2021 RFA: Funding Awards

Funding Period for all awards: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2023
NOTE: 2nd year funding is contingent on continued NIH CTSC Grant Funding

PILOT AWARD

Up to $50,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)

Objective
Create opportunities for translational team research across disciplines and institutions, and between pre-clinical and clinical scientists.  This award can support clinical trials phases I & II. Emphasis is placed on drug discovery, targeted therapeutics, biomarker or device development, and life-course studies.

Proposals Must Have

A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators, representing different disciplines (e.g., Clinical and Basic) from at least two CTSC partnering institutions (see FAQ) with a focus on translational and clinical research. The research should provide results that lead to NIH funding. Basic research proposals will not be accepted.

Up to $50,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)

Objective
With the aim of fostering collaboration among community organizations, CTSC institutions and affiliates, this award will emphasize special populations such as children, the elderly, vulnerable and disabled populations, and the LGBTI community, as well as health disparities research.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators from at least two CTSC partnering institutions (see FAQ) and different disciplines with a focus on translational and clinical research. Basic research proposals will not be accepted.

 PRECISION MEDICINE AWARD

Up to $40,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)

Objective
To target faculty members working in precision medicine pursuing studies that use behavioral and biologic measures to test feasibility for precision medicine therapy.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators from at least two CTSC partnering institutions (see FAQ) and two different disciplines. Focus on translational and clinical research. The research should provide insights that could be generalizable to other projects. Basic research proposals will not be funded  

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD

Up to $10,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)

Objective
Strong community focus with a clear goal of facilitating the transfer of evidence-based practice that focuses on collaboration between the community (general population), CTSC institutions and affiliates. Emphasis should be placed on research in the following categories: health disparities, comparative effectiveness and research involving the LGBTI communities.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of one researcher from a CTSC partner institution + one researcher from the community or community organization (as Co-PI)
OR A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators (different disciplines preferred) from at least two CTSC partnering institutions (see FAQ). The research should facilitate the transfer of evidence-based practice to improve community health. 

Eligibility for All Awards

• Study team members must be faculty members with an appointment at one of the CTSC partner institutions. The partnering institutions are Cornell Ithaca, Hunter College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and The Animal Medical Center.
• Senior investigators (Associate Professor and above) must clearly describe in their Research Plan how their proposal represents a new research direction or is a novel derivative of their research.
• Co-investigators from other CTSA consortium institutions may be members of your team, if essential to the proposal success.
• No PI/CoPI may have two concurrent CTSC awards
• No investigator may be named on more than one application
• Proposals cannot have existing funding support
• Only one re-submission for each application is allowed.  Changing/switching PIs or Co-PIs or adding an institution without substantive changes is not a new submission. Response to reviewers’ comments should be incorporated into the updated proposal.

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