Dear Colleagues,

We hope you had an enjoyable, productive, and relaxing fall break. We are halfway through the semester already. Hopefully, if you were in town, you were able to join us for our Indiana CTSI Notre Dame Summit on the topic of mental health. It was a fabulous day! We will be posting the slides and presentations from the day's sessions and will share that link when it becomes available.

Notre Dame will be co-leading a new Project Development Team (PDT) on AI and Ethics. The Notre Dame lead is John Lalor from the Mendoza College of Business. Here is the informational blurb on that PDT.

Accelerates the development and funding of innovative, ethical, and translational research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, health data and healthcare. Ethics and responsible AI are dimensions of scientific and translational rigor, not downstream compliance activities. Ethical, clinical, technical, and implementation considerations will therefore be addressed early in project development, when they can improve the research question, study design, methods, stakeholder engagement, and ultimately the competitiveness and impact of the proposal.

We are excited about this new PDT and hope many of you will find it valuable. Please don't hesitate to reach out should you need anything related to Indiana CTSI funding opportunities, resources, services, etc. We're here to help!

Best,

Melanie DeFord, Deputy Director and Assistant Vice President for Research
Prakash Nallathamby, Notre Dame Navigator of the Indiana CTSI

Application deadline: Monday, February, 1, 2027

Applications for the 2027 CTSI Summer Undergraduate Research Program are now open. This program is for students currently enrolled at IU (any campus), Purdue (WL and Indianapolis) or the University of Notre Dame.  We encourage students at any of these campuses to apply to spend eight weeks engaging in clinical and translational research at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Submission Deadline: December 3, 2026

The overall objective of the Indiana Traumatic Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research program is to foster and encourage research for the prevention, treatment and cure of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, including acute management, medical complications, rehabilitative techniques, and neuronal recovery.  Collaborations are encouraged between Indiana-based researchers as well as with researchers located outside the state of Indiana.   Salary support for collaborators outside of Indiana will be limited, however.

Contact: trnsldev@iu.edu

Submission Deadline: January 11, 2027

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute is requesting applications for K12 Early Career Investigator Clinical – Translational Science and Research proposals.

These awards are designed to provide promising early career faculty investigators with the opportunity to be mentored in research-intensive, multi-disciplinary settings toward the goal of developing careers in clinical - translational science and research. Emphasis of the Indiana CTSI K12 Early Career Investigator Awards in Clinical - Translational Science and Research are to move findings from basic laboratory and pre-clinical research toward the development of new treatment options or interventions or clinical trials to eventual dissemination or clinical implementation to studying population health outcomes and health metrics. The phases of translational research may not necessarily be linear and can jump steps depending on the research project and the starting point. The goal of the Indiana CTSI is to make awards at all these stages. It is important that the proposed clinical - translational research has clear applications to human disease and health outcomes.

Contact: ajzych@iu.edu

Submission Deadline: Rolling submission

Commercialization Project Development Teams (PDTs) are groups of experienced entrepreneurial faculty located on each of the Indiana CTSI campuses who will connect you with resources and collaboration opportunities to support commercialization of your technology.

There are commercialization office representatives and regulatory experts on each team, and other experts are added to the team as needed when your application is discussed. You will have access to the expertise and knowledge you need all in one place. Full-time faculty (i.e., tenure-track, research, and clinical faculty) at any campus of Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, or Purdue University who have submitted all relevant invention disclosures to their university’s commercialization office are eligible for funding. Awards are typically up to $15,000.

Contact: karagarc@iu.edu and pportono@iu.edu

Submission Deadline: Rolling submission

Research Project Development Teams (PDTs) are groups of experienced senior faculty located on each of the Indiana CTSI campuses who will connect you with resources, collaboration opportunities, and small (typically up to $15,000) awards for preliminary or additional data. Each PDT is designed around a common research theme.

There are biostatisticians and regulatory experts on each team, and other experts are added as needed when you meet with the team to discuss your application. You will have access to the expertise and knowledge you need all in one place.

Contact: tsajdyk@iu.edu

Deadline for Routing to ORA : January 11, 2027

Deadline for Uploading ORA Approved Proposal: January 19, 2027

Submission Deadline: Rolling submission

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Take a moment to explore our past newsletters and summits. At Indiana CTSI, we’re committed to uniting Indiana’s life sciences community to drive research forward and improve health across the state.

The Indiana CTSI has experts across a wide variety of fields and research areas of interest. Click the button below to have the latest research discoveries and developments making news and positively impacting health in Indiana delivered right to your inbox. 

The Indiana CTSI includes Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame as the major academic partners along with a number of other institutions and entities in the state.

It is funded by a Clinical and Translational Sciences Award from the National Institutes of Health amounting to some $38 million for the current seven-year funding period of 2023-2030. This funding is supplemented by additional support from many other institutional and corporate partners.

Funding is provided to researchers by many mechanisms to promote translational and collaborative research among the partner institutions.

For more information, please visit: indianactsi.org

If you have any questions about Indiana CTSI grants, programs, or upcoming events please feel free to reach out to navigator Prakash Nallathamby.