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How to Apply for Pilot Project Funding
How to Apply for Pilot Project Funding
The Center funds approximately
4 pilot projects each grant year, each with direct cost
support of approximately $20,000. The project period is
from January 1 to December 31. Each project will last
1-2 years.
Letter of Intent (LOI) Due: First Friday in October, every year
Application Deadline: First Friday in November, every year
Start Date: January 1, following year
Eligibility
1) Junior faculty investigator without funding and with
research interest in the Center's theme, "Elucidation
of the mechanisms by which alcohol sensitizes and primes
the liver and pancreas for injury" or with an interest
in basic or translational research on developments of
new therapeutic and preventive modalities of cirrhosis.
2) Investigator with or without funding interested in
transition to alcohol or cirrhosis research.
Priority will be given to those in Category 1.
At least one project funded will have direct relevance
to cirrhosis research.
LOI Instructions
Include:
1) Title of Project
2) Your eligibility (see above)
3) Central hypothesis of the project
4) Brief description of specific aims
Application Instructions
Please use NIH PHS398 forms. Please do not use font size
smaller than 10 points. If you are in doubt on how to
complete these forms, please follow NIH guidelines. You
do not need to get business official signature on the
face page.
Submit original + 5 copies.
Include:
1) Face Page (PHS398 Form Page 1)
2) Abstract Page (PHS398 Form Page 2)
3) First Year Budget Page (PHS398 Form Page 4)
4) Biographical Sketch/Other Support (PHS398 Biosketch
Format Page)
5) Research Plan - NOT TO EXCEED 10 PAGES
a) Specific Aims
b) Background and Significance
c) Preliminary Studies
(or Progress Report for renewal applications with list of publications
generated from pervious funding
period)
d) Research Design and Methods
e) Literature Cited
Forms can be obtained from:
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html
Submit LOI and Applications (original + 5 copies) to:
Hide Tsukamoto, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Director
Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases
Keck School of Medicine of USC
1333 San Pablo Street, MMR 4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9141
Please direct questions to
Rosy Macias.
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5th International Symposium on ALPD and Cirrhosis
Freiburg, Germany, October 5-6, 2010
Organizers:
Manfred V. Singer, Mannheim, Germany
Steven Dooley, Mannheim, Germany
Craig McClain, Louisville, U.S.A.
Sam Zakhari, Rockville, U.S.A.
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