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Faculty Translational Science Pilot Award

These awards support projects that address a translational challenge or barrier with a primary goal to provide the groundwork for faculty to obtain subsequent funding. The UR CTSI requires that faculty awardees demonstrate academic productivity through publication of the research.

Maximum Funding Amount: $50,000
Audience: Faculty
Letters of Intent Due: October 21, 2024
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Eligibility

The principal investigator (PI) on all proposals must be faculty members with a primary appointment at the University of Rochester. If there are MPIs, one of the members of the applying team must have a primary faculty appointment at the University of Rochester.  This team member will be the contact PI for the project.   

Faculty may participate as PI, MPI, Faculty Sponsor/Primary Mentor on only one submission per award category. Faculty may participate in multiple submissions per category as co-investigator or co-mentor.  Any faculty member who has a current grant with overlapping aims is not eligible to apply. 

Funding Amount

This TS01 award provides up to $50,000 for up to one year.

Important Dates

The following dates apply to the current solicitation:

Initial Letter of Intent (LOI) and Specific Aims due - October 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Notification of full proposal solicitation - December 9, 2024
Full proposals due - January 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Notifications of Award - March 24, 2025
Anticipated start date - July 1, 2025
Award period ends - June 30, 2026

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Solicitation and Review Process

Phase 1: Applicants submit a two-page Letter of Intent (LOI) stating their specific aims and summarizing their proposals. The UR CTSI review committee specific to each submission category will evaluate, score, and discuss the LOIs.

Phase 2: A subset of applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. The UR CTSI Review Committee specific to each submission category will engage in a formal study section-style discussion and scoring meeting for proposals. Funding recommendations go to the UR CTSI Executive Team for a final review and decision on funding.

The Pilot Studies Funding Attestation must be submitted with the initial Letter of Intent and full proposal.

Note: All animal and human subject protocols must be approved by NCATS, the NIH institute funding the UR CTSI, prior to the start date. No funds for research project costs may be released until all required human subjects and animal welfare approvals have been received.

Please note that UR CTSI awards and funding are dependent upon the renewal of grants from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Application Selection

Projects supported by this program must address a translational challenge or barrier and meet the definition of translational science research. Translational science is the field of investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational research process.

Highly competitive applications will address a specific translational barrier using a disease or use case in a way that could convincingly be applied across multiple diseases, conditions or scientific fields.

Contact

If you have questions regarding this RFA, please contact one of the following:

General inquiries
Karen Grabowski – ctsi@urmc.rochester.edu

Scientific and Peer Review contacts
OJ Sahler, MD - oj_sahler@urmc.rochester.edu
Edward Schwarz, PhD - edward_schwarz@urmc.rochester.edu

Financial contact
Mary Lyons - mary_lyons@urmc.rochester.edu

Awardees and Projects

Use of implementation science to adapt a community health worker model to improve outcomes among historically marginalized children with asthma.
Jessica Stern, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Medicine M&D-Immunology/Rheumatology Division

A novel, smart "Rapid Decision" AI to bridge the major gap in adaptive radiotherapy
Dandan Zheng, PHD, MS
Professor of Radiation Oncology, and Director of Medical Physics

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