UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ (NCATS) Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) program supports a national network of medical research institutions that work together to speed the translation of research discovery into improved patient care. Eight CTSA institutions have joined together to form the Consortium of Rural States (CORES): Penn State, the University of Utah Health, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, University of Kentucky, the Translational Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Iowa and Dartmouth College. 

Researchers across these institutions are invited to apply for multi-institutional pilot awards.

To promote multi-institutional collaboration across the CTSA consortium, this pilot funding offers up to $25,000 per participating institution and is available to faculty members at all career levels for translational science pilot projects that aim to exemplify the CTSA mission of “understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational process to develop generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.”

Applicants should propose innovative translational science research projects that include collaboration with two or more of the eight CTSA institutions. Following the National Institutes of Health strategic plan and its commitment to increasing representation in research, funding emphasis for this request for applications will be given to translational science proposals that address one of the following:

• Climate change and environmental Health
• Health equity for underrepresented populations
  • These may include pediatric populations, older adults, people with disabilities and/or rare disorders, underrepresented racial/ethnic and/or sexual and gender minorities, rural populations or populations with low socio-economic status.
• Rural health
• Maternal health

Upcoming Deadlines

• Letters of intent due Jan. 8, 2025
• Email invitation to submit full application Feb. 5, 2025
• Application due Mar. 3, 2025
• Notice of Intent to Fund Mar. 31, 2025
• Funding cycle: July 1, 2025–Jun. 30, 2026

To request the full RFA, which contains a link to the application portal, email Kelsey Stoltzfus.