Pilot Grants Program

项目摘要/摘要 为了促进KUMC的肝病相关研究，第三阶段Cobre建议建立一个 年度试点助学金计划。这项试点助学金计划的目标是支持 新的调查人员，允许现有的调查人员进入新的领域，并促进协作互动 在教职员工中。支持的主题将涵盖肝脏疾病的广泛领域，包括基础、 翻译和临床研究。为了实现这些目标，我们提出了三个具体目标：1.建立 一项试点拨款计划，用于资助肝病研究领域有前途的新研究人员。2.至 将试点助学金计划作为加强沟通和增加 肝脏研究社区内的合作，基础和临床研究人员之间的合作，以及 KUMC和KU Lawrence调查人员之间的合作，以及3.评估飞行员补助金的影响 资助接受者和KU肝脏研究社区的计划，并使用这些信息 对方案进行修改和完善。我们将进一步利用这些信息来改进试点赠款计划 通过对实践的重新评估和方案修改的过程。我们的计划是授予三个 第一年40,000美元的补助金，然后是新的和第二年的补助金，最终总共是 每年五个奖项。我们将介绍这一试点赠款计划的几个创新方面，包括 一年一度的研讨会，申请者在研讨会上向更广泛的肝脏研究社区推荐他们的研究，以及 评估过程中试点补助金方案对职业发展的影响将是 评估过了。这一计划有望帮助美国国立卫生研究院资助的肝病研究和研究的临界值增长 使我们能够在此授权期结束时成功竞争中心的资金。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT In order to promote liver disease related research at KUMC, the Phase III COBRE proposes to institute an annual Pilot Grants Program. The goals of this Pilot Grants Program are to support the career development of new investigators, allow established investigators to enter a new field, and promote collaborative interactions among the faculty. The topics supported will cover the broad area of liver diseases including basic, translational and clinical investigation. To achieve these goals we propose three specific aims: 1. To establish a Pilot Grants Program to fund promising new investigators in the area of liver disease research. 2. To have the Pilot Grants Program serve as a means to enhance communication and increase collaboration within the liver research community, between basic and clinical investigators, and between KUMC and KU Lawrence investigators, and 3. To assess the impact of the Pilot Grants Program on the grant recipients and the Liver Research Community at KU, and to use this information to modify and improve the program. We will further use this information to improve the Pilot Grants Program through a process of re-evaluation of practices and program modification. Our plan will be to award three $40,000 grants in the first year and then a combination of new and second year grants eventually for a total of five awards per year. We will introduce several innovative aspects of this Pilot Grants Program including an annual symposium in which the applicants propose their research to the broader liver research community, and an evaluation process in which the impact of the Pilot Grants Program on career development will be assessed. This program is expected to help grow the critical mass in NIH-funded liver disease research and position us to successfully compete for center funding at the completion of this award period.