Funding Opportunities

A key component of the CTSC and of the entire CTSA initiative is the CTSC Pilot Grant Program; a peer-reviewed pilot funding program designed to stimulate and promote new translational research, new research collaborations, and novel research ideas. The goal of this funding is to promote innovative research teams capable of interacting across institutions, schools, and disciplines to generate novel ideas and data on translational research projects. To this end, the Program offers a variety of funding opportunities to researchers from the CTSC partner institutions: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System.

Strong candidates for funding are projects that: Are multidisciplinary, collaborative, and/or inter-institutional in the local clinical and translational research enterprise, encourage the development or use of emerging methodologies and technologies that may affect future research, allow rapid acquisition of proof-of-principle data to proceed with full-scale investigations, encourage the participation of clinical and translational science trainees, are likely to lead to additional external funding, show potential to positively affect translational and clinical research toward improving human health, especially patient-based research, especially research that may lead to adoption of best practices in prevention and treatment of disease.