Dear Members of the Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend research communities:

Thank you for your continued interest in the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (Indiana CTSI). Please note the events and funding opportunities below. We hope that you are able to get involved with the Indiana CTSI and take advantage of the available resources to support your research.

You are encouraged to attend the 2022 Indiana CTSI 2022 Annual Meeting, which will focus on rare diseases. The hybrid event will be held in person at Hine Hall on the IUPUI campus (map) as well as online webinar.

Adrian Krainer, PhD is winner of this year’s August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research and will be honored during the annual meeting. He will also be the featured speaker during the event.

The webinar registration link and the meeting agenda can be found by clicking the button below.

Letter of Intent Submission Deadline: November 8, 2022 via email to Patty McGuire.
Submission Deadline: December 8, 2022 online via link provided by Patty McGuire

The Indiana CTSI is requesting applications for T32 Postdoctoral translational research proposals.

For this funding announcement, the Indiana CTSI strongly encourages applications from postdoctoral fellows who have a keen interest in directed training in translational science research. Candidates may choose from 3 tracks depending on their research focus area and career development path.

The three tracks are:

Submission Deadline: December 12, 2022

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, including researchers in other countries. Salary support for collaborators outside of Indiana will be limited, however.

Submission Deadline: January 5, 2023

The Indiana CTSI is requesting applications for K12 Early Career Investigator clinical – translational research proposals.

These awards are designed to provide promising early career faculty investigators the opportunity to be mentored in research-intensive, multi-disciplinary settings toward the goal of developing careers in clinical - translational research. Emphasis of the Indiana CTSI K12 Early Career Investigator Awards in Clinical - Translational 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 of these stages. It is important that the clinical - translational research have clear applications to human disease and health outcomes. For details please see the links for the full announcement and other supporting documents.

If you have any questions about Indiana CTSI grants, programs, or upcoming events please feel free to reach out to co-navigators Jessica Brookshire or Paul Helquist.

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 $33 million for the current five-year funding period of 2018-2023. 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