Research Is a Team Sport: Ralph Nitkin on the Research Relationship Between the Foundation and NIH How can early-career funding and mentoring help emerging investigators? Why do the Foundation and NIH share application and review standards, and how can Foundation awards set up an investigator for future funding? To [...]
New Funding for Investigators New National Center for Health Systems Research will provide new funding opportunities on health services training and research up to $150,000, building on previous Foundation commitments to health services and implementation science research. A new center has been established to train a cadre of learning [...]
Foundation to Award Grant Focused on Evidence-Practice Gap In 2023, the Foundation participated in the Collaborative for Physical Therapy Education to support the goals outlined in “A Vision for Excellence in Physical Therapy Education.” This vision represents the work of multiple stakeholders who considered a range of opinions and [...]
Open and Equitable: Exploring Unconscious Bias in Grant Review Recently, Liz Jackson, senior specialist of grants and scholarships at the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research, members of the Scientific Review Committee, and the Board of Trustees participated in an Open Research Funder’s Group — a cohort of funding organizations [...]
Robyn Roth: a Legacy of Care Robyn Roth, PT, MPA, comes from a show business background. Her mother was an opera singer and her father was a conductor and bandleader who worked in film and television, but she charted her own path and found a way to combine her [...]
Foundation to Participate in APTA’s Collaborative for Physical Therapy Education The American Physical Therapy Association has established the Collaborative for Physical Therapy Education to foster collaboration among stakeholders. The goal of the collective is to make progress achieving the aims outlined in the position paper: A Vision for Excellence in Physical [...]
Foundation Announces 2023 Scholarship and Fellowship Funding The Foundation for Physical Therapy Research awarded 21 scholarships in this funding cycle. The Foundation for Physical Therapy Research recently awarded $232,500 in scholarships. Foundation awards provide new investigators with support needed to complete doctoral studies. Since 1979 the Foundation has awarded [...]
2022-2023 VCU-Marquette Challenge Raises More than $160,000 for the Foundation For the fourth consecutive year, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) took first place in this year’s Marquette Challenge: a student-led fundraiser to support the mission of the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research. The top fundraising school earns co-naming rights for [...]
Serving Students Where They Are: Laurie Ray and Kim Wynarczuk on School-Based Physical Therapy Foundation Offers Grant in Support of School-Based Physical Therapy for First Time Laurie Ray is an associate professor at UNC Chapel Hill and serves the state of North Carolina as the Consultant for Physical Therapy [...]
From Blue Hen to Golden Eagle: Jacob Capin’s Journey from Athlete to Investigator Jacob J. Capin, PT, DPT, PhD, MS, is an assistant professor and director of the Life After Sport Trajectories (LAST) Lab at Marquette University. He is a recipient of the 2017 VCU-Marquette Challenge Award for exceptional [...]