Research Resources
UD’s NIH Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Cardiovascular Health is pleased to announce a call for COBRE pilot research grants to expand and enhance the scientific goal of the center, which is to catalyze cardiovascular health research at UD. The COBRE pilot projects will provide funding for a one-year period that will allow investigators to develop more substantial external NIH support from individual or multi-investigator proposals. Proposals should be submitted electronically to Freddie Patterson fredap@udel.edu as a single PDF document by 5pm on October 12, 2023. Click here for more details.
Maggie E. Neumann Health Sciences Research Fund
This funding mechanism has closed for 2023.
Please direct any questions about these funding announcements to your department Research Committee representative or Freddie Patterson (fredap@udel.edu).
2023 CHS Summer Scholarship Program
This funding mechanism has closed for 2023.
Please direct any questions about these funding announcements to your department Research Committee representative or Freddie Patterson (fredap@udel.edu).
CHS investigators can apply any time for up to $300 to assist with external peer review of developed large extramural proposals. For more details please contact Freda Patterson (fredap@udel.edu)
The CHS Research Advisory Committee will now facilitate the scientific review of your specific aims pages. This is a voluntary program aimed to provide rapid feedback to early-draft aims pages. The guidelines and link to upload your aims page are below.
If you want feedback on your aims page, simply upload the document to the form linked below, and provide some additional information to help us secure ~2 reviewers. Please continue to have colleagues in your own networks review your work - this program is not intended to supplant any other review.
Specific Aims Review Service: Guidelines for Submitting Investigator and Reviewer
Guidelines for Submitting Investigator
- Submit your aims page in MS word format along with your name, department, and 1-4 key words to characterize content expertise the reviewer should have.
- It is recommended that you submit your aims for review 2-3 months prior to the proposal deadline, but earlier or later submissions will be accepted.
- You can expect to receive comments approximately 2-3 weeks following the submission.
- All reviewers will be instructed to maintain confidentiality. The review process may or may not be blinded, depending on reviewer preference.
- Submitting investigators are encouraged to solicit feedback on their aims and all aspects of their proposal from a variety of trusted sources.
Guidelines for Reviewer
- You have been invited to review the aims page because of your content expertise and because you have demonstrated experience writing and securing grant funding.
- Please use the track changes function in MS Word to provide comments and suggested edits to the aims page you are being asked to review.
- A speedy turnaround time is most useful and appreciated to the submitting investigator; please complete your review within 7-10 business days.
- Please maintain confidentiality.
- You have the option of doing this in a blinded fashion, but this is not required.
- Review of an aims page can include (but not limited to) a critique of the following:
- quality of messaging, presentation issues, organization of introductory material
- quality of the formulations of the Specific Aims
- writing adequacy, tone, and reviewer-friendliness
- guidance on whether these features are working together to clearly and convincingly reveal and highlight the novelty, innovation and significance of the proposal--and how to improve these aspects
- guidance on whether the Aims form a cohesive, strong, well-organized attack on a significant problem that appears likely to advance the field
- any evident limitations in approach
For more information, visit the biostatistics page.
The College of Health Sciences can make funds available on a rolling basis to support the acquisition, repair and/or replacement of shared equipment located and maintained in CHS departments. Please reach out to Freda Patterson (fredap@udel.edu) for more details.
Below is the Spring 2022 CHS Facilities Template page to use for NIH grants. Modify the template to suit your specific grant proposal needs.
Karin Silbernagel, associate professor of physical therapy, has been appointed director of the Center for Human Research Coordination. The new core facility will assist researchers across UD with the recruitment of study participants. Read more on UDaily.
- Research Subject Recruitment
- Research Subject Logistics (screening, scheduling, transportation, reimbursement)
- Patient Registries
- REDCap Database construction, maintenance, and support
- REDCap education and training
- Data server maintenance, hardening and security