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The Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Celebrates a Milestone
Any organization that gets a papers and grant proposals, and date. Beyond the financial impact,
42-fold return on investment is presenting their work. CMSR the awards enabled 62
doing something right – actually, awarded $500,000 in competitive publications and resulted in 17
doing a lot of things right. That’s pilot dollars from 2014-2018 to faculty promotions.
the story of the Center for 24 new researchers. A relatively
Musculoskeletal Research, which small sum—about $22,000 for Pilot grants don’t often
marked its 20th anniversary each recipient—later catalyzed yield such a rich return. But
last year. Among its many $21,169,818 in extramural funding they demonstrate what has
achievements worth celebrating: from NIH and other agencies to distinguished CMSR from the
turning $500,000 in P30 pilot
grants for new investigators into
$21 million in NIH funding over a CMSR converts pilot funds to high-value grant awards
5-year period (see Table 1). # of P30 pilot projects # successive grants
# PIs (average funding $25K) (average value $419,566) Total funding
Pilot grants for new researchers
help them build skills in scientific
investigation, writing research 19 24 46 $21,169,818
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