Pilot Projects Core

总结 维克森林转化酒精研究中心（WF-TARC）试点核心将提供一种机制， 通过整合新的和创新的研究领域和技术专长，发展中心， 向初级调查人员提供种子资金，帮助他们获得自己的独立资金。我们 提出了一项每年提供10万美元的计划，以资助四个试点项目。选择过程 包括1）征集提案，2）由两名非中心评审员对提案进行分析， 外部咨询委员会或具有与《公约》相关的特定技术或专题专门知识的特设科学家 项目，以及3）评审员为项目分配优先级分数，得分最高的项目，通常为5- 7）分发给所有中心研究者进行评估，并通过投票进行讨论和排序， 每月的中心会议。这一过程提供了对试点项目进行公开批评的机会， 该中心的所有成员，并经常在WF-TARC和Pilot之间开发富有成效的合作项目 PI计划。试点申请的排名将根据创新和卓越的 研究建议，以及其在酒精使用障碍研究领域的可能影响。将优先 这些研究可能产生很大的影响，与中心的主题最密切相关， 这可能会为未来纳入WF-TARC提供新的技术和研究。

SUMMARY The Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center (WF-TARC) Pilot Core will provide a mechanism for evolution of the Center by incorporating new and innovative research areas and technical expertise, and provide seed funding to junior investigators to help them obtain independent funding of their own. We are proposing a program with $100,000 available each year to fund four Pilot Projects. The selection process involves 1) a call for proposals, 2) analysis of the proposals by two non-Center reviewers, either from the External Advisory Board or ad-hoc scientists with particular technical or topical expertise relevant to the project, and 3) the reviewers assign priority scores to the projects, and the highest scoring projects, usually 5- 7, are 4) distributed to all Center investigators for evaluation, and are discussed and rank-ordered by voting at one of the monthly Center meetings. This process provides the opportunity for open critique of Pilot Projects by all members of the Center, and often develops productive collaborative projects between WF-TARC and Pilot Project PI's. Rankings of pilot applications will be made according to the innovation and excellence of the research proposed, as well as its likely impact in the area of alcohol use disorder research. Priority will be given to studies that could have high impact, those most closely related to the theme of the Center, and those that may offer new technologies and research for future incorporation into WF-TARC.