How to Apply

The Center funds approximately four pilot projects each grant year, each with direct cost support of $20,000-$30,000 plus fee-free services from the center’s technical cores worth up to $7,000. The project period is from January 1 to December 31, with opportunity for renewal application.

Applications for 2023 funding are being currently reviewed. Information on applications for 2024 will be announced in September of 2023.

Eligibility

  1. Junior faculty investigators (or senior postdocs in transition to junior faculty) without funding, who wish to develop independent research programs in the Center’s priority areas: how alcohol and risk factors sensitize the liver and pancreas for diseases; basic or translational research on development of new therapeutic and preventive modalities for cirrhosis, liver or pancreatic cancer;
  2. Investigators from other fields, who are interested in expanding research to alcoholic liver and pancreatic diseases (ALPD) and cirrhosis;
  3. Investigators who aim to develop new collaborative research on common and comparative mechanisms in both ALPD or new system biology projects on crosstalk among liver, pancreas, intestine, adipose, and brain within the context of alcohol effects.

LOI Instructions

Include:

  1. Proposed project title
  2. Your eligibility (see above)
  3. Project’s central hypothesis
  4. Brief description of specific aims

E-mail LOI to:

Hide Tsukamoto, D.V.M., Ph.D., FAASLD:
Director
E-mail: htsukamo@med.usc.edu

Southern California Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases
Keck School of Medicine of USC
1333 San Pablo Street, MMR-402,
Los Angeles, CA 90033

LOI submissions will be evaluated by the Pilot Project Committee. Applicants with approved LOIs are invited to submit a full proposal by October per application instructions to be e-mailed.

Please direct questions to Dr. Hidekazu Tsukamoto at htsukamo@med.usc.edu.