Announcements

CCTS Offers New Mentor Training

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science now offers mentor training using the CIMER Entering Mentoring Curriculum. The program is for UK faculty with mentees in health or biomedical fields, and it meets the requirements for serving as a mentor on an NIH-funded training grant. This interactive, in-person training is offered four times a year at no cost. More information here.

CCTS Spring Conference | abstracts due Feb. 5, mentor award nominations due Feb. 10

April 1, 2025, hundreds of researchers, clinicians, staff, students and community members will share research around the theme “Pioneering Pathways: Innovative Trial Design in Translational Science.” The 20th Annual CCTS Conference also hosts Research Days for the colleges of Dentistry, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and the Department of Internal Medicine.

New NIH Genomics Data Management Policy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued updated data management policies, which introduce new security standards in the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy.

Proposal Submission Deadline Policy

To ensure timely and accurate submission of proposals for sponsored projects and to honor our commitment to a healthy work-life balance for our staff, the following policy was developed in collaboration between the Vice President for Research, Collaborative Grant Services (CGS), Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) and the Associate Deans for Research (ADRs). This policy outlines the timeline and responsibilities for the proposal preparation and submission process.

NSF Limited Submission – Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)

Limited Submission – NSF – Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) – NSF 25-521

NCATS Clinical & Translational Science Award Request for Pilot Funding Applications due 1/21/25

Eight institutions funded by the NCATS Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) have joined together to form the Consortium of Rural States (CORES): The University of Utah Health, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Kentucky, the Translational Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Iowa, Dartmouth College, and Penn State University.

January 2025 The IRB Review Newsletter

January edition now available

December 2024 RCR Newsletter

December edition now available

December 2024 UK Innovate Newsletter

The December edition of the Innovation Insider highlights Dr. Dibakar Bhattacharyya’s recognition as a 2024 National Academy of Inventors Fellow, registration information for the 2025 Kentucky Innovator Challenge and a feature on UK physicians mentoring undergraduate engineers.

eIAF Changes for Grants Administration

The following changes relating to the electronic Internal Approval Form (eIAF) system are effective immediately:

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