MGH CASI Early Career Pilot Awards
CASI Early Career Pilot Awards 2025
Request for Applications
CASI is now accepting applications for our Early Career Pilot Awards!
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These awards support innovative applied clinical research (involving humans) or clinical implementation pilot project(s) focused on improving the evidence base for aging or serious illness care. This award will fund initial pilot work to provide data and planning for an externally funded, full-scale project grant (e.g., K award, R01, PCORI, etc.). Detailed information is provided below.
Award Amount: Each award is $50,000 per year, plus 20% indirect costs
Project Period: October 1, 2025 - September 30, 2026
Applications Due: June 30, 2025
The CASI Early Career Pilot Award in Aging and Palliative Care
This award will support research focused on improving the lives of older people and or those with serious illness through research in population and health care delivery science.
The CASI Innovative Junior Faculty Pilot Award in Aging and Palliative Care
This award will support research focused on improving the lives of older people and or those with serious illness, with an emphasis on the care of those living with cognitive impairment or their caregivers.
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ELIGIBILITY
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Applicants must have a full-time MGH faculty appointment at the start of the award and during the entire award period.
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Applicants must not yet have reached the level of Associate Professor (e.g., Instructors and Assistant Professors) at the time of the award start date.
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Applicants from any MGH Department are eligible to apply.
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Faculty who are early-stage investigators, including those who will be expecting an MGH appointment by the anticipated award start date of October 1, 2025, are invited to apply.
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Collaboration across Departments, Divisions, Research Units, and the Hospital, as well as partnerships with community-based organizations are strongly encouraged.
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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To apply, please submit a complete application to this link: https://redcap.link/CASIPilotAwards
The following items must be included:
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Project title
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Layperson's summary of your research work (200 words)
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Cover letter (1-page limit), stating the nature of appointment at MGH, describing independent accomplishments, and discussing expected career goals.
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Letter of reference from supervisor or mentor
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Project or Research Plan: (4-pages for items a – g listed below, single spaced, 11-point Arial font with 0.5-inch margins)
a. Specific aims
b. Background/significance
c. Innovation
d. Approach
e. How the pilot will contribute to future funding
f. Timeline & milestones
g. Identified mentor whose role and commitment to mentoring is described in the project or research plan.
h. References (no page limit)*
6. Budget and Budget Justification*
7. PI Biosketch in NIH format*
8. Human subjects/IRB plan (1 page)*​
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*Note: References, NIH-format biosketches, budget and budget justification human subjects/IRB plan, and approved protocols do not count towards the research plan's 4-page limit. Appendices other than survey examples or interview guides are not allowed.
Note: Appendices other than survey examples or interview guides are not allowed. ​
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PROJECT START UP REQUIREMENTS
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Awardees must provide a copy of their IRB approval prior to receipt of award funds.
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Awardees must provide a recipient fund to received award
PROGRESS REPORT REQUIREMENTS
Awardees are required to provide a progress report 12 months after their notice of award. Reporting requirements will be communicated by the sponsor.
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Questions should be directed to the CenterforAgingandSeriousillness@mgh.harvard.edu
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