Program Development and Pilot Core

计划开发和试点核心(PD)：摘要 计划开发和试点核心(PD)的总体目标是促进创新研究，以提供 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新见解。这个 计划开发和试点核心(PD)将负责指导和培育 中心与中心三个专题研究领域相关的研究计划和试点项目组合：1) 老年有利和不利的生命过程先兆，2)家庭人口统计，社会 参与度和社会隔离，以及3)地点、衰老和健康。PD核心有3个具体目标：1)培养 制定创新的试点项目想法和建议，2)提供方案和活动，以确保 试点项目的生产率和成功，以及3)提高创造性的试点项目成果，以开发更大的项目 推动了这一领域的发展。 促进创新飞行员想法和高水平飞行员提案的活动包括重点关注 国家情报机构研究优先事项的前沿问题；侧重于概念创新的讲习班， 最先进的方法、新颖和丰富的数据来源；以及试点提案制定会议。引航员 项目将专注于对NIA战略优先事项至关重要的研究问题，并将研究主题限定为 阐明生活中的暴露和经历如何影响衰老和健康的多样性。活动至 确保试点成功，包括基准监测和响应计划、行政和研究服务 以支持先导研究，并为职业生涯早期的研究人员指派一名教师导师。试点项目将是 根据他们在促进老龄研究方面的潜力并导致更大的项目和NIA拨款而被选中 意见书。从试点项目过渡到更大规模的研究项目和准备赠款申请 根据试点结果，将由一个赠款写作训练营提供支持，以培训新的调查人员 GRANTSPORY和BY MOCK NIA-通过为两者建立赠款计划的研讨会审查会议 和新的调查员。PD核心将与AR核心密切合作，开发和交付计划和 确保试点项目发展和成功的活动，包括影响较大的出版物和国家投资局赠款 提交以试点项目为基础的大型研究报告。实现这些目标的能力通过以下方式大大增强 与德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的全国相关的共享资源和充满活力的人口科学家社区- 认可人口研究中心(PRC)；中华人民共和国在试点项目管理方面拥有丰富经验 在编写和提交大型研究项目提案方面也是如此。

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.