ITMAT Proposals: April 16 |
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April 7, 2015, Volume 61, No. 29 |
The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) and the Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) invite proposals from ITMAT Members and ITMAT Associate Members in the Research Associate or Instructor A category.
It is not too late to become a Member or an Associate Member if you would like to apply for the grant and meet membership criterion. If you are interested, please visit the membership section of the website (http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/membership.shtml) for details.
The proposal must center on novel approaches to testing and delivering interventions for people at high risk for poor health outcomes. ITMAT and CHIBE are seeking pilot projects that utilize wireless technologies (e.g., wearable devices, wireless pill bottles, weight scales, etc.) with engagement strategies from fields like behavioral economics to translate ideas into practice in ‘real world’ settings. They are particularly interested in projects that utilize these technologies to help us better understand variability of response to therapeutics and susceptibility to disease.
Proposals must utilize the Way to Health platform. Way to Health is an integrated research platform that integrates information from wireless technologies, communications tools and other applications to allow investigators to test ways of improving health behaviors and helping people keep on track to better health.
The proposals are due by April 16, 2015 for a proposal start date of June 1, 2015.
Visit http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/funding.shtml for detailed instructions.
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