Research Project Development Teams

As an academic and clinical investigator, you gain access to the guidance, resources, and other services needed to fund your research with the help of Research Project Development Teams (PDTs). Investigators can apply for advice from these teams, or for funding.

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The Right PDT for Your Project

Across the state, six teams of experts meet with investigators to help them develop their projects and obtain successful external awards. This support leads to new interventions and discoveries that improve human health.

Each PDT is organized around a targeted range of topics. The Indiana CTSI will arrange meetings with the teams that best fit your research area.

Supports translational research relating to how to improve health outcomes and promote sustainability in communities, including behavioral science, clinical interventions and access to patients, families, and communities. Strengths include epidemiology, sociology, implementation science, and communications.

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Supports a wide range of research projects, including those on the path from basic science and/or animal models to all phases of clinical trials.

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Supports biomedical research innovations related to human health therapeutics and diagnostics by leveraging the major expertise at Purdue University. Strengths include biomedical technologies, nutritional health, analytical chemistry, regulatory issues, and intellectual property concerns.

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Supports multidisciplinary clinical and translational research projects in pediatric populations.

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Supports basic and translational health research, from model systems to individual and interpersonal behavior, to policy and population dynamics.  Strengths will be in mental health, aging, cognition, neuroscience, and social and behavioral science methodologies, including survey research, evaluation, social networks, big data, and qualitative research.  Provides a special emphasis on grant writing for the social and behavioral sciences.

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Supports basic, clinical and translational research that 1) enables a deeper understanding of how social, economic, and environmental contexts shape patterns of health and wellness, including onset of diseases and disorders, within communities; and 2)  informs effective treatments and interventions to promote equitable opportunities for good health and wellbeing.

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Postdoctoral and clinical fellows are welcome to schedule with a PDT for project advice. They are not eligible for pilot funding.

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