Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core

摘要 佛罗里达大学(UF)老年美国人独立中心(OAIC)试点和探索性的目标 研究核心(PESC)是帮助规划未来独立支持的研究，以解决UF OAIC的 促进美国老年人机动性和独立性的总体研究主题。为此， PESC征集和遴选有前途的创新试点、探索性和发展研究并确保 优化基础设施、环境、资金、专业知识和资源。核心领导监测研究进展， 帮助分析和解释结果，并为将这些试点数据转化为高质量和 成功争取独立校外资金的原创性研究申请。这个 为试点、探索性和发展性研究提供资金支持早期调查人员 努力发展老龄化研究事业。 PESC还允许在老龄化方面有经验的研究人员收集数据，扩大和拓宽他们的关注范围。 在这一职位上，它鼓励和促进有经验的研究人员传统上从事其他研究 生理学、病理学、代谢组学、癌症、疼痛和行为科学等领域，以扩大其 研究包括衰老。这扩大了人才库，我们相信这将有助于 促进机动性和独立性以及伊斯兰会议组织作为一个整体。 在本申请中，我们提出了五项试点研究，这些研究提供了广泛的跨学科方法 阐述伊斯兰会议组织的研究主题。正如我们在过去几年中证明的那样，我们在以下方面非常成功 将我们试点、探索性和发展研究的结果转化为外部资助的赠款(最高可达 94%的成功率)，以及通过职业发展支持我们的早期调查人员，包括 任期和晋升过程。

SUMMARY The goal of the University of Florida (UF) Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core (PESC) is to help plan future independently supported studies that address the UF OAIC’s overall research theme of promotion of mobility and independence in older Americans. To this end, the PESC solicits and selects promising innovative pilot, exploratory, and developmental studies and secure optimal infrastructure, environment, funding, expertise, and resources. Core leaders monitor study progress, help analyze and interpret results, and provide guidance in translating these pilot data into high-quality and original research study applications that successfully compete for independent extramural funding. The provision of funds for pilot, exploratory, and developmental studies supports Early Stage Investigators in their efforts to develop research careers in aging. The PESC also allows accomplished investigators in aging to gather data that extend and broaden their focus. In this capacity, it encourages and facilitates experienced investigators traditionally working in other research fields, such as physiology, pathology, metabolomics, cancer, pain, and the behavioral sciences, to expand their research to include aging. This widens the pool of talent that we believe will contribute to advances in the promotion of mobility and independence and the OAIC as a whole. In this application we propose five pilot studies that offer a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches to address the OAIC research theme. As we have proven over the past several years, we are highly successful in translating findings from our pilot, exploratory, and development studies into extramurally funded grants (up to 94% success rates), and also in supporting our Early Stage Investigators through career advances including the tenure and promotion process.