ATIP Grant Program - COVID-19 - FOA
2020 - 2021 COVID-19 Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) Grant Program Funding Opportunity Announcement
Deadlines: Accepted on a rolling basis through April 24th, 2020, 5 pm (EST) This FOA is now closed.
Eligibility: All University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) faculty at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor
Budget: Up to $50,000 in direct costs
Grant period: One-year award to start as soon as regulatory approval is obtained
The UMB ICTR has partnered with the UMB Office of the President to launch a COVID-19- specific Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) Grant competition to provide starter funds for projects specifically focused on clinical and translational research related to COVID-19 that involve faculty from the UMB Schools of Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, or Social Work; UMBC, and UMB-community partnerships.
The ICTR seeks proposals that utilize UMB and UMBC’s strengths to rapidly contribute to human health and related outcomes with respect to COVID-19 or the causal virus (SARS-CoV-2), including prevention, control, and response efforts. To that end, proposed research should accomplish one or both of the following:
1. Contribute to evidence-based responses to COVID-19 across a wide range of outcomes, including but not limited to,
- Clinical Trials involving novel vaccines, treatment using novel or repurposed drugs
- Screening, Detection, Prevention
- Psychological and socio-behavioral domains
- Digital Health and areas of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning
- Novel approaches for community monitoring and care delivery (e.g. surveillance apps, telehealth, etc.
2. Establish preliminary research that will enable the PI/team to leverage emergency or other research funding (announced or anticipated)
3. For questions regarding application guidelines, please email the UMB ICTR Navigator at ICTR-Navigator@umaryland.edu
COVID-19 ATIP RFA
PLEASE REVIEW RFA CAREFULLY! THE RFA PROVIDES PAGE LIMIT INFORMATION IN THE DESCRIPTION OF EACH REQUIRED ELEMENT. PLEASE REVIEW LIST OF REQUIRED DOCUMENTS BELOW. APPLICATIONS NOT RESPONSIVE TO ALL REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE REVIEWED.
Application Instructions:
1. Access Electronic Application -
- UMB Faculty - Please use your UMB ID to access the electronic application link UMB Faculty Application Access
- UMBC Faculty - Please request an application through this link UMBC Faculty Application Request Link
2. ATIP Application
- Please refer to the RFA for formating and page limits. See below for list of required, supporting documents. You are required to use templates where noted. All supporting documents listed below must be completed and uploaded electronically in the application document upload section.
- PLEASE NOTE! You have the option to save and return to your application. If you have problems returning to your application, DO NOT start another application! This will cause duplicate applications and effort on your part. Instead, email ICTR-Navigator@ umaryland.edu or call or text 410-627-3232 (cell) for help returning to your application.
REQUIRED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS (PLEASE REVIEW RFA FOR FORMATTING AND PAGE LIMITS.)
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Cover Letter - Addressed to UMB Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
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Abstract - Download and Use Required *
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Specific Aims
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Research Plan
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Comprehensive Budget/Justification - Download and Use Required ICTR Budget Template*
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Biographical sketch information
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Project Milestone Timeline - Download and Use Required Milestone Timeline Template *
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Reference List
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Key personnel Information - Please use this Key Personnel Information Needed AS A GUIDE to what will need to be submitted in the electronic application for each person contributing to the work of this project.
* WARNING! ALWAYS download templates BEFORE populating with data. Check that data are saving. If not, it may be that Microsoft Edge is set as your default app to read PDFs. If that is the case, data entered may still not save, font size may change, etc. Consider changing the default app to read .pdf files to Foxit or Adobe. To do so:
Windows 10 - Go to Settings (Windows icon lower left of screen, then gear icon)
Select Apps
On left panel, select Default Apps
On right, scroll down and click on link Choose default apps by file type
On the left, scroll way down to find the .pdf file type. If Microsoft Edge is the showing, click on it and select Adobe or Foxit.