2020 RFA: Funding Awards

PILOT AWARD

Up to $50,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)
Funding Period – July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2022

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 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)
Funding Period – July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2022

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 LGBTQIA community, as well as health disparities research.

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

 NOVEL TECHNOLOGY TEAM AWARD

Up to $40,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)
Funding Period – July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2022

Objective
Inter-institutional teams of bioengineers and clinical researchers compete for the development of a novel technology including device development with potential for rapid translation into a product to improve human health.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators from at least two CTSC partnering institutions, one must be a bioengineer and another a clinical researcher. The research should provide pilot data that could lead to future projects and additional funding. 

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD

Up to $10,000 per year for up to two years (direct costs)
Funding Period – July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2022

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 LGBTQIA communities.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of one researcher from a CTSC partner institution + one community organization (as Co-PI)
OR A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators (different disciplines preferred) from at least two CTSC partnering institutions. 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 toreviewers’ comments should be incorporated into the updated proposal.

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