Program Development Core

？由中心主任领导的计划开发核心(B)将为 教职员工和研究助理参与可能领导创新先导研究项目的时间 以获得NIA的主要支持。如上所述，这些资金将由署长在得到咨询和同意的情况下分配 指导委员会的成员。每年春天都会为这些基金举行一次竞争，目的是 为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校研究生院秋季的研究资金竞赛提供补充。一小块 这些资金中的一小部分将在每个周期内被扣留，以便为紧急情况和新出现的情况提供灵活的支持 机遇。编入预算的资金将由研究生院和一个研究助理职位补充， 除了由正规研究生院为CDHA成员提供的大量研究资金外 竞争。

¿ The program development core (B), which is led by the Center Director, vrill provide modest support for the time of faculty, staff, and research assistants engaged in innovative pilot research projects that are likely to lead to major NIA support. As noted above, these funds wdll be allocated by the Director vrith the advice and consent ofthe Steering Committee. There is an annual competition for these funds, held each Spring in order to complement the Fall competition for research funding by the Graduate School ofthe UW-Madison. A small fraction of these funds vrill be held back in each cycle to provide flexible support for emergencies and emerging opportunities. Budgeted funds vrill be supplemented by the Graduate School wdth a Research Assistant position, in addition to substantial research funds for CDHA members that are provided by the regular Graduate School competition.