About the Program
What's New in 2009
Key Dates

CIMIT Grants Program
CIMIT Grants support early stage, collaborative research projects for improving patient care, with emphasis on devices, procedures, diagnosis, and peri-procedural systems. To be considered for a CIMIT Grant, a proposal must present a collaborative, multi-disciplinary plan of work that specifically advances the likelihood that a new concept will yield benefit in the clinical setting. CIMIT values proposals by teams that reach across member institutions and whose novel ideas may create technologies that can benefit several medical disciplines.

CIMIT currently funds projects in diagnostics, image-guided therapies, tissue engineering, neurotechnologies, minimally invasive surgery, sepsis detection, trauma/casualty care, simulation, cardiovascular disease, global health, and peri-procedural systems. CIMIT is particularly interested in new approaches for managing combat trauma, including hemorrhage control, extending the “Golden Hour,” and traumatic brain injury.

CIMIT does not support drug development, information technology-centric projects, basic research, or clinical trials.

CIMIT urges all investigators (especially first-time applicants) to contact the CIMIT Site Miner at your institution. Also, work with the leaders of CIMIT Programs most relevant to your application. The Site Miner can answer questions and connect you with CIMIT leaders and staff. These leaders can help you network with other CIMIT institutions, suggest potential collaborators, and advise on developing your pre-proposal application.

WHAT’S NEW IN 2009

While the overall CIMIT grant process remains the same, these changes have been made in response to feedback from the CIMIT community:

• A limited number of two-year Science Grants will be awarded in 2009. In this category, Large Science Grants (up to $250,000 direct/year) and Medium Grants (up to $100,000 direct/year) are available.
  
  
• The start date for all 2009 grants will be moved to a calendar year cycle rather than the current cycle of the government fiscal year. This change is being made to coincide with the expected receipt of funding by CIMIT. Thus 2009 projects will start on January 1, 2009.
  
  
• The “Body Text” and “References” Files for proposal submission have been combined to simplify word processing. Page limits only apply to the Body Text (and associated figures and tables). You may include as many references as you wish.
  

Beyond these changes, CIMIT processes remain substantially the same as the 2008 cycle. The web-based solicitation process will be used, and comparable review structures are being set up. Drs. Steve Schachter of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and George O’Connor of Boston Medical Center will chair the CIMIT Scientific Review Panels. Dr. Ron Newbower of CIMIT will chair the Clinical Systems Innovation (CSI) Review Panel. Dr. Kirby Vosburgh of CIMIT will continue to direct the solicitation, review, and notification processes.

KEY DATES FOR CIMIT RFA 2009 GRANTS

March 16, 2008:	Science Awards and Clinical Systems Innovation Grants full proposals due (75 Pre-proposals invited to apply)
March 19, 2008	Call for CIMIT Young Clinician Award Nominations
April 7, 2008	Call for Career Development, Working Group, and Clinical Fast Forward Proposals
April 15, 2008	Deadline for CIMIT Young Clinician Award Nominations From Site Miners
April 19-30, 2008:	Science Awards and Clinical Systems Innovation Grants: CIMIT Review period
May 1, 2008	CIMIT Young Clinician Award Notification
May 1, 2008:	Science Awards and Clinical Systems Innovation Grants: Ranked list to CIMIT director
May 4, 2008:	Science Awards and Clinical Systems Innovation Grants: Director's Review complete; PI notification
June 1, 2008:	Career Development, Working Group, and Clinical Fast-Forward proposals due
July 1, 2008:	Working Group, Clinical Fast Forward and Career Development Grant notifications
August 1, 2008	CIMIT Young Clinician Funding Start Date
January 1, 2009	Science, CSI, Working Group, Clinical Fast Forward and Career Development Funding Start Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CIMIT Announces $5 Million in Medical Research Grants Major awards go to projects targeting sepsis, breast cancer CIMIT has announced that it will commit more than $5 million to 28 medical research teams for FY2009, including four major grants worth $500,000 each. Read announcement. Request for Applications CIMIT will begin accepting 2009 applications for Career Development, Working Groups, and Clinical Fast Forward Grants on Monday, April 7. Applications must be submitted online and are due June 1, 2008.