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Kirk Habegger, Ph.D.
Director

Phone: (205) 934-9835
Lab: (205) 934-9836
Fax: (205) 975-9372
E-mail: kirkhabegger@uabmc.edu

Our DRC emphasizes the pilot and feasibility grant program as an important mechanism to augment diabetes research and promote the next generation of research leaders. The P&F process taps a rich tradition of such programs at UAB. University-wide centers have long provided pilot funding opportunities to junior faculty and to senior faculty entering new areas of research. The P&F program will foster new research programs in diabetes and support a broad base of basic, clinical, translational, and prevention and control projects.

The process for applying for the DRC Pilot and Feasibility Grant is meant to mimic, in some ways, the application process for an NIH Grant.  The idea is to give experience and practice for those who haven’t written yet or who have written a few NIH proposals.  Examples of the necessary documents with pertinent UAB specific information are below.  A very thorough Resources section for all of our DRC Cores is in the example.  The UAB Office of Sponsored Programs website, Researcher’s Toolkit has information such as the Finance & Administrative rate agreement (Indirect Cost rate) and Fringe Benefit rates which change frequently.

Office of Sponsored Programs, Researcher’s Toolkit

PHS 398 forms example (docx)

RFA for Diabetes Pilot Grant Program 2025 (PDF)

Apply For P&F award

Eligibility

In October of every year a campus-wide request for applications (RFA) is sent to seek proposals from (i) junior investigators; (ii) established investigators in fields other than diabetes research that seek to bring expertise to issues relevant for diabetes for the first time; (iii) investigators in diabetes-related research who propose high-impact/high-risk projects to test truly innovative ideas that clearly depart from ongoing research interests; and (iv) a special category for multidisciplinary projects, added in part by leveraging institutional support for pilot projects that involve both basic and clinical scientists who combine efforts in "translational" research protocols. Awardees have used P&F funding to develop preliminary data sufficient to pursue larger, more comprehensive funding initiatives.
Our aims are to:

  1. Identify and support new outstanding and innovative research projects for pilot funding, intending that resulting data will facilitate larger longer-term extramural support and develop news line of investigation.
  2. Support promising junior faculty in career development through funding of outstanding pilot research.
  3. Augment the breadth and quality of DRC research through highly innovative projects of established researchers in fields other than diabetes who bring valuable expertise to the study of diabetes, or of established diabetes investigators testing new high-impact hypotheses distinct from their usual investigation.
  4. Increase the number of independent investigators funded by NIH to conduct diabetes research

 

 

 

stuart

Kirk Habegger, Ph.D.
Director

Phone: (205) 934-9835
Lab: (205) 934-9836
Fax: (205) 975-9372
E-mail: kirkhabegger@uabmc.edu

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