Population Research Center

Project Summary The Population Research Center (PRC) of The University of Texas at Austin requests NICHD support from its population research infrastructure program. The overarching mission of the PRC is to promote the development of innovative, ambitious, and high-impact research in population dynamics that will ultimately advance knowledge in the field. Continued infrastructure

support is essential in helping the PRC leverage extramural and university resources to provide outstanding services and sustain a dynamic interdisciplinary culture geared toward facilitating the highest level of population-related research among its faculty members. One of the goals of the PRC’s Development Core is to promote the scientific development of early-stage

investigators as well as established scientists as they develop new lines of inquiry and collect and analyze preliminary data for proposals for extramural funding. The funds from this current request will be used to enhance the PRC’s highly successful seed grant program through the creation of an Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program and an Interuniversity Catalyst Grant

Program.