Seeds program ucla

Early Childhood Professionals. Community Partners. This 4-part virtual professional development series focuses on utilizing trauma-informed practices to co-regulate effectively with young children by recognizing, understanding, and responding to their cues in hot and cool moments. Each of the four parts of the series is 90 minutes of activities and discussions that make for a uniquely engaging professional development experience.

By utilizing nature-based exploration and other hands-on activities, SEEDS programs are accessible to people of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds. Playing together is also a highly effective way to break down barriers and build connections among individuals from different backgrounds and life experiences. Skip to content. SEEDS is accessible to parents and caregivers of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds.

Playing together is also a highly effective way to break down barriers and build connections among parents and caregivers from different backgrounds and life experiences. Many DGSOM researchers are already immersed in highly impactful research funded by individual grants and contracts, or by start-up funds provided to new faculty.

However, to address many of the most important unanswered questions in biology, the most significant unmet needs in medicine, and existing inequities in health and healthcare, the diverse expertise found in multidisciplinary teams of investigators will be required. Importantly, large team science grants from government agencies and private foundations often require evidence that a team has already established productive interactions.

In recognition of the strategic vision described above, the DGSOM Research Themes and the IPH will focus the DGSOM Seed Grant Program on an effort to promote the assembly of teams of researchers that are well-positioned to perform innovative, high-impact research and ultimately compete for large team science grants from federal agencies and private foundations.

Applications may include faculty throughout the UCLA campus in any biomedical or medical research area in which groundbreaking advances catalyzed by teams of researchers can be envisioned. One important aspect of the program is that we would like to encourage compelling projects relevant to our newest Theme in Health Equity and Translational Social Science, as well as projects that span two or more of our Research Themes; faculty discussions of potential cross-Theme projects may lead to efforts in new areas in which an investigator team may have the potential for an unusually large impact.

As in prior years, all investigator teams must include at least three key participants, and all are required to include at least one promising faculty member at the Assistant Professor level in an impactful position as a co-PI or highly significant co-investigator; the goal is to enhance the career development of our junior faculty.

Priority will also be given to newly assembled research teams rather than teams that have already been working together for multiple years, unless an existing team is pursuing an entirely new direction. Only a small number of planning grants will be awarded to increase the probability that those who receive planning grants will ultimately receive funding.