Pilot and Feasibility Program

项目摘要/摘要(试点和可行性方案) 试点和可行性(P&F)计划是彭宁顿/路易斯安那州NORC的关键和不可或缺的组成部分。 其目的是促进营养和肥胖方面的杰出研究，这与我们的NORC保持一致 方案主题“营养、肥胖和新陈代谢健康贯穿一生”。北大西洋公约组织给予最高 优先从事与NORC主题相关的翻译研究(S)。奖项主要颁给有前途的年轻人 调查人员帮助建立他们的研究职业生涯。选定的研究方案将获得资金，以 该项目的支助费用加上NORC科学核心的使用。尽管来自这一项目的支持程度 每个单独项目的方案都比较适中，这类创业资金往往是最多的 在研究环境中很难辨认。对NORC P&F计划的机构资金承诺 一直很强大，而且始终如一，Pennington Biomedical贡献了大约50%的总投资 进入NORC P&F项目。我们预计至少会保持目前的制度支持水平，甚至目标 在下一个资金周期(路易斯安那州姊妹学术机构和慈善机构)增加资金。使用 这些机构基金，P&F计划一直是创新的，并支持新的倡议，如多 征求纪律和多机构建议书以促进合作，并取得了成效 与其他中心协作利用资源。P&F计划一直在高效地运行，并已 产生了卓越的生产力。总体而言，从2004年到2020年11月，58%的P&F奖获得者 获得了由调查员发起的额外资金。P&F赠款计划是NORC的一个充满活力的部分，使 令人振奋的新研究路线，已经成功地产生了新的K和R提案和奖项。根据 从成员的反馈来看，P&F计划运行顺利，达到了激励研究的目的。 在现有基础设施的基础上，我们现在将扩大该计划，以增加路易斯安那州的一体化 NORC机构，使用承诺的机构资金，并可能从我们的 彭宁顿生物医学研究基金会。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT (PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROGRAM) The Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program is a critical and integral component of the Pennington/Louisiana NORC. The purpose is to stimulate outstanding research in nutrition and obesity which is aligned with our NORC programmatic theme “Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolic Health through the Lifespan.” The NORC gives highest priority to translational research related to NORC theme(s). Awards are primarily to young promising investigators to help establish their research careers. The selected research proposals receive funds to support costs of the project plus use of the NORC Scientific Cores. Although the level of support from this program for each individual project is relatively modest, this type of start-up funding is frequently the most difficult to identify in the research setting. Institutional commitment of funds to the NORC P&F Program has been strong and consistent with Pennington Biomedical contributing approximately 50% of the total money put into the NORC P&F program. We expect to at least keep the current level of institutional support and even aim to increase it in the next funding cycle (from sister Louisiana academic institutions and philanthropy). With these institutional funds, the P&F Program has been innovative and supported new initiatives such as multi- disciplinary and multi-institutional proposal solicitations to stimulate collaboration and has worked collaboratively with other centers to leverage resources. The P&F Program has operated efficiently and has yielded outstanding productivity. Overall, from 2004 to November 2020, 58% of all P&F award recipients have received additional investigator-initiated funding. The P&F grant program is a vibrant part of the NORC, enabling exciting new lines of research that have resulted in successful new K and R proposals and awards. According to members’ feedback, the P&F Program is running smoothly and achieving its purpose of stimulating research. Based on the existing infrastructure, we will now expand the Program to increase the integration of Louisiana NORC institutions, using committed institutional funds and potentially more philanthropic funding from our Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation.