Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (R03)
Funds one small self-contained project for a scholar already inside the Clinical and Translational Science Award network, on the way to a first full award.
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences runs a network of hubs, and inside those hubs it supports early-career scholars on career-development awards. This notice funds a research project for exactly those people, and for people returning to research on a re-entry supplement.
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Small, self-contained clinical and translational research projects — pilot and feasibility studies, secondary data analysis, methodology development or new research technology — carried out by scholars supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Award programme, to generate preliminary data for a subsequent full research project application. Clinical trials are optional.
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