Center for Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases Pilot & Feasibility Grant: Category 1

The Center for Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases offers a Pilot & Feasibility Grant aimed at fostering new diabetes-related researchers and supporting innovative, high-risk projects. This grant, up to $50,000 for one year, is directed to new investigators without prior NIH support. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration among Indiana University campuses and encourages applications that may lead to significant extramural funding. Eligible applicants must be independent investigators with necessary resources for proposed research.

Center for Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases Pilot & Feasibility Grant
A primary research-related activity of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases (CDMD)’s Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) program is to foster the development of new diabetes-related investigators and provide seed-support for innovative, high-risk projects.
The CDMD P&F program has three different grant mechanisms:
Parent P&F Grants: This mechanism invites applications directed towards basic biomedical, clinical, and/or translational research questions on cellular and molecular metabolism related to diabetes/obesity/metabolic syndrome, clinical and outcomes research in diabetes and obesity, complications of diabetes and obesity, islet function and survival, and nutrition and physiology of diabetes and obesity.
Alzheimer’s-Focused P&F Grants: This mechanism invites applications focused on diabetes and metabolic disease aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias (AD/ADRD)–frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, vascular cognitive impairment with dementia, and multiple etiology dementias.
Physician-Scientist P&F Grants: This mechanism invites applications from exceptional emerging physician-scientists holding an MD (or equivalent) or MD/PhD with a patient-oriented diabetes and/or obesity-related clinical research project, who are early in their clinical research careers and show great promise to develop into future independent investigators.
New investigators without current or past NIH research support as a PD/PI with any current or past support from other sources being modest
Awards are up to $50,000 for one year
Travel budget requested must be limited to those expenses necessary to carry out the specific aims of the proposed project.Graduate student stipends (only) are an allowable expense.
Publication fees are deemed an allowable expense.

Eligibility

All eligible investigators must have faculty appointments, be independent investigators and have the education, skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research. These funding opportunities invite applications from investigators at Indiana University School of Medicine and other Indiana University campuses (IU Bloomington, IU Muncie, etc.), Purdue University, University of Notre Dame and the Indiana Biomedical Research Institute (IBRI).Work supported by these funds is expected to lead to submissions of major extramural grants (R01/equivalent NIH, major foundation awards, DOD, etc.)National and international collaborations are allowed.New investigators, as defined by the NIH, should not have previously competed successfully for a substantial (e.g., R01) NIH-supported independent research award.

Ineligibility

Postdoctoral fellows or their equivalent are not eligible.Travel to conferences or seminars are not an allowable expense.Budget requests may not include indirect costs, F&A, or PI salaries.