# Pilot Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $301,097

## Abstract

Project Abstract (Pilot Core)
The overarching goal of the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s (CAPRA) is to serve as a
national resource to promote and accelerate multidisciplinary research that informs the actions governments,
healthcare systems and providers can take to reduce the social, economic, and health burden of AD/ADRD.
The Pilot Core will serve a central role for achieving that goal by providing funding, resources, and networking
for investigators doing pilot studies in CAPRA’s thematic research areas. Pilot studies provide opportunities to
test promising hypotheses, stimulate investigator collaborations, and generate preliminary data for new grants.
But their small scale and short timeline can make it difficult to efficiently complete and to transition to full-scale
studies. To reduce barriers to entry for Alzheimer’s population and healthcare research, the Pilot Core is
designed to provide not only funding for pilots but also access to expertise, methods and in some cases data to
ensure success. We will solicit and select pilot studies from a diverse set of investigators that fit CAPRA’s
themes and have the best chance to develop into externally funded research projects and be most influential
for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in population health. We aim to
solicit pilot studies across many disciplines, including established investigators transitioning into AD/ADRD
research. We will solicit pilot studies not only from the University of Michigan, but also from the broader
research community around the country. The solicitation strategy will access existing networks, such as
Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, National Clinical Scholars programs, and other collaborative
groups with whom the CAPRA leadership and affiliates work. CAPRA will not merely fund promising pilot
studies, the Pilot Study Investigators will become an integral part of CAPRA. They will participate in other
CAPRA activities, creating a wider network of dementia research collaborators, and also receive ongoing
mentorship through the process of writing full R01 grant proposals. We will leverage data, methods, and
experience across all CAPRA collaborators to enhance the science and potential influence of their research.
We will achieve this through mentoring, seminars, and grant-writing workshops. Ultimately, our goal is to bring
talented researchers from many disciplines into Alzheimer’s research and seek innovative collaborative
solutions.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9938869
- **Project number:** 1P30AG066582-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** EDWARD C. NORTON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $301,097
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9938869

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9938869, Pilot Core (1P30AG066582-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9938869. Licensed CC0.

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