Yale University

"After 5 Research Schmooze" a Step Toward Collaboration

"After 5 Research Schmooze," a speed-dating-style networking event, was held for CIRA and the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention (CHIP) investigators Wednesday, Feb. 15th, to afford them a chance to meet, discuss common research interests, and possibly find a partner(s) for applying for the recently announced $50K joint seed grant competition.

The CIRA/CHIP Multi-Institutional Pilot Program will make available this spring up to $50,000 in seed funding to an HIV/AIDS research team including at least one  investigator from each research center, with the goal of the collaboration growing into a significant joint externally-funded project. The announcement states: "Proposals will require at least two PIs, one from CIRA and one from CHIP, who will make equal contributions to the proposed research and have roughly equal expenditures.  Applicants must demonstrate intent to apply for national research funding within a defined timeline, and describe new research that could not be achieved without the collaboration. Preference is to support new collaborations and thus to fund a new CHIP-CIRA team."

During this first round of the Multi-Institutional Pilot Program, priority also will be placed on translational/implementation research that focuses on priority populations identified in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy or research projects that address the HIV epidemic in international settings.

To Apply

Letters of intent (LOI) to apply are due Tuesday, March 6th and final applications for those investigators whose LOI meet the grant criteria are due Thursday, April 19th.



Published: Friday, March 2, 2012