Spark Grant for investigation early disease detection
Dr. Patty Stabile (ECO group) has been granted a 9K Spark Grant to explore (starting from a multi-university multi-disciplinary core team of experts in genetics, neuroimaging, epidemiology and migration) a wide variety of early detection contexts, exploiting unusual and inspirational settings.
The vision for this grant application is to have an inclusive and diverse platform for sharing approaches, data, pipelines and applications for early detection of rare but “terribly” forceful (in the good or bad sense) events. TU/e will work next to Wageningen University, Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht. This is believed to have major implications in today major events like a pandemic or population migration.
Spark Grants (https://www.unusualcollaborations.com/spark-grants) aim to stimulate unusual collaborations to address societal challenges related to health, food, energy, and circular society. The grants do this by offering initial financial support to start building committed project teams so as to explore and develop new ideas. The grants are thus a low-threshold stimulus to start collaboration, to share knowledge and best practices, and to develop something together. Spark Grants can be used to explore the feasibility of an idea or possible project and/or to test whether it can be taken further and developed into an application for an Unusual Collaborations Grant.