Pilot and Feasibility Program

试点和可行性计划摘要 UCSF DRC的试点和可行性计划旨在为建立强大的糖尿病研究做出贡献 在UCSF社区通过实现以下目标： ·识别，吸引和支持新的研究人员和初级教师建立糖尿病研究计划。 ·促进DRC/UCSF教师之间的新的和创新的合作。 ·使建立教师转移技能和研究发展到糖尿病研究的竞技场。 ·鼓励在基础和临床糖尿病研究中进行高度创新的早期研究。 ·提供种子资金，可用于增加新兴研究领域的外部赠款资金 在当前的资助周期中，DRC P&F计划支持UCSF的糖尿病研究， 在六份申请书中，63份申请书中的23个项目共获得980，000美元的资助。一个 另外3项提案（70，000美元）由UCSF糖尿病中心基金资助。刚果民主共和国计划将一个 高度重视为打算建立与以下方面有关的研究项目的年轻教师提供支持 糖尿病，16名成功的申请人是新的/早期研究者。主要调查人员 8个资助项目是新的糖尿病研究，其余两个是建立糖尿病 研究人员提出新的和非常创新的翻译研究方向。P&F计划 我致力于促进所有UCSF教师希望在基础或临床糖尿病追求新的举措 research.成功的研究项目在18个不同的部门或组织进行 研究单位和3个校区。 迄今为止，利用种子资金启动的项目已出版了30份出版物， 竞争6 560 351美元的外部赠款，其中2 780 351美元用于早期调查。这 出色的回报反映出所收到的申请质素极高。由于这笔资金 成功，P&F计划指导计划，除了2名P&F获奖者外，所有人都患有糖尿病 研究，其中8人现在是刚果民主共和国常任理事国。这一成功扩大和丰富了 USCF的糖尿病研究社区为UCSF糖尿病中心提供了200万美元的私人捐款 扩大P&F计划 我们的目标是在下一个周期内再接再厉。我们的RFAs将覆盖更广泛的UCSF部分 通过参加最近建立的校园内部赠款支持系统。平均增长 补助金的规模将吸引更多高质量的申请，并允许受资助者在 提出创新项目。最后，我们有令人兴奋的计划，以改善我们的指导和反馈 确保我们的P&F赠款接受者充分利用当地专业知识的机制。

Summary Pilot & Feasibility Program The UCSF DRC's Pilot & Feasibility Program aims to contribute to the building of a robust diabetes research community at UCSF by fulfilling the following goals: • Identify, attract and support new investigators and junior faculty establishing research programs in diabetes. • Foster new and innovative collaborations amongst DRC/UCSF faculty. • Enable established faculty to transfer skills and research developments to the arena of diabetes research. • Encourage highly innovative early stage investigation in basic and clinical diabetes research. • Provide seed funding that can be leveraged to increase external grant funding in emerging areas of research During the current funding cycle, the DRC P&F Program supporting diabetes research at UCSF with a total of $980,000 in funding for 23 projects out of 63 applications over six Requests for Applications. An additional 3 proposals ($70,000) were funded with UCSF Diabetes Center funds. The DRC Program placed a high priority on providing support for young faculty intending to establish research programs relevant to diabetes, and 16 of the successful applicants were New/Early Stage Investigators. The Principle Investigators on 8 of the funded project were new to diabetes research, and the remaining two were established diabetes investigators proposing new and exceptionally innovative translational research directions. The P&F program was dedicated to facilitating all UCSF Faculty wishing to pursue new initiatives in basic or clinical diabetes research. The successful research programs were conducted in 18 different departments or Organized Research Units and 3 campuses. Projects that were initiated with seed funding have, to date, resulted in 30 publications and successfully competed for $6,560,351 in external grant funding, of which $2,780,351 went to early stage investigators. This outstanding return reflects the extremely high quality of the applications received. As a result of this funding success, and the P&F Program mentoring program, all but 2 of the P&F awardees remain in diabetes research, and 8 are now permanent members of the DRC. This success in expanding and enriching the diabetes research community at USCF lead to a 2 million dollar private donation to the UCSF Diabetes Center to expand the P&F program. Our goal is to build on this success in the coming cycle. Our RFAs will reach a broader segment of UCSF by participating in a recently set-up campus-wide intramural grants support system. The increased average grant size will capture an even larger number of high quality applications and permit grantees greater leeway in proposing innovative projects. Finally, we have exciting plans to improve our mentoring and feedback mechanisms that ensure our P&F grant recipients take full advantage of the local expertise.