Healthcare Innovation Drives Recipients of 2026 Research Project Awards
While the projects vary in scope, funding from these awards shares a common thread of improving the focus and capabilities of existing programs. “For almost a year, this collaboration has been trying to unlock ways to study the Sinai Delivery Program – in a resource-limited context, this award allows us to leverage an innovative, existing program to solve key knowledge gaps,” says Jia.
“Building the Northwestern Medicine Translational Care Clinic has been my main clinical and research project for the last fifteen years – but one of our biggest ongoing frustrations has been getting patients to come to their initial follow-up appointments,” says Schaeffer. “We are excited to combine clinical experiences with data analysis, assessment and implementation science to address these gaps in care engagement.”
The 2026 Translational Science Research Project Awards were informed by the results of the Healthcare Innovation Challenge, in which the NUCATS Institute crowdsourced ideas from across Northwestern. Ideas that shaped Request for Proposal (RFP) came from researchers, students, staff and clinicians, helping to ensure that the research projects were informed by the broader translational science community.
The NUCATS Translational Science Research Project Awards, offered every two years, support innovative, multidisciplinary proposals that reimagine how care is designed, offered, accessed, communicated, delivered and evaluated for impact. They focus on reach, scalability and real-world feasibility, supporting interventions that address gaps in how evidence-based care is identified, communicated, linked and sustained in practice. Research reported in this publication was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number UM1TR005121. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Written by Kevin Castro
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