Research@UIC > Funding Opportunities > Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs)( U19)

HHS - Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs)( U19)
RFA HS-11-004

Program Summary

AHRQ seeks U19 Research Program Cooperative Agreement applications for CERTs Research Centers (RCs) that propose a body of work addressing a minimum of three of the five programmatic interest areas described in detail later within this FOA: (1) comparative effectiveness, (2) patient safety, (3) tool development, enhancement, and/or validation, (4) health care system interventions, and (5) translation of research findings into practice or policy. These interest areas represent overarching interests of AHRQ, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and other stakeholders in therapeutics research and education. The proposed work of a CERTs RC is required to fall within a Center-proposed theme that unifies 3 to 5 major projects proposed by the RC to be conducted over the 5 year period of the grant; project partnerships with individuals and/or organizations engaged in relevant aspects of clinical care or its financing are highly encouraged. Applicants must also propose a core infrastructure that will support not only their proposed work, but also allow the future development and conduct of additional projects and activities with other funding sources and partners. Each applicant must also nominate two or more concept briefs that outline important and common issues in therapeutics that could be addressed by the applicant along with other CERTs RCs. Common issues may include, but are not limited to, methodologies, quality use of therapeutics, policies pertaining to research and education in therapeutics, development of meaningful partnerships with outside entities, or dissemination and implementation of CERTs findings. These concept briefs will inform the development of committees and working groups across the CERTs to address issues of common interest; they may also form the basis of one or more major collaborative CERTs projects or activities undertaken annually with assistance of the CERTs Scientific Forum

UIC is restricted to one application.

Additional Information 

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HS-11-004.html

Deadlines

Letter of Intent

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program.  White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

1. Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
2. Open eLOI.
3. Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.
• To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
• To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.
4. Complete the form fields.
5. After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

• Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
• Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

Please contact Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 6-7036 with any questions.

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