University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center Pilot Grants: February 6 |
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The University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging (IOA) and Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (ADCC) will fund up to six (6) one-year multidisciplinary pilot grants in the 2015-2016 academic year to support biomedical, epidemiological, behavioral or health services research, as well as basic science, clinical or psychosocial research. Two of the pilots, funded by Penn’s ADCC, will focus on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative disorders as well as healthy brain aging. The remaining pilots, supported by funding from the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn (PSOM) to the IOA, will focus on aging and aging-related diseases as well as healthy aging.
The Principal Investigator (PI) for each of these pilots must be a member of the University of Pennsylvania full-time faculty from any of its 12 schools. Collaboration with other departments or schools is strongly encouraged.
Each pilot will be funded at a level of up to $50,000/year for personnel and supply costs, but not tuition costs, student dissertation research, equipment or instruments. A committee of IOA and ADCC members will review all proposals. Funding depends on scientific merit and the likelihood that the pilots will lead to independent funding to continue the research beyond the pilot studies. Priority will be given to:
• Faculty in the early stages of their career who seek to enter research fields on aging or AD and related neurodegenerative disorders
• Senior faculty who intend to shift their research emphasis towards aging or AD and related disorders
Application Process:
Applications will be considered for all pilot grant award programs, for which they are eligible, as described in this announcement and they should be formatted in the style of a NIH PHS 398 application. However, a title page should be substituted for the NIH face page. Application items #5 and #6 below should be limited to two pages (exclusive of title page with abstract, budget, biosketches, other support, letters of collaboration, literature cited, etc. as in PHS 398). Animal and/or IRB protocols may be pending.
Applications due: February 6, 2015; anticipated date of award: July 1, 2015.
Submit one hardcopy original and an electronic PDF file (via email) to: Kathryn Jedrziewski, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, jedrzmk@mail.med.upenn.edu
For more information: http://www.med.upenn.edu/aging/funding.shtml |
