# Pilot Projects Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $39,926

## Abstract

SUMMARY
The Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center (WF-TARC) Pilot Core will provide a mechanism for
evolution of the Center by incorporating new and innovative research 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 Projects by
all members of the Center, and often develops productive collaborative projects between WF-TARC and Pilot
Project 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 disorder 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:** 9830550
- **Project number:** 5P50AA026117-03
- **Recipient organization:** WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** SARA RAULERSON JONES
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $39,926
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9830550

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9830550, Pilot Projects Core (5P50AA026117-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9830550. Licensed CC0.

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