2022 SDRC Pilot & Feasibility FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Deadline: 

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 5 pm

Amount of funding:

Applicants may request up to $50,000 in direct costs for one-year duration under this program. Continuation of a project beyond its first year will be contingent upon the success of the previous year.

Start date: January 1, 2023

Purpose and Request for Applications

The Stanford Diabetes Research Center (SDRC) is soliciting new Pilot and Feasibility Projects. The focus of the SDRC Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program is to provide seed funds to help develop new investigators as well as support innovative and/or high-risk proposals from more senior investigators involved in any aspect of diabetes related research, including but not limited to basic sciences, economics, population sciences, translational research and clinical research.

The SDRC P&F program is primarily supported by the P30 center grant awarded by NIH/NIDDK and has supported 55 pilot projects since 2016. Institutional funds have also been used to supplement some of the projects. The approved P&F Project proposals will assist current and future applications to the NIH/NIDDK to support the Stanford Diabetes Research Center and this P&F program

Eligibility

• Stanford or VA investigators (with UTL, MCL, NTLR, CE faculty appts. or instructors) with M.D., M.D./Ph.D., or PhD. degrees.

• Each applicant must have at least two years of full-time laboratory/clinical research experience after receiving the advanced degree.

• Applications from established investigators new to diabetes research are also encouraged.

Preference will be given to:

1. younger investigators: Assistant Professors (with a UTL, MCL, NTLR or CE faculty appts, or instructors.) who have a high potential for extramural funding in the near future and to become independent investigators

2. applications that will utilize at least one of the diabetes specific research cores supported by the Stanford Diabetes Research Center

3. applications that focus on translational studies of diabetes prevention and control; and

4. applications that involve a collaborative component between the laboratories of Stanford investigators.

Submitting an Application

By Tuesday., Sept. 6, 2022, 5 pm, please submit one PDF containing the following in the order listed below via email attachment to:

Fredric B. Kraemer, M.D. Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) fbk@stanford.edu

File name: Last Name_DRC_P&F.pdf

Institutional representative: not applicable. You do not have to submit your internal proposals to your RPM/RMG* or your CGO/OSR for their approval. You can submit your proposals directly to Dr. Kraemer.

1. Title Page

   • Stanford Diabetes Research Center

   • Pilot and Feasibility Projects

   • Project title: Project leader and co-investigators’ name, title, department and complete contact information

   • Type of Proposal: Basic/Clinical/Translational/Prevention and Control (may be multiple)

   • Topic: Diabetes/Obesity/Endocrinology/Autoimmunity/Transplantation/Related complications (may be multiple)

2. Research Proposal

   5 page* description of proposed research, including the following:

   • research plan with relevant illustrations

   • description of research subjects involved (both human or animal)

   • description of interdisciplinary characteristics of this project or if it utilizes Specialized Resources (SDRC has these 4 diabetes specific core services - Clinical and Translational Core, Immune Monitoring Core, Genomics and Analysis Core and Islet Research Core)

   • explanation of how the proposed research fits into Diabetes related research

   • *Note: references are not included in the 5 page limit

   • Format: single-spaced, ½ inch margins, Arial or Helvetica font size 11 or larger

3. Detailed budget for up to $50,000 excluding F&A costs Use PHS 398 budget form available for downloading from this NIH webpage: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html

4. Budget justification

5. Biosketches (NIH format) for the Project Leader and Co-Investigators

   NIH biosketch webpage: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/biosketch.htm

6. Other Support (also NIH format*). Please include both active and pending support.

   *Sample "other support" form available on this NIH webpage: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html

7. Agreement to provide progress reports and required presentations on P&F Project Progress to the SDRC.