Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute accepting applications for Young Investigator Awards

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute is now accepting applications for the CTSI Young Investigator Awards in Clinical-Translational Research. These awards are designed to provide promising junior investigator faculty with the opportunity to be mentored in research-intensive, multidisciplinary settings toward the goal of developing careers in clinical-translational research.

Clinical research includes epidemiological studies, clinical trials or other investigations involving human subjects. Translational research consists of either T1 research, interface of basic science to human studies, or T2 research, interface of human studies to the community.

To be eligible, candidates must be either a clinician-scientist with a doctoral degree, which includes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, clinical psychologists, optometrists, veterinarians, allied health care professionals and others of similar backgrounds, or they must be basic scientists with a doctoral degree who are doing translational research that has high potential for early translation into influencing patient care.

Additional eligibility criteria include:

* U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

* Full-time junior faculty or research scientists, who would be eligible to apply as principal investigator on an NIH grant or career development award, but who have not to date been a principal investigator on an R01 or equivalent grant.

* Able to identify co-mentors, who are faculty investigators, from at least two different disciplines (preferably a clinician-scientist and a PhD-scientist).

* Planning on submitting a grant for external funding (either a career development award or independent research grant) during the first 12 months of the award. 

Postdoctoral clinical or research fellows are not eligible to apply unless their institution has arranged for them to have a full-time faculty or research scientist appointment by July 1.

Benefits include partial salary support, as well as tuition and fees for required and elective coursework, pilot research monies and travel funds to attend the national CTSI young investigator meeting. 

Applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Jan. 17. Awards will begin July 1. For full details on eligibility requirements, and the application process, visit  https://www.indianactsi.org/grantinfo.

For more information or questions, contact Donna Burgett at dfburget@regenstrief.org.