# Pilot and Feasibility Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $167,642

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT - PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROGRAM
The goal of the Washington University (WU) Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot and
Feasibility (P&F) Program is to promote and support academic research careers of promising early stage
faculty members conducting nutrition and obesity research. The P&F Program accomplishes this goal by
providing both funding for pilot and feasibility projects and mentoring throughout the conduct of those studies.
Each application is judged by: i) the potential of the applicant to be a successful independent investigator, and
ii) the potential of the proposed study to generate sufficient pilot data for a successful extramural grant
application, and therefore, iii) the potential of the P&F award to support the career trajectory of the applicant.
The P&F Program provides $120,000/year to fund four investigators ($30,000/year for each) or more
investigators with smaller amounts of funding. Investigators can receive a second year of funding provided
adequate progress was demonstrated during the first year to justify funding for a second year. The funds for
the P&F Program are provided by the NORC grant ($70,000/year) and support from the Department of
Medicine ($50,000/year). In the last 10 years, 67% of P&F awardees who completed their projects have
received extramural funding: 77% from the NIH and 23% from scientific societies and foundations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10848334
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056341-24
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Dominic N Reeds
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $167,642
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1999-09-30 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10848334

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10848334, Pilot and Feasibility Program (5P30DK056341-24). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10848334. Licensed CC0.

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