Mission and Goals
The CCB Seed Grant is a pilot program by the Center on Compulsive Behaviors aimed at providing IRP postdoctoral fellows with an opportunity to move beyond Associate/Lead Associate Investigator roles to take on an official Principal Investigator (PI) role in a NIH grant.
The goal of the CCB Seed Grant program is in line with the CCB mission of creating a community where researchers across the preclinical-clinical divide discuss shared interests and develop joint projects. Thus, the application process for the CCB Seed Grant is highly interactive and collaborative and can serve as a stepping-stone towards the available extramural grants for IRP postdoctoral fellows (e.g., K99/R00).
The CCB Seed Grant offers up to $20,000 to two IRP postdoctoral fellows (at least one should be a CCB fellow/alumni) to carry out a collaborative project with protected research time.
Call for Applications
Applications for the 2022-2023 cycle is now closed. The next cycle of applications will open in fall/winter 2023. Sign up for the listserv to receive a notification about the next application cycle.
Award Recipients
Katherine Savell, PhD (NIDA) and Adam Caccavano, PhD (NICHD)
2022 - 2023
Project Title:
Transcriptional and functional characterization of interneuron subpopulations within macaque hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
Renata Marchette, PhD (NIDA) and Peter Manza, PhD (NIAAA)
2022 - 2023
Project Title:
A neural circuit selective for fast drug reward
Rosario Jaime-Lara, PhD, FNP-BC (NIAAA) and Rodolfo Flores-Garcia, PhD (NIMH)
2021 - 2022
Project Title:
Establishing a mouse of alcohol drinking during conflict
Seed Grant Contacts
Rodolfo Flores Garcia, Ph.D.
Seed Grant Program Officer
rodolfo.floresgarcia@nih.gov
Valerie Darcey, Ph.D., M.S., R.D.
Seed Grant Program Officer
valerie.darcey@nih.gov
Paule Joseph, CRNP, Ph.D.
Seed Grant Program Director
paule.joseph@nih.gov