DCC Funding Programs
The Diabetic Complications Consortium provide access to multiple funding mechanisms to enhance research activities that use the DCC infrastructure. These funding programs are open to the public and submissions are variable based on the program. This page provides information regarding the current funding programs available and will be updated regularly to reflect any changes or additions.
Pilot & Feasibility Program
Preclinical Testing Program
Summer Student Program
Past DCC Funding Program Awardees
Pilot & Feasibility Program
There is strong evidence that diabetic complications are linked via dysregulation of common pathways. The Diabetic Complications Consortium (DCC) promotes communication and collaboration between research communities investigating similar pathologic mechanisms in different organs by organizing an annual scientific meeting and funding new basic and translational research activities.
More information is available
here
Applications for the Pilot & Feasibility Funding Program will only be accepted beginning March 15th through May 17th for the 2012 calendar year.
Preclinical Testing Program
T1D-RAID and NIH-RAID are cooperative programs designed to facilitate translation to the clinic of novel, scientifically meritorious therapeutic interventions. However, in some cases, additional preclinical testing is needed to validate potential therapies under disease-specific conditions and in multiple animal models before new therapeutics can progress along the drug development pipeline.
In recognition of the compelling need to develop new therapeutics for several diabetic complications, the DCC has established a Preclinical Testing Program (DCC-PTP). The DCC-PTP will provide investigators with access to pilot funds to pursue additional preclinical studies of promising new therapeutics. The T1D-RAID and DCC-PTP are programs intended to remove the most common barriers to progress in identification and development of new therapies for complications of Type 1 Diabetes. The common goal of these programs is to support the preclinical work necessary to obtain "proof of principle" establishing that a new molecule or novel approach will be a viable candidate for expanded clinical evaluation.
More information is available
here
Submit a New Preclinical Testing Program Application for 2012
Summer Student Program
As part of the mission of the DCC and MMPC, data generated for the various animal models is deposited in a shared database. The exact nature of how the data can be used by the scientific community is an area of interest. Therefore, the DCC and MMPC are accepting applications from investigators to fund students during the summer to mine the data currently deposited in the shared database. The idea is for students to develop a thought experiment asking biological questions about diabetes, obesity, diabetic complications, or other metabolic diseases or specific animal models and use the DCC/MMPC sites to generate data and/or provide analyses.
More information is available
here
Submit a New Summer Student Program Application for 2012
