylor, Wiederman, Stancil, Asif, Patterson, Odom) $29,828
- Diabetes Patient Profiling in the Emergency Department: Proof of Concept Research (Pirrallo, Taaffe, Wang, Sava, Cho, Shvorin, Bruch) $30,000
Transformative Seed Grants
- Inpatient Link to Addiction Recovery – A Pilot Program (Roth, Byrne, Demosthenes, Roache, Jindal) $20,000
- Pilot study of comparative effectiveness of neurofeedback protocols targeting attention deficit in autism (Kelly, Casanova, Sokhadze, Lamina, Wilson) $20,000
- Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Accuracy in Measuring Cancer Lesions in Computed Tomography Scans: A Patient Safety Pilot Study (Gimbel, Lowe, Devane) $19,560
- Efficacy of Virtual Reality for Operative Pain and Anxiety Management (Stanley, Morgan, Hodges, Jeray) $20,000
- Investigation of environmental triggers for asthma in pediatric population in the greater Greenville area (Snodgrasss, Koley, Sease) $20,000
CCDR Seed Grants
- How Is Patients’ Experience of Care Associated with Delivery of Cancer Care and Patient Outcomes? (Snyder, Cass, Wang, O’Rourke, Parikh) $19,080
- A “Novel” Multi-Component Approach to Promote Physical Activity among Older Cancer Survivors (Pinto, Franco, O’Rourke, Cloys, Morrow, Hardin, DeMello) $19,818
- Estimating the Impact of Pharmacogenomic Testing on Clinical Outcomes in the Greenville Health System Cancer Biorepository (Edenfield, Saski, Stuart) $19,500
- Redefining the surgical care pathway to improve value-based care for the Surgical Oncology patient (Allen, Shuffler, Bolton) $14,000
- “Let’s Talk”: A Pilot Study Supporting Compassion Fatigue & Burnout On The Oncology Unit (Fuqua, Whitcomb, LeNoble, Bethel, Blackwell, Caldwell, Green) $3,589.20
- Measuring breast cancer treatment quality at COC-accredited facilities in the US (Eberth, Hudson, Blackhurst, O’Rourke, Adams, Horner) $18,550
- Collaborative approaches to improving health-related quality of life, fatigue, and coping skills of adolescent and young adult cancer patients (Shin, Bowers, Whitcomb, McNeese, Fisher) $18,383
- A Longitudinal Study to Assess the Efficacy of Virtual Reality for Pain and Anxiety Management in AYA Cancer Patients (Cull, Stanley, Hodges) $14,000
2016 Transformative Seed Grant: Awarded Projects
- Cognition in the Bone Marrow Transplant Population (Brooks/Gibson) $15,884
- HRV Biofeedback: A Patient Centered Therapy for Chronic Pain and Other Symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease (Saha/Burch) $20,000
- A Barrier Analysis for Improving Access to 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OH-P) for the Prevention of Recurrent Spontaneous Preterm Birth in South Carolina: A Roadmap towards Health Equity (Eichelberger/Lopez de Fede) $20,000
- Assessing the Relevance of Protein Immobilization for the Rational Design of Paper-Based Analytical Devices (Garcia/Edenfield) $20,000
- Reducing Variation of Radiologist Measurement of Lung Cancer and Hepatic Metastasis Lesions Presented in CT Scan Images through a Physician-driven Clinical Decision Support Tool (Lowe/Gimbel) $20,000
- Impact of Music Interventions on Critical Care Patients (Stenbit/Spencer) $14,859
- Patient Decision Aid about Electronic Cigarettes: A Feasibility Study (Thrasher/Albano) $19,960
- Usability Assessment of a Patient-centered Mobile Health Application (iHeartU) for Self-management of Heart Failure (Zhang/Jindal) $20,000
2015 Transformative Seed Grant: Awarded Projects
- A Prospective Randomized Comparative Parallel Study of Amniotic Membrane Wound Graft in the Management of Venous Stasis Ulcers (Oliver, Mercuri) $20,000
- Mindfulness Intervention to Improve Symptomology Among Cancer Survivors: Focus on Sleep and Stress Improvement (O’Rourke, Robb, Wirth, Herbert, Hudson) $19,891
- A Novel Group Prenatal Care Model for Pregnant Women with Diabetes and/or Obesity: A Pilot Study (Schellinger, Zhang, Chen) $19.801
- Immune Reactivation and Apoptosis Induction in Breast Cancer w/Bifusional Fusion Proteins Using Nanotechnology (Wei, Edenfield) $20.000
- Evaluating the Effects of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Taxane Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (TIPN) (LeClair, Franco, O’Rourke) $20,000
