Pilot and Feasibility Program

项目总结-试点和可行性研究 DRTC的试点和可行性计划（P&F）自1977年成立以来已资助了150笔赠款。 在过去的一个周期中，P&F计划资助了23项申请，其中包括13项来自调查人员的申请 位于芝加哥大学外。因此，P&F计划既协助调查人员， 糖尿病相关的研究，但也许同样重要的是作为一个催化剂， 来自整个芝加哥地区。P&F计划的总体目标是提供初步支持， 新设立的调查员，并将更多资深调查员的专门知识从 其他领域的研究。每年都从大学内部征求建议书。 芝加哥以及其他芝加哥的机构与糖尿病研究计划。所有提案都是 由内部和外部评审员以及P&F指导委员会成员进行评估。 优先分数和书面审查，然后提交给整个指导委员会和资金 做出决定。第二年的资金是可能的，为那些调查人员谁取得了 在他们提出的研究中取得了重大进展。所有P&F补助金获得者必须 参加并强烈鼓励他们在年度芝加哥糖尿病日上展示他们的发现， 芝加哥大学或伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的糖尿病和肥胖研究日。 绝大多数的P&F赠款获得者仍然从事糖尿病研究，许多人已经 获得了NIH的后续外部资助（表E）。P&F计划是一个不可分割的一部分， 促进整个大芝加哥地区的糖尿病研究，也大大提高了 DRTC计划在参与机构中的可见度。

PROJECT SUMMARY – PILOT & FEASIBILITY PROGRAM The Pilot & Feasibility Program (P&F) of the DRTC has funded 150 grants since its inception in 1977. This past cycle the P&F program funded 23 applications, including 13 applications from investigators located outside the University of Chicago. Thus, the P&F Program both assists investigators in diabetes-related studies but perhaps as importantly acts as a catalyst to bring together researchers from throughout the Chicago area. The overall goal of the P&F Program is to provide initial support to newly established investigators and also to bring the expertise of more established investigators from other fields into diabetes research. Proposals are sought each year from within the University of Chicago as well as other Chicago based institutions with diabetes research programs. All proposals are evaluated by an internal and external reviewer as well as by a member of the P&F Steering Committee. Priority scores and written reviews are then presented to the entire Steering Committee and funding decisions are made. A second year funding is possible for those investigators who have made significant documented progress on their proposed research. All P&F grant recipients are required to attend and strongly encouraged to present their findings at the Annual Chicago Diabetes Day held at the University of Chicago or Diabetes & Obesity Research Day at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The vast majority of P&F grants recipients have remained in diabetes research, and many have received subsequent external funding from the NIH (Table E). The P&F program is an integral part of promoting diabetes research throughout the greater Chicago area and has also greatly enhanced the visibility of the DRTC program at participating institutions.