Duke University –Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Funding

Duke/NCCU Collaborative Translational Research Awards This pilot program is designed to facilitate novel clinical, population, and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Projects must demonstrate stakeholder engagement and a high translational potential with a clear path for continued development to move into clinical practice, generate new clinical guidelines, or other applications via subsequent grant support, new company formation, licensing, not-for-profit partnering, an evidence base that changes practice or other channels.

Duke/NC State Translational Research Agreement This pilot program is designed to facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Projects must demonstrate stakeholder engagement and high translational potential with a clear path for continued development to move into clinical practice, generate new clinical guidelines, or other applications via subsequent grant support, new company formation, licensing, not-for-profit partnering, an evidence base that changes practices, or other channels.

Duke CTSI Special Populations Pilot The purpose of the Special Populations Pilot program is to facilitate novel clinical and translational research that promotes health equity for groups who have traditionally been under-represented in health research or excluded altogether. Projects must have strong potential to inform subsequent grant applications for external funding. Pilot awards will be $25,000 (direct costs only); applications that include a strong community stakeholder-academic partnered approach will be eligible for an additional $10,000 for a total of $35,000 in pilot funding for a team that includes a strong community stakeholder-academic partnered approach. (see Community-Engaged Approaches below). Proposals from early stage and new investigators and proposals with collaborations across Duke Departments or Schools are highly encouraged.

CTSI Translational Accelerator Research Funding Agreement The Duke CTSI Translational Accelerator Research Funding Agreement provides up to $125,000 (direct costs only) to support novel translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Projects must demonstrate stakeholder engagement and high translational potential for continued development to move into clinical practice, generate new clinical guidelines, or other applications via subsequent grant support, new company formation, licensing, not-for-profit partnering, an evidence base that changes practice, or other channels.

CTSI Population Health Improvement Awards Program This Awards program aims to engage community and academic partners in collaborative research that promotes novel ideas to improve community and population health. Duke CTSI, home of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Award at Duke, will provide approximately $100,000 annually to support pilot awards that can be used to either a) develop new community-research partnerships or b) foment already existing community and research partnerships that aim to develop and test effective solutions to improve community and population health. These partnerships and innovations can originate from community stakeholders or from Duke research partners but they must involve both community and research collaborators.

Duke CTSI Multidisciplinary Vision Program (MVP) Award The Duke CTSI Multidisciplinary Vision Program (MVP) Award provides funding up to $110,000 per award to support novel clinical translational research focused on improving health and healthy equity. Duke CTSI supports clinical translational research endeavors under the following domains: Methods/Processes, Collaboration/Engagement, Informatics, Integration Across the Lifespan, and Workforce Development. Proposals from teams of investigators from different disciplines are encouraged. Collaborations that bring together ideas, theories, methods and approaches from disparate scientific disciplines are particularly encouraged.