Grant Assistance

Funding Opportunities and Proposal Editing

The Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences assists investigators with finding funding opportunities and editing grant proposals. To learn more, contact the Senior Executive Director-CCTS Grants Program, Satya Kolar, MD, PhD, 713-500-7924.

Cite and Submit

Investigators who received funding through the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), or who used any CTSA services to support their research, are required by the NIH to cite the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant. Grant citations are used as a critical performance measure when reporting evaluation metrics to the NIH. 

Citation Examples

The following language may be used to acknowledge the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences: 

The research [publication title] was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health, through UTHealth-CCTS grant number [grant number]. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences or the National Institutes of Health. 

Award Numbers

Be sure to include all award numbers for which you received support. The following tables may be used to determine the appropriate number(s).

Tips for investigators

1. Learn the NIH grant format. NIH is the world's largest awarder of biomedical research grants, so most of our investigators apply for NIH grants, although we provide assistance for all kinds of grants. Many other grant agencies also use the NIH format.
2. Familiarize yourself with the Office of Extramural Research (OER), the arm of NIH that awards grants. Its web site (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm) provides information and advice on applying for NIH grants and writing grant applications. It also provides a list of grant opportunities. 
3. Subscribe to the NIH Guide listserv, at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm
4. Check out the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers (described here https://www.nih.gov/institutes-nih ). Each has its own web site, which lists the institute/center’s funding opportunity announcements and has tips on grants that may be relevant to you even if your work is not relevant to that institute/center. 
5. Read sample grant applications. To write a successful grant application, it helps to have a good model to follow. One source is the applications on the NIH NIAID web site, at https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/sample-applications .
6. Ask your colleagues for their grant applications. For grant applications in your field, ask your collaborators if you can read their funded grant applications. If you’re applying for an unusual grant, such as an NIH K99/R00, successful applicants at your institution will usually share their applications.
7. Use NIH RePORTER (https://report.nih.gov/ ) to find those at your institution with particular grants (or to find anything about funded NIH grants).   
8. For CCTS Letters of Support stating the use of CCTS services for your proposed research, contact Tricia Hill-Thomas.