Funding Opportunities

The MCCTR Clinical and Translational Research Scholars Program provides structured mentorship, protected time, and research support-to promote the development of junior faculty to establish independent careers in clinical, translational and population-based research on all major diseases that impact Mississippians; enhances the research skills of junior faculty members through courses in the UMMC Master of Science in Clinical Investigation degree program; seeks to increase the number of junior faculty members pursuing clinical, translational, and population research in all major diseases that impact Mississippians.

The MCCTR Pilot Projects Program supports clinical, translational and population-based research projects on all major diseases that impact Mississippians and that can become the basis for competitive extramural funding applications. Thus, major criterion for review of these applications will be competiveness for extramural funding if pilot grant funding is awarded. The program is designed to promote multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaboration, and to ensure equitable and productive distribution of research support across the MCCTR partner institutions-the University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Tougaloo College and the University of Southern Mississippi.