Pilot Projects Program

试点项目方案的总体目标是进一步巩固和丰富试点项目方案的 在COBRE的第一和第二阶段，通过选择有才华的学员和经验丰富的 导师与匹配的专业知识，并提供一个称职和有效的行政结构， 保证对我们的试点项目进行良好的管理、整合和监督。为实现这些目标将 我们的COBRE主任团队，项目协调员，高级导师，核心领导人，其他指导委员会 委员和外部咨询委员会成员。他们的努力将得到我们的帮助。 COBRE计划管理员。这个由调查人员和管理人员组成的团队提供了一个精心设计的 框架，以支持和培养我们的试点项目获奖者，并确保负责任的行为和科学 他们的研究的严谨性和可重复性，因为他们是在他们的发展作为独立的教练 研究人员这种支持性的环境是通过提供明确和严格的选择过程创造的， 获奖者和导师，通过确保对选定的进展进行形成性和总结性评价， 教师，通过建立内部和外部监督的试点项目计划，并通过公开 传达对获奖者和导师的期望。值得注意的是， 项目计划将利用我们的科学核心提供的尖端技术。的这种转变 重点是提高研究的影响力，并大大有助于可持续性， 我们的中心因此，我们将：（1）提供行政结构和技术资源，以确保方案 通过严格的计划特别挑选的试点项目获奖者的成长和成功 COBRE第三阶段。(2)提供经验丰富的导师、指导和评估计划，以及 方案和外部监督，以确保试点项目获奖者成功获得独立的 资助和进行科学严谨和可重复的研究。(3)提高地方和国家 职业发展机会，以促进和指导试点项目获奖者独立成长 研究人员，同时丰富了所有COBRE参与者的研究环境。这些 通过培养有献身精神的科学家和建立长期的、相互的合作关系， 研究人员和科学核心之间的有益互动。这些接触点很可能会吸引 由于我们努力通过持续不断的努力促进内部和外部联盟， 我们的系列研讨会、老龄化兴趣小组会议和职业发展俱乐部等机制， 旨在吸引COBRE和非COBRE调查人员，使他们保持参与，并鼓励 合作。

The overall objective of the Pilot Project Program is to further solidify and enrich the pilot project program’s success achieved during Phase I and II of the COBRE by selecting talented mentees and highly experienced mentors with matching expertise and by providing a competent and effective administrative structure to guarantee good management, integration, and oversight of our pilot project program. This will be achieved by our team of COBRE director, program coordinators, senior mentors, core leaders, other steering committee members, and external advisory committee members. The success of their efforts will be assisted by our COBRE program administrator. This team of investigators and administrators provides a carefully designed framework to support and nurture our pilot project awardees and to ensure responsible conduct and scientific rigor and reproducibility of their research, as they are coached in their development as independent researchers. This supportive environment is created by providing the clear and rigorous selection process of awardees and mentors, by ensuring the formative and summative evaluation of the progress of the selected faculty, by instituting internal and external oversight of the pilot project program, and by the overt communication of the expectations placed upon both the awardees and mentors. Notably, the Phase III pilot project program will capitalize on the cutting-edge technologies provided by our scientific core. This shift in emphasis is designed to enhance the impact of the research and contribute considerably to the sustainability of our center. Thus, we will: (1) Provide administrative structure and technical resources to assure programmatic growth and success of the pilot projects awardees that are selected through a rigorous plan specifically developed for the Phase III COBRE. (2) Provide experienced mentors, mentoring and evaluation plans, and programmatic and external oversight to ensure the success of pilot project awardees in obtaining independent funding and in conducting scientifically rigorous and reproducible research. (3) Enhance local and national career development opportunities to facilitate and guide pilot project awardees in their growth as independent investigators, and at the same time enriching the research environment for all COBRE participants. These measures will solidify our center by training dedicated scientists and by establishing long-term, mutually beneficial interactions between researchers and the scientific core. These foci of contact will likely attract additional investigators because of our efforts to foster internal and external alliances through continuing mechanisms such as our seminar series, aging interest group meetings, and career development clubs that are designed to attract COBRE and non-COBRE investigators, keep them engaged, and to encourage collaborations.