New platform proposals
Questions that may require prospective multicenter infrastructure, protocol design, or site-building.
IDES intake
Structured entry for new CESOR collaborations and project proposals.
Idea Development and Evaluation Support is the CESOR intake for new project ideas, collaboration proposals, and early-stage clinical questions. It captures fit, feasibility, design requirements, and the appropriate next step before work enters the CESOR program.
Use cases
What should come through IDES.
Platform-linked substudies
Analyses or design extensions that may fit an existing CESOR platform.
Methodologic collaboration
Projects requiring causal inference, target trial emulation, implementation design, or reproducible analytic support.
Early-stage clinical questions
Important problems that are not yet fully scoped but may warrant structured development.
IDES is not a promise of project adoption. It is a structured review step used to determine whether a proposal fits the CESOR program, whether an existing platform can absorb it, whether further protocol development is needed, or whether the idea is not yet ready for activation.
This intake step reduces ambiguity, protects program coherence, and improves the quality of projects that move forward.
Before submission
Information that improves review quality.
- The clinical or methodological question
- Why the question matters
- Whether the project aligns with an active CESOR platform or would require a new structure
- Available data, center infrastructure, or analytic capacity
- The role or support being requested
- Expected timeline, if known