Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core (PESC)

PESC 总结/摘要 匹兹堡 OAIC 试点/探索性研究核心 (PESC) 的目标是促进和资助 流动性、平衡和衰老及其界面等主题领域的创新多学科试点研究。 一个新的特别重点是帮助促进基础方法和临床方法之间的协作和整合 胡椒中心的科学重点。 PESC 的具体目标是： 1. 促进关于活动性、平衡性和衰老的创新性多学科研究。 2. 充当促进基础老年科学、临床和社区研究之间互动的桥梁 企业。 3. 鼓励补充剂利用正在进行的基础、转化、临床和社区研究。 4. 推广流动性、平衡性和衰老研究的创新技术和方法。 5. 与匹兹堡大学其他团体合作（例如临床和转化科学研究所和 老龄化研究所）还提供试点研究奖励，以增加各个试点项目的总体资金。 6. 推广、评估和选择资助试点项目（每年 40,000 美元）、小型 REC 试点（最高 10,000 美元）、 开发项目（每年 35,000 美元至 70,000 美元）。 7. 开展授予后流程（例如，监督对道德、安全、隐私的遵守情况，跟踪后续 标准、小型 REC 试点项目和开发项目。 在续约的第一年，我们建议资助四个标准试点研究项目和一个小型 REC 试点项目 展示匹兹堡 OAIC 的增长领域（促进基础/转化/临床相互作用和 流动性、平衡和衰老研究的多学科方法）。

PESC Summary/Abstract The goal of the Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core (PESC) of the Pittsburgh OAIC is to promote and fund innovative multidisciplinary pilot research in the topic areas of mobility, balance and aging and their interfaces. A new particular focus is to help spur collaboration and integration between basic and clinical approaches to the Pepper Center’s scientific emphasis. The Specific Aims of the PESC are to: 1. Promote innovative multidisciplinary research on mobility, balance and aging. 2. Act as a bridge to foster interactions between the basic geroscience, clinical and community-based research enterprises. 3. Encourage supplements to leverage ongoing basic, translational, clinical and community-based studies. 4. Promote innovative techniques and methods for research on mobility, balance and aging. 5. Partner with other University of Pittsburgh groups (e.g. Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Aging Institute) that also offer pilot study awards to increase overall funding for individual pilot projects. 6. Promote, evaluate, and select for funding Pilot projects ($40,000 per year), Small REC pilots (up to $10,000), and Developmental projects ($35,000-$70,000 per year). 7. Conduct post-award processes (e.g., monitor adherence to ethics, safety, privacy, tracking of subsequent productivity and other related matters) for Standard, Small REC pilot projects, and Developmental projects. In year one of the renewal, we propose to fund four standard Pilot research projects and one small REC Pilot demonstrating the Pittsburgh OAIC’s growth areas (fostering basis/translational/clinical interactions and multidisciplinary approaches to mobility, balance and aging research).