Journal of Clinical and Translational Science · Published 2026-04-01 · DOI 10.1017/cts.2026.10417
Objectives/Goals: HiREC Endowment investment accelerates investigators readiness for research infrastructure and advance career development to conduct impactful research. Support access to facilities and resources, research training and scientific mentors, encourage collaborations, scientific outcomes dissemination, and grant submission. Methods/Study Population: HiREC Endowment employs competitive application and review process to identify and support early-stage and mid-career investigators with high potential for impactful research. Applicants submit proposals outlining objectives, infrastructure needs, and expected outcomes. Proposals are evaluated by experts based on scientific merit, feasibility, potential for external funding, and alignment with institutional priorities. Awardees receive targeted funding for building research capacity and facilitating submission of competitive grant applications. Ongoing progress is monitored through periodic reporting to ensure effective use of resources and achievement of defined milestones. Mentorship and training are provided for academic and research development of emerging faculty and investigators. Results/Anticipated Results: Awards represent a strategic institutional investment that empowers researchers to build sustainable research capacity and achieve meaningful scientific impact, without relying solely on external grants. Over 36 awards have been offered, resulting in more than $1M funds committed to strengthen the institutional research culture. Awards distribution was 12 Mini, 6 Advanced, 2 Laboratory, 2 Special, and 14 MSc Scholars. Most awardees were affiliated to SoM (69%), followed by SoHP (27%). The 50% of HiREC awardees were PhD, followed by MD (30.6%). Awardees showed remarkable progress in their research careers and endeavors, academic promotions, local and national dissemination, publication in peer-reviewed high impact journals, social media, and other mechanisms, and obtaining external funds as R01 level. Discussion/Significance of Impact: The HiREC Awards focus on early-stage and established investigators to pursue high-quality research and obtain external funding. This support has offered protected research time, access to infrastructure, mentorship, collaborations, and training – key elements in their success and in strengthening our institutional research culture.
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