Advance-CTR

Award Programs

Advance-CTR supports collaborative, inter-disciplinary research projects that address community health priorities in Rhode Island.

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Award Programs

Advance-CTR supports collaborative, inter-disciplinary research projects that address community health priorities in Rhode Island.

Advance-CTR offers two annual award programs to clinical and translational researchers in Rhode Island. They are the Pilot Projects Program and the Mentored Research Awards.

The awards support projects that span the translational research spectrum, from basic and preclinical research, to clinical research and implementation studies, through to population-level outcome studies focused on public health and social determinants of health. 

Award Programs at a Glance

132

Funded Investigators

From Brown, URI, and the affiliated hospitals

81

Projects Launched

For research that spans the translational spectrum

136

Extramural Awards

Obtained by our awardees

94

Publications

By awardees a result of CTR support

Explore Our Programs

Mentored Research Awards

The Mentored Research Awards help junior PIs launch independent research careers through two years of protected research time and guided mentorship.
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Pilot Projects

The Pilot Projects Program provides seed funding for cutting-edge clinical and translational research projects.
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Awardees in Action

News From Advance-CTR

Awardee Spotlight: Orestis Panagiotou, MD, PhD

Dr. Panagiotou was recently published in JAMA Oncology on the statistical challenges of using administrative claims data for answering clinical and policy questions.
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News From Advance-CTR

Awardee Spotlight: Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD

Advance-CTR awardee Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD, recently received funding from United Therapeutics to move her research from the bench to the bedside.
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News from Brown

Biomedical research hub makes first pilot awards

Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR), a statewide partnership established last year to support collaborative medical studies that build on basic research, has awarded its first two Pilot Project grants.
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Meet the Awardees

Take a look at the investigators and research projects we have awarded since 2016.

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