Pilot Projects Core

试点研究核心 科琳·A Hanlon，核心负责人 总结 维克森林转化酒精研究中心（WF-TARC）试点研究核心将提供一个 通过纳入新的和创新的项目领域， 技术专长，并向初级调查人员提供种子资金，帮助他们获得独立资金 他们自己的。我们提出了一个每年10万美元的计划，为四个试点项目提供资金。 选择过程包括：1）征集建议书，2）由两个非中心的专家对建议书进行分析。 评审员，无论是来自外部咨询委员会或特设科学家与特定的技术或专题 与项目相关的专业知识，以及3）评审员为项目分配优先级分数，最高的 评分项目，通常为5-7分，分发给中心所有研究者进行评估，并进行讨论， 在中心的一次月度会议上通过投票进行排名。这个过程提供了开放的机会。 中心所有成员对试点研究的评论，并经常开发富有成效的合作项目 WF-TARC和初步研究PI之间的差异。试点申请的排名将根据 创新和卓越的研究建议，以及其在酒精使用领域可能产生的影响 disortder研究。将优先考虑可能产生重大影响的研究， 该中心的主题，以及那些可能提供新的技术和研究，为未来纳入 WF-TARC。

PILOT STUDIES CORE Colleen A. Hanlon, Core Lead SUMMARY The Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center (WF-TARC) Pilot Studies Core will provide a mechanism for evolution of the Center by incorporating new and innovative project areas and technical expertise, and provide seed funding to junior investigators to help them obtain independent funding of their own. We are proposing a program with $100,000 available each year to fund four Pilot Projects. The selection process involves 1) a call for proposals, 2) analysis of the proposals by two non-Center reviewers, either from the External Advisory Board or ad-hoc scientists with particular technical or topical expertise relevant to the project, and 3) the reviewers assign priority scores to the projects, and the highest scoring projects, usually 5-7, are 4) distributed to all Center investigators for evaluation, and are discussed and rank-ordered by voting at one of the monthly Center meetings. This process provides the opportunity for open critique of Pilot Studies by all members of the Center, and often develops productive collaborative projects between WF-TARC and Pilot Study PI’s. Rankings of pilot applications will be made according to the innovation and excellence of the research proposed, as well as its likely impact in the area of alcohol use disortder research. Priority will be given to studies that could have high impact, those most closely related to the theme of the Center, and those that may offer new technologies and research for future incorporation into WF-TARC.