On Sept. 2, the University of Michigan announced they would award nearly $1 million in Accelerate funding grants to ten University research groups as part of the Bold Challenges Initiative . Accelerate will provide consulting and seed funding of up to $125,000 to selected researchers, funding innovative and large interdisciplinary projects. These projects include attempts to improve access to disability interventions in early childhood and investigating cardiac metabolism in heart failure cases.

In an email to The Michigan Daily, Jill Jividen, assistant vice president for research development in the Office of Research Development , said Bold Challenges works to bring together teams across university colleges and campuses to leverage their different scientific and scholarly strengt

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