Description
The goal of this mechanism is to provide funding to allow PIs who have current pilot support through an NIA Center Program or NIA Center Program Coordinating Center, to explore and incorporate measures, concepts, approaches from other disciplines, through services and input provided by investigators affiliated with one of the other NIA Center Programs.
Each supplemental award will provide up to $20,000 in direct costs. The proposal must engage services and/or investigators affiliated with a different NIA Center Program (AITCs, Shock, Roybal, Older American Independence Centers (Pepper), Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, Centers for Demography and Economics of Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers). Investigators not affiliated with these NIA programs may be included in addition.
Applications may seek support to collect or analyze data, study samples, measure biomarkers, or develop multi- or interdisciplinary conceptual models to motivate further cross-center work. There must be clear evidence that all investigators will contribute meaningfully to the intellectual design and conduct of the research.
Applicants may propose to use the funds while their NIA Pilot grant is active and as justified by the proposed activity. The RCCN will support 20% (up to $4,000) in indirect costs for each award.