Pilot and Feasibility Program

匹兹堡肾脏研究中心支持试点和可行性项目，以增强 中心的中心目标是发展和促进多学科研究、培训和 正常状态和疾病状态下与肾功能相关的信息传递。三大类 为试点和可行性项目考虑调查人员：(1)新的独立调查人员 没有当前或以前的R01或VA功绩审查支持，(Ii)已建立的调查人员具有有限的 先前与肾脏相关的研究，以及(Iii)提出创新想法的知名肾脏研究人员 这明显背离了正在进行的研究方向。关于试点和可行性的建议 通过发送给健康科学学院所有教职员工的电子邮件公告来征集项目，地址为 匹兹堡大学，包括医学院和公共研究生院 健康；致生物科学系和化学系的所有教职员工 匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学；致伊坎学院教职员工 西奈山的医学中心；以及其他机构的中心调查人员。应用程序收到初始的 由我们的执行指导委员会成员进行审查，并对选定的申请进行审查和 由我们的外部咨询委员会进行排名。该中心支持四个试点和可行性项目， 期限以两年为限。评估计划时监控的指标包括：(I) 由试点和可行性资金支持的工作产生的出版物和演示文稿，(2) 根据方案资助的工作资助或提交的外部赠款，以及(3)是否 研究人员仍在积极进行肾脏研究。

The Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research supports Pilot and Feasibility Projects that enhance the central aim of the Center, which is to develop and facilitate multidisciplinary research, training and information transfer related to kidney function in normal and disease states. Three general categories of investigators are considered for Pilot and Feasibility projects: (i) newly independent investigators without current or previous R01 or VA Merit Review support, (ii) established investigators with limited previous kidney-related research, and (iii) established renal investigators proposing innovative ideas that represent a clear departure from ongoing research directions. Proposals for Pilot and Feasibility Projects are solicited via email announcements sent to all faculty members of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, which includes the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Public Health; to all faculty members of the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University; to faculty members at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and to Center Investigators at other institutions. Applications receive an initial review by members of our Executive Steering Committee, and selected applications are reviewed and ranked by our external advisory committee. The Center supports four Pilot and Feasibility Projects that are limited to two years in duration. Metrics that are monitored in assessing the program include: (i) publications and presentations arising from work supported by Pilot and Feasibility funding, (ii) extramural grants funded or submitted based on work funded by the program, and (iii) whether investigators remain active in kidney research.