GLOBAL HEALTH AWARDS

Project Award Amount $25,000

UCSF has many clinical and translational research programs with enormous potential to improve the health of millions of people living in resource-poor regions of the world. The mission of the Global Health Program is to work with each CTSI program to ensure that unique needs of global health researchers are addressed, permitting UCSF to facilitate and support innovative clinical and translational research globally. The CTSI Global Health Program will work with the Strategic Opportunities Support Center to provide pilot funding for global research.

Description of Grant Area

These pilot projects will support preliminary research using human subjects, tissue, or clinical data to address questions related to disease pathogenesis, diagnosis, or management. This research should be conducted by multi-disciplinary investigator partners or teams representing clinical, basic, or population sciences. Pilot research should collect data for publication and for successful competitive funding through alternative mechanisms/sources. Pilot projects that involve human subjects will require human research committee approval and should be completed in the 12 months following funding. Research conducted in a foreign country will require separate ethics approval in that setting and the direct participation of in-country co-investigators. Applicants should ensure that their proposal is consistent with the list of countries that are approved CTSI-NIH research sites.

Pilot projects will have a maximum budget of $25,000 and may be used for partial investigator salary support. Pilot projects are for one year and are not renewable. Each SOS Center funded grant will require an end-of-grant progress report and a second report 12 months following the end of funding. The progress reports should reference subsequent funding recruited to support the expanded/extended projects. Any resulting publication must directly cite CTSI SOS Center funding.

The proposed research must be clearly justified as being on the path to potential use in humans.

Proposals should contain:

• Investigators, scientific disciplines and affiliations
• Aims of the project
• A description of the clinical or translational research proposed, explicitly stating the disease entity being investigated and the cross-disciplinary nature of the investigators
• A budget and justification

Note: As a general rule, within any category, priority is given to applicants who have never received funding in that category, except for the Fogarty International Training Awards in HIV/AIDS and International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS.

Eligibility
All UCSF and CTSI associated institutional faculty in any series may apply. Preference will be given to faculty at junior ranks (assistant and early associate).

Criteria for Review
Proposed projects must meet CTSI criteria of translational science and will be evaluated based on the strength of the proposal, the potential of the proposal to lead to a fully-funded independent research grant, and the qualifications and potential of the applicant.

Note: Clinical and translational research includes bench to bedside/laboratory to human (T1) translational research, clinical research, and bedside to the community/evidence to practice (T2) research.

Contact:
Emanuela (Emy) Volpe
CTSI-SOS Center Program Administrator
Ph.: 415-514-0301
E-mail: sos@ucsf.edu