# Pilot and Feasibility Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2020 · $161,234

## Abstract

Project Summary - Pilot and Feasibility Program
The Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program provides seed research support, primarily for junior investigators
during their critical transition years as new faculty members. The vast majority of our awards have gone to
investigators who are in the early stages of their research careers, but we have also supported several
established investigators whose proposals were exciting and innovative, but whose previous expertise and
research lay outside the NORC research focus on in nutrition and obesity. We attribute the success of our
Program to our careful mentoring, supportive role models, and rigorous and consistent critiques of research
projects.
Since the inception of our P&F Program in 1999, the NORC has awarded $2,341,927 to 58 investigators to
support new and innovative research in nutrition and obesity. Based on their P&F pilot data, our awardees
have received $42.2 million in external research support. Because the focus of the UNC NORC encompasses
six main research areas (diet and physical activity, metabolic molecular phenotyping, intervention, animal
metabolism, nutrigenetics, and clinical nutritional studies), we focus on supporting investigators who are
developing cutting edge research in one of these areas.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9889120
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056350-20
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Rosalind Anne Coleman
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $161,234
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9889120

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9889120, Pilot and Feasibility Program (5P30DK056350-20). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9889120. Licensed CC0.

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