# Pilot and Feasibility Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2020 · $255,789

## Abstract

PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROGRAM: PROJECT SUMMARY 
The Pilot and Feasibility Program is directed by Atul Bhan. In this role, Dr. Bhan will evaluate letters of intent 
for suitability, assist the Center director with identification of appropriate reviewers, and examine reviews 
received. Dr. Bhan is charged specifically with reviewing these initial funding proposals in the context of the 
overall programmatic goals of the Center in fostering new digestive disease investigators and advancing 
understanding of IBD. He will also chair the meeting of the CSIBD Executive Steering Committee that ranks 
the proposals for funding. 
The specific aims of the Pilot and Feasibility Program are to (1) recruit new investigators into IBD research 
by providing funding for IBD related nascent research programs, and (2) generate new ideas related to IBD 
research by providing funding for innovative high risk high payoff lines of investigation. As detailed in the 
Research Strategy of this program, achievement of these goals is evident in the success that P/F recipients 
have had in bringing pilot projects to the juncture at which they have led to ongoing research funding by 
external peer-reviewed agencies as well as results warranting publication in peer-reviewed journals. In the last 
ten years of funding (2005-2014), 35 Pilot and Feasibility Program award recipients have gone on to become 
independent investigators; 10 of these transitions to independence occurred since the last competing renewal 
in 2009.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9848619
- **Project number:** 5P30DK043351-30
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** ATUL K BHAN
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $255,789
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9848619

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9848619, Pilot and Feasibility Program (5P30DK043351-30). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9848619. Licensed CC0.

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