Pilot and Feasibility Program

(NIH Grant number:  P30DK079328)

Director: Christopher Lu, M.D.

The P&F Program provides modest research support for a limited time (one to two years) to enable eligible investigators to explore the feasibility of a concept related to the overall goals of the UTSW O’Brien Kidney Center and to generate sufficient data to pursue the concept through other funding mechanisms (e.g., NIH R01 grant).

• Investigators who are eligible for pilot and feasibility funding generally fall into three categories:
  1. New investigators without current or past NIH research support (R01, P01) as a principal investigator (current or past support from other sources should have been modest). It is expected that the majority of the investigators will fall into this category.
  2. Established non-nephrology investigators who wish to apply their expertise to a problem in this area;
  3. Established investigators who propose testing innovative ideas that represent a clear departure from ongoing research interests.
• All eligible investigators must have faculty appointments and must be independent investigators. Postdoctoral fellows or their equivalent are not eligible.
• Each pilot and feasibility study proposal should state clearly the justification for eligibility of the investigator under one of the above three criteria.
• Each investigator is eligible only once for P & F support, unless the additional proposed study is a real departure from his/ her ongoing research.
• The proposed studies must fall within the scientific objectives of the UTSW O’Brien Kidney Center and must utilize at least one Biomedical Research Core.

Current P & F awardees are:

Updated April 18, 2008   Maintained by Dedrian Copeland