2025 PSG Grant Opportunity

Details

The Pennsylvania Society of Gastroenterology is a private, non-profit organization established to support the practice of gastroenterology in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of West Virginia. The PSG was founded in 1982.

For 2025, we are looking for research proposals in the following areas:

(1) Increasing access and utilization of colorectal cancer screening

(2) Improving value in endoscopic care delivery

(3) Improving access to gastroenterology and hepatology care delivery

Financials

Each grant award will be $12,500; possibility of (2) awardees. Grant awardees will receive 50% of funds at the start of the grant and the remaining 50% after a 6-month single page progress report is received and reviewed by the research task force for appropriate progress. All grants are for 1 year.

Eligibility

Must be a PSG member. Be a physician, physician in training (letter of support), or hold an advanced degree (MD, DO, PhD).
Must be held in the field within gastrointestinal disease that impacts the regional patient populations of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Mentor program: Through the PSG grant process, a physician applying for a grant may request and be provided with a mentor through the PSG.
Grant research proposals should not exceed 3 pages. They should include a Specific Aims, Background and Significance, Preliminary Data, Proposed Studies, and Methods.
Literature cited should be provided separately.
Investigators may be in any stage of their career. Separate budget justification is required.
All grant applicants are encouraged to attend the annual meeting of the calendar year where the recipient will be announced.
All recipients are expected to present their research at the Annual PSG meeting 1 year following the award and are expected to provide a short description of their research for the PSG newsletter (Rumblings).
Recipients are expected to reference the PSG award for any publications that result from the grant.

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2024 Grant Recipient

Matthew R. "Skip" Krafft, MD

West Virginia University Medicine

Project Title

PEG-J vs PEJ +/- PEG for Post-Pyloric Feeding With or Without Gastric Decompression: A Dual-Center Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

Synopsis

West Virginia University and University of Minnesota are joining forces to conduct a dual center single-blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing clinical outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy with jejunal extension (PEG-J) versus percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy with or without tandem venting percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEJ +/- PEG). Existing literature on this topic is spare, and no prior RCT has been published comparing these modalities. WVU & UMN are now completing the largest ever retrospective cohort study of PEG-J vs PEJ as the overture to the RCT.

Grant Process Timeline

PSG research task force reviews submissions and determines awardee(s).

TBD

October 1-January 31, 2025

February 1- TBD

TBD

Application submission window.

Notifications made to awardee(s).

50% of grant funding sent to institution.

6 month check in; progress report due to research task force for review. Remining funding sent after acceptable progress is determined.

1 year mark; grant closes, final report due to research task force. Present research at the next PSG Annual Meeting and provide a short description for the PSG newsletter (Rumblings).