The Microbiome Center awards funding for Pilot Projects in order to promote cross-faculty research initiatives in all aspects of microbiome research. These encourage collaborative proposals from Argonne, the MBL or the UChicago, and aspire to initiate new areas of research or education and increase competitiveness for extramural funding.
To date, The Microbiome Center has funded 14 Pilot Projects averaging $14,000 each. Find out more about the winning proposals:
Below are a selection of funding bodies that have supported research on the microbiome.