Due Date: 7/1/2024
The American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy requires a letter of intent (LOI) from all applicants interested in submitting an application for the Legacy Fund New Investigator Grant. The LOI optimizes the time invested by both the investigators and the AASPT Research Committee to identify proposals with potential for funding. The Research Committee will extend written invitations for full proposals to selected investigators based on the merit of the LOI; this invitation does not imply a commitment to funding. Funding decisions will be made following formal review of the full invited proposals.
Merit of the LOI, like the full proposal, will be based on the following criteria, as evaluated by the Research Committee:
- Significance & Relevance: The potential for the proposal to make significant and timely contributions to the field of sports physical therapy.
- Innovation: The novelty of the concepts, analytical techniques, and/or interventions, or the potential to challenge current clinical and scientific paradigms within sports physical therapy.
- Approach: The extent to which the concept, research design, statistical methods and analyses are adequately described and appropriate for the proposed investigation.
- Investigators & Environment: The ability of the PI and the research team to successfully complete the proposed investigation. Consideration is also given to the quality of the facilities and resources available to the research team.
Individuals considering LOIs are strongly encouraged to review the recording of the informational webinar hosted by a member of the AASPT Research Committee.
The Research Committee will provide a brief written notification to those applicants not invited for the full proposal with general feedback regarding why it was not invited. Detailed feedback will not be provided.
The LOI (2 page maximum) must include:
- Project Title
- Background, including research question and central hypothesis
• Please include supporting evidence for the study premise
• State explicitly the current gap in the literature and the study’s relevance to sports physical therapy - Study Design: State clearly the study design (ie. RCT, prognostic study, etc)
- Population and Recruitment Strategy
• Briefly describe your population of interest; a table detailing eligibility criteria is encouraged
• Recruitment strategy should outline how you will gain access to your population of interest - Methods:
• Briefly describe the scientific approach to testing your hypotheses. This section should include:
· Variables of interest
• Summary of the testing methods
• Brief statistical plan with sample size justification
· Include a brief description of study environment (quality of the facilities and resources available) - IRB Status (Approved, Pending, Not yet submitted).
- List of study team members with the following information included: credentials, affiliation(s), job title, email, role on project, up to 5 relevant presentations/publications/grants within last 5 years
The list of study team members and references are not included in the page limit.
Please submit your LOI to [email protected] by 5pm on 7/1/2024.
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