Pilot and Feasibility Program

项目总结/摘要（试点和可行性研究） 试点和可行性（P&F）计划是彭宁顿/路易斯安那州NORC的重要组成部分。 其目的是促进与我们的NORC一致的营养和肥胖方面的杰出研究 方案主题为“贯穿整个生命周期的营养、肥胖和代谢健康”。NORC给出最高 优先考虑与NORC主题相关的翻译研究。奖项主要颁发给年轻有为的 研究人员帮助建立他们的研究生涯。被选中的研究项目将获得资助， 项目的支助费用加上使用NORC科学核心。虽然这一支持的水平 每个项目的计划相对温和，这种类型的启动资金往往是最 在研究环境中难以识别。机构对NORC P&F计划的资金承诺 与彭宁顿生物医学公司保持一致，贡献了总投资的约50 NORC P&F计划。我们预计至少会保持目前的机构支持水平， 在下一个资助周期中增加（来自路易斯安那州的姐妹学术机构和慈善机构）。与 这些机构基金，P&F计划一直是创新的，并支持新的举措，如多， 学科和多机构的建议征求，以促进合作，并已工作 与其他中心合作，利用资源。P&F计划有效运作， 产生了出色的生产力。总体而言，从2004年到2020年11月，58%的P&F获奖者 获得了额外的财政资助。P&F赠款计划是NORC充满活力的一部分， 令人兴奋的新的研究领域，已导致成功的新的K和R的建议和奖项。根据 根据会员的反馈，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和来自我们的潜在更多慈善资金， 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.