Funding Opportunity from Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute

As part of its mission to accelerate discoveries to benefit human health, Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute will award funding to support five to 10 pilot pilot projects through its Bridges to Translation award.

The translation of biomedical and health discoveries to application is a long and complex process with high costs and substantial failure rates. As such, the institute seeks to fund pilot projects that build linkages and overcome roadblocks at any stage in the translational process.

Special consideration will be given to projects that focus on development or applications addressing social and environmental determinants of health, specifically as these releate to rural and other vulnerable populations who experience health disparities. This topic includes, but is not limited to:

  • Social determinants
  • Environmental determinants
  • Phenomic determinants
  • Study of and/or interventions focused on diseases of despair (Case and Deaton, PNAS, 2015)
  • New or new applications of methodologies including telemedicine, community-engaged research, big data modeling, etc., in research on the determinants of health
  • Population health and patient-centered outcomes research

Letters of intent for the next round of Bridges to Translation funding are due by 5 p.m. Dec. 2, 2019. Selected proposals will be invited to submit a full application.

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