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Funding Opportunities

The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities will provide two types of funding opportunities in 2025-2026. Applications are closed.
 

CBMH Pilot/Exploratory Grant

This award provides funding for pilot/exploratory projects that explore an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health, or healthcare policy. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding to support larger research projects.

2025-2026 Recipients

  • Examining Cancer Survivors' Knowledge of Disability & Employment-Related Legal Protections and Supports
    Amy McArthur
    Mentor: Sofia Garcia, PhD
  • Improving Informed Consent: Visual Icons to Support Participant Comprehension
    Brady Daitch
    Mentor: Mohammad Hosseini, PhD

The CBMH Pilot/Exploratory Grant application period ended May 5, 2025

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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant

Provided jointly with the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), this award funds research in bioethics and artificial intelligence. This award provides funding for pilot/exploratory projects that explore bioethics problems associated with any type of AI in healthcare. Projects can address issues from conception, development, testing, and implementation of AI and can be normative or empirical work. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding to support larger research projects.

2025-2026 Recipients

  • Ethics at Eye Level: Exploring the Bioethical Implications of AI-Powered Smart Glasses for Health & Well-being Self-Management
    Tim Schwirtlich
    Mentor: Abel Kho, MD
  • Prediction of Intra-abdominal Injury using Generative Large Language Model Application to Electronic Medical Record Data
    Wilson Ting
    Mentor: Anne Stey, MD, MSc

The Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant application period ended May 5, 2025

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Past Funding Recipients

If you have any questions about these awards, please contact Bryan Morrison.

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