Project Panels leverage the community of scholarship across the CCTS Partner Network to work with you to brainstorm ideas, generate research questions, meet possible collaborators, fine-tune study design and sharpen your proposals. Whether you want a multi-disciplinary panel for your proposal or a quickly-deployed, tailored group, we assemble the expertise needed to work with you to strengthen your project.
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Innovation Panel (iPanel)
How does it work?
iPanel GOAL: To discuss a scientific discovery, technology development or novel process that may have potential health application and/or commercialization.
iPanel APPROACH: A group of individuals with expertise in science, tech transfer and business development are brought together to help innovators chart a path forward. This 1-hour panel can be useful for those looking to further develop intellectual property, to submit a SBIR/STTR, to create a company or to disseminate non-patentable, evidence-based system interventions.
How to prepare:
- Click here to sign up!
- A CCTS Research Commons Liaison will contact you to discuss your project.
- Share a brief description of your technology, innovation, scientific discovery, etc.*
- Describe what expertise is sought and/or indicate individuals you wish to attend (or not)
- Provide availability (days/times for conversation in the proximate 2 weeks)
Optimal Timeline:
- Proposal submission approximately 4-6 months
* The CCTS has established a consortium-wide memorandum of understanding regarding scientific integrity and confidentiality. Participation in an iPanel does not qualify a discussant for inventor credit. Criteria for inventorship (a person who conceives the subject matter of at least one claim of an IP disclosure / patent) still apply.
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Nascent Project Panel (NPP)
How does it work?
NPP GOAL: To brainstorm research ideas early in the conceptual phase; to hone study aims; to consider preliminary data that is in hand or may be needed for a competitive grant proposal.
NPP APPROACH: A standing panel of investigators representing broad, transdisciplinary expertise in study design, analytic methodology, ethics, health disparities, outcomes, regulatory knowledge, participant & clinical interactions. The Panel can be tailored by invitation of additional panelists with specific expertise, as needed.
NPP FORMAT: The standing panel assembles on the 4th Wednesday of every month to discuss up to two (2) research projects. The panel begins with a brief scientific presentation by the PI followed by open discussion (45 minutes total).
How to prepare:
- Click here to sign up! Indicate that you would like an NPP by adding "NPP Request" to the text box labeled "Reviewers I would like on my panel".
- A CCTS Research Commons Liaison will contact you to discuss your project.
- Provide (1) an updated biosketch and (2) an abstract to help introduce you and your research in advance of the panel event
- Describe what expertise is sought or identify names beyond standing NPP membership
- Choose an available standing date
- Prepare a 15 minutes PowerPoint presentation of 10 slides (instructions provided) to introduce the scientific gap in knowledge, the scientific opportunity and the proposal frame (aims & preliminary data)
Optimal Timeline:
Proposal submission 6-8 months away.
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Panel Done Quickly (PDQ)
How does it work?
PDQ GOAL: To provide advanced peer- and methodologic-review of a grant proposal
PDQ APPROACH: A group of investigators with specific and relevant research expertise are invited to attend a one hour meeting which simulates a study section. The panel reviewers provide the investigator with feedback to strengthen the grant application.
PDQ FORMAT: the 1-hour panel is tailored to the request in both schedule and expertise. Reviewers review materials in advance, and the panel provides the setting for moderated discussion of feedback
How to prepare:
- Use the button below to request a panel
- A CCTS Research Commons Liaison will contact you to discuss your project.
- Share a rough draft of your specific aims to allow identification of expertise (this draft will not be shared)
- Describe what expertise is sought and/or indicate individuals you wish to attend (or not)
- Provide availability (days/times for conversation in the proximate 2 weeks)
- One week before scheduled panel, please provide most current drafts of documents to be reviewed.
Optimal Timeline:
Proposal submission 6-8 weeks away. -
Translational Investigator Exchange Service (TIES)
How does it work?
TIES GOAL: To explore interdisciplinary scientific connections related to a clinical or experimental observation.
TIES APPROACH: This 1-hour venue invites a tailored group of investigators with complementary “disciplinary” expertise, often bridging the translational spectrum, to explore a clinical phenomenon in a more tractable system (bedside to bench) or an experimental insight in an advanced model (bench to bedside). TIES is also amenable for considering how to leverage scientific strategies in one discipline and applying them in another.
TIES FORMAT: the panel is tailored to the request in both time & expertise and aims to foster “productive collisions” that may lead to collaboration. The open conversation would ideally, though not necessarily, point to products (manuscripts, extramural applications, etc.) as an incentive.
What to prepare:
- Click here to sign up!
- Provide a succinct overview that describes (1) the scientific observation (a few sentences), (2) what expertise is sought
- Provide availability (days/times for conversation in the proximate 2 weeks)
- Indicate individuals you wish to attend (or not)
Optimal Timeline:
TIES panels lend to nascent ideas discussed in a setting that nurtures curiosity in the absence of constraint (grant deadline or demand of some product).