Apply for CTSC Funding Opportunities - Deadline is February 1st, 2024

Funding Period for all awards: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2026
NOTE: Awards 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. Review of projects will prioritize scientific merit and proposed community engagement in research, as applicable.

Proposals Must Have

A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators, representing different disciplines (see FAQ) 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. Proposals focused entirely on basic (e.g. laboratory) science 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 LGBTI communities, as well as health disparities research. 

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

KRISTY RICHARDS PRECISION MEDICINE AWARD

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

Objective
To target faculty members working in precision medicine pursuing studies that use genomics, behavioral, and biologic measures to test feasibility for precision medicine therapy including artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of two Co-Principal Investigators from at least two CTSC partnering institutions and different disciplines (see FAQ) with a focus on translational and clinical research. The research should provide insights that could be generalizable to other projects. Proposals focused entirely on basic (e.g. laboratory) science will not be accepted.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD

Up to $20,000 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 LGBTI communities.

Proposals Must Have
A minimum of one researcher from a CTSC partner institution and one 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

• Representation by Key Personnel with salaried primary appointments from at least two separate CTSC partnering institutions, investigators from other CTSA institutions qualify
• Co-investigators from other CTSA consortium institutions may be members of your team, if essential to the proposal success.
• All applicants who have the academic rank of Associate Professor or above, must clearly describe in their research plan how their proposal represents a new research direction or is a novel derivative of their research.
• No PI/Co-PI 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 and must address the previous critiques.  Changing/switching PIs or Co-PIs or adding an institution without substantive changes is not a new submission.

PLEASE NOTE:
1- Submissions MUST include names of three potential reviewers. These should be unbiased experts without any conflicts of interest.  If the suggested reviewers decline, or in the view of the CTSC are conflicted, PIs may suggest additional reviewers.
2- Certain protocols with significant human subjects’ involvement may be reviewed by Community Representative review, which will contribute to the overall funding score.
3- If the suggested reviewers do not agree to participate in the process, the CTSC will identify additional reviewers.
4- Please carefully consider which category you will submit your application under, as submissions will only be judged within the specific categories to which they are submitted. This year you have the option of requesting consideration in a secondary category if you feel your study meets criteria for more than one application type. If you wish to be considered for both a primary and secondary category, after you have completed your primary submission,  email Pankaj Kumar Patel at pap9083@med.cornell.edu with your secondary category.

TO START YOUR APPLICATION
GO TO "Notification of Intent to Submit an Application" .

This will register your intent to submit an application. After you complete the Notification of Intent, the system will instruct you on next steps for logging in to our Web-based ePAR system to complete your application. In completing your application, please refer to the checklist below.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS & CHECKLIST

Applications must comply with eligibility and submission requirements. Missing documents and/or information will disqualify your application for review.