The Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) at the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a pilot grant program to fund small-scale and developmental research with public and community health relevance. This year’s priority themes are cancer risk and cancer prevention. We are especially interested in receiving applications under these themes but will also consider applications on other topics. We expect to fund 3-5 projects in the range of $5,000 to $20,000.

This call for proposals is open to faculty with significant public health and community health-related experience at Penn and is intended to:

• Foster interdisciplinary research in public health at Penn that will have meaningful results at the community level.
• Assist in garnering external support for large-scale studies in the field of public health.
• Encourage additional faculty and staff at Penn to become involved in public health research.
• Identify innovative methodologies in the field of public health that have the potential of informing local, state and national policy and programming.

The call for proposals is open now and can be accessed here. 

Applications are due Friday, March 24th by 5PM.

All applications must be submitted electronically using the ITMAT Pilot Grant application system.

Grant funding will be in the range of $5,000 to $20,000.

Questions can be addressed to Krista Scheffey (krista.scheffey@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) or Collin Kather (collin.kather@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).