Pilot Grants Program

项目总结/摘要 为了促进KUMC的肝病相关研究，第三阶段COBRE建议建立一个 年度试点赠款方案。该试点赠款计划的目标是支持职业发展， 新的调查人员，允许已建立的调查人员进入新的领域，并促进合作互动 在教师中。支持的主题将涵盖肝脏疾病的广泛领域，包括基础， 翻译和临床研究。为了实现这些目标，我们提出了三个具体目标：1。建立 试点赠款计划，以资助肝病研究领域有前途的新研究人员。2.到 让试点赠款计划作为一种手段，以加强沟通和增加 基础和临床研究者之间在肝脏研究界的合作，以及 KUMC和KU劳伦斯调查人员之间的关系，以及3。评估试点赠款的影响 计划的赠款接受者和肝脏研究社区在KU，并使用这些信息 修改和改进程序。我们将进一步利用这些信息来改进试点赠款计划 通过重新评估实践和修改方案的过程。我们的计划是 第一年补助金为40，000美元，然后是新的和第二年赠款金的组合，最终共计 每年5个奖项。我们将介绍这个试点赠款计划的几个创新方面，包括 年度研讨会，申请人在研讨会上向更广泛的肝脏研究界提出他们的研究，以及 一个评估过程，其中试点赠款计划对职业发展的影响将 评估。该计划预计将有助于增加NIH资助的肝病研究的临界质量， 使我们能够在本奖励期结束时成功地竞争中心的资金。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT In order to promote liver disease related research at KUMC, the Phase III COBRE proposes to institute an annual Pilot Grants Program. The goals of this Pilot Grants Program are to support the career development of new investigators, allow established investigators to enter a new field, and promote collaborative interactions among the faculty. The topics supported will cover the broad area of liver diseases including basic, translational and clinical investigation. To achieve these goals we propose three specific aims: 1. To establish a Pilot Grants Program to fund promising new investigators in the area of liver disease research. 2. To have the Pilot Grants Program serve as a means to enhance communication and increase collaboration within the liver research community, between basic and clinical investigators, and between KUMC and KU Lawrence investigators, and 3. To assess the impact of the Pilot Grants Program on the grant recipients and the Liver Research Community at KU, and to use this information to modify and improve the program. We will further use this information to improve the Pilot Grants Program through a process of re-evaluation of practices and program modification. Our plan will be to award three $40,000 grants in the first year and then a combination of new and second year grants eventually for a total of five awards per year. We will introduce several innovative aspects of this Pilot Grants Program including an annual symposium in which the applicants propose their research to the broader liver research community, and an evaluation process in which the impact of the Pilot Grants Program on career development will be assessed. This program is expected to help grow the critical mass in NIH-funded liver disease research and position us to successfully compete for center funding at the completion of this award period.