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Alliance Research Initiative

ALLIANCE RESEARCH INITIATIVE 4.0

The College of Medicine’s Alliance Research Initiative has successfully advanced research by bringing together collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to pursue innovative areas of investigation. Previous Alliance teams have launched new research directions, expanded established areas in novel ways and supported faculty career development as part of the college’s mission to conduct and translate meaningful scientific discovery into cutting-edge options for the patients we serve. Through these efforts, the Alliance Research Initiative has strengthened discovery and expanded expertise across the University, leading to impactful research for Kentucky and beyond.

Alliance 4.0 will build on past success and further advance these important goals by providing selected teams with research funding, grant-development support, and access to research navigation resources. Teams will establish milestones toward a targeted external grant submission, and limited faculty salary support for clinical faculty may be requested when matched by the faculty member’s unit.

Please review the complete Alliance Research Initiative 4.0 details, including criteria for teams, eligibility, key application and budget information, review and selection processes, awardee responsibilities and more. 

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Alliance Initiative Teams

In August 2020, the College of Medicine officially launched 18 Alliance Initiative teams from each of the five research priority areas (substance use disorder; cardiovascular; diabetes and obesity; neuroscience; and cancer) and emerging areas of science. Since then, several alliances have completed their research projects and several new alliances have been added to the active roster. As the goals outline, these Alliance Initiative teams include members from 24 departments in the College of Medicine and nine colleges across the University. 

Program Goals

Program Goals

Goals for the Alliance Initiative are detailed and intentional in order to create the greatest impact and successfully position the college and University to increase research funding. The goals include:

Achieve greater University of Kentucky science impact on discovery and in promoting new standards of care, clinical, and population impact.

Promote the development of a leadership culture dedicated to mentoring and supporting the career development and academic success of all basic science and/or clinical faculty members of the Alliance Initiative.

Support the development of transdisciplinary areas of strength within research priority areas.

Engage leadership from multiple colleges, departments, and/or centers across the campus for success.

Increase collaborative interaction and programmatic funding, especially in members working to obtain funding.

Incubate applications that address three key factors in programmatic success: our faculty, our infrastructure, and systems (operations, facilities, equipment, systems for compliance and safety, etc.).

Leadership Team

Alliance Leadership Team