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Congratulations to the 2025-2026 UMB ICTR CEnR and ATIP Pilot Grant Awardees!

Please Note!  If you are seeking a consultation in biostatistics, community collaboration/engagement, dissemination/implementation expertise, drug discovery/development expertise, informatics (access to clinical and imaging data, REDCap services, AI and Machine Learning), or a studio, please visit our Investigator Resources page /ictr/investigator-resources/. These are free services.

UMB ICTR CTSA Pilot Grant and Voucher (micro-grant) Funding Opportunities

All publications, abstracts, poster presentations, grant applications, intellectual property disclosures resulting from research supported by the UMB ICTR Cores (Biostatistics, Informatics, Community Collaboration, Dissemination & Implementation, and Drug Discovery and Development); ICTR Vouchers Program, ICTR Studios consulting service; Pilot grant funding; or the ICTR Scholar's Program should cite the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Baltimore, Institute for Clinical & Translational Research as a contributing source of support. Please include the following citation:

“We acknowledge the support of the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Baltimore, Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant number UL1TR003098.

The Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Baltimore (UMB) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) forge a powerful alliance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).  As a CTSA Program hub, UMB now has additional NIH U01 and R21 funding opportunities that would not otherwise be available.  

  • CCIA support investigators from three or more CTSA Program hub institutions.
  • The CTSA Collaborative and Innovative Acceleration Award (CCIA) aims to accelerate the pace of translational research by supporting the collaborative development, dissemination, and sustainable implementation of innovative solutions across the CTSA Program Consortium and beyond.

To learn more about this opportunity visit the .

Community and Collaboration Core Pilot Grant
Information Session: Monday, October 7, 2024
Application Deadline: Sunday, October 13, 2024

Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research  are designed to establish and develop community-engaged research (CEnR) partnerships. The Partnership Development Grant provides up to $10,000 to support partnership building activities for new collaborations between faculty from three academic institutions (Johns Hopkins University, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ at Baltimore, and Morgan State University) and a community partner (a community- or faith-based organization or public agency) from the Greater Baltimore area. While Partnership Development Grants may include some formative research activities, the grant intends to support activities that set the stage for future CEnR endeavors.

Applications are due by 11:59 pm, Sunday, October 13, 2024.

We are hosting an information session Monday, October 7, 2024 at 1:00 pm to review the current . To attend, visit 

For questions, please email Sarah Stevens, MPH at ICTR_CCC@jh.edu.

NIH Tips on Writing a Research Proposal

The NIH has information about writing research proposals at 


The Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Baltimore collaborates with for the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).