Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core (PESC)

总结 佛罗里达大学（UF）老年美国人独立中心（OAIC）试点和探索的目标 研究核心（PESC）是为了帮助规划未来的独立支持的研究，解决用友OAIC的 整体研究主题的流动性和预防残疾的美国老年人。为此，PESC 征求和选择有前途的创新试点，探索性和发展性研究，并确保最佳的 基础设施、环境、资金、专业知识和资源。核心领导人监控研究进展，帮助 分析和解释结果，并提供将这些试点数据转化为高质量和原始数据的指导 成功竞争独立的校外资金的研究项目。提供资金 试点，探索性和发展性研究，支持他们的努力，发展研究青年学者 在衰老的职业生涯。 PESC还允许在老化方面有成就的调查人员收集扩展和拓宽其关注点的数据。 在这方面，它鼓励和促进传统上从事其他研究的有经验的调查人员 领域，如生理学，癌症，疼痛，败血症和认知功能，以扩大他们的研究，包括 衰老这扩大了人才库，我们相信，通过以下方式， 避免移动性损失。 在本申请中，我们提出了四个试点研究和一个探索性研究，提供了各种各样的 跨学科的方法来解决OAIC的研究主题。正如我们过去几年所证明的那样， 多年来，我们非常成功地将我们的试点，探索性和发展研究成果转化为 校外资助的赠款（76%的成功率），并在支持我们的青年学者通过任期 和促进过程。

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 mobility and prevention of disability 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 proposals that successfully compete for independent extramural funding. The provision of funds for pilot, exploratory, and developmental studies supports Junior Scholars 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, cancer, pain, sepsis, and cognitive function, to expand their research to include aging. This widens the pool of talent that we believe will contribute to advances in disability prevention through averting mobility loss. In this application we propose four pilot studies and one exploratory study 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 (76% success rate), and also in supporting our Junior Scholars through the tenure and promotion process.