Research Development Core

The RDC is home to two different pilot and feasibility (P&F) programs, the P&F Incubator Award (internal) and the P&F Accelerator Award (core usage). As its name implies, the Incubator Award helps nurture and “hatch” new geroscientists at Einstein. The Accelerator Award jump-starts new aging efforts by funding NSC core usage by researchers at Einstein and across the country:

• In the last five years, we funded 20 internal P&F Incubator Awards (previously known as P&F projects). To date, over 50% of awardees have obtained independent funding, shared their findings in peer-reviewed journals, and undertaken new collaborations across the center. We identified promising new faculty with the potential to transition to aging research and assigned senior E-NSC members to closely mentor them on their projects and support new aging-related proposals. Importantly, awardees are integrated into various E-NSC activities.
• In addition, the RDC has funded 20 P&F Accelerator Awards. This strategy allows us to support many meritorious projects from internal and external investigators with rapid deployment of our cores. Accelerator Awards are evaluated on a rolling basis.