North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) Pilot Grants Request for Applications 2020
The North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) is requesting applications for pilot grants. Up to three projects will be funded. Successful pilots will receive up to $50,000 in direct costs per year for two years.
This Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel basic clinical and translational research. Projects must demonstrate a clear path to subsequent grant support, translation to clinical programs, new company formation, licensing, not-for-profit partnering, or other channels. Projects must have a clear diabetes focus. Collaborative projects with investigators from other NCDRC institutions will be given priority for funding, as will proposals that make meaningful use of Core facilities at one of the following institutions:
- Duke metabolomics (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
- Wake Forest proteomics/genomics (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
- UNC advanced clinical studies methods (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
- Novel animal models This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Letter of Intent Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, May 1, 2020
Note: These pilot grant awards are not meant as bridge funding or as supplementary funding for existing projects.
The goal of the North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) is to increase the impact of the already important diabetes research ongoing at Duke University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and Wake Forest School of Medicine (WF). Each has rich resources and outstanding investigators, and the NCDRC represents a timely opportunity to enhance interactions among these research communities, and expand unique capabilities at each site to their neighboring campuses. The mission of the NCDRC is to provide investigators, both established in or new to diabetes research, with access to powerful research technologies to enhance the impact of their work, as well as to connect investigators with collaborators, both at intra- and inter-institutional levels, to broaden the scope of their projects.
