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Clinical and Translational Science Research Program

Clinical and Translational Science Research Program

The 2025 award will fund a highly meritorious interdisciplinary clinical and translational science (CTS) projects. We are seeking competitive proposals that develop equitable AI tools that address health disparities and advance health equity.

One new grant is awarded per year, for a total of seven funded projects. 

Clinical and Translational Science Research Program Awards are based on a new framework, Clinical and Translational Data Science Equity, which include representation equity, feature equity, access equity and outcome equity.                                                   

This Clinical and Translational Data Science Equity framework comprehensively conveys the challenges of ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) in Clinical Translational Science (CTS), as well as the major translational barriers to effective dissemination, implementation and achievement of population health benefits. Most importantly, this framework, for the first time, allows us to systematically solicit, review, prioritize, select and disseminate CTS research projects addressing Data and AI Equity challenges.

Call for Applications

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is accepting applications for the 2025 Clinical and Translational Science Research Program Award, funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program. 

The goal of the 2025 award is to fund a highly meritorious interdisciplinary clinical and translational science (CTS) project. We are seeking competitive proposals that develop equitable AI tools that address health disparities and advance health equity.

Upcoming Sessions

Information Session (Virtual): October 1, 4:30 – 5 p.m.

A brief overview of the Clinical and Translational Science Award funding mechanism, followed by question and answer.

 

Ideation Session (Virtual): October 14, 1 - 3 p.m.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to participate in a virtual ideation workshop to present their initial ideas in a professional and friendly forum, because research shows that ideas that have gone through several iteration processes are stronger and have better potential of securing funding. The audience will include a mock review panel to provide expert comments, and general members of The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital Community who have the opportunity to ask probing questions and offer comments on presented ideas.

Participation in this ideation workshop is not prerequisite for application to the RFA, and feedback in this workshop is not indicative of application success. Up to 15 presentations will be accommodated in the workshop, on a first come, first served basis. 

To participate as a presenter, choose the "presenter" option in the registration form and prepare a three-minute presentation that includes:

  1. Translational science research question(s); 
  2. Research strategy, including data management plan and rigor of the study; 
  3. Significance to clinical and translational science

Funded Projects

Primary Contacts

Lang Li

Program Co-Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Research Program, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics

Tanya Berger Wolf

Program Co-Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Research Program, Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

Jenny Grabmeier

Program Manager of the Clinical and Translational Science Research Program, Director of Research Strategy at the Translational Data Analytics Institute