PCORI awards more than $3 million for research capacity-building projects through Pipeline to Proposal Awards program

Washington, D.C. – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded more than $3 million for 83 new projects through its Pipeline to Proposal Awards program. This initiative is designed to develop a nationwide community of patients, researchers and other healthcare stakeholders with the knowledge and capacity to participate in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). 

Recipients include individual patients and patient groups, as well as caregivers, healthcare providers, and researchers. By providing seed funds, Pipeline to Proposal Awards help usual candidates for research funding to forge relationships within their communities. The goal is to turn a shared interest in a critical healthcare topic into patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER) proposals that they can submit to PCORI or another research funder.

“The Pipeline to Proposal Awards program is helping build a community with the expertise and passion to participate in patient-centered outcomes research, and to create research partnerships within that community that lead to high-quality research proposals,” said Jean Slutsky, PA, MSPH, PCORI's Chief Engagement and Dissemination Officer. “We look forward to following the awardees’ progress as they develop partnerships and begin to form research questions.”

To date, the Pipeline to Proposal program has awarded nearly $8 million to 303 projects. Details can be found on PCORI’s website.