CTSI Accelerator collaborates with partners at Duke and other institutions to provide researchers with funding opportunities for the entire translational spectrum.
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CTSI Accelerator Funding Programs
These awards are up to $35,000 (including $10,000 supplements for proposals with a Community-Engaged partnership) and are designed to facilitate research that promotes health equity for groups who have traditionally been under-represented in health research or excluded altogether.
Current Status: Closed
- Up to $125,000
- Purpose: Support for cross-disciplinary scientific research addressing the development of therapies, diagnostics or devices applicable to human disease, clinical research/trials (excluding Phase 2 or beyond), epidemiological studies, and/or community-based research.
Current Status: Closed
- Up to $110,000 per award
- Purpose: To support novel clinical and translational research focused on improving health and health equity.
Current Status: Closed
Advances in translational science are the focus of this RFA. The CTS Grants program is intended to support Clinical and Translational Science (CTS), the field of investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process. Whereas translational research focuses on the specific case of a target or disease, translational science focuses on the general case that can be applied to research on any target or disease.
The program will award up to eight (8) awards of $25,000 to $50,000 each in direct cost only. The primary source of funding is the Duke-NCCU Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).
Current Status: Closed
- Up to $25,000 per institution ($50,000 total)
- Purpose: Develop inter-institutional collaborations for new investigator teams conducting novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings.
Current Status: Closed
- Up to $25,000 per institution ($50,000 total)
- Purpose: To support new inter-institutional collaborative research projects between Duke University and North Carolina Central University investigators.
Current Status: Closed
- Up to $25,000 per institution (50,000 per collaborative project)
- Purpose: Facilitate novel clinical, population, and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings.
Current Status: Closed
- Up to $25,000 per institution ($50,000 total)
- Purpose: Develop inter-institutional collaborations for new investigator teams conducting novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings.
Current Status: Closed
Other Funding Programs
Duke Health, along with Duke University School of Medicine and Duke CTSI, awarded a third round of Rapid Response funding for the Community Initiative to Advance Health Equity Together Through Education and Outreach Grant Program.
Community-serving organizations applied for funding to enhance capacity for health-promoting activities geared towards historically and currently marginalized communities. This initiative helps communities to address a wide range of preventable and treatable chronic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease, as well as communicable diseases such as influenza and COVID-19.
In addition, this initiative supports activities that provide access to accurate, timely, and trustworthy information and/or services for healthy nutrition related to the prevention and management of chronic diseases.
Eight community-based organizations (CBOs) each received a $7,000 award. Program activities must be implemented between January and June 2025.
Small planning awards of $1,500 to community organizations and Duke investigators interested in working with the CTSI’s Community Engaged Research Initaitve (CERI) for guidance on developing impactful community-research partnerships and planning collaborative population health improvement research proposals that impact community and population health.
Current Status: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
New and Advanced Partnership Awards
- Up to $50,000
- Seeks to support joint research proposals from community organizations/groups and Duke researchers who have already developed innovations to address health problems and are ready to advance pilot testing these solutions through broader community-engaged implementation research studies.
Current Status: Closed
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