Program Development and Pilot Core

项目开发和试点核心 (PD)：摘要 项目开发和试点核心（PD）的总体目标是促进创新研究，以提供 新见解对于促进老龄化和多样化的美国人口的健康和福祉至关重要。的 项目开发和试点核心（PD）将负责指导和培育该项目的发展 中心的研究计划和试点项目组合与中心的三个专题研究领域相关：1) 老年时的优势和劣势的生命历程前兆，2) 家庭人口统计、社会 参与度和社会隔离，以及 3) 地点、老龄化和健康。 PD 核心有 3 个具体目标：1) 培育 制定创新试点项目的想法和建议，2) 提供计划和活动以确保 试点项目的生产力和成功，以及 3) 提高创造性试点项目成果以开发更大的项目 推动该领域的发展。 促进创新试点想法和高水平试点提案的活动包括重点关注以下问题的大型会议： NIA 研究重点中最前沿的问题；重点研讨会专注于概念创新， 最先进的方法、新颖丰富的数据源；和试点提案制定会议。飞行员 项目将重点关注 NIA 战略重点和 CAPS 研究主题的核心研究问题，以 阐明一生中的接触和经历如何影响衰老和健康的多样性。活动到 确保试点成功，包括基准监测和响应计划、行政和研究服务 支持试点研究，并为早期职业研究人员指派一名教师导师。试点项目将 选择的依据是他们推进老龄化奖学金并导致更大的项目和 NIA 拨款的潜力 意见书。从试点项目到大型研究项目的过渡以及拨款申请的准备 基于试点结果将得到资助写作训练营的支持，以培训新的研究人员 补助金和通过研讨会模拟 NIA 审查会议，为两者建立了补助金计划 和新的调查员。 PD 核心将与 AR 核心密切合作，开发和交付项目， 确保试点项目开发和成功的活动，包括高影响力出版物和 NIA 拨款 提交基于试点项目的更大规模研究。实现这些目标的能力大大增强 与德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校全国相关的共享资源和充满活力的人口科学家社区 认可的人口研究中心（中国）；中国在管理试点项目方面拥有丰富的经验 和活动，以及大型研究项目提案的准备和提交。

Program Development and Pilot Core (PD): Abstract The overall goal of the Program Development and Pilot Core (PD) is to promote innovative research to offer new insights critical to furthering the health and well-being of an aging and diverse US population. The Program Development and Pilot Core (PD) will be charged with guiding and nurturing the development of the Center’s research program and pilot project portfolio relevant to the Center’s three thematic research areas: 1) Life-course precursors of advantage and disadvantage at older ages, 2) Family demography, social engagement, and social isolation, and 3) Place, aging, and health. The PD Core has 3 Specific Aims: 1) Foster the development of innovative pilot project ideas and proposals, 2) Provide programs and activities to ensure pilot project productivity and success, and 3) Ramp up inventive pilot project results to develop larger projects that advance the field. Activities to foster innovative pilot ideas and high caliber pilot proposals include large conferences focused on issues at the forefront of NIA research priorities; focused workshops concentrating on conceptual innovations, state-of-the-art methods, and novel and rich data sources; and pilot proposal development sessions. Pilot projects will focus on research questions central to NIA strategic priorities and CAPS research themes to illuminate how exposures and experiences throughout life influence diversity in aging and health. Activities to ensure pilot success include benchmark monitoring and response plans, administrative and research services to support pilot research, and assignment of a faculty mentor to early-career investigators. Pilot projects will be selected based on their potential to advance scholarship on aging and lead to a larger project and NIA grant submissions. The transition from pilot to larger research projects and the preparation of grant submissions based on pilot results will be supported by a Grant Writing Bootcamp to train new investigators in grantsmanship and by mock NIA-review sessions via the Workshop that Grant program for both established and new investigators. The PD Core will work closely with the AR Core to develop and deliver programs and activities to ensure pilot project development and success, including high-impact publications and NIA grant submissions for larger studies based on pilot projects. The ability to achieve these goals is greatly enhanced by the shared resources and vibrant community of population scientists associated with UT Austin’s nationally- recognized Population Research Center (PRC); the PRC has extensive experience in managing pilot programs and activities, as well as in the preparation and submission of large research project proposals.