Pilot Core

UAB Roybal中心的试点项目核心旨在促进和促进 执行将有助于中心“翻译研究”总主题的试点项目 具体来说，这些项目将考虑初步研究，并有长期目标 应用行为和社会科学的理论、范式和方法论来解决 老年人的行动不便。预计试点项目将带来更高的 已开发的研究项目(例如，NIH ROI、R03、K奖等，VA优秀奖；私营部门支持) 其主要目标是获取可转化为移动性的真正解决方案的信息 长老的挑战。试点项目可以采取多种形式，例如关于 初步假设，描述性研究，以探索功能障碍和 不利的流动性结果和可行性研究，以建立研究方法或 方法论。尽管试点项目代表了开发研究想法的最早步骤，但它们 应该与罗伊巴尔中心对从基础研究到研究翻译的重视一致 对老年人的健康和福祉有实际的积极结果。 试点项目核心将由中心联合主任辛西娅·奥斯利博士指导。两到五名飞行员 每年将选择项目进行资助。将通过校园邮件发出申请通知， 校园报、电子邮件等传播渠道。申请将由以下机构审查 与该中心的科学价值和方案相关性有关的专家。试点项目的核心将是 通过检查每个项目对科学文献的贡献程度进行系统评估， 产生对设计和资助未来研究有用的数据，并导致最终的转移 研究成果，以解决老年人的行动不便问题。

The Pilot Project Core of the UAB Roybal Center is designed to foster and facilitate the development and execution of pilot projects which will contribute to the overall theme of the Center "Translational Research on Aging and Mobility." Specifically, these projects are will consit of preliminary studies, with the long-range goal of applying the theories, paradigms, and methodology of the behavioral and social sciences to solve the mobility problems of older adults. Pilot projects are expected to lead to the develoment of more highly developed research projects (e.g., NIH ROIs, R03s, K-awards etc., VA Merit awards; private sector support) with the primary aim of obtaining information that can be translated into real solutions for the mobility challenges of the elderiy. Pilot projects can assume a variety of formats, such as pilot studies on a preliminary hypothesis, descriptive studies to explore associations between functional impairments and adverse mobility outcomes, and feasibility studies to establish the credibility of a research approach or a methodology. Even though pilot projects represent the eariiest steps in developing a research idea, they should be consistent with the Roybal Center's emphasis on research translation from basic research to practical positive outcome for older adults' health and well-being. The Pilot Project Core will be directed by the Co-Director of the Center, Dr. Cynthia Owsley. Two to five pilot projects will be selected for funding each year. A call for applications will be issued through campus mail, the campus newspaper, and electronic mail, and other dissemination outlets. Applications will be reviewed by relevant experts for scientific merit and programmatic relevance to the Center. The Pilot Project Core will be systematically evaluate by examining the extent to which each project contributes to the scientific literature, generates data useful in the design and funding of future research studies, and leads to the eventual transfer of research findings to solving a mobility problem of the elderly.