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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Translation and Implementation Science Research for Heart, Lung, Blood Diseases, and Sleep Disorders

Federal program · program number 93.840 (the federal Assistance Listing number)

Key facts

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67 grants
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Type of help
Project grant
Typical award
Range of Dollar Amount: $34,623 - $1,851,680. Average Dollar Amount: $510,413.
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What it pays for

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives. The Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) plans, fosters, and supports late-stage research to identify promising approaches for ensuring successful integration of evidence and evidence-based interventions within clinical and public health settings, such as health centers, worksites, schools, and communities in the United States and abroad. These approaches build on the successes in fundamental discovery science and early-stage translational research to ensure findings achieve maximal benefit for people and their communities. They also will help tackle new challenges in late-stage T4 translation research�the phase in the translational research pathway that leads to general knowledge about implementing evidence and evidence-based interventions�that helps turn discoveries into improved health. CTRIS is the strategic focal point within NHLBI to catalyze opportunities for rigorous dissemination and implementation research to advance the creation, evaluation, reporting, dissemination, sustained adoption, spread, and scale of evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. CTRIS is charged with integrating the domain expertise found in all NHLBI organizational units and leveraging the NIH-wide...

Who can apply

Local (includes State-designated lndian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals, Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), Individual/Family, Small business (less than 500 employees), Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals). Any nonprofit organization engaged in biomedical research and institutions or companies organized for profit may apply for almost any kind of grant. Only domestic, non-profit, private or public institutions may apply for NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants. An individual may apply for an NRSA or, in some cases, for a research grant if adequate facilities to perform the research are available. SBIR grants can be awarded only to United States small business concerns (entities that are independently owned and operated for profit or owned by another small business that itself is independently owned and operated for profit, or owned by multiple venture capital operating companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, or any combination of these and have no more than 500 employees including affiliates). Primary employment (more than one-half time) of the principal investigator must be with the small business at the time of award and during the conduct of the proposed project. In both Phase I and Phase II, the...

How applications are judged

The major elements in evaluating proposals include assessments of: (1) The scientific merit and general significance of the proposed study and its objectives; (2)the technical adequacy of the experimental design and approach; (3) the competency of the proposed investigator or group to successfully pursue the project; (4) the adequacy of the available and proposed facilities and resources; (5) the necessity of the budget components requested in relation to the proposed project; and (6) the relevance and importance to announced program objectives. The following criteria will be used in considering the scientific and technical merit of SBIR/STTR Phase I grant applications: (1) The soundness and technical merit of the proposed approach; (2) the importance of the problem the proposed research will address; (3) the qualifications of the proposed principal investigator, supporting staff, and consultants; (4) the technological innovation of the proposed research; (5) the potential of the proposed research for commercial application; (6) the appropriateness of the budget requested; (7) the adequacy and suitability of the facilities and research environment; and (8) where applicable, the adequacy of assurances detailing the proposed means for (a) safeguarding human or animal subjects, and/or (b) protecting against or minimizing any adverse effect on the environment. Phase II grant applications will be reviewed based upon the following criteria: (1) The degree to which the Phase I...

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None required (federal program listing).

Who in Tennessee has won this program

2 awards to Tennessee groups since 2017 · 0 in Hamilton County. Largest shown:

Past Tennessee winners
Past winnerWhereAmountFiscal year
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$3M spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$2.9M2017

Source: Federal Audit Clearinghouse, USAspending.gov.

Tennessee groups that got this money through a state agency or another organization

This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. 9 pass-through grants on file · 0 in Hamilton County. Largest shown:

Tennessee pass-through grant winners
Past winnerWhereThroughAmountFiscal year
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyResearch Triangle Institute$936K spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyUniversity of Pittsburgh$88K spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyWeill Medical College of Cornell University$63K spent that year2025
Vanderbilt UniversityNashvilleVanderbilt University Medical Center$43K spent that year2025
Vanderbilt UniversityNashvilleVumc$28K spent that year2024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyNorthwestern University$14K spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyOhio State University$12K spent that year2023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyNational Marrow Donor Program (Bethematch Foundation)$307 spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountySeattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research— spent that year2024

Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).

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