CORE--MIDUS II PILOT PROJECTS

试点项目赠款计划的目标是鼓励关于老龄化和成人发展的跨学科创新研究，重点是健康和福祉的综合方法。对小规模、短期项目的支持将是吸引新的研究人员从事基于MIDUS I和II数据集的跨学科研究的有力机制。我们请求在02至06年的拨款期间每年支持两个试点项目。每个项目每年的资金将高达15,000美元(总成本)。总共将有十笔试点拨款 在年度竞赛和评审的基础上授予。评估个别项目的标准 包括学术价值、创新、跨学科关注、对MIDUS数据的创造性利用、对P01更大的研究目标的潜在贡献，以及由NIA或其他外部机构提出更大的资助建议的可能性。 还将优先考虑注重P01中心主题的项目：健康和疾病中的社会经济因素；性别和健康/疾病；作为保护因素或风险因素的心理社会和行为因素，重点是复原力和脆弱性主题；病前途径，重点是早期预警指标(例如，平衡负荷)；综合科学，或采用多学科方法了解健康和疾病的生命过程变化。在项目期结束时，调查人员将编写一份报告，说明试点项目的结果、论文、演示文稿或提案。完成的研究论文将以PDF格式编写，并将发布在MIDUS网站上。

The goal of the pilot project grant program is to stimulate innovative interdisciplinary research on aging and adult development, with an emphasis on integrative approaches to health and well-being. Support for small scale, short-term projects will be a potent mechanism for attracting new investigators to interdisciplinary research based on the MIDUS I and II data sets. We request support for two pilot projects per year during years 02 through 06 of the grant. Funding will range up to $15,000 (in total costs) per project per year. A total of ten pilot grants will be awarded on the basis of annual competition and review. Criteria for evaluating individual projects include scholarly merit, innovation, interdisciplinary focus, creative use of the MIDUS data, potential contribution to the larger research objectives of the P01, and the potential to result in a larger proposal for funding by NIA or other outside agencies. Preference will also be given to projects focusing on the central themes of the P01: socioeconomic factors in health and illness; gender and health/illness; psychosocial and behavioral factors as protection or risk factors, with an emphasis on themes of resilience and vulnerability; pre-disease pathways, with an emphasis on early warning indicators (e.g., allostatic load); and integrative science, or incorporating a multidisciplinary approach to understanding life course variations in health and illness. At the end of the project period, investigators will prepare a report which describes findings, papers, presentations or proposals that developed from the pilot projects. Completed research papers will be prepared in PDF and will be posted on the MIDUS website.