Request for Applications: Interdisciplinary Research on Ethical Issues in Clinical and Translational Research
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (CCTST) is soliciting applications for research addressing ethical issues in clinical and translational research.
Purpose: The CCTST Research Ethics Grant Program is designed to support interdisciplinary research that aims to develop, inform, or apply morally, socially and culturally acceptable frameworks that maximize the ethics of conducting clinical and translational research.
Given the conceptual and methodological complexity of the likely research questions, interdisciplinary collaborations involving clinical researchers, ethicists, and behavioral/social scientists are strongly encouraged. The research design should be appropriate to the nature of the project proposed and the disciplines involved.
Examples of topics appropriate for these applications include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Role of the community in research
• Explore challenges in research with changing and/or culturally diverse populations and appropriate ways of addressing these challenges.
• Explore ethical issues raised by community-based research models.
• Develop and evaluate methods for meeting the research needs of diverse populations and gauge which research issues the community feels are important.
2. Role of the individual research participant in research
• Explore levels of risk in research and how they impact informed consent processes.
• Explore levels of autonomy and how the role of the research participant alters the individual’s autonomy.
• Explore cultural and social perceptions of research participation, especially as they impact consent or refusal to participate in research.
• Explore issues of power and their impact on informed consent processes.
3. Maximizing the impact of research on communities
• Explore when and how research results should be disseminated to lay communities, including research subjects and the general public.
• Explore community perceptions of concepts such as minimal risk, coercion, etc., and how researchers can best address those community perceptions.
• Explore public perceptions of research regulation and financial conflict of interest.
• Develop and evaluate methods for communicating research results and incidental findings with medical implications to research subjects and families.
• Develop and evaluate scientific and ethical parameters that should be considered when reporting research findings.
• Develop and evaluate methods for communicating the evolving, and sometimes conflicting, nature of scientific evidence to lay audiences.
Eligibility: All 80% or greater FTE faculty members of UC, CCHMC, or the Cincinnati VAMC are eligible for this award.
Funding priorities: Proposals will be evaluated based on the scholarly merit of the proposed activities, innovativeness of the proposed interdisciplinary program, capabilities of the principal investigators, and potential for future extramural funding.
Awards: Up to $10,000 may be requested for a 1 year award. It is anticipated that 2 or 3 grants will be funded based upon merit of applications.
NEXT DEADLINE: TBA
The cover sheet, biographical sketch in NIH format (not to exceed 4 pages from each investigator), listing of research support, proposal (not to exceed 5 single-spaced typewritten pages), budget justification and any accompanying documents must be submitted as one Word or PDF document via email to Susan Swearingen (
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