Eligibility for Translational Science Pilot Grant

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Full-time, tenure or non-tenure track faculty who meet the criteria described below are eligible and encouraged to apply.
Faculty must be employed by one of the Wright Regional CCTS academic partners.
New investigators (those with NIH new Investigator status) may be PIs on up to two internal research awards within a four-year period.
Senior faculty may be PIs on only one internal research award every four years.
Investigators may submit only one application (as the PI) per funding cycle.
For faculty who need pilot data before submitting an application for external funding, these funds support translational science research that:
- Develops generalizable processes to accelerate translational research
- Has high methodological and scientific quality
- Answers important scientific questions
Funds will support preliminary studies that allow researchers to develop hypotheses, collect preliminary data, and establish methods necessary for submission of highly competitive applications to extramural funding sources.
Funds must be used to support new projects, although the applicant Investigators may have existing collaborations.
Funds will not be awarded to support continuation/renewals of previously funded projects.

Up to $50,000 awarded for a 12-month period
Only direct costs allowed
- Allowed: Supplies, patient stipends, equipment not otherwise available, cost for use of shared resources, and personnel costs as long as the expense is for the completion of a specific element of the research
- Not allowed: Faculty or investigator salary, travel funds, publication costs, remodeling costs, and patient hospital costs/visit fees

Application deadline is 5:00PM on the submission deadline date (January 15). If the deadline falls on a holiday or weekend, applications will be accepted until 5:00PM on the next working day.
All applications should be submitted electronically through REDCap no later than 5:00PM.

The PI will provide semiannual progress reports, using the format supplied by the grantor, to the Scientific Review Coordinator, Dr. Pamela Dillon. Continuation of funding will be contingent on successful progress of the research and completion of the required reports.
Within one month of the termination of the grant, the PI must submit electronically a final report (one to two pages) summarizing the results of the research and a financial report summarizing expenditures by category to Dr. Dillon.
One year after the termination of the grant, the PI must submit electronically a list of publications and externally funded grants resulting from the Wright Center-funded work to Dr. Dillon.

Publications resulting from work supported by these funds must acknowledge the Wright Regional CCTS’ CTSA (UM1TR004360 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Science).

C. KENNETH AND DIANNE WRIGHT CENTER
FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH