UNDER-REPRESENTED FACULTY & SENIOR FELLOWS IN CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS

Project Award Amount $30,000

Each funded grant will have a maximum budget of $30,000 and may be used for partial investigator salary support. Projects are for one year and are not renewable. To determine what is allowable and what is unallowable please refer to the application form.

A progress report is expected at the end of and one year following the funding period, identifying resulting publications and subsequent funding recruited to support the expanded/extended projects. Any resulting publication must directly cite CTSI-SOS Center funding.

If not directly involving the study of people or populations, the proposed research must be clearly justified as being on the path to potential use in humans.

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.

1. Senior Postdoctoral or Clinical Fellows, or entry level faculty (instructor or assistant professor) from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and from racial and ethnic groups who are under-represented in clinical and translational sciences.
2. At least 75% active time (Postdoctoral or Clinical Fellows) or 50% active time (entry level faculty) committed to research.

Criteria for Review

1. Fulfillment of eligibility criteria.
2. Quality of the research proposal and its relevance to clinical-translational research.
3. Clear statement from the Department Chair in writing that, if an award is made the recipient will have at least 75% time (postdoctoral or clinical fellows) or 50% time (junior faculty) free to devote to the proposed research.
4. Research mentor in content area: include a 2 page bio-sketch of mentor.

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