RTRN SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM
RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2011
FOA INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR: March 24, 2011
MANDATORY LETTER OF INTENT RECEIPT DATE: Extended to April 18, 2011
APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE: May 2, 2011
PEER REVIEW PERIOD: May-June 2011
EARLIEST ANTICIPATED AWARD DATE: July 1, 2011

Principal Changes and Requirements

1. If the principal applicant is a mid-level or senior-level investigator at the Associate Professor or Full Professor rank, s/he must mentor at least one junior-level collaborator at another RCMI grantee institution, with a brief but clearly described mentoring plan.

2. If the principal applicant is a junior-level investigator at the Assistant Professor rank, s/he must designate a mid-level or senior-level mentor/collaborator at another RCMI grantee institution, with a brief but clearly described mentoring plan.

3. Each joint application must show utilization of the Data and Technology Coordinating Center (DTCC), and a letter of support from the DTCC Director must be included in the application.

4. An applicant may submit only one application, as principal investigator.

Purpose Of The FOA

A primary strategic goal of the RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN) is to facilitate the conduct of inter-institutional, cross-disciplinary translational research among investigators at the 18 RCMI grantee institutions. To this end, the RTRN Small Grants Program has been developed to promote inter-institutional collaborations by providing modest funding for short-term, self-contained research projects, including feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; and development of research methodology and technology.

In particular, this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) requires inter-institutional collaborative research projects across two or more RCMI institutions that utilize the infrastructure of the Data and Technology Coordinating Center (DTCC) and that link the basic sciences and clinical medicine, integrate research discoveries with innovative medical applications, and develop improved patient-care practices through community engagement. Examples include, but are not limited to, collaborations across the life sciences, public health, clinical research, epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacology, biomedical informatics,computational biology, ethics, behavioral science, biomedical imaging and bioengineering, law and health economics. The expectation is that preliminary data generated from the RTRN Small Grants Program will be leveraged into full-fledged NIH grant applications. Moreover, the RTRN Small Grants Program awardees will form a pool of translational researchers, who in turn will help to mentor the next generation of investigators at the RCMI grantee institutions.

How to apply

RTRN Small Grants Program RFA 2011 release.pdf

Inquiries

We encourage inquiries concerning this FOA and welcome the opportunity to answer questions from prospective applicants.

Richard Yanagihara, M.D., M.P.H.
John A. Burns School of Medicine | University of Hawaii at Manoa
651 Ilalo Street, BSB320L | Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Telephone: (808) 692-1610 | Fax: (808) 692-1976
Email: yanagiha@pbrc.hawaii.edu