Internal Funding Opportunities
The Utah Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) offers a variety of funding and program opportunities to advance the research community.
CTSI Community and Academic Partnership Pilot (CAPP) Project Award
Community-initiated translational research pilot projects that focus on community-identified health-related needs and involve collaborations between community organizations and researchers. It is expected that the research supported by each of these pilot awards will result in one or more publications and/or presentations, and will collect data that will be used to apply for funding from NIH or other funders to expand and continue the projects. The project should include a collaboration between the following:
- Leader(s) of a community organization located in Utah
- Researcher(s) affiliated with a Utah CTSI organization – University of Utah, Utah Department of Health, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, or Intermountain Healthcare
For a list of past recipients, please visit this page.
For additional information, please contact Breanne Johnson.
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Utah CTSI Translational Innovation Pilot (TIP) Program
The Utah CTSI’s TIP program will fund translational science projects aiming to identify and overcome barriers to the performance of translational research. Addressing critical barriers will allow subsequent translational research to accelerate the time from discovery to improved human health.
Leveraging CTSA funding, the Utah Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) will award pilots through its Translational Innovation Pilot (TIP) program. In alignment with NCATS, the Utah CTSI’s TIP program will support translational science projects that focus “on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational process with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.”
FY 2023 process has been closed.
For a list of past recipients, please visit this page.
For additional information, please contact Breanne Johnson.
CTSA Inter-Institutional Pilot Project Award: University of Utah, UNM HSC, KUMC, UAMS, KU, and UI
The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) of University of Utah (UU), University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC), University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), University of Kentucky (KU), and the University of Iowa (UI) solicit applications from all faculty members—senior as well as junior investigators—for pilot projects that will exemplify the CTSA mission of developing clinical and translational research, to promote and support the “bench to bedside to community and practice and back” goal of the NIH. The purpose of this funding announcement is to promote inter‐institutional collaboration across the CTSA consortium by funding innovative, translational research projects that involve three or more of these six CTSA institutions.
For a list of past recipients, please visit this page.
For additional information, please contact Breanne Johnson.
CTSI Early Faculty Career Development Scholars
Utah CTSI's Early Faculty Career Development Scholars program has 2 different tracks for investigators: the K12 Mentored Career Development Program and the CTSI Partner Scholars Program.
Co-directed by Drs. Maureen Murtaugh, Ingrid Nygaard, and Michael Varner, the CTSI Early Faculty Career Development Scholars program is supported by the Utah CTSI, Primary Children’s Hospital Foundation, Intermountain Healthcare, and Utah Department of Health. The overall goal is to foster translational research on clinically relevant questions enabling basic science findings to be more rapidly applied to clinical problems. The competitive training program offers mentored research and career development support for clinical junior investigators conducting innovative research for one or two years, based on available funding.
Scholars commit to a minimum of 75 percent protected time for research and training and are encouraged and provided resources to seek independent grant research support during the award period. Each scholar participates in the University of Utah Vice President’s Clinical & Translational (VPCAT) Research Scholars program which includes didactic education, mentored research, interdisciplinary works-in-progress seminars, and team-building experiences. A structured curriculum has been designed to provide leadership competencies and develop the essential research knowledge and practical skills to be an effective clinical or translational researcher. They are provided a mentoring team consisting of a scientific mentor, a VPCAT senior mentor, peer mentors, and staff mentors support.
The KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar program co-directors meet with scholars quarterly to oversee the mentorship of the scholar to assure progress. Each scholar creates and completes an individual development program tailored to their research and career development needs. Scholars have access to biostatisticians in the CTSI Population Health Research group, and the KL2 Program Manager provides grant submission support. These resources facilitate appropriate study design, collection of pilot data, and the preparation and submission of competitive grant applications. Learn more.
Please note that the next round for KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar will be announced after the application renewal approval in 2023.
All spots for the Primary Children's Hospital Foundation (PCHF) Partner Scholar Award have been filled.
For additional information, please contact Lyalya Sultanova.
CTSI Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Tuition Scholarship Program
The MSCI Program is a vital component of the University of Utah CTSI and provides classroom and mentored research experience in clinical research, preparing its trainees for careers in clinical investigation, both in academic medicine and the allied health sciences. Students in good standing in the MS in Clinical Investigation may apply for partial tuition scholarships for fall and spring semesters. The amount of the scholarship to each student receiving an award will be between $250 and $1,000 per semester. The amount of the scholarship and number of scholarships each semester will vary depending on the availability of funds. Students must reapply for each semester. Learn more.
For additional information, please contact the program.
Shaylee Scott
Program Assistant
Email: shaylee.scott@hsc.utah.edu
Lyalya Sultanova
Grants & Contracts Officer
Email: lyalya.sultanova@hsc.utah.edu
Jennifer Zitterkoph
Associate Director, Grants & Contracts
Phone: 801-213-1504
Email: jennifer.zitterkoph@hsc.utah.edu