Pilot Projects Program

项目概要-试点项目计划（PPP） 西北太平洋转化环境健康研究中心（Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research Pilot Projects） 我们将进行短期投资，扩大EHS研究，以提高我们对关系的理解 环境暴露、人类生物学和疾病之间的关系。公私伙伴关系在中心内发挥核心作用 该中心的运营预算为22万美元（占中心预算的22%）。这将使PPP能够支持 每年至少8个新的环境健康科学研究项目（每个项目最高25，000美元）。的 PPP正在采用已知的战略来促进生物医学科学的创新和研究转化。 通过征集三种不同奖项类型的申请，中心将实现以下目标：1）吸引 并支持高素质的新的和中期职业科学家，以提高EHS研究的多样性; 2）促进 通过促进沟通、协作、方法改进，创新EHS研究， 灵活探索新出现的环境健康问题; 3）通过建立 与利益攸关方（如卫生机构、环境监管机构、社区团体、非政府组织、 利润，临床医生，制造商，制药公司或部落）共同产生信息， 可操作的EHS知识。这些行动不仅将推动发现环境如何影响 人类生物学和健康，而且还为预防和干预战略提供信息， 个人，社区和人口。

PROJECT SUMMARY – Pilot Projects Program (PPP) The Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research Pilot Projects Program (PPP) will make short-term investments to expand EHS research to improve our understanding of the relationships among environmental exposures, human biology, and disease. The PPP plays a central role within the Center and has an operating budget of $220,000 (22% of the Center's budget). This will allow the PPP to support at least 8 new environmental health science research projects per year (maximum of $25,000 per project). The PPP is embracing known strategies for promoting innovation and research translation in biomedical science. By soliciting applications for 3 different award types, the Center will accomplish the following aims: 1) Attract and support highly qualified new and mid-career scientists to enhance diversity of EHS research; 2) Promote innovation in EHS research by fostering communication, collaboration, methodological improvements, and agility to explore emerging environmental health issues; and 3) Accelerate research translation by building partnerships with stakeholders (e.g. health agencies, environmental regulators, community groups, non- profits, clinicians, manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms, or Tribes) to co-generate information that can lead to actionable EHS knowledge. These actions will not only advance discovery of how the environment affects human biology and health but also inform prevention and intervention strategies that can improve the health of individuals, communities, and populations.