Glossary

A mechanistic study is designed to understand a biological or behavioral process, the pathophysiology of a disease, or the mechanism of action of an intervention.

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Animal, plant, or other organism used to study basic biologic processes to provide insight into other organisms. See Model Organism Sharing.

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Medical Scientist Training Program - MTSP supports the integrated medical (or equivalent professional clinical) degree and graduate research training required for the investigation of human diseases

A multi-project application is a single grant application submission with multiple, interrelated components with defined work, personnel, sites and budgets that share a common focus or objective.

Multi-year funded (MYF) awards are where the project period and budget period are the same and are longer than one year.