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LA CaTS Announces Multi-Institutional, Multi-PI Grants
Released: Thursday, November 08, 2018The LA CaTS Center is pleased to announce the LA CATS 2019 Spring Multi-institutional Grant Funding Opportunity (Round 8). The full text of the application instructions can be found here.
Overview: The LA CaTS Center will fund two new multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, multi-investigator awards in 2019. The goal is to develop collaborative research that results in highly significant preliminary data that can be used to compete for large multi-institutional or multi-PI federal grants, such as center planning grants, center grants, or program project grants. In this round of applications we are prioritizing applications that include an obesity, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, or cardiovascular disease focus. The support for a single project involving two institutions will be up to $200,000 for one year.
Eligibility: This program is available to researchers that are faculty members of the institutions which are providing the support: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSUHSC-New Orleans School of Medicine, LSUHSC-Shreveport, Tulane University School of Medicine, LSU Dental School, Ochsner Health System, LSU A&M, Children''s Hospital, and Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System ("New Orleans VA"). Applicants must hold a PhD, M.D., or equivalent degree. Post-doctoral fellows are not eligible for this funding opportunity.
Important Dates:
- Pre-Application Deadline: Friday, February 1, 2019 (submit by email to info@LACaTS.org)
- Announcement for Selected Full Applications by: Friday, February 15, 2019; Applicants will be notified directly if, based on their pre-application, they are selected to submit a full application for the competition.
- Full Application Deadline: Wednesday, April 15, 2019 (submit online on SPARC)
- Earliest Anticipated Start Date: July 1, 2019 (projects selected for funding may begin after project and written assurances (e.g.,IRB/IACUC) and subcontracts are reviewed/approved by the LA CaTS Center Executive Committee and/or NIH).
Questions? Contact info@LACaTS.org
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About the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) CenterThe LA CaTS Center is comprised of three primary collaborating institutions in the state, including LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans – and also includes six research partners: LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana, Children’s Hospital, Ochsner Health System, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, and University Medical Center. The LA CaTS Center’s vision for Louisiana encompasses the strengths and capacities unique to each member institution and represents a unified, comprehensive approach for targeting prevention, care and research of chronic diseases in the underserved population. The scholar program is supported in part by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center. For more information, please visit www.lacats.org.
