Current Awardees

The Seed Grant Program provides funding for innovative and promising research projects on Asian health. Awards are typically announced in early March. The Award period is for 1 calendar year, typically starting on May 1 and ending on April 30.

CARE 2025 Seed Grant Awardees

Vivek Charu, MD

Improving classification of variants of uncertain significance for the diagnosis of Mendelian kidney disease among patients of Asian descent

Natalie Shaubie Lui, MD

Lung cancer screening in Asian never smokers (LUNA) Study

Ruijiang Li,PhD

Validation of a vision-language foundation model for predicting lung cancer treatment outcomes in Asians