Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Contact: Julie McKeel

The Duke Translational Medicine Institute was provided with funds through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Awards grant again this year to support research projects in biostatistical methodology applicable to clinical and translational science.

The applications were to be relevant to either the "bench to bedside" or the "trials to population" translational block of research. Each award would also cover partial salary and benefits for the recipient for one year. Multiple individual awards will be available each year over the next few years.

These internal grants are intended primarily to provide sufficient protected time for recipients to develop pilot results in anticipation of research grant applications to external agencies and to submit these results for peer-reviewed publication.

Each award is intended to cover partial salary and benefits for the recipient for one year. Other relevant expenses will be allowed with justification. The total award per year will be $35,000. Grants are renewable for subsequent years with appropriate justification and adequate annual progress reports. However, it is anticipated that most grants will be for no more than two years.

Applications were reviewed by a panel of experts consisting of several senior members of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics as well as several external reviewers chosen for their expertise in biostatistics or translational medicine.

The awards were announced earlier this month, and are effective for one year starting March 1, 2008. The grants are eligible, in a competitive renewal process, for one additional year. A progress report is required on at the end of the first year and at the end of each subsequent year, if any.

The awardees and their projects are: