2008-09 Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program (DISP)
Co-sponsored by the Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center and the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
Funding: up to $100,000
PURPOSE
The Diabetes Interdisciplinary Studies Program (DISP) is jointly sponsored by the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC) and the Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center (MCDC). Its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration between TWO members of the University of Michigan faculty from DISTINCT disciplines to focus their combined research strengths on cutting-edge areas in diabetes research. The intent is to foster synergistic collaboration between faculty members to advance scientific inquiry. Grant proposals may be in areas of basic biomedical research, or in clinical, behavioral, epidemiological, health services, or translational research and should address key questions in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, or control of diabetes, its complications, or related endocrine or metabolic disorders (for example: counter-regulatory proteins, obesity, metabolic syndrome). The goal of the DISP is to enable investigators to generate a sufficient body of preliminary information for a successful application for major research funding from NIH or other national granting agencies.
ELIGIBILITY
A minimum of two Co-Investigators are required as DISP applicants. Individuals who have full-time instructional, research or clinical track faculty positions at the University of Michigan are eligible to apply as Co-Principal Investigators of a DISP proposal. Whereas the intent of this grant is to foster new collaborations on campus, applications for new research initiatives from productive ongoing collaborations will not be excluded from consideration. Each Co-Principal Investigator must provide critical intellectual as well as technical input into projects funded by a DISP grant. Individuals that receive the 2008-09 DISP grant (jointly sponsored by the MDRTC and MCDC) are not eligible to receive a 2008-09 MDRTC Pilot/Feasibility Grant.
APPLICATIONS
Applications must be prepared using the new 2008-09 DISP P/F application. An application form can be obtained by calling Pam Campbell in the MDRTC at 763-5730 or emailing (pamcamp@umich.edu). Proposals should be for one year of support, with requested funding up to $100,000. Funds may not be applied to salary support for the Principal Investigator, travel expenses, or purchase of equipment (i.e., durable items costing over $5000).
Each proposal will receive peer review by a group of recognized experts in the area of the proposal from the United States and abroad. In this initial round of applications, it is anticipated that one project will be selected for funding effective in December 2008.
Application due date: 5 PM Monday, August 4, 2008
