$5K – $10K Translational Research Ethics Grant Program

The Translational Research Ethics Grant Program was established to foster ethics-focused research on clinical and translational research practices. Proposals involving qualitative and/or quantitative approaches are welcome. Applicants may request up to $10,000 for one year.

This award is offered through a collaboration between the UNC Center for Bioethics and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS).

Some research ethics issues include, but are not limited to, ethical aspects of:

• Research recruitment Informed consent
• Return of unanticipated research results
• Return of research results with questionable therapeutic value
• Conflict of interest
• Commercialization of biomedical research
• Research with vulnerable populations such as prisoners, children, or the socioeconomically disenfranchised
• Research with families and communities
• Research with the recently deceased
• Research with stored biological specimens
• Research with animals such as:
  • Balancing harms and potential benefits
  • Promoting alternatives
  • Impact on researchers and technicians
  • Human-animal bonding and care-taking responsibilities

For more information or questions about the Research Ethics Grant Program, please contact Warren Whipple, TraCS Research Ethics Administrator.