Program Overview
The mission of TRI is to develop and test translational science innovations that will drive real-world solutions to enhance health equity for rural and underrepresented populations. For this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), TRI seeks proposals that employ translational approaches to address the health challenges of rural and/or underrepresented populations. Specifically, TRI is accepting applications that will employ novel approaches in or address any of the following focus areas:
- Health concerns and challenges of rural and underrepresented populations
- Implementation science to incorporate new research findings into the health care system, including rural settings
- Biomedical informatics approaches, including artificial intelligence to improve disease diagnosis or prevention
- Community and/or stakeholder-partnered research
- Public health emergencies/emerging priority needs
- Lifespan research
The TRI Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Program (CTSP2) currently seeks applications for projects that include one or more principles of Translational Science (TS) as defined by the National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences (NCATS). Unlike translational research, which is concerned with traversing a particular step of the translational process for a specific target or disease, translational science seeks to overcome longstanding, general challenges of translational research. We encourage you to learn more about translational science principles on the NCATS website. In addition, we recommend reading these three papers, and information can be found on TRI’s website. All applicants are encouraged to talk with CTSP2 Directors (Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D., and Shelley Crary, M.D.) to ensure your proposal incorporates a TS approach. Consistent with the vision of NCATS, CTSP2 will provide the opportunity for TS teams to develop innovations, demonstrate their effectiveness or impact, and disseminate discoveries to the CTSA network.
Open Pilot Grant Opportunities
- NEW: Collaborative Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Program (Released 9/13/24) Read this funding opportunity.
- This funding opportunity announcement is to establish team approaches in translational science among mid-level and senior faculty in durable collaborations and generate data to advance to extramural funding. Budgets up to $50,000 for a one-year period will be considered.
- NEW: Early Career Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Program (Released 9/13/24) Read this funding opportunity.
- This funding opportunity announcement is to support projects that generate critical data to improve competitiveness for future extramural funding. Budgets up to $25,000 for a one-year period will be considered.
Please attend a Q&A session to learn more about these funding opportunities on Friday, November 1 at 1:00 p.m., or Tuesday, November 12 at 2:00 p.m.
Register for a session here.
Meet Our Past Awardees
- TRI Pilot 2022
- CBPR 2021
- Rural Health 2021
- Implementation Science 2020
- Translational Biomedical Informatics Research Benefiting Rural Health 2020
- Translational Research Involving Special Populations 2019
- Health Challenges of Rural and Underrepresented Populations 2019
- Special Opioid and Pain Management Pilot Award 2018 (funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation)
- Implementation Science 2018
- Biomedical Informatics 2017
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