# Pilot and Feasibility Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $156,666

## Abstract

SPECIFIC AIMS – Pilot and Feasibility Program:
The Pilot and Feasibility Program provides modest research support for a limited time (usually one to two
years) to enable eligible investigators to explore the feasibility of a concept related to the mission of the NORC
and generate sufficient data to pursue it through other funding mechanisms.
The pilot and feasibility studies are intended to:
1) Provide support for new investigators seeking to test a new hypothesis or idea related to nutrition/obesity.
2) Allow exploration of possible innovative new directions for established investigators already working in the
 nutrition/obesity field.
3) Stimulate investigators from other areas to participate in nutrition/obesity research.
Pilot and feasibility study support is not intended for large projects by established investigators that would
otherwise be submitted as separate research grant applications, nor is it intended to provide bridging support.
Pilot and feasibility funds are also not intended to support or supplement ongoing funded research of an
investigator.
------- List of abbreviations -----
CRISPRs clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
DDRCC Digestive Diseases Research Core Center
DRC Diabetes Research Center
ER Endoplasmic Reticulum
FFA Free Fatty Acids
IPH Institute for Public Health
MAO Metabolically Abnormal Obese
MEF Mouse Embryo Fibroblasts
NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
NIH National Institutes of Health
NAMPT Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase
NORC Nutrition Obesity Research Center
P&F Pilot & Feasibility
PI Principal Investigator
UCLA University of California, Los Angeles
WT Wild-Type
WU Washington University
WUSM Washington University School of Medicine

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9926271
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056341-20
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** David Hershel Alpers
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $156,666
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9926271

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9926271, Pilot and Feasibility Program (5P30DK056341-20). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-14 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9926271. Licensed CC0.

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