Frederic C. Bartter
General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
Clinical Research Feasibility Funds (CReFF)
GCRC Patient-Oriented Research Scholar Pilot Research Award
Funds awarded for 2006-2007.
Please check back in October 2006 for the submission deadline
for 2007.
Congratulations to the recipients of CReFF awards for 2006-2007:
Patricia Dahia, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Structural
Biology. “Indentification of prognostic biomarkers in pheochromocytomas: studying the predictive
value of transcription-based gene sets.”Devjit Tripathy, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Diabetes. “Effect of acute
elevation of free fatty acids on mitochrondrial function in skeletal muscle in healthy subjects.”
The National Institute for Research Resources (NCRR) has awarded funding to the UTHSCSA GCRC to provide initial seed money to support innovative, high quality pilot research projects. The goal of this program is to permit investigators to pursue good ideas to the point of generating a body of preliminary data sufficient to form the basis for a competitive national application for project support.
Projects will be funded for one year. Funds may be requested for technical help, small items of equipment, supplies and other direct research costs. Funds may not be used for investigator salary. Other additional support may be available through services provided by the GCRC (see GCRC website: http://gcrc.uthscsa.edu/). The GCRC Advisory Committee will require a progress report at the end of the project, and brief, yearly reports thereafter to track the academic and scientific progress of the recipient.
This program will emphasize junior faculty members for whom the need to generate preliminary data is likely to be greatest. However, midlevel or even senior faculty who present an exciting idea taking them in a new research direction will not be excluded.
Evaluation criteria will include:
Training and experience of the applicant.
Scientific merit of the proposal.
Potential for career development
Potential for facilitating outside funding, particularly at the NIH RO1 level.
Programmatic and institutional impact; interdisciplinary features.
Relevance to and potential impact on health.
The application should be structured as follows:
One original plus four copies of application proposals and an electronic version, including the following:
Cover Page Form MS Word HTML
Applicant's current curriculum vitae or biographical sketch
Scientific plan (maximum five single-spaced pages) organized as follows:Summary Abstract
Specific aims
Background
Experimental plan
Sample size estimate and analysis plan
Significance
Plan for seeking outside grant support
Literature citations
Budget (use NIH form MS Word PDF)
Other Support (use NIH format - samples MS Word PDF)
The review committee will include qualified members from the GCRC administration and the GCRC Scientific Review Committee.
The awardees will be required to acknowledge the support of this award in all related publications.
For more information, contact Robin L. Brey, M.D., Associate Program Director for the GCRC, at 567-4615 or via e-mail at brey@uthscsa.edu
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