2009-10 Pilot/Feasibility Study Grant Program
PURPOSE
The purpose of the MDRTC Pilot /Feasibility (P/F) Grant Program is to promote research on diabetes by new and established University of Michigan faculty. Its goal 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. 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). Translational research projects should focus on the translation of research advances into clinical practice and include the identification of barriers to widespread adoption of new science and the testing of interventions to overcome these barriers.
ELIGIBILITY
Individuals who have full-time instructional or research faculty positions at the University of Michigan are eligible to apply as Principal Investigators of P/F proposals. Eligible applicants are: a) new investigators beginning careers in research on diabetes; b) established investigators in areas other than diabetes who wish to focus their expertise on a problem in diabetes research; or c) established diabetes investigators who wish to take an entirely new direction in diabetes research. This new direction cannot be an extension or outgrowth of research currently being undertaken by the applicant. Individuals who receive a 2009-10 Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program grant co-sponsored by the Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center and MDRTC are not eligible to receive a 2009-10 MDRTC P/F grant.
APPLICATIONS
Proposals should be for one year of support, with requested funding up to $50,000. P/FS 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). Salary support can be applied for a study coordinator or research assistant.
Each proposal will receive peer review by a group of recognized experts in the area of the proposal from the United States and abroad. It is anticipated that P/FS projects that receive a favorable review will be funded in December, 2009. Contingent upon the receipt of supplemental NIH funds, more grants may be funded than in previous years.
Applications must be prepared using the new 2009-10 MDRTC P/F application. An application form can be obtained by calling Pam Campbell at the MDRTC at 763-5730 or emailing (pamcamp@umich.edu).
Proposals should be for one year of support, with requested funding up
to $50,000.
Application Due Date: 5 PM Monday, August 3, 2009
MDRTC PILOT and FEASIBILITY AWARD TERMS
Past Awardees
1) Awardees are required to inform the MDRTC in the event that the Pilot/Feasibility Project receives external funding during the project period.
2) A final progress report is due one month after the close of the project period. The one page report will contain a synopsis of scientific progress, a list of resulting collaborations, publications, and grants, and a description of the relationship of the project to Core usage.
3) Awardees will provide updates concerning other support, resulting publications, and research activities for the Center's annual reports and continuation application.
4) Biomedical awardees will attend the Biomedical Winter Symposium (generally held in April each year) and present a poster on their research.
5) Publications resulting from the (MDRTC) funding must acknowledge grant support: NIH DK020572.
Please cite the following in publications resulting from or based on this
work:
“This work utilized ______Core(s) of the Michigan Diabetes Research
and Training Center funded by NIH DK020572 from the National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.”
