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 additional information, please contact Breanne Johnson.
Past Recipients
| Year of Award | Investigators | Investigator Departments | Project Titles |
| 2023 | Anne Thackeray, PhD, PT, MPH | Physical Therapy & Athletic Training | Establishing a Functional Performance Index |
| 2023 | Hilary Coon, PhD | Psychiatry | Community Consultation on Research Use of Autopsy Blood Spots in Utah |
| 2023 | Jun Yang, PhD | Opthalmology & Visual Sciences | A pilot study on gene therapy for retinal degeneration |
| 2022 | M. Mateo Paz Soldan, MD, PhD | Neurology | Novel Imaging Markers of Innate Immune Activation in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis |
| 2022 | Guillaume Horeau, PhD, DVM | Emergency Medicine | Validation of a novel noninvasive monitor of renal hypoxia in a pig model of hemorrhagic shock |
| 2022 | Jungkyu (Jay) Kim, PhD | Mechanical Engineering | A Biomimetic Cornea Chip for studying Fuchs' dystrophy |
| 2022 | Kevin Watt, MD, PhD | Pediatrics | Optimizing Drug Exposure in Patients Supported with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation |
| 2022 | Yue Zhang, PhD | Internal Medicine | Biomechanical Data Analysis using Statistical Parametric Mapping Approach in the Presence of Nested Observations |
| 2021 | Rebecca Simmons, PhD, MPH | OB/GYN | Understanding barriers and facilitators of implementing the LNG IUD as emergency contraception in varied clinical settings: a pilot study |
| 2021 | Tuan Pham, MD | Internal Medicine | Inflammation in Fatty Liver Disease |
| 2021 | Anna Ibele, MD | Surgery | Loss to Follow Up after Bariatric Surgery: Contributors and Consequences |
| 2021 | Anne Kirby, PhD, OTR/L | College of Health | Suicidal Behavior in Transgender Utahns |
| 2021 | Sunjin Park, PhD | Neurobiology & Anatomy | A single-step assay determining the role of disease-associated genes in neuronal activity |
| 2021 | Hediyeh Baradaran, MD | Radiology & Imaging Services | MRI Evaluation of Vascular Aging and Vulnerable Plaque |
| 2020 | Alexander Pastuszak, MD, PhD | Surgery | Genetic Basis of Peyronie's and Dupuytren's Diseases |
| 2020 | Joseph Kim, PhD | Psychiatry | Affect Control Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex |
| 2020 | Vikas Sharma, MD | Surgery | Human Amniotic Membrane as Pericardial Substitute in Cardiac Surgery Patients |
| 2020 | Sihem Boudina, PhD | Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | Establishing the Function of a Novel Human Genetic Mutation in PRDM16 using Patient-Derived iPSC-CMs and In Vivo Model Systems |
| 2020 | Mary Playdon, PhD, MPH, MPhil | Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | Feasibility and Acceptability of Time Restricted Feeding (TRF) among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Women at Risk for Endometrial Cancer |