2024 PUF Award
The Call for Participant User File (PUF) Research Grant Letter of Intent (LOI) is NOW open. Each selected applicant will be awarded up to $15,000 to apply for and complete an STS Participant User File (PUF) application.
PUF applications being accepted for research projects based on data from the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database, General Thoracic Surgery Database, Congenital Heart Surgery Database, and the INTERMACS Database.
Please Note: SCA will not consider applications from primary investigators (PI’s) currently receiving SCA research funding. However, they may serve as a co-investigator on a PUF application.
All STS Database related documents are available after a free registration through the STS website: www.sts.org.
First Step – Letter of Intent Required Documents
(All documents will be required to be uploaded as a PDF):
- The Letter of Intent (LOI) should not be more than two pages.
- The LOI should detail the proposed title of the project and a statement that the PI/applicants checked and verified that their proposed work is not similar to a previously completed or presently active STS approved research proposal.
- List of active STS research proposals from all programs
- List of recently published STS research studies based on STS National Database data
- The LOI should describe the roles of the key personnel including PI, co-investigators, cardiac surgeon who are also an active STS member, and a PhD level biostatistician. Their backgrounds/connection to the topic area, the key personnel, and the unique skills or resources they and their institutions bring to the project.
- Details of the proposed study, including background, specific aims, the study design, and target patient population or disease process, along with a description of any translational/mechanistic components.
- Biosketch in the new NIH formatting for the PI.
Award details:
- Total award amount: $60,000 for a total up to 4 grants awarded at $15,000 each.
- Award duration: One time award.
- Letter of Intent (required) deadline: September 16, 2024.
- Notification of invitation for full application: October 31, 2024.
- Application deadline for invited applicants: November 25, 2024.
- Award recipients announced: February 2025.
- Click Here for full application requirements.
Click Here TO SUBMIT YOUR LETTER OF INTENT
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