CORE--RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

研究与发展核心的总体目标是提供一个环境和支持，以提高密歇根大学教师科学家进入和/或开展有关衰老生物学的重要研究项目的能力，特别强调让密歇根生物学家了解该领域的最新发展，并支持创新的初步研究项目。将设立一个研究指导计划，以支持在未来五年内预计聘用的一批新教师。以下具体目标将促进本核心的总体目标：

The overall goal of the Research and Development Core is to provide an environment and support that will enhance the ability of faculty scientists at the University of Michigan to enter into and/or conduct significant research programs on the biology of aging, Particular emphasis is placed upon exposing Michigan biogerontologists to the most recent developments in the field and in supporting innovative preliminary research projects. A research mentorship program will be set up to support an expected group of new faculty hirings during the next five years of the grant. The following specific aims will promote the overall objectives of this Core: 1. To organize and support a series of annual workshops on the biology of aging that will introduce local researchers and trainees to major newly developing sectors in the field of biogerontology research. 2. Through the workshops, to facilitate interactions among researchers from other Shock Centers and to encourage collaborative research, 3. To award two pilot grants per year to promising junior faculty members for the purpose of developing new preliminary data that will make them competitive for independent outside research funding. 4. To develop a system of mentoring junior faculty scientists by senior biogerontologists. 5. To stimulate entry into aging research by senior investigators who are not gerontologists by funding exploratory research through the pilot grant program.