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.
Eligible applicants include faculty members from partnering institutions- UMMC, UM, MSU, Tougaloo College, or USM, who are not current or previous principal investigators of a P01- or R01-type NIH grant or equivalent National Science Foundation Grant.
