The Program for Research Leadership (PRL)

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT 2010

The Program for Research Leadership (PRL) is a Connecticut-focused grant program that will support transdisciplinary teams of health researchers led by a senior investigator who has demonstrated leadership in innovative and useful health research and in transferring knowledge gained from research into clinical and/or public health practice. The overall goal of the program is to fund rigorous health research that incorporates effective approaches to translating research knowledge into practice. The program provides opportunities for the team members to enhance their expertise in transdisciplinary work and knowledge translation. Therefore, the grant project must contain the following three components:

  • Research
  • Knowledge uptake(a Donaghue term that is defined as those processes and factors by which evidence derived from research makes its way into use to improve health)
  • Team building

This program was established to reinforce the foundation’s mission to support research of practical benefit and to advance the uptake of research into practice, as well as develop and expand knowledge uptake expertise among health researchers through a team model.

Areas of Research

This program will fund research that has the potential for making a direct, near term impact on improving public health, clinical practice or community health interventions.

The Program for Research Leadership will not fund basic or pre-clinical research or research using animals.

For project examples, please see the full program description under the “grants programs” page at www.donaghue.org.

For information about our two previous PRL awardees please visit the Featured Projects & Grantees page.

Budget and Project Period

  • This is a four year award granting $200,000 per year. Total grant award is $800,000 (plus 10% indirect costs on an annual basis). The foundation will make one Program for Research Leadership grant award in 2010.
  • The grant will support research, team building and knowledge uptake activities.

Eligibility

  • To be eligible to apply as a senior investigator the researcher must hold an academic appointment at a university in Connecticut in one of these categories:

Tenured associate or full professor position or

Rank of professor with no term limit or

Clinical faculty member at associate or full professor level with 6 or more continuous years of extramurally funded research with a commensurate record of publications and an institutional commitment that extends through the 4 year period of the grant.

  • The application must include a team of two or three co-investigators. The team members may be from academic or nonacademic institutions or public or private sector organizations either inside or outside Connecticut.

The Donaghue Foundation reserves the right to solicit a letter of intent from investigators in academic institutions outside of Connecticut who meet the above eligibility requirements within their own institution; however, this solicitation will have no bearing upon the assessment of the submissions at either the letter of intent or the application phase.

Application Information

The process to apply for a grant has three steps:

1) letter of intent, 2) an invited application, and 3) a presentation by finalists on the proposed research made to representatives from the foundation and a panel of reviewers. For letter of intent requirements please click here or visit www.donaghue.org.

Once the letter of intent has been submitted, individuals must be invited to apply to this program. The foundation review of a letter of intent will determine whether the researcher may submit an application to this program.

Program Timeline

  • Letters of Intent due Thursday, April 29, 2010
  • Responses back regarding LOIs by Friday, May 14, 2010
  • Invited applications due Thursday, July 29, 2010
  • Grant term begins January 2011

For further information on the application procedures and forms, please visit our website at www.donaghue.org or contact the Donaghue Foundation at (860)521- 9011 or email us at leadership@donaghue.org.