The Indiana CTSI provides funding for its special Pre-doctoral Training Award in Translational Research.
- These awards are designed to provide promising predoctoral students with the opportunity to be mentored in research-intensive, multi-disciplinary settings toward the goal of developing careers in translational research.
- Translational research is the process of turning observations in the laboratory, clinic, and community into interventions to improve the health of individuals and the public.
- Emphasis of these awards is to move findings from basic laboratory and pre-clinical research (T1) to the development of new treatment options/interventions or clinical trials (T2) to dissemination/clinical implementation (T3) to studying population health outcomes/health metrics (T4).
- The goal of the CTSI is to make awards at all of these stages.
- It is important that the proposed research has clear applications to human disease and health outcomes.
Pre-doctoral Training Award eligibility requirements
Criteria for applications include:
- Candidates must have completed at least one year of a pre-doctoral training program, but they cannot have completed more than their third year (i.e., applicants must be in the second or third year of their pre-doctoral program when they apply).
- Co-mentorship by faculty investigators from at least two different disciplines (preferably a clinician and a non-clinician scientist).
- Research that is translational in nature and takes advantage of the synergism that comes from working at this basic/clinical interface.
- Candidates must be United States citizens or permanent residents.
What are the benefits?
Pre-doctoral Training Awardees receive:
- Annual stipend
- Health insurance
- Partial tuition remission
- Travel funds to attend the annual national meeting of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program in Washington, D.C., in April*
*Note that trainees are required to attend the national CTSA meeting in Washington, D.C., and to present their work at several Indiana CTSI pre-doctoral gatherings during the academic year.
How to Apply
Applications for the Pre-doctoral Training Award are due in November and awards begin July 1 the following year. The award is for two years(renewable at the end of year one with satisfactory progress).
Questions? Contact Patricia McGuire at pcmcguir@iu.edu or 317-278-2824.
