Grants

TSGC awarded its first membership grant in 2015. Since the first award of $500, the grant program has expanded to offer grants of up to $1,000 every fall and spring. Grants are open to full members or student members of TSGC. Proposals regarding any aspect of genetic counseling are welcome, but proposals with a broad interest to all Texas genetic counselors or genetic services in Texas are preferred. A short presentation or dissemination of results to the TSGC membership during and/or after conclusion of the project is always completed.

The 2024 TSGC Fall grants application is now open! Any TSGC member in good standing, including student members currently enrolled in a Texas genetic counseling program, is encouraged to submit a proposal for a grant. The maximum grant award is $1,000 and partial funding is available. Re-submissions are encouraged!

Grant submissions are due Monday, December 2, 2024 by 11:59 PM CT. Please see the application guidelines HERE.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at tsgcgrantscommittee@gmail.com or info@tsgc.org.

The following is a list of previous grant recipients:

2023

  • Spring: Genetic Counselor Value Unit: An Exploratory Study (Awardee: Megan Fong)

2022

  • Spring: Impact of restrictive abortion legislation tactics on the relationships individuals who have had an abortion have with their healthcare providers (Awardee: Jasmine Tyson)

  • Fall: Predispositions to Paragangliomas and Pheochromocytomas: A Clinical Experience of Tumor Diagnoses and Genetic Testing Outcomes (Awardee: Jackie Mersch) and Project GIVE: Access to specialty care and social services in a medically under-resourced region of Texas (Awardee: Blake Vuocolo)

2021

  • Spring: Participant experiences with accessing follow-up care after receiving significant germline results through a pediatric cancer genomic research clinical trial (Awardee: Blake Vuocolo)

  • Fall: Creating a Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Geneticist and Genetic Counselors from Latin America and the United States (Awardee: Amanda deLeon) https://www.splagen.org/en/directory

2020

  • Spring: Understanding Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patient’s Decision-Making to Pursue Genetic Counseling and/or Testing (Awardee: Megan Pope)

  • Fall: The Development of an Interactive Web-Based Tool to Aid in Pretest Counseling for Routine Aneuploidy and Carrier Screening (Awardees: Chelsea Wagner, Blair Stevens) and Barriers experienced by underrepresented minority applicants in becoming a competitive genetic counseling applicant (Awardee: Katie Huang)

2019

  • Spring: Assessment of leukemia patient's attitudes toward genetic testing (Awardee: Addison Johnson)

  • Fall: Assessing Genetic Counselor Attitudes and Practices Regarding Managing Genetic Variants with Discordant Classifications in a Clinical Setting (Awardees: Sayoni Lahiri, Brain Reys, Sara Pirzadeh-Miller)

2018

  • Spring: Attitudes toward dating BRCA-positive carriers (Awardee: Kalisi Logan)

  • Fall: Impact of Insurance and Billing Considerations on the Practice and Attitudes of Genetic Counselors (Awardee: Emily Krosschell)

2017

  • Spring: Recruitment of African American and Hispanic College Students to Genetic Counseling Field via Historically Black Colleges and Minority-Rich Campuses in Texas (Awardees: Carla McGruder & Deanna Darnes); Billing & Credentialing Survey of GCs in Texas (Awardees: Salma Nassef & Katie Bergstrom)

  • Fall: Comparison of the Genetic testing Decision-Making Processes of Genetic Counselors and Child Neurologists (Awardee: Sara Wofford)

2016

  • Spring: Examining relationship between patient health insurance literacy and patient expectations to discuss insurance coverage during a GC session (Awardee: Chelsea Wagner); Undergraduate Student Perceptions and Awareness of Genetic Counseling (Awardee: Amanda Gerard)

2015

  • Fall: Development of Spanish language genetic counseling lexicon for bilingual genetic counselors and medical interpreters (Awardee: Priscilla Delgado)