2017 Duke/UNC CTSA Consortium Collaborative Translational Research (T1/T2) Pilot Grant

Application Deadline: Oct 21, 2016

Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke are encouraged to apply for the 2017 Duke-UNC CTSA Consortium Collaborative Translational Research Pilot Grant. This pilot will fund up to $25,000 per institution for a total of $50,000 per collaborative project. The application deadline is Oct. 21, 2016.

Proposed projects must involve a lead investigator from UNC-Chapel Hill and a lead investigator from Duke. Proposals are encouraged from new teams of investigators from different disciplines.

This T1/T2 pilot program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Cross-disciplinary basic research addressing the development of therapies, diagnostics, or devices applicable to human disease, and clinical research/trials are areas of interest for these awards. Projects must demonstrate high translational potential with a clear path to subsequent grant support, new company formation, licensing, not-for-profit partnering, or other channels.

Read the recent article at news.tracs.unc.edu for examples of successful past collaborations.

Faculty acting as a principal investigator may submit more than one proposal, but the faculty member is only eligible to receive one award as PI during a given funding cycle. Duke faculty members may not serve as PI on more than one concurrently funded Duke CTSI award (including the Duke/UNC Collaborative or Translational Research Pilot Award).

Duke/UNC-Chapel Hill teams whose proposals for the Duke-UNC CTSA Collaborative Grant were not selected for funding in the October 2015 round may submit a revised application.

For more information, visit the NC TraCS pilot page: tracs.unc.edu/pilot