Limited Competition: Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program: Collaborative and Innovative Acceleration Award
Funds collaborative projects that build, test and spread new tools or methods across NIH's national network of clinical and translational research hubs.
Good ideas that work at one clinical research site often stay there. This award exists to push them across the whole Clinical and Translational Science Award network instead of leaving each hub to solve the same problem alone.
What it pays for is collaborative development: building a new approach, technology, resource or model, then actually spreading it and keeping it running across the CTSA Pro…
Collaborative development, dissemination and sustainable implementation of new approaches, technologies, resources or models that increase the impact of translational research across the CTSA Program Consortium, proposed from the investigator's own research agenda. A Limited Competition, and a clinical trial is optional.
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