Funding Opportunity Description

WVCTSI is accepting Pilot Project Funding LETTERS OF INTENT for clinical and translational research focusing on, but not limited to, specific health areas of importance to West Virginia and Appalachia at large from basic scientists paired with a clinical investigator acting as Co-PIs on the projects. Co-PIs do not have to be from the same institution.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines clinical research as: (1) patient-oriented research; (2) epidemiologic and behavioral studies; and/or (3) outcomes research and health services research.  Per the NIH, translational research includes:

• The process of making discoveries in the research laboratory or in preclinical studies that will have an impact on human health and may lead to the development of studies in humans
• The process of applying discoveries generated during research in the laboratory, and in preclinical studies, to the development of trials and studies in humans
• Research aimed at enhancing the adoption of best practices in the community.