Program Development and Pilot Core

项目开发和试点核心（PD）：摘要 项目开发和试点核心（PD）的总体目标是促进创新研究， 新的见解对促进老龄化和多样化的美国人口的健康和福祉至关重要。的 项目开发和试点核心（PD）将负责指导和培育 中心的研究计划和试点项目组合与中心的三个主题研究领域相关：1） 2）家庭人口统计学、社会经济学、 参与和社会隔离，以及3）地点，老化和健康。PD核心有三个具体目标：1）培养 创新试点项目的想法和建议的发展，2）提供方案和活动，以确保 试点项目的生产率和成功率，以及3）提升创新的试点项目成果，以开发更大的项目 推动这一领域的发展。 促进创新试点思路和高水平试点建议的活动包括大型会议， 处于NIA研究优先事项前沿的问题;集中于概念创新的重点研讨会， 最先进的方法和新颖丰富的数据源;以及试点提案制定会议。试点 项目将侧重于NIA战略优先事项和CAPS研究主题的核心研究问题， 阐明整个生命过程中的暴露和经历如何影响衰老和健康的多样性。活动 确保试点成功，包括基准监测和应对计划、行政和研究服务 以支持试点研究，并指派一名教师导师的早期职业生涯的调查。试点项目将 根据他们的潜力选择，以推动老龄化奖学金，并导致一个更大的项目和NIA赠款 意见书。从试点项目过渡到大型研究项目和准备赠款申请 基于试点结果，将由赠款写作训练营支持，以培训新的调查人员， 通过研讨会模拟NIA审查会议， 新的调查员。PD Core将与AR Core密切合作，开发和交付项目， 确保试点项目发展和成功的活动，包括影响力大的出版物和国家影响评估赠款 根据试点项目提交更大规模的研究报告。实现这些目标的能力大大增强， 共享资源和人口科学家的充满活力的社区与UT奥斯汀的全国- 公认的人口研究中心（PRC）; PRC在管理试点项目方面具有丰富的经验 此外，还可以参与制定和提交大型研究项目提案。

Program Development and Pilot Core (PD): Abstract The overall goal of the Program Development and Pilot Core (PD) is to promote innovative research to offer new insights critical to furthering the health and well-being of an aging and diverse US population. The Program Development and Pilot Core (PD) will be charged with guiding and nurturing the development of the Center’s research program and pilot project portfolio relevant to the Center’s three thematic research areas: 1) Life-course precursors of advantage and disadvantage at older ages, 2) Family demography, social engagement, and social isolation, and 3) Place, aging, and health. The PD Core has 3 Specific Aims: 1) Foster the development of innovative pilot project ideas and proposals, 2) Provide programs and activities to ensure pilot project productivity and success, and 3) Ramp up inventive pilot project results to develop larger projects that advance the field. Activities to foster innovative pilot ideas and high caliber pilot proposals include large conferences focused on issues at the forefront of NIA research priorities; focused workshops concentrating on conceptual innovations, state-of-the-art methods, and novel and rich data sources; and pilot proposal development sessions. Pilot projects will focus on research questions central to NIA strategic priorities and CAPS research themes to illuminate how exposures and experiences throughout life influence diversity in aging and health. Activities to ensure pilot success include benchmark monitoring and response plans, administrative and research services to support pilot research, and assignment of a faculty mentor to early-career investigators. Pilot projects will be selected based on their potential to advance scholarship on aging and lead to a larger project and NIA grant submissions. The transition from pilot to larger research projects and the preparation of grant submissions based on pilot results will be supported by a Grant Writing Bootcamp to train new investigators in grantsmanship and by mock NIA-review sessions via the Workshop that Grant program for both established and new investigators. The PD Core will work closely with the AR Core to develop and deliver programs and activities to ensure pilot project development and success, including high-impact publications and NIA grant submissions for larger studies based on pilot projects. The ability to achieve these goals is greatly enhanced by the shared resources and vibrant community of population scientists associated with UT Austin’s nationally- recognized Population Research Center (PRC); the PRC has extensive experience in managing pilot programs and activities, as well as in the preparation and submission of large research project proposals.