# Pilot and Feasibility Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2021 · $249,455

## Abstract

Project Summary
The Harvard NORC-H has had a thriving P&F Program for 20 years. Over the last 10 years, the Center has
funded 58 grants. These applicants were from highly promising junior investigators, a large percentage of
whom were K funded, as well as a limited number of established investigators or new senior investigators
proposing a new direction of research. The research projects were often clinical and translational
commensurate with the themes of the Center. These awardees have significantly leveraged the awarded P&F
funding totaling approximately $1,200,000, generating over $49,000,000 in subsequent NIH funds, including a
significant number of R01 grants. These P&F grants have been successful in helping us to achieve our goals
of promoting, retaining and promoting successful young faculty to nutrition and obesity research. In fact many
of the awardees are now Center investigators and mentoring their own junior faculty. The overarching goal of
the Center is to facilitate and catalyze research in nutrition and obesity at Harvard, with a particular focus on
translational research, by supporting the exploration of innovative projects by new investigators, novel projects
representing a new direction in obesity and nutrition research by established investigators, and to stimulate
new investigators from other areas of research to engage in obesity and nutrition research, and to promote and
retain these investigators in the field. Our goals are to promote novel cutting edge research in nutrition and
obesity, while promoting a new generation of researchers interested and retained in the field, to promote the
engagement of a wide spectrum of the research community, through comprehensive peer review of submitted
proposals, active monitoring of results and publications, and enrichment, through organized symposia
highlighting the work of the successful grantees and engaging these researchers in successful collaborations,
to facilitate the success of our grantees grants through: 1) the use of shared core resources, made uniquely
accessible to grantees through an incentives and a weighed system of charge back subsidies to P&F winners
2) provision of consultations in model development for specific experimental strategies, and 3) specific
statistical support to P&F applicants and ongoing support to awardees to facilitate optimal study design.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10216225
- **Project number:** 5P30DK040561-25
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** Takara Leah Stanley
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $249,455
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-01 → 2022-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10216225

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10216225, Pilot and Feasibility Program (5P30DK040561-25). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10216225. Licensed CC0.

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