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Texas state map representing the 13 institutions of the University of Texas System involvement with Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4)
Texas state map representing the 13 institutions of the University of Texas System involvement with Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4)

About

Mission

Harness the power of the University of Texas System to transform trauma care both on the battlefield and in the civilian sector.

Vision

Fund transformative inter- institutional collaborative basic, clinical, and translational research that can be rapidly translated to improve trauma care throughout the state of Texas, and ultimately nationally and internationally.

Leadership

James Bynum, PhD

University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio

Executive Director, TRC4
Professor and Vice Chair of Research

Department of Surgery

Edward Chagoy, MHA

Deputy Director
Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4)
Phone: 210-567-5887
Email: chagoy@uthscsa.edu

Christina Spencer

Program Manager
Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4)
Phone: 210-567-5701
Email: spencerc3@uthscsa.edu

Frances J Ramirez, BSM

Executive Assistant
Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4)
Phone: 210-567-5882
Email: ramirezf@uthscsa.edu

The 13 institutions of the University of Texas System involvement with Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4)

Advisory Committee

Ronald (Ronny) Stewart, MD, FACS

University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio
Chair – Voting
Chair, Department of Surgery

Alan Cook, MD, MS, FACS

University of Texas at Tyler
Member – Voting
Medical Director, Center for Clinical Research

Charles S. Cox, MD, FACS

University of Texas Health Science Center
at Houston
Member – Voting
Chair, Neurosciences & Chair, Pediatric Surgery

Joseph DuBose, MD, FACS

University of Texas at Austin
Member – Voting
Professor, Department of Surgery
and Perioperative Care

David Lakey, MD

University of Texas System
Member – Voting
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs,
Chief Medical Officer

Benjamin Levi, MD

University of Texas Southwestern

Medical Center
Member – Voting
Chair, Surgery and Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery

Rafael Martín, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Dallas
Member – Voting
Vice President and Chief of Staff

Byron Hepburn, MD, FAAFP
(Maj Gen, USAF, Ret.)

University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio
Ex Officio – Non-Voting
Associate Vice President and Director,
Military Health Institute

Chris Rathbone, Ph.D.

University of Texas at San Antonio
Member – Voting
Associate Professor, Department of
Engineering and Chemical Engineering

Emre Umucu, Ph.D.

University of Texas at El Paso
Member – Voting
Associate Dean, Research,
College of Health Science

Steven Wolf, MD

University of Texas Medical Branch
at Galveston
Member – Voting
Professor and Division Chief of Burn,
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Jingsong Zhou, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Arlington
Member – Voting
Professor of Kinesiology and Associate
Director for Bone-Muscle Research Center

Lucia Nguyen, MD

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Member – Voting
Assistant Professor

Xuemin Xu, Ph.D.

University of Texas Permian Basin
Member – Voting
Professor, Director of Biomedical Research Center

Byron Hepburn, MD, FAAFP
(Maj Gen, USAF, Ret.)

University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio
Ex Officio – Non-Voting
Associate Vice President and Director,
Military Health Institute

Jennifer Gurney, MD, FACS (COL, MC, USA)

Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency
Ex Officio – Non-Voting
Chief, Joint Trauma System

FAQs

A: Funded collaborations are allowable within the UT System only. Any costs for collaborations with non-UT entities should be limited to fee-based arrangements such as core facility use fees or similar, and should be budgeted under Other Direct Costs.
A: This is at the discretion of the submitting institution and its own internal policies and may vary by institution. Please contact your institution’s Office of Sponsored Programs or equivalent business office for further guidance. For example, UT Health San Antonio does require internal review/approval, and proposals should be submitted to OSP Pre-Award for review at least three business prior to the deadline.
A: No. If it is a UT systems collaboration, each school should submit their own budget form within the application. Please see “Additional Guidance” at the bottom of this page for more detailed information.
A: They can include indirect costs up to 10% of total direct costs. Please consult with your institution on requirements for handling indirect costs for this grant call.
A: No. Unfortunately, this is a hard deadline to allow the maximum time for the work to be completed.
A: You can reach out to your OSP representatives or on the TRC4 website there is a Contact link that you may submit questions to, and someone will respond as soon as possible.
A: It depends on the number of submissions to each mechanism. The total funding for this application opening will be adjusted to maximize the number of awards across all the mechanisms.
A: Yes, each submission is provided a unique identifier number.
A: It is recommended, but not required for all mechanisms.
A: The mechanism was designed to work between both.
A: It is advisable to have already received or at least begun the process for IACUC or IRB approval before award due to the limited period of performance for this grant call.
A: Grants within this call can include the whole continuum of care. This would include the mental aspects and chronic implications of trauma as well.
A: A mentor is needed to sponsor a submitting PI who is less than 5 years from receiving their terminal degree, including medical residents, graduate students, postdocs.
A: We will allow a short “no funding” extension on a case-by-case basis. This means that additional time to complete project work might be allowable, but no grant funds can be expended during the extension of time. All project expenses must be incurred no later than July 31, 2025 and final invoices must be received no later than August 15, 2025. These financial deadlines are not negotiable.
A: Yes.
A: Yes, it can fall in several mechanisms depending on how mature the project is.
A: Yes, collaboration within your school counts. Collaboration is not a requirement, but we are encouraging collaboration because it is a core principle of the TRC4 mission and goals.
A: Yes.

The following is additional information that OSP provided internally via our listserv, clarifying all points on how to complete an application for collaboration and funding to 2 or more UT institutions:

 

The TRC4 program has received many requests for clarification regarding subawards and collaborations between UT System institutions, and would like to offer the following clarification:

All funding under the TRC4 program must be utilized by UT System institutions and subawards are not allowed. Collaborations between UT System institutions are highly encouraged and collaborating institutions may share the available funding, but this will not be handled as a traditional subaward arrangement. Rather, each UT System institution participating in the collaboration will receive its own award for its portion of the funding, with these separate awards being administratively linked by the technical aspects of the project. When preparing an application for a collaborative project involving two or more UT System institutions:

  • A single application should be submitted, identifying the lead institution as the Sponsoring Institution, and all other UT System collaborators as Collaborating Institutions.
  • Section III, People, within the application should identify the lead institution’s Principal Investigator in the Applicant role, and business official in the Institutional Official role. Applications allow for only one entry in these two roles; all other appropriate scientific personnel across all collaborating institutions should be identified in an appropriate role (co-Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators, Collaborators, etc.). It is not necessary to identify additional Institutional Officials at collaborating institutions in this
    Application Informational section of the application; rather, program staff will identify these additional
    individuals as needed at the time of award.
  • Narrative scientific documents should be prepared collaboratively among all participants, addressing all sites and personnel as appropriate within any stated page or document limitations.
  • A separate Budget and Budget Justification should be included for each collaborating institution, containing only those costs applicable to that institution. There will be no prime/subawardee arrangement in these awards, thus collaborating institutions’ costs should not be contained within the lead institution’s budget in any way. Stated program cost limitations apply collectively to all budgets/collaborators within the project, i.e. when all budgets are summed together, the total should not exceed any stated program cost limitations.
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