Minnesota State Mankato, Mayo Clinic Health System Announce Research Grants
More than $100,000 in grants awarded through joint research grant programs
Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato and Mayo Clinic Health System announced recipients of a collaborative joint seed grant program that provides funding to projects that improve education, research and community health and well-being.
The initiative is a result of the collaborative partnership between Minnesota State Mankato and Mayo Clinic Health System that was launched in September 2023.
Nearly $100,000 in funding was awarded across multiple projects through the joint seed grant program. Each funded project includes co-principal investigators from both institutions and targets real-world healthcare needs.
Funded projects include:
- Improving Chronic Pain Management through Advanced Spinal Cord Stimulation ($2,600)
- TickSafe Mankato: Community-Based Tick-Borne Disease Prevention ($20,000)
- AI-Assisted Monitoring Tool for Inflammatory Bowel Disease ($20,000)
- ASPIRE: Supporting Patients with Advanced Cancer and Their Caregivers ($20,000)
- Stories That Heal: Strengthening Nurse Well-Being and Communication ($18,500)
- Improving ICU Patient Recovery through Swallowing Assessment Protocols ($14,000)
An additional project received separate funding through the MSU-Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative Community Research Grant:
- Machine Learning Tool for Personalized Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease ($20,000)
Minnesota State Mankato and Mayo Clinic Health System leaders said the grant announcement was a reflection of the strong partnership between MSU and Mayo Clinic Health System.
“These seed grant awards are a direct result of the strategic partnership Minnesota State Mankato and Mayo Clinic Health System launched in 2023, demonstrating what is possible when higher education and healthcare come together around shared priorities,” said David Hood, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Minnesota State Mankato. “We see these investments not only as support for promising projects that address real challenges in healthcare and community well-being, but also as a catalyst for securing larger external funding that can further expand the impact of this collaborative work.”
“This collaborative joint seed grant program highlights the strength of Mayo Clinic Health System’s collaboration with Minnesota State University, Mankato, and our shared commitment to improving the health of our communities while advancing our mission to cure, connect and transform healthcare as a category-of-one community health system,” said Dr. Karthik Ghosh, vice president of the Minnesota Mayo Clinic Health System. “These grants create new opportunities for innovation to address today’s healthcare challenges and help transform promising ideas into the foundation for larger-scale research that will shape the future of healthcare.”
To reach principal investigators and learn more about each project, please contact MSU/MCHS Research Council co-chairs Kate Glogowski (katherine.glogowski@mnsu.edu) and Dr. Brian Lynch (lynch.brian@mayo.edu).
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 15,721 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 26 colleges and seven universities.
