Research Incubator Now Accepting Applications for 2025-26 Cohort

May 13, 2025

Julie Perez

The Eisenberg Family Depression Center Research Incubator program offers statistical support and guidance for U-M early-career faculty and emerging scholars using existing data in mental health research studies.

The Center’s Data & Design Core oversees the Incubator program, which typically accepts 3 to 4 investigators annually and is open to researchers from all disciplinary backgrounds.

Our Core team collaborates closely with participants to refine their research ideas and leads all research tasks for the project. This includes project management, identifying relevant data sources, all data management and analysis, interpretation of results, and collaboratively partnering to disseminate findings.

The application deadline for the upcoming cycle is June 27, 2025.

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Who should apply

This program is particularly valuable for investigators who:

Have experienced barriers in seeing their research ideas through to completion.
Are new to mental health research.
Have limited experience working with secondary data.
Have limited statistical capacity.
Don’t have a dedicated research team.
Have short-term projects that are smaller in scope and can be completed in less than one year.

Application details

Here’s a list of information you'll need to submit your application:

Personal information (CV or biosketch, name, department and title).
Summary of your research question, novelty, and potential scientific contribution (less than 500 words).
A brief statement of how the project builds upon your research interests to date.
Whether you’ve identified a potential data source or are looking for guidance.
The area of your project that you'll need the most help with.

The deadline to apply for our next cohort is June 27, 2025. Selected applicants will be notified by the end of August, and projects will start in September.

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