Pilot Program
Description of Pilot Program
The purpose of this Pilot program is to provide seed money for research that has not yet reached the stage of maturity necessary for funding by traditional NIH mechanisms such as RO1s and PO1s. Such research ideas should be considered innovative and may potentially be high risk. These applications are funded for one or two years and have a maximum funding limit of $50,000 per year. Research areas deemed relevant to the scope of this program include, but are not limited to:
- development of new gene therapy vectors
- study of the inflammatory responses to vectors
- assessment of host cell/vector interactions and the mechanisms of transduction
- identification of stem cell targets for gene therapy
- development of surrogate endpoints for assessing gene transfer and complementation in vivo
- pathophysiology of genetic disease if relevant to the development of gene therapies
- development of animal models to test gene therapies in vivo
- other genetic diseases relevant to the NIDDK research mission can be found at http://www.niddk.nih.gov/welcome/mission.htm#mission