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News -> July, 2005 News
Kelvin Lee, MD
Timothy Smith, MD, MPH
What the heck is a CORE grant? --A sometimes common and fair question from our membership. Continuing investigation into pathophysiology and new treatment modalities in rhinologic disease is critical to the advancement of our specialty. Your ARS supports this mission through an organized research grant mechanism. This is an expense and investment and some might ask whether this is the right direction and culture for our Society? There are several reasons to think it is. Not only does it allow us to offer our patients critical advancements in therapy and technology, clinical and basic research are essential to the continued growth of our specialty and support our central role in the care of patients with rhinologic disease. In the era of evidence based medicine, research is more critical than ever to safeguard our unique role in the management of rhinologic disease.
In an effort to strengthen research support in all areas of otolaryngology, the AAO-HNSF has joined forces with several senior societies, including the ARS, to broaden research opportunities and to streamline and enhance the research grant application and review process. The Centralized Otolaryngology Research Efforts (CORE) serves as a central clearinghouse and facilitator for otolaryngology-head and neck surgery research programs. The ARS, AAO-HNSF, AHNS, Triological Society, ALA, ASPO, AAFPRS, AAOA, ANS, and the American Hearing Research Foundation offer several funding mechanisms for one-year and two-year, non-renewable grants. Additional grants or new grants programs may be announced as more resources become available. Funding is also subject to the receipt of sufficiently meritorious applications. Through a rigorous centralized research grant application, review, and administration process, a uniform level of scientific rigor can be attained to achieve three objectives: 1) provide support for the most meritorious research in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery; 2) educate young investigators to prepare competitive grant applications; and 3) prepare more surgeon-scientists to serve as peer reviewers for NIH and other research agencies. The CORE program also brings greater scale and less fragmentation to otolaryngology and head and neck research opportunities, reduces the aggregate administrative costs of the individual grant programs, and enables a comprehensive overview of the spectrum of promising otolaryngology and head and neck surgery research/researchers to promote to the NIH and other agencies. In order for our specialty to thrive, we must have a seat at the table with these important agencies.
CORE Research Grant Program: Application Deadline - January 15th, 2006.
Applications are being accepted for the 2006 ARS CORE Research Grants. Letters of intent are due December 15th, 2005; applications are due January 15th, 2006. For more information, please visit http://www.entlink.net/research.
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