The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research offers several funding and training opportunities that accept competitive applications typically once per year. Below is a quick listing of the programs and upcoming key dates. More information is available on each program webpage.
Pilot Award Programs
Applications are now being accepted. Deadline March 9, 2021.
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Community-Based Participatory Research Scholars and Awards Program
A key capacity-building opportunity to stimulate community-engaged research between Columbia University faculty and community/faith-based organizations that serve upper Manhattan and/or The Bronx.
Applications open February 2021. Anticipated deadline Winter 2021.
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Imaging Pilot Award
Provides funding for junior investigators in MRI, optical imaging, PET tomography, single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT), and ultrasound.
Applications are now being accepted. Deadline April 16, 2021.
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Intervention and Implementation Science Pilot Award
A key capacity building opportunity to stimulate the development, testing, and implementation of innovative population health, social/behavioral, or medical/clinical interventions.
Applications open Summer 2021. Anticipated deadline September 2021.
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Translational Therapeutics Accelerator Pilot Award
Designed to provide investigators with funding, mentorship, and education to guide the advancement of an innovation from the lab to the clinic.
Applications open Summer/Fall 2021. Anticipated deadline November 2021.
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Columbia Precision Medicine Joint Pilot Grants Program
Funds research proposals focused on approaches to tailor medical care (prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment) to the individual patient.
Applications open Fall 2021. Anticipated deadline December 2021.
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Irving Multi-PI Planning Grant
Pilot funds intended to support the submission of multi-component biomedical research grants and large multi-PI research grants.
Applications open Fall 2021. Anticipated deadline December 2021.
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Training and Career Development Programs
Reach for the First R01 Workshop
Available twice a year to all promising junior faculty who are applying for the next funding cycle for an NIH R01 mechanism.
Applications will open July 2021.
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TL1 Training Programs
Prepares trainees for a research career that involves understanding disease risk, improving diagnosis/prevention, or tailoring treatment based on gene variations, environment, or lifestyle.
Applications are now being accepted. Deadline April 9, 2021.
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Irving Scholars Program
Open to new applicants once a year and offers unrestricted funding over three years to mid-level assistant professors at CUIMC working in clinical and translational research. Each awardee will be named a Herbert Irving (or Florence Irving) Assistant Professor and will join a prestigious alumni group dating back to 1987 when the program began.
Applications are now being accepted. Deadline May 6, 2021.
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KL2 Mentored Career Development Award
Prepares young investigators for careers in patient-oriented research. The award serves as a "bridge" by which young junior faculty can achieve research independence.
Applications open Summer 2021. Anticipated deadline September 2021.
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