One goal of the TSI mission is to support innovative translational research initiatives. The TSI has established a pilot program to fund early stage research projects from multidisciplinary teams of translational researchers working in novel areas. The links below provide access to the grant application process.  

TSI Team Pilot Research Awards (Due Date: December 18, 2009)

ELECTRONIC GRANT SUBMISSION ACCESS (click here to complete the grant facepage and upload application documents)

• APPLICATION GUIDELINES
• BUDGET TEMPLATE

 

Identifying Translational Research

T1 (Basic )	How does the described research take mechanistic insights and use them to inform clinical research?	How does the described research take clinical research observations and use them to catalyze new areas of mechanistic scientific investigation?
Clinical	How does the described research take current observations in health services, knowledge transfer or quality improvement and apply them to clinical care?	How does the described research take take clinical observations and use them to catalyze new areas of research in health services, knowledge transfer, or improvement in quality of care?
T2	How does the described research take current observations in health services, knowledge transfer or quality improvement and enhance the dissemination and application among health care providers?	How does the described research take observations from community health care providers and use them to catalyze new areas of research in health services, knowledge transfer or improvement in quality of care?

Common characteristics of translational research include (projects are not expected to include all aspects):

• Reaches across the translational research spectrum
• Includes humans, biological samples from humans, or animal models of human disease
• Collaboration among and across disciplines
• Community engagement
• Team science approach
• Communication and diffusion
• Attention to process and the study of the research process itself

Multidisciplinary Research

Multidisciplinary reserach engages investigators with a variety of skill sets, experience and perspectives to reach new solutions or new approaches to problems.  Multidisciplinary research is not always appropriate to a specific translational research question, but this RV requests that multidisciplinary teams be a core component of the application. Thus, any of the following levels of cross-disciplinary research are acceptable:

• Multidisciplinary research draws on knowledge from different disciplines
• Interdisciplinary research analyzes, synthesizes and harmonizes links between disciplines into a coordinated and coherent whole.
• Multidisciplinary research can integrate the natural, social and health sciences and transcends each discipline’s traditional boundaries.