The Great Plains IDeA-CTR, a collaborative effort between eight partner institutions across Nebraska with links to institutions in North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas, has announced two funding opportunities open to the medical center community.
The community engagement pilot awards are available to full-time faculty at University of Nebraska institutions, Creighton University, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Boys Town National Research Hospital and the Omaha VA Medical Center:
- Community-Engaged Research Pilot Project Award: A total of $25,000 is available for one or two awards. The applications must detail an existing or forming community-academic partnership and how the funds will be used to improve community health. The intent of this award is the generation of preliminary data for feasibility and acceptability trials.
- Community-Engaged Capacity Development Award: A total of $15,000 is available for small awards averaging approximately $5,000. The purpose is to provide seed funding for investigators working to develop or engage community partnerships for project design or planning purposes, or engage practice-based research networks to identify local priorities and begin project planning. The proposal needs to explicitly lay out how funds contribute to the development of the project.
The deadline is March 21. For more on these and other opportunities through Great Plains IDeA-CTR, please click here.
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Headquartered out of UNMC with Matthew Rizzo, MD, as the principal investigator, the Great Plains IDeA-CTR is part of a five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health totaling over $20 million. Its focus is developing early-career researchers into independent scientists and increasing the infrastructure and other resources needed to support clinical and translational research (CTR) around the region.