Expanded Pilot and Feasibility Award Program

区域试点和可行性奖励方案：项目摘要/摘要 本申请旨在开发一个区域试点和可行性(P&F)奖励计划，以促进研究 以及与发改委相邻的机构的合作调查。斯坦福大学位于北边 加州和邻近的其他精英研究机构都有专注于糖尿病的重要研究。这 包括加州大学伯克利分校和加州大学戴维斯分校附近的校园。本地区 P&F计划将支持加州大学戴维斯分校和 加州大学伯克利分校。这一区域计划建立在发改委P&F的杰出发展和成果基础上 过去5年的奖励计划，并受到加州大学伯克利分校一流研究基地的证据的激励 和加州大学戴维斯分校对发展与国家发改委的关系并在他们的 机构。国家发改委与这些邻近的研究机构建立了强有力的科学和培训联系 机构。因此，创建包括我们的UC同事在内的地区P&F计划是一个自然的扩展 国家发改委的使命是支持一批优秀科学家进行杰出和创新的糖尿病研究， 他们没有自己的刚果民主共和国。地区P&F奖励计划的目标是：1：征集、审查和资助 北加州地区P&F奖计划，包括加州大学戴维斯分校和加州大学糖尿病研究人员 伯克利。地区P&F计划将支持加州大学戴维斯分校和伯克利分校的早期研究提案 职业研究人员，糖尿病研究领域的新手，以及已确定的糖尿病 研究人员提出了新的和令人兴奋的研究方向，具有开拓领域的突出潜力 在不同的科学学科中与糖尿病相关的研究。此外，跨学科和跨机构 建议将受到鼓励，尽管加州大学伯克利分校或戴维斯的PI提出的建议可能涉及合作 与来自任何其他适当研究机构的调查人员进行合作。这些赠款将提供给未偿还的 加州大学戴维斯分校和伯克利分校的研究人员，他们的研究很有可能受益于使用SDRC 核心设施，并可产生必要的数据，以过渡到额外的外部同行审查的资金 机械装置。2020-21年度首个区域P&F奖励周期的成功执行表明 这一扩张的理由和可行性。2：为获奖者提供导师指导和职业发展 地区性P&F赠款。国家发改委寻求在培训期间提供智力支持和职业发展 项目期。该活动旨在培养P&F受赠人的科学专长，并将科学和 将专业成果转化为国家发改委和国内或国际糖尿病研究的更大领域。这 包括建立关系，以加强P&F奖申请者或获奖者之间的进一步合作 以及发改委的其他成员。通过地区P&F奖励计划促进职业发展 应增加国家发改委对糖尿病研究的更广泛影响，包括 领导或执行糖尿病研究。

REGIONAL PILOT AND FEASIBILITY AWARD PROGRAM: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This application seeks to develop a Regional Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Award Program to promote research and collaborative investigations at institutions neighboring the SDRC. Stanford University is located in northern California and neighbors other elite research institutions with significant research focused on diabetes. This includes the nearby campuses of the University of California (UC) at Berkeley and UC Davis. This Regional P&F program will support proposals for diabetes-related research from principal investigators at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. This Regional program builds on the outstanding development and outcomes of the SDRC P&F Award Program over the past 5 years, and is motivated by evidence of stellar research bases at UC Berkeley and UC Davis with strong interests in developing ties to the SDRC and fostering diabetes research at their institutions. The SDRC has developed strong scientific and training connections to these neighboring research institutions. Thus, creation of a Regional P&F program that includes our UC colleagues is a natural extension of the SDRC mission to support outstanding and innovative diabetes research by a cadre of superb scientists, who lack their own DRC. The aims of the Regional P&F Award Program are: 1: To solicit, review, and fund a northern California Regional P&F award program that includes diabetes researchers at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. The Regional P&F program will support research proposals from UC Davis and Berkeley early career investigators, investigators who are new to the diabetes research field, and established diabetes researchers with ideas for novel and exciting research directions that have outstanding potential to open areas of diabetes-related research in diverse scientific disciplines. In addition, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional proposals will be encouraged, though proposals by PI’s at UC Berkeley or Davis can involve collaborations with investigators from any other appropriate research institution. These grants will be provided to outstanding investigators at UC Davis and Berkeley, whose research has a high probability of benefiting from use of SDRC core facilities, and could generate data necessary to transition to additional extramural peer-reviewed funding mechanisms. The successful execution of an initial Regional P&F award cycle in 2020-21 demonstrates the rationale and feasibility of this expansion. 2: To provide mentorship and career development for recipients of Regional P&F grants. The SDRC seeks to provide intellectual support and career development during the project period. This activity aims to foster the P&F grantee’s scientific expertise and integrate scientific and professional outcomes into the larger sphere of SDRC and national or international diabetes research. This includes building relationships that enhance further collaboration between P&F award applicants or awardees and other members of the SDRC. Fostering career development through the Regional P&F award program should increase the broader impacts of the SDRC on diabetes research, including diversity among those leading or performing diabetes research.