PILOT PROJECT

试点项目

• 批准号: 7381148
• 负责人: J Donald Capra
• 金额: $ 14.85万
• 依托单位: OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7381148
• 关键词: PILOT; PROJECT

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. We will solicit projects on a yearly basis. The projects will be separately evaluated by the steering committee and voting will be done by secret ballot. We may award two $50,000 grants, four $25,000 grants, or any combination, depending on the quality and scientific vision of the individual proposal. A selective advantage will be given to projects that incorporate and unify two or more areas of research and/or bridge specific Programs within OMRF, and this will be announced at the time the projects are solicited. Specific attention will be given to projects that expand/enhance our goals of integrating Programs in Immunology at OMRF, and projects that further our developing Neuroscience Initiative. Priority must go to new investigators. It would require a very unusual set of extenuating circumstances for the COBRE steering committee to award such grants to anyone above the assistant member level. Projects would be further reviewed by our External Scientific Committee, followed by a request for approval from NCRR. This rigorous selection process will function to insure stringently that only research projects of the very highest scientific caliber are funded by this money. The steering committee will appoint mentors for the pilot projects according to the stratified mentoring process described in this COBRE application. It is critically important that the review committee be made aware that these projects will be awarded only to independent scientists, and will not be used to enhance the laboratories of any of our senior faculty. This would be a clear misuse of these funds, and represents the antithesis of the supportive research culture we are striving to create at OMRF. As we did in our first COBRE award, we objectively evaluate individual outcomes of the funded pilot projects, improving and extending the criteria for measurement during this process. Since the funded Pilot Project scientists will almost certainly be at the beginning of their careers, this process will be simplified. Each new grant application, every paper, meeting presentation and other measurable criteria such as citations of a given publication will be carefully monitored by the mentoring team, as we recognize that we have a great responsibility to make certain that we not only fund the most promising research, but also document for peer review the fact that these funds have been wisely expended. The PI of the COBRE has been reducing his personal research commitment each year and will take the evaluation of research progress resulting from this COBRE award as a personal mentoring responsibility. Each pilot project recipient will be required to report his/her progress six and twelve months after the receipt of funds. Except under very exceptional circumstances, we do not anticipate that anyone will receive these funds more than once. These funds are intended to provide the necessary support to young scientists that will allow them to produce the preliminary data necessary for strong and competitive NIH applications.

该子项目是利用 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者 (PI) 可能已从另一个 NIH 来源获得主要资金，因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中出现。列出的机构是中心的机构，不一定是研究者的机构。我们将每年征集项目。项目将由指导委员会单独进行评估，并以无记名投票方式进行投票。我们可能会授予两项 50,000 美元的资助、四项 25,000 美元的资助或任何组合，具体取决于个别提案的质量和科学愿景。对于合并和统一两个或多个研究领域和/或在 OMRF 内桥接特定计划的项目将给予选择性优势，这将在项目征集时宣布。我们将特别关注那些扩展/增强我们在 OMRF 整合免疫学项目的目标的项目，以及进一步发展我们的神经科学计划的项目。必须优先考虑新的调查员。 COBRE 指导委员会需要在一系列非常不寻常的情有可原的情况下才能向助理成员级别以上的任何人提供此类资助。项目将由我们的外部科学委员会进一步审查，然后请求 NCRR 批准。这种严格的选择过程将严格确保只有最高科学水平的研究项目才能得到这笔资金的资助。 指导委员会将根据 COBRE 申请中描述的分层指导流程为试点项目任命导师。 至关重要的是，审查委员会必须意识到这些项目将仅授予独立科学家，并且不会用于增强我们任何高级教师的实验室。这显然是对这些资金的滥用，并且与我们在 OMRF 努力创建的支持性研究文化背道而驰。 正如我们在第一个 COBRE 奖项中所做的那样，我们客观地评估了受资助试点项目的个别成果，并在此过程中改进和扩展了衡量标准。由于受资助的试点项目科学家几乎肯定处于职业生涯的初期，因此这一过程将得到简化。每一份新的资助申请、每一篇论文、会议演示和其他可衡量的标准（例如特定出版物的引用）都将受到指导团队的仔细监控，因为我们认识到我们有很大的责任确保我们不仅资助最有前途的项目研究，还记录了这些资金得到明智使用的事实，以供同行评审。 COBRE的PI每年都在减少个人的研究投入，并将把对COBRE奖项所产生的研究进展的评估作为个人的指导责任。每个试点项目接受者都需要在收到资金后六个月和十二个月报告其进展情况。除非在非常特殊的情况下，我们预计任何人都不会多次收到这些资金。这些资金旨在为年轻科学家提供必要的支持，使他们能够为强大且有竞争力的 NIH 申请提供必要的初步数据。