Provost’s Pilot Clinical Research Award

The Provost’s Pilot Clinical Research Award is an initiative of the Jefferson Committee on Research (JCOR), awarded through the Office of the Provost. Specific goals of the Provost’s Pilot Clinical Research Award are to foster collaborative research and team science, and to develop clinical research topics that have been minimally explored at Jefferson.

This award mechanism is designed to foster new collaborative efforts between clinicians, clinical researchers, and/or basic science researchers by promoting clinician engagement in research. This award provides the opportunity for collaborative teams to obtain clinical research data to justify a more expansive study funded by extramural sources. Thus, projects must show evidence of having potential to significantly improve the competitiveness of a subsequent extramural grant application. Projects must also contribute to departmental, college, programmatic, university, or institutional missions.

Faculty from all of Jefferson’s colleges and campus are encouraged to submit proposals on clinical research, which for this funding mechanism is defined as research involving human subjects. The study should collect data from participants and require IRB approval. Proposals which only require samples/cells/tissue/data obtained from human subjects (defined as “Not Human Subjects Research” by TJU IRB) will be considered non-responsive.

Research teams must include at least 2 key people (co-PIs or one PI and at least one co-I) of different disciplines across clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic scientists. Projects with new collaborative teams and research topics understudied at Jefferson are strongly encouraged. Key personnel must be employed at TJU or our affiliates.

• Applications will be reviewed by the Provost’s Pilot Clinical Research Award committee members. The Review process may also include input from Jefferson research faculty with relevant expertise.
• Funding recommendations will be made by JCOR Clinical Research Pilot Award Subcommittee to the Provost.
• Final funding decisions will be made by the Office of the Provost
• Funded proposals will be required to submit a progress report at six months and a final report 3 months after funding ends. Download Progress Report 

Questions regarding the Provost’s Pilot Clinical Research Award may be addressed to:

JCOR Committee on Clinical Research Pilot Program
c/o Tyler Kmiec