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.
- 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.
- Clinical Research Center Pilot Awards ($20,000) – CRC Pilot Awards (formerly known as CREFF Awards) are similar in focus to faculty awards, but must propose to utilize the CTSI’s Clinical Research Center. For more information on the CRC, see http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ctsi/research/crc/index.cfm).
Upstate NY Translational Research Network (UNYTRN) ($50,000, 12 months) - UNYTRN grant proposals must be collaborative between a University of Rochester principal investigator and a co-principal investigator from one of the participating UNYTRN institutions: Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Medical College, Bassett Healthcare, Binghamton University, Cornell University Ithaca, Guthrie Healthcare, Ordway Research Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY Albany School of Public Health, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and University at Buffalo.
The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute anticipates funding one or two awards in each category each year.
Click here to view the most recent Pilot and Collaborative RFA. Initial applications were due on August 3, 2009. The next Pilot and Collaborative RFA will be released in
July, 2010.
To view past Pilot and Collaborative Studies Awardees please click here.
