The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) invites proposals from ITMAT Members and ITMAT Associate Members in the Research Associate or Instructor A category. It is not too late to become a Member or an Associate Member if you would like to apply for the grant and meet membership criterion. If you are interested, please visit the membership section of our website (http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/membership.shtml) for details.

The concomitant problems of under-enrollment, selective enrollment and retention in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) often plague efforts to evaluate medical interventions. These problems often arise due to unexpected impediments to participant recruitment, which represents one of the largest costs of conducting RCTs. In recent decades, behavioral economics has provided considerable insights into how people make decisions, blending findings from economics and psychology to generate better descriptive and normative models of behavior. The goal of this pilot program is to help investigators at UPENN develop more successful strategies to increase the efficiency of clinical trial enrollment and retention across a range of different types of interventions. Please see the attached document for more information.

The proposals are due by March 9, 2018 for a proposal start date of June 1, 2018. Please visit our website at http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/funding.shtml for detailed instructions. Please note that the attached PDF document contains all of the documents required for submission via our Pilot Grants system.