Three Pilot and Feasibility grants will be awarded in 2008 for basic or clinical research in the fields of type-1 diabetes, type-2 diabetes or their complications. Investigators either at Joslin Diabetes Center or at institutions within Harvard Medical School and affiliated hospitals are eligible. The Principal Investigator must be a junior researcher who has not yet received significant NIH or other funding (eg RO1 or equivalent), or a senior researcher entering the diabetes field for the first time or exploring a completely new direction.

For the first time, one of this year's three P&F awards will be a new type of grant designed to encourage translational research. Funded by the Joslin Diabetes Center Research Division, the grant will support a new collaborative project between a PI who is a basic scientist and a PI who is a clinician or clinical scientist. The project must focus on patients or patient samples -- studies on mice or other model systems are not eligible for this particular P&F award. At least one of the two collaborating PIs must be from Joslin.  If you are applying for this Twinned Basic/Clinical award, please specify so within the "Intended Proposal",.