Pilot and Feasibility Program

试点和可行性计划（P&F）：项目总结/摘要 P&F计划自1978年成立以来已资助了132个项目（包括2020年）。这个程序有 通过为支持糖尿病相关项目提供资金，该基金极为宝贵和有效。的 该计划的目标是支持新的研究人员（他们很少或没有 独立研究支持）或已建立的研究人员谁是转向糖尿病研究的第一个 时间大多数提案属于前一类（即，2016年至2020年期间授予的15笔赠款中的13笔）。 通常每年启动三个新项目。经过全校范围内的征集， 每个赠款由个人（两名机构内部人员和一名机构外部人员）审查。对该提案的批评是 由P&F审查委员会（相当于NIH研究部门）进行评估，并分配每个提案 优先得分然后将提案和优先级分数提交给DRTC执行委员会 （相当于NIH理事会）作出资助决定。第二年的研究支持是在以下情况下颁发的 如果在第一年完成了令人满意的工作，并且在过渡期间没有获得对项目的支持。 该计划的成功率可以通过继续参与的调查人员数量来衡量 糖尿病研究，出版物，和/或谁转换他们的P&F到一个国家授予，同行评审的赠款， 非常高。此外，该计划还资助了内部各种部门/部门的申请。 机构。例如，来自分子生理学和生物物理学，流变学， 心血管医学、肺、内分泌学、眼科学、工程学和生物化学 在过去的四年里得到了资助。P&F计划还提供了VDRC在 范德比尔特科学界，从而使科学界更了解其研究工作， 核心设施决定强调了VDRC P&F计划的重要性和有效性， 范德比尔特领导层在下一个融资周期继续为该计划提供额外的P&F资金。

Pilot & Feasibility Program (P&F): Project Summary/Abstract The P&F program has funded 132 projects (including 2020) since its inception in 1978. This program has been extremely valuable and effective by providing funding for the support of diabetes-related projects. The goal of the program is to support small research projects by new investigators (who have little or no independent research support) or established investigators who are turning to diabetes research for the first time. Most of the proposals are in the former category (i.e., 13 of 15 grant awarded between 2016-2020). Three new projects are normally initiated each year. After a university-wide solicitation of proposals, three individuals (two internal and one external to the institution) review each grant. The critiques of the proposal are evaluated by the P&F Review Committee (equivalent to an NIH study section), and each proposal is assigned a priority score. The proposals and priority scores are then presented to the DRTC Executive Committee (equivalent to the NIH Council) for a funding decision. Support for a second year of research is awarded when satisfactory work is completed in year one and if support for the projects has not been obtained in the interim. The success rate of this program, measured either by the number of investigators who remain involved in diabetes research, publications, and/or who convert their P&F into a nationally awarded, peer-reviewed grant, is very high. In addition, this program funds applications from a wide variety of Departments/Divisions within the institution. For example, faculty members from Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Rheumatology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary, Endocrinology, Ophthalmology, Engineering, and Biological Chemistry were funded over the past four years. The P&F program also provides visibility for the VDRC within the Vanderbilt scientific community and thus makes the scientific community more aware of its research efforts and core facilities. The importance and effectiveness of the VDRC P&F program is underscored by the decision of the Vanderbilt leadership to continue to provide additional P&F funds for this program in the next funding cycle.