Strategic Priorities Pilot Award

This service is provided by the Pilot and Collaborative Studies Resource (PCSR) 

Overview

The Strategic Priorities Pilot Award program offers awards that deploy institutional funds to address emerging strategic priorities. The program is designed to flexibly respond to pressing institutional, local, and national needs and jump-start timely research collaborations.

• Duration: One year
• Award amount: $90,000

The application process is multi-stage, starting with the submission of a brief pre-proposal. Selected pre-proposal applications will be provided with consultations to further develop their project and invited to submit a full proposal for funding consideration. 

Current Focus - Translational Science

Translational science is the field of investigation that generates innovations that overcome longstanding challenges along the translational research pipeline.

The Translational Science – Strategic Priorities Pilot Award supports translational science projects that seek to address barriers in translational research and the inefficiencies in the research process that are common across diseases and conditions. Addressing barriers in the research process will accelerate the time from discovery to improved human health.

The Irving Institute invites pre-proposal applications for translational science projects that seek to address roadblocks facing investigators across the research process and accelerate translational research. 

Pre-Proposals should: 

• Identify a translational research barrier they seek to address. 
• Propose an innovative plan to mitigate the barrier (i.e., a translational science innovation). The proposed innovations should be broadly generalizable to various domains and translational research questions. 
• Describe how you will evaluate effectiveness in mitigating research inefficiencies. 

Many research projects encounter specific barriers to successful implementation, and these can present promising use cases for answering translational science questions and developing tools and solutions that can be applied across conditions and diseases. Therefore, applicants may submit pre-proposals for a translational research project (i.e., focused on a specific disease) that includes a translational science question. 

Previous Focus

See a list of Strategic Priorities Pilot Award recipients.

Eligibility

• Principal investigator(s) must have a faculty appointment at Columbia University of assistant professor or higher.
• Postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to apply as principal investigator.
• Teams may include outside consultants/collaborators (e.g., community stakeholders) with unique experience or expertise in innovative approaches not currently available at NYP/Columbia. However, sub-awards are not permitted.
• Teams are limited to no more than six investigators.
• During each application cycle, only one submission is permitted per principal investigator (PI). Principal investigators may be listed as co-investigators or consultants on other applications.

Special consideration will be given to projects that include research plans reflecting alignment with the Irving Institute commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups.

Deadlines

The application cycle is closed.

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