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.

NEW TRAVEL GRANT

The 2026 TSGC Fall travel grants application is now open! Any TSGC full member in good standing is eligible to apply for grant funding. There will be two application cycles per year (spring and fall). Funding must be used within one calendar year of award acceptance. The maximum grant award is $2,000 and partial funding is available. Please see the application guidelines HERE.

Grant submissions are due Friday, November 30th by 11:59 PM CT. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at tsgcgrantscommittee@gmail.com or info@tsgc.org.

NOW OPEN

The 2026 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 Friday, November 30th 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:

2026

  • Spring: Examination of the quantity and complexity of inpatient genetics consultations across multiple institutions (Awardee: Grace Stinson)

2025

  • Spring: Exploring Caregivers' Experiences Supporting Young Adults with Down Syndrome Transitioning to Adulthood (Awardee: Kelsey Karasinski)

2024

  • Spring: Spanish-Speaking Patient Perspectives: Benefits and Barriers of Telemedicine in Genetic Counseling (Awardee: Nadia English) and Patient Perspectives on Mosaic Embryo Transfer: A Qualitative Exploration of Patient Decision-Making Factors, Experiences, and Preferences (Awardee: Lane McCormick)

  • Fall: Disclosing the Increased Prevalence of Variant of Uncertain Significance Results Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities During Informed Consent for Genetic Testing (Awardee: Vivian Duong)

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)