After submitting a letter of intent, you may be selected to submit a full application for the RCCN Pilot Awards. If your proposal has been selected, you will be notified by RCCN about one month following the LOI deadline. More information on application procedures are listed below.

The application should be submitted as a single PDF document, using 12-point font and single-spaced. The application must include the following and in this order:

• Page 1: Application Cover Page
• Page 2: Abstract
• Page 3 – 7: Narrative describing the proposed activity or activities. The narrative should include the hypotheses/rationale, specific aims, brief preliminary data (if any), an implementation plan/research strategy and proposed methods, timeline and expected outcomes and next steps.
• Page 8-10: References
• Page 11-13: A budget and budget justification
• NIH-style bios-sketches for the key investigators
• Statements from the directors of the relevant NIA Center program confirming the principal investigators’ affiliation
• Additional supporting materials up to two documents, and only if directly relevant to the proposed project and not to exceed 5 pages.