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Dear Members of the Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend research communities:
Nancy Michael, associate teaching professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, recently received a Trailblazer Award for her partnership with Beacon Health System’s Department of Community Impact. The Trailblazer Award supports "collaborative, community-engaged research projects focused on topics that have the potential to improve health equity in Indiana."
Her proposal is titled, “Building Trauma-Informed Communities through NEAR Science and Change Theory.” This collaboration with Notre Dame’s Neuroscience and Behavior program aims to facilitate the necessary content understanding and skill-building to empower community-based organizations to move their own organizations forward in becoming trauma-informed.
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Please see the full list of available funding opportunities and upcoming events below. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to co-navigators Jessica Brookshire or Paul Helquist.
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Indiana CTSI COVID Pilot Funding
Deadline: Open
Indiana CTSI is offering pilot funding (up to $15,000) in support of select COVID-19 related research projects. If interested in this opportunity, please contact Lane Coffee at rlcoffee@iu.edu.
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Indiana Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (IADRC) Developmental Project Award
Deadline: September 10, 2021
This award is intended to support investigators in developing preliminary data sufficient to provide a basis for an application for independent research support in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Proposals should describe innovative basic, clinical, behavioral, translational, epidemiologic, caregiving, or educational research likely to advance the understanding of the basic and clinical underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease and related cognitive disorders.
The IADRC Developmental Project Program will award three projects for $50,000 (for a total of up to $100,000) for up to two years.
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Pilot Funding for Research Use of Core Facilities
Deadline: September 27, 2021
The Indiana CTSI Pilot Funding program is intended to promote the use of technologies and expertise afforded by the Indiana CTSI Core Facilities available at all partner institutions. Successful proposals will demonstrate outstanding scientific merit that can be linked to generating extramural funding or novel intellectual property. The success of the program will be viewed, in part, by the fostering of newly funded grants or providing significant contributions to grant renewals. A maximum of $10,000, usually used for projects over the span of two years, can be requested.
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Activity-Based Therapy Program for the Indiana Traumatic Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund
Deadline: November 1, 2021
This program aims to foster and encourage activity-based therapy programs for the prevention, treatment, and cure of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, including acute management, medical complications, rehabilitative techniques, and neuronal recovery.
The initiative for funding activity-based therapy programs consists of two funding mechanisms, which can be found here.
Applications for each RFA may be submitted for up to a maximum requested amount of $150,000 for the total duration of the project. Programs must be conducted in compliance with all state and federal laws.
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CTSI Postdoctoral Training in Translational Research (TL1) – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Track
Letter of Intent Deadline: November 8, 2021
Submission Deadline: December 9, 2021
The Indiana CTSI is requesting applications for TL1 Postdoctoral translational research proposals focused on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Indiana CTSI strongly encourages applications from postdoctoral fellows who have a keen interest in directed training in advancing innovations into commercialization and entrepreneurship.
The CTSI postdoctoral fellow will undertake a translational research project focused on the development of life science technology pertaining to health and human disease and work in an entrepreneurial ecosystem located at one of the four Indiana CTSI partner campuses. The fellow will work in an environment with mentors who can help the fellow develop the necessary skills to become a successful entrepreneur. The proposal will require advance planning with the innovation center and an already existing relationship and commitment between the center and the trainee.
Submission of a letter of intent is required in order to receive approval for the submission of a full proposal.
For questions, please call Patricia McGuire at (317) 278-2824 or email her at pcmcguir@iu.edu.
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Indiana CTSI Research Core Technology Seminar Series
Friday, September 10, 2021
12:00 p.m., via Zoom
This seminar series will inform investigators how existing or new technologies offered by the core facilities at Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame could be useful in advancing their research.
The first seminar will feature the Preclinical Modeling and Therapeutics Core (PMTC) facility at the IU School of Medicine.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All seminars will be recorded and the links to the video recording will be posted on the CTSI Access Technology Program web page.
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Indiana CTSI Annual Meeting
Friday, September 24, 2021
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., via Zoom
Indiana CTSI has announced that the annual meeting will transition to a virtual-only event. The event was originally planned as a hybrid event. Many of the successful tactics we employed for the 2020 virtual event will be built upon them for a deeper engagement at this year’s virtual annual meeting.
No additional action is required from those that have already registered to attend the meeting in-person. For those of you who have yet to register for the meeting, please select the virtual option on the registration form available here.
Additional details will be provided in the coming weeks in support of this transition.
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Reciprocal Innovation Stakeholder Meeting: Health Systems Resiliency and Reciprocal Innovation During Global Crises
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
8:00 – 10:00 a.m., via Zoom
Join the discussion around the concept of reciprocal innovation and the knowledge we've gained during the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen health systems. Dr. Roger Glass, director of the Fogarty International Center and associate director for International Research at the National Institutes of Health, is this year’s keynote speaker.
Please contact Nydia Morales-Soto (nsoto@nd.edu) if interested in learning or participating in an interactive workshop on building global partnerships and developing Global Health Reciprocal Innovation (RI) Demonstration and Planning Grants.
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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.
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About the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
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.
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