{"id":24843,"date":"2024-12-09T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=24843"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:35:29","slug":"2025-cats-rfa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/2025-cats-rfa\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTS Accepting Applications for CATS Affiliate Scholars Program"},"template":"","news_categories":[20],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-24843","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-other-opportunities"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"Part of the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science Clinical and Translational Science Scholars Program","intro_text_body":"","intro_text_excerpt":"The CATS Affiliate Scholar Program accelerates the career progression of scientists committed to translational research by providing vigorous mentoring and career development to junior faculty with protected research time.","content_author":"Lauren Rieger","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","title":"Request for Applications","hide_title":false,"italicize_title":false,"text_block_disable_bottom_margin":false,"text":"<p><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/k8wscotab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001bWRCIhjFfGS8CC1Uc_LW4JZf9K5zdcsbb_FFGI8vnuXapIEVATaI7iJkhAQYmvPXbTjCfXmDzwbgLh08XisxHuHtoMX2lBs5hvbNjfyvYvN4P0zHQumvLt2PEQx544CgaIRbZRlPYa6DsvFpMxvwnw%3D%3D&amp;c=VEYaNcW5euWxpyUZMVr3cM99esGYtGPCgoDJZPAggTU7zNtM3lG9GA%3D%3D&amp;ch=9y5t5YwpUpOZAHNGsFzDF7p85BVfeD5lyU2QcCHasAvBOlHMC9lgOg%3D%3D Click to follow link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk8wscotab.cc.rs6.net%2Ftn.jsp%3Ff%3D001bWRCIhjFfGS8CC1Uc_LW4JZf9K5zdcsbb_FFGI8vnuXapIEVATaI7iJkhAQYmvPXbTjCfXmDzwbgLh08XisxHuHtoMX2lBs5hvbNjfyvYvN4P0zHQumvLt2PEQx544CgaIRbZRlPYa6DsvFpMxvwnw%3D%3D%26c%3DVEYaNcW5euWxpyUZMVr3cM99esGYtGPCgoDJZPAggTU7zNtM3lG9GA%3D%3D%26ch%3D9y5t5YwpUpOZAHNGsFzDF7p85BVfeD5lyU2QcCHasAvBOlHMC9lgOg%3D%3D&amp;data=05%7C02%7Claurenw%40uic.edu%7C4ab542d2006147ac236f08dd1870e177%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638693595366888255%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=piMCo3PeJ%2B%2B4z3jqVCEDnS4Nrax4WCXPqRmgzMPlzMM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Clinical and Translational Science<\/a>\u00a0believes health research should raise people\u2019s overall well-being in Chicago and beyond. We help UIC researchers bring health breakthroughs into the world faster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The CATS Affiliate Scholar Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CATS Affiliate Scholar Program is intended to accelerate the career progression of scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to clinical and\/or translational research. This institutionally-supported program provides vigorous mentoring and career development for clinical and translational scholars in disciplines and professions such as medicine, dentistry, engineering, social work, nursing, and pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>Ideal candidates are junior faculty who will have completed the majority of their formal research training and now require protected time to develop a specific research project that will lead to external funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CATS Affiliates vs. K Awardees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CATS Affiliates program and the traditional KL2 program both provide:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Two-year career development program for junior faculty looking to strengthen their clinical and translational sciences work<\/li>\n<li>The same mentoring and career development training opportunities as the standard K program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only difference between the programs is funding and protected time:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>CATS Affiliates are funded by their departments for $10,000 per year<\/li>\n<li>Affiliates receive 50% protected time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Due to the funding cycle, we are not able to fund K Scholars during this application round.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 5, 2025:\u00a0RFA Released<\/li>\n<li>January 23, 2025:\u00a0Submission portal opens<\/li>\n<li>January 29, 2025: Information Session<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 28, 2025, 5pm CST: RFA deadline\u00a0via CCTS Awards system only<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>June 1, 2025:\u00a0Anticipated award start date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Information Session<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ccts.uic.edu\/events\/cats-affiliates-2025\/\">January 29, 2025, 12:00 &#8211; 1:00pm via Zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please join our Director,\u00a0Shane Phillips, PT, PhD, and Associate Director,\u00a0Lisa Sharp, BSN, MA, PhD, to learn more about the program application process.<\/p>\n","include_image":false,"image":false,"is_decorative":false,"image_alt_text":"","image_caption":"","image_attribution":"","image_alignment":false,"include_link_list":true,"link_list_button_type":"button","link_list_items":[{"text":"Learn more","link_type":"external","internal_url":null,"anchor_slug":"","external_url":"https:\/\/ccts.uic.edu\/kl2\/rfa\/","link_id_text_block_link_type_name":""}]}],"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25097,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24843\/revisions\/25097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=24843"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=24843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}