# Pilot and Feasibility Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $200,010

## Abstract

Pilot and Feasibility Program 
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 
The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center Pilot & Feasibility (PF) program provides support for 
basic and clinical research projects related to obesity, its etiology and complications. Since its inception 
35 years ago, this program has been used successfully to 1. attract and underwrite young investigators 
who wish to undertake a career in obesity; 2. encourage established investigators proposing work 
related to obesity, outside of their usual areas of research; 3. promulgate high-risk projects that expand 
the NYONRC's reach into new areas of bioscience deemed likely to have relevance to aspects of our 
mission; 4. promote collaborative research projects among Center members and the Cores. 
Of the 90 prior recipients, 66 are still in obesity/nutrition academic research, four are in teaching, and 
seven are in industry. In the past 10 years, 21 of the recipients have been early investigators and 2 
have been established investigators. To date, these 23 P/F grantees have acquired 25 grants, funded 
by NIH (n=16), and private foundations (n=9). The total annual direct costs for these 25 grants are 
nearly $3.4 M. We consider this program to be among the most important elements of the Center, and 
have take steps to increase the resources available to it. For this renewal we have, therefore, increased 
the requested budget for this program to $100k per annum of Center funds, and obtained commitments 
from the Deans of Columbia and Einstein for an additional $125k per annum. This $225k of annual 
funding will enable us to have 4-5 P&F grants (@ ~$45k per annum) active in any year. In addition, our 
closely integrated programs of the Berrie Center – Berrie Frontiers Fellows and Scholars – brings an 
additional $430k in per annum funding for programs focused on early stage fellows and faculty in the 
area of obesity, diabetes and allied metabolic disorders.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9901513
- **Project number:** 5P30DK026687-40
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Judith Korner
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $200,010
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9901513

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9901513, Pilot and Feasibility Program (5P30DK026687-40). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9901513. Licensed CC0.

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