# Pilot Projects Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2024 · $157,661

## Abstract

PILOT STUDIES CORE
Colleen A. Hanlon, Core Lead
SUMMARY
The Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center (WF-TARC) Pilot Studies Core will provide a
mechanism for evolution of the Center by incorporating new and innovative project areas and
technical expertise, and provide seed funding to junior investigators to help them obtain independent funding
of their own. We are proposing a program with $100,000 available each year to fund four Pilot Projects.
The selection process involves 1) a call for proposals, 2) analysis of the proposals by two non-Center
reviewers, either from the External Advisory Board or ad-hoc scientists with particular technical or topical
expertise relevant to the project, and 3) the reviewers assign priority scores to the projects, and the highest
scoring projects, usually 5-7, are 4) distributed to all Center investigators for evaluation, and are discussed and
rank-ordered by voting at one of the monthly Center meetings. This process provides the opportunity for open
critique of Pilot Studies by all members of the Center, and often develops productive collaborative projects
between WF-TARC and Pilot Study PI’s. Rankings of pilot applications will be made according to the
innovation and excellence of the research proposed, as well as its likely impact in the area of alcohol use
disortder research. Priority will be given to studies that could have high impact, those most closely related to
the theme of the Center, and those that may offer new technologies and research for future incorporation into
WF-TARC.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10758528
- **Project number:** 5P50AA026117-07
- **Recipient organization:** WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Colleen A Hanlon
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $157,661
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-12-10 → 2027-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10758528

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10758528, Pilot Projects Core (5P50AA026117-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10758528. Licensed CC0.

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