As another academic year begins, we wish you success in your research endeavors and offer our support and connection to the Indiana CTSI. We hope that you find the information, events, and funding opportunities impactful for your work. If you have any questions or concerns about anything related to the Indiana CTSI, please reach out to one of us and we would be happy to assist. Have a great year!

Melanie DeFord, Deputy Director
Jessica Brookshire, Co-Navigator
Prakash Nallthamby, Co-Navigator

The Indiana CTSI’s Project Development Teams (PDTs) help researchers turn their ideas into
realities. Comprised by expert panels representing a diverse range of disciplines, experiences, and institutions, PDTs are available to all faculty at all stages of their career* from IU, Purdue, Notre Dame, and Regenstrief Institute. They have assisted over 1000 projects since 2008.

Postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and visiting faculty may also utilize research PDTs for project advice, but not for pilot funding.

For more information about these teams, including expertise of PDT members,
and application instructions, visit the Indiana CTSI website.

Questions? Check out this flyer or email Tammy Sajdyk, PhD, MS, Associate Director of Translations Research Development.

Friday, September 20, 2024
Hine Hall – 875 West North Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202

More details are forthcoming. Click here about this year’s August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research Awardee & Keynote Speaker.

Additionally, Notre Dame's own Jason Rohr, Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla College Professor and Department Chair of Biological Sciences, has accepted an invitation to speak during the annual meeting.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Jordan Hall of Science Galleria (map)

The University of Notre Dame invites you to attend the 2024 Core Facility Fair. At this event, you will be able to meet with staff from a wide variety of both facilities that can support your research needs. 

Monday, October 14, 2024
All Day
Morris Inn Ballrooms (map)

Please save the date and join colleagues from across the Indiana CTSI for this all-day retreat on the beautiful campus of the University of Notre Dame. The retreat will feature remarks from Notre Dame's Vice President for Research Jeff Rhoads and Indiana CTSI leadership, presentations and speakers from each partner campus, and a keynote. Information about the agenda, speakers, and poster session will be released soon.

Submission Deadline: Rolling submission

The Indiana Department of Health’s Division of Trauma and Injury Prevention has been provided funding to support quality improvement projects and the ongoing development of the statewide trauma system. To aid in the implementation of trauma system projects, the Indiana Department of Health will fund the following strategies. Applicants must implement projects that target at least one strategy but can address multiple strategies if appropriate.

This request for application (RFA) is designed for all interested entities wishing to submit proposals for trauma system development under the core strategies outlined above. Funding decisions for all proposals submitted under this program will be made following a review process by the Indiana Trauma Care Commission (TCC) and IDOH.

Eligible applicants might include hospitals, hospital networks, first responder agencies, statewide organizations, and entities with previous experience leading quality improvement activities. An entity may submit more than one proposal.

Applicants will be allocated a set dollar amount based on the project scope and potential impact to address outlined strategies and improve Indiana’s trauma system.

Contact: : indianatrauma@health.in.gov

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024

Indiana CTSI Community Health Partnerships (CHeP) is soliciting proposals for the development of community-university partnerships to improve health, examine social determinants of health (SDoH), or enhance health equity, to result in future collaborative research proposals. The award can be used to establish new partnerships or to strengthen/expand existing community-university partnerships to solve critical health problems affecting Indiana residents. This award will not fund research pilot projects; instead, it will fund activities to help develop partnerships between organizations that have potential to later engage in joint research projects to address health, health equity, or SDoH. The expected outcome of this award is the development of a future research proposal for opportunities such as the Community Health Partnerships Trailblazer Award (Trailblazer Award). Examples of partnership development activities we are interested in funding include meetings, conferences, travel expenses, stakeholder interviews, and quality improvement assessments.

There must be at least one university-based partner and one community-based partner. All partners must currently be employed in Indiana-based institutions or organizations.

Awards will be up to $5,000 for one year to allow for partnership growth and collaborative grant proposal development.

Contact: chep@iupui.edu

Submission Deadline: November 4, 2024

The overall objective of this program is to foster and encourage activity-based therapy programs for the treatment of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, including acute management, medical complications, rehabilitative techniques, and neuronal recovery.

For the purposes of this RFA “activity based therapy” refers to functional and task-specific activities with the goal to promote neuroplasticity and recovery following neurologic injury due to brain injury or spinal cord injury.

The initiative for funding activity based therapy programs consists of two funding mechanisms: 1) an RFA for programs providing rehabilitative clinical care and employing “activity based” approaches for traumatic spinal cord injury persons, and 2) an RFA for programs providing rehabilitative clinical care and employing “activity based” approaches for traumatic brain injury persons.

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.

Contact: trnsldev@iu.edu

Submission Deadline: December 9, 2024

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.

Contact: trnsldev@iu.edu

Submission Deadline: January 13, 2025

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute 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 and eligibility requirements, please see the links below for the full announcement and other supporting documents. Applicants should open and read all of the links under “Files for Investigators” before starting a submission.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to send their current CV to Patricia McGuire for eligibility pre-screening no later than December 6, 2024.

Contact: pcmcguir@iu.edu

Full Submission Deadline: September 12, 2024

Rolling Submission Deadline

Submission Deadline: November 4, 2024

Submission Deadline: November 4, 2024

Deadline for Routing to ORA: January 9, 2025
Deadline for Uploading ORA-approved Proposal: January 16, 2025

Deadline: January 16, 2025

Deadline: January 16, 2025

Rolling Submission

Rolling Submission

Notice of Intent Submission Deadline: October 2, 2024
Full Submission Deadline: October 21, 2024

Notice of Intent Submission Deadline: October 9, 2024
Full Submission Deadline: October 21, 2024

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 co-navigators Jessica Brookshire or Prakash Nallathamby.