Overview
Translational science generates innovations that overcome longstanding barriers along the translational research pipeline. These include scientific, operational, financial, and administrative innovations that transform the way that research is done, making it faster, more efficient, and more impactful.
Translational research seeks to turn biomedical research discoveries into health solutions through the application of translational science. These solutions include efficacious diagnostics, treatments, and interventions.
The ICTR Advancing Translational Research & Science (ATRS) Pilot Award provides support for proposals that aim to either:
- Advance innovative translational research that elucidates novel processes that are generalizable to multiple translational research projects, OR
- Provide solutions to common barriers in the translation of innovations into practice or policy.
Highly valuable project elements include (but are not limited to):
- Mentorship and/or Team Science
- Recruitment Science
- Implementation Science including projects applicable to Learning Health Systems (LHS)
- Considerations of specific ways in which the proposed work may impact health outcomes or inequities and/or inclusion of diverse participants in research.
ICTR Pilot Awards are intended to support projects that will further an investigator’s career path. Successful proposals will clearly describe how the pilot data collected as a part of this award will be used to seek further, external, peer-reviewed funding in support of a research career trajectory. Early career investigators with limited PI experience are strongly encouraged to submit proposals as the Contact PI, in partnership with senior investigators who have relevant research methods expertise to serve as Co-Investigators, collaborators or mentors.
