USC

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 $23,000. The project period is from January 1 to December 31. Each project will last 1-2 years.

Letter of Intent (LOI) Due: October 15, every year
Application Deadline: November 15, 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.

_________________________________________________________________

Attend A Free Community Seminar
"Health Effects of Alchohol:
What Your Patients Need to Know"
Date: TBA
Place: Rancho Los Angeles National Rehabilitation Center
7601 E. Imperial Hwy.
Downey, CA 90242

3rd Annual International Symposium
July 17 and 18, 2008
Bilbao, Spain


This two-day International Symposium will be hosted by José Mato, CIC BioGUNE, and José Fernández-Checa, University of Barcelona.  

Alcohol and Your Health
Online Education Click Here

Support the Center
Learn how to support our research... More

 
Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases

*  2007 USC. All rights reserved.