Email this pagePilot and Collaborative Translational and Clinical Studies Awards
The overall goal of the CTSI Pilot and Collaborative Clinical and Translational Studies Program is to provide research support for preliminary and proof-of-concept studies critical to moving basic laboratory findings into clinical applications. High priorities of the program are to facilitate development of enabling technologies, new therapeutic, diagnostic, or outcomes assessment approaches, and novel cross-disciplinary collaborative programs. Pilot funding will be targeted at research proposals which demonstrate ability to be catalytic in terms of generating new programs, directions, and funding for clinically applied research and methodologies.
The Pilot Program will utilize a number of funding mechanisms to ensure flexibility in the ability to take advantage of new funding opportunities:
- Faculty Awards ($50,000, 12 months) - This program will provide funding for faculty members to obtain new skills, develop technologies, generate critical preliminary clinical data, test new collaborative approaches, and create new outcome assessments and biomedical informatics advances.
- Trainee Awards ($25,000, 12 months) – These awards are similar in focus to the Faculty Awards, described above.
- Minority Support Fellowships ($25,000, 12 months) – Similar to Trainee Awards, but designed to enhance the productivity and future success of minority trainees.
- Travel Awards ($10,000, 2 months) - The traveling fellowship awards will allow establishment of external collaborations and acquisition of new techniques and models.
- Interdisciplinary Conference Awards ($5,000) –The conference awards are designed to support an investigator-initiated interdisciplinary scientific conference.
The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute anticipates funding one or two awards in each category each year.
A new Pilot and Collaborative Studies RFA was released on June 26th, 2008. The topic for the RFA is "Clinical and Community-Based Research". Abstracts are due by August 1st, 2008.
Click here to view the current Pilot and Collaborative RFA.
To view the Pilot and Collaborative Studies Awardees please click here.