The 2024 application is closed

Two levels of funding are available:

  1. Pilot Grants: provide up to $50,000 direct costs for one year to facilitate the planning of a new clinical and/or translational research project.
  2. Small Projects (accepted on a rolling basis): This $5,000 funding opportunity will support highly-focused data collection, secondary- or other analyses relevant to the WU-CDTR mission. Small project application can be found here.

Need assistance developing your proposal? Contact us at cdtr@wustl.edu

Timeline – Standard Pilot Application Cycle

  • LOI due: November 4, 2024 at 4 pm (CST)
  • Proposals due: December 2, 2024 at 4 pm (CST)
  • Earlies project start date: March 1, 2025

Applicant eligibility

  • Principal Investigators must be members of the WU-CDTR (or eligible for membership)
  • Applicants must hold a faculty level appointment
  • Applicants may be the Principal Investigator on only one proposal and there can be only one Principal Investigator on an application.
  • See RFA for additional guidelines