Attention Investigators:
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Research Program is calling for applications.
Applications will be accepted and reviewed according to the following schedule:

• Call for Applications: July 19, 2013
• Letter of Intent due: August 16, 2013
• Invitation to submit Full Application: September 30, 2013
• Full Application due: November 1, 2013
• Funding Decision: January 2014

The categories of awards will be as follows:

PILOT AWARDS FOR JUNIOR INVESTIGATORS 
This award is intended to support pilot studies by early stage investigators to obtain preliminary data for an eventual extramural grant submission.  The maximum award will be $25,000 which must be spent over 18 months.  This award is only open to investigators in the early stage of their career, or investigators who are transitioning into a new area. 

PILOT INNOVATION & HIGH IMPACT AWARD FOR ALL INVESTIGATORS
This award is for investigators at all stages of career development, junior, middle level, and senior, and is intended to stimulate innovation and to support pilot studies that will lead to extramural funding.  The total award is limited to $50,000 which must be spent over 18 months. 

NOVEL METHODOLOGY
This award is intended to support new medical product development. Research teams submitting to this CCTS call for applications, typically would be preparing an SBIR or STTR proposal for NIH, often directed toward the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The total award is $15,000, ideally for preparation of a proposal with a NIH SBIR deadline of Jan 2014.
A list of SBIR announcements and an application guide are available:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir_announcements.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/SF424_RR_Guide_SBIR_STTR_Adobe_...

For full program details please visit: http://www.ccts.uky.edu/Investigators/pilotstudy.aspx

For questions, please contact Elodie Elayi at elodie.elayi@uky.edu