The LA CaTS Center is pleased to announce we are currently accepting Letters of Intent for the 2014-Round 3 Pilot Grants Competition, with a focus on junior faculty investigators. Please see the instructions regarding eligibility and LOI details. Further instructions on the full proposal will be released after the LOIs have been reviewed. LOIs are due by Friday, August 8, 2014 and should be submitted on the LA CaTS Center website at: https://lacatsfunding.pbrc.edu/members/researchfunding/default.aspx.
LA CaTS Pilot Grants Program Currently accepting Letters of Intent
July 24, 2014
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About the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center
The 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 in New Orleans, and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans
– and also includes six research partners: LSU Health 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.