# DEVELOPMENTAL FUNDS (Core 002)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2020 · $1,058,962

## Abstract

Project Summary 
During the current project period, the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) used Developmental Funds to support 
innovative new research through a Pilot Project Program, and also to provide support to our Shared 
Resources. These funds have stimulated research in areas of strategic importance to the ACC. This support is 
essential to the ACC's ability to execute its responsibilities in stimulating transdisciplinary and translational 
research and to encourage research in areas of priority to both the ACC and the NCI. Pilot awards are issued 
based on a long-standing, well-established peer review process involving senior and junior ACC members from 
multiple departments and disciplines. This process is similar to the peer review process used by the NCI. 
During the current project period plus the last year of the previous project period, 32 pilot projects were 
awarded. 17 new externally funded grants were awarded to recipients ($2.3M annual direct costs) and another 
eight are pending. 33 peer-reviewed articles were published by recipients. Developmental Funds for Shared 
Resources were also used to support a developing animal pathology core, which is now a fully established 
Shared Resource in this renewal application. In the coming cycle, we are requesting Developmental Funds to 
continue our robust Pilot Project Program, to aid in the development of new Shared Resources, to provide 
support to our Staff Investigators and to continue our recruitment of faculty-level scientists in areas of strategic 
need.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9836822
- **Project number:** 5P30CA016520-44
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Robert H. Vonderheide
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,058,962
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9836822

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9836822, DEVELOPMENTAL FUNDS (Core 002) (5P30CA016520-44). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9836822. Licensed CC0.

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