Pilot and Feasibility Core

自1977年成立以来，DRTC的试点和可行性计划(P&F)已经资助了127笔赠款。此外，在过去的一个周期中，P&F计划资助了芝加哥大学以外的6名研究人员的申请，这两项申请都有助于他们的糖尿病相关研究，但重要的是，P&F计划起到了催化剂的作用，将整个芝加哥地区的研究人员聚集在一起。我们计划扩大 计划在下一个周期也包括威斯康星州医学院的研究人员。P&F计划的总体目标是为新成立的研究人员提供初步支持，并将其他领域更成熟的研究人员的专业知识带入糖尿病研究。每年都会向芝加哥大学内部以及其他6所总部设在芝加哥的机构征集提案。全 提案由一名内部和外部审查员以及P&F指导委员会的一名成员进行评估。然后向整个指导委员会提交优先分数和书面审查，并作出供资决定。对那些在拟议研究中取得重大文件进展的研究人员来说，第二年的资助是可能的。我们强烈鼓励所有P&F补助金获得者在芝加哥大学举行的一年一度的芝加哥糖尿病日上发表他们的发现。 绝大多数P&F赠款获得者仍在从事糖尿病研究，许多人随后从NIH获得了外部资金(图6)。因此，P&F项目是在整个芝加哥地区促进糖尿病研究不可或缺的一部分，也极大地提高了芝加哥大学整个DRTC项目的知名度。

The Pilot and Feasibility Program (P&F) of the DRTC has funded 127 grants since its inception in 1977. In addition, this past cycle the P&F program funded 6 applicafions from investigators located outside the University of Chicago, both assisting their diabetes related studies, but also importantly the P&F program acts as a catalyst to bring together researchers from throughout the Chicago area. We plan to expand the program in the coming cycle to also include investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The overall goal of the P&F program is to provide initial support to newly established investigators and also to bring the expertise of more established investigators from other fields into diabetes research. Proposals are sought each year from within the University of Chicago as well as from 6 other Chicago based institutions. All proposals are evaluated by an internal and external reviewer as well as by a member of the P&F Steering Committee. Priority scores and written reviews are then presented to the entire Steering Committee and funding decisions are made. A second year funding is possible for those investigators who have made significant documented progress on their proposed research. All P&F grant recipients are strongly encouraged to present their findings at the Annual Chicago Diabetes Day held at the University of Chicago. The vast majority of P&F grants recipients have remained in diabetes research, and many have received subsequent external funding from the NIH (lllustration VI). Thus, the P&F program is an integral part of promoting diabetes research throughout the greater Chicagoland area and has also greatly enhanced the visibility of the entire DRTC program at the University of Chicago.