What is SPRINT?Discover how this program will expedite the transfer or commercialization of your intervention into practice.
SPRINT informational Webinar(click to view) |
Opening Workshop: May 6-8, 2019 On-line Sessions: Thursdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6, 13, 20 Closing Workshop: June 27-28, 2019 |
SPRINT Training
Reducing the burden of cancer will require creativity, innovation, and faster translation of scientific knowledge into practical applications. SPRINT is a new training program that leverages the experience and structure of the NSF I-Corps™ program, but is customized specifically for the science of cancer prevention and control interventions.
NCI is interested in building a cadre of behavioral scientists that is interested and capable of moving interventions into practice more rapidly.
NCI is interested in building a cadre of behavioral scientists that is interested and capable of moving interventions into practice more rapidly.
SPRINT Teams
Teams identified as finalists receive training for adapting and integrating their interventions into real-world settings, individualized guidance to help teams refine their ideas over the 8 week course. A three-day in-person meeting will kick-off the training (May 6-8, 2019 in Rockville, MD) and a two-day in-person meeting on June 27-28, 2019 will close out the training phase of the program. Weekly on line meetings will take place on Thursday beginning May 16 and ending June 20, 2019.
What Teams Get:
What makes a team?
What Teams Do
Eligibility
NCI-funded investigators with a currently active R01 grant (must be in year 2 of your grant at minimum) or an R01 that was completed after January 2014, are eligible to apply. The focus of the R01 grant must be on the design, testing, delivery and/or implementation of an intervention or tool to advance cancer prevention and control. SPRINT teams must include at least 2 members, (preferably 3) among whom at least 1 member is willing to commit at least 20% of their time to the training program and discovery phase of the curriculum.
What Teams Get:
- 18 Hours of training on adapting and translating their interventions into real-world settings (provided remotely/online via the Online Workshops)
- 2 Months of networking and mentorship to hone their idea and perfect their pitch
- The opportunity to refine the intervention idea and feedback on how to move forward with dissemination or commercialization
What makes a team?
- Teams can be made up of two or three members
- Each team must have a Principal Investigator (PI), who is the primary researcher or inventor behind the behavioral intervention.
- Teams must also have an Entrepreneurial Lead (EL). The EL is often a graduate student or post-doc, highly motivated committed to the project. Both the PI and EL will be expected to conduct customer discovery interviews, and each should think of this as a “half-time” job over the two months
What Teams Do
- Come to Rockville, MD for in-person meetings at the beginning and end of SPRINT.
- Attend weekly on-line workshops
- Meet with a minimum of 40 potential customers and stakeholders for their interventions. Each of these meetings may last up to 25 minutes. Note there is a significant time commitment and face to face engagement is strongly encouraged
- Present updates on their project during webinars, actively engage in weekly webinars and prepare a short video for the close-out meeting on how their intervention/concept has evolved during the training
Eligibility
NCI-funded investigators with a currently active R01 grant (must be in year 2 of your grant at minimum) or an R01 that was completed after January 2014, are eligible to apply. The focus of the R01 grant must be on the design, testing, delivery and/or implementation of an intervention or tool to advance cancer prevention and control. SPRINT teams must include at least 2 members, (preferably 3) among whom at least 1 member is willing to commit at least 20% of their time to the training program and discovery phase of the curriculum.