ACORN Pilot Core

试点项目计划将是酒精饮料长期可持续发展的重要组成部分。 内布拉斯加州研究中心（ACORN）。该计划为项目调查人员提供资助， 在18个月的时间里花了25,000美元。该计划的目标是使调查人员能够收集初步数据， 支持为与酒精有关的独立、长期、大型项目提交赠款申请 research.该计划的核心假设是，由该中心资助的试点和/或可行性项目 将导致随后向NIAAA或其他资助机构提交赠款，以推进酒精研究。 该计划选择支持的项目必须解决酒精研究中的一个关键问题， 导致未来更广泛的研究选定的关键问题。除了预算的50 000美元/年外， 该NIAAA申请中包含的试点项目，与内布拉斯加大学医学院的资金相匹配 中心的副校长研究（$50，000/年），将允许ACORN的试点数量增加一倍 在同一个五年期间的项目。本方案的目的是：（1）选择和资助至少 每年开展四个为期18个月的试点/可行性项目;（2）评估每个试点/可行性项目的结果;以及（3） 监测将试点/可行性项目转化为资助赠款的有效性。5万美元的承诺 内布拉斯加大学医学中心研究副校长每年将允许ACORN 每年至少资助两个试点项目。试点/可行性项目将根据 由了解酒精研究特定领域的研究人员进行审查。选定的项目将 根据定期要求的报告进行评估，并根据随后资助的研究赠款进行监测 试点/可行性项目的结果。我们预计，大多数选定的试验和可行性研究将 导致申请后续研究项目的基础上的试点/可行性数据。

The Pilot Projects Program will represent an essential component of the long-term sustainability of the Alcohol Center Of Research-Nebraska (ACORN). This program supports project investigators with funding up to $25,000 over an 18-month period. The program goal is to enable investigators to collect preliminary data to support submission of grant applications for independent, longer-term, larger projects related to alcohol research. The central hypothesis of this program is that pilot and/or feasibility projects funded from this Center will result in subsequent grant submissions to NIAAA or other funding agencies to advance alcohol research. The projects selected for support by this program must address a critical issue in alcohol research and clearly lead to future, more extensive study of the selected critical issue. In addition to the budgeted $50,000/year for pilot projects contained in this NIAAA application, matching funding from the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Vice Chancellor for Research ($50,000/year), will allowed ACORN to double the number of pilot projects over the same 5-year period. The aims of this program proposal are to: (1) Select and fund at least four 18-month pilot/feasibility projects each year; (2) Evaluate the results of each pilot/feasibility project; and (3) Monitor the effectiveness of converting pilot/feasibility projects into funded grants. A commitment of $50,000 per year from the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Vice Chancellor for Research will allow ACORN to fund at least 2 additional pilot projects per year. The pilot/feasibility projects will be selected for funding based on review by investigators knowledgeable about specific areas of alcohol research. The selected projects will be evaluated based on periodic required reports and monitoring of subsequent funded research grants based on the results of the pilot/feasibility projects. We expect that most of the selected pilot and feasibility studies will lead to applications for subsequent research projects building on the pilot/feasibility data.