Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core (PESC)

摘要 佛罗里达大学(UF)老年美国人独立中心(OAIC)试点和探索性的目标 研究核心(PESC)是帮助规划未来独立支持的研究，以解决UF OAIC的 总体研究主题是美国老年人的行动能力和残疾预防。为此，PESC 征集和选择有前途的创新试点、探索性和发展研究，并确保最佳 基础设施、环境、资金、专业知识和资源。核心领导监测研究进展，帮助 分析和解释结果，并为将这些试点数据转化为高质量和原创数据提供指导 成功争取独立外部资金的研究研究建议。资金的提供 先导、探索性和发展性研究支持初级学者努力发展研究 老龄化的职业生涯。 PESC还允许在老龄化方面有经验的研究人员收集数据，扩大和拓宽他们的关注范围。 在这一职位上，它鼓励和促进有经验的研究人员传统上从事其他研究 生理学、癌症、疼痛、败血症和认知功能等领域，以扩大他们的研究范围，包括 衰老。这扩大了我们相信将通过以下方式为残疾预防工作做出贡献的人才库 避免机动性损失。 在这项申请中，我们提出了四项试点研究和一项探索性研究，提供了广泛的 处理伊斯兰会议组织研究主题的跨学科方法。正如我们在过去几年中所证明的那样 多年来，我们非常成功地将我们的试点、探索性和开发研究的结果转化为 外资助学金(成功率76%)，并支持我们的初级学者通过终身教职 和推广过程。

SUMMARY The goal of the University of Florida (UF) Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core (PESC) is to help plan future independently supported studies that address the UF OAIC's overall research theme of mobility and prevention of disability in older Americans. To this end, the PESC solicits and selects promising innovative pilot, exploratory, and developmental studies and secure optimal infrastructure, environment, funding, expertise, and resources. Core leaders monitor study progress, help analyze and interpret results, and provide guidance in translating these pilot data into high-quality and original research study proposals that successfully compete for independent extramural funding. The provision of funds for pilot, exploratory, and developmental studies supports Junior Scholars in their efforts to develop research careers in aging. The PESC also allows accomplished investigators in aging to gather data that extend and broaden their focus. In this capacity, it encourages and facilitates experienced investigators traditionally working in other research fields, such as physiology, cancer, pain, sepsis, and cognitive function, to expand their research to include aging. This widens the pool of talent that we believe will contribute to advances in disability prevention through averting mobility loss. In this application we propose four pilot studies and one exploratory study that offer a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches to address the OAIC research theme. As we have proven over the past several years, we are highly successful in translating findings from our pilot, exploratory, and development studies into extramurally funded grants (76% success rate), and also in supporting our Junior Scholars through the tenure and promotion process.