Pilot Grants Program

Cobre拥有近十年的成功识别和支持试点项目的历史，这些试点项目已经 为我们的接受者带来额外的资金和科学上的成功。在许多方面，在所有积极的方面 我们的试点项目的成功可能就是最好的例子之一。我们 在第二阶段利用我们的试点项目，在许多情况下介绍年轻的高级博士生或年轻的 从教员到基因学。他们的关注点往往放在其他领域，但他们被选中是因为他们需要进入 我们的科布雷所能提供的资源。这些吸引新的投资商到我们中心的尝试已经 许多人现在都完全融入了Genefic项目，作为他们的主要关注点，这一点得到了回报。俄克拉荷马州限制在 有许多优秀的初级调查人员，具有新颖的项目想法，投资最少的时机已经成熟 有很大的潜在回报。两年前，只有一封电子邮件在仲夏宣布，我们 在两周内对14个潜在的试点项目做出了答复，其中12个来自符合Cobre资格的初级调查人员 其中有10家以前从未收到过科布雷的资金。这些项目中的大多数建议使用 基因组学或本申请中的定量分析核心。在我们Cobre之前的成功基础上再接再厉 试点项目核心有以下具体目标：1)确定并资助高度创新的Cobre试点项目 来自初级Cobre投资人或老牌投资人的项目在一个新的领域具有新奇的想法 投资和2)评估项目的进展和导师的有效性，并确保该试点 项目计划仅限于为杰出的科学机会提供关键资源。我们一起参加了 我们在试点项目核心中制定的机制，用于识别、评估进展和 培养独立性将导致持续成功的教员独立性和国家基金的成功。

This COBRE has a neariy decade history of successfully idenfifying and supporting Pilot Projects which have lead to additional funding and scienfific success for our recipients. In many ways of all the positives that have fiowed from our COBRE, the success of our pilot programs is probably one of the best examples. We have used our Pilot Projects during Phase II to in many cases introduce young senior post docs or young faculty to genefics. Often their focus was in other arenas but they were chosen as they needed access to the resources our COBRE can provide. These attempts at attracfing new invesfigators to our Center have paid off as many are now fully integrated into genefic projects as their main focus. Oklahoma confinues to have many outstanding junior investigators with novel project ideas, which are ripe for minimal investments with large potenfial returns. Two years ago, with just one e-mail announcement in the middle of summer, we had responses within two weeks for 14 potenfial pilot projects, 12 from junior COBRE-eligible investigators with 10 of these never having previously received COBRE funds. Most of these projects proposed to use the Genomics or the Quanfitative Analysis Core in this applicafion. To build on the prior success of our COBRE Pilot Projects Core has the following specific aims: 1) identify and fund highly innovative, COBRE Pilot Projects from junior COBRE invesfigators or established invesfigators with novel ideas in a new field of invesfigafion and 2) evaluate progress of projects and effectiveness of mentors and ensure that this Pilot Project program confinues to provide key resources for outstanding scientific opportunifies. We anficipate that the mechanism we have laid out in the Pilot Project Core for identifying tialent, evaluafing progress and cultivating indepence will result in continued successful faculty independence and Nafional funding success.