Are you planning to submit a Career Development Award? Have you assembled mentors and developed a Specific Aims page, but want to ensure that you submit the most competitive application possible? The K Grant Writing Workshop, sponsored by the BU CTSI, is open to Faculty and accomplished Post-doctoral Students/Fellows who will be remaining at BUMC. This course is offered in the spring and fall, and consists of 7, 2-hour sessions. Space is limited, and Participants will be selected based on a competitive application process. 



For information on the full request for application, please visit our website here .
Marcus Bosman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Respiratory Viruses:
A Focus on COVID-19 ARC
Mohan Saeed, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; Investigator, NEIDL.
The BU CTSI Team Science/IBRO/Evans Center IBR, under the directorship of Dr. Katya Ravid, are pleased to announce the establishment and support of a new Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC) co-directed by Drs. Markus Bosmann and Mohsan Saeed.



Emergency Awards: SARS-CoV-2 Serological Sciences Centers of Excellence (U54 Clinical Trial Optional)


Emergency Awards: Research Projects in SARS-CoV-2 Serological Sciences (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)

National Cancer Institute ( NCI )
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID )

Competitive and Administrative Supplements for Community Interventions to Reduce the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Disparity and Other Vulnerable Populations

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities ( NIMHD )

Supporting Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Mission Specific Sensory and Communication Disorders

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders ( NIDCD )


Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19

National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH )


Emergency Competitive Revisions for Social, Ethical, and Behavioral Implications (SEBI) Research on COVID-19 Testing among Underserved and/or Vulnerable Populations

Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health ( OD )


The   National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is making approximately $1 million available for health care research and journalism for its 2020-21 grant making cycle.

The YSP program funds implementation research that is policy and practice-relevant and examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce. Award amounts are up to $225,000 for primary research and up to $180,000 for secondary data analysis.

The   Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation   grants up to $500,000 over eighteen months to support the development of innovative clinical quality measures that promote excellence in diagnosis of three categories of disease: acute vascular events (such as stroke and myocardial infarction), infections (such as sepsis and pneumonia), and cancer (such as lung and colorectal cancer).   
Emerging Research Now Available Through New NIH Preprint Pilot
The National Library of Medicine has launched the NIH Preprint Pilot, which will test the viability of making preprints searchable in PubMed Central & discoverable in PubMed

Call for Papers:
JCTS Special Issue on Team Science
The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science announced a call for submissions focused on the Design, Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of Team Science Interventions in Clinical and Translational Research

COVID-19 Research Community Forum
Faculty and investigators at each university are at work addressing and solving problems that impact communities directly, including health equity, evidence-based public health policies, and healthcare resources and staffing.

NIH-Funded Study to Evaluate Drugs Prescribed to Children with COVID-19
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have launched an effort to evaluate drugs prescribed to treat COVID-19 in infants, children and adolescents across the country.

Challenges in Brain Analytics and Integration

A hybrid event with four virtual microlabs and a five-day residential workshop focused on neuroscientific analytics and integration for quantitative and biomedical researchers.

Boston University Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Accelerating Discoveries Towards Better Health 
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