Pilot--Project Program

试点项目计划

• 批准号: 7239995
• 负责人: LARRY W ROBERTSON
• 金额: $ 31.72万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7239995
• 关键词: Africa South of the Sahara; Applications Grants; Area; Arts; Award; Contracts; Core Facility; Country; Data; Development; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Eastern Europe; Environmental Health; European; European Union; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; International; Manuscripts; Measures; Mentors; Mission; Pilot Projects; Postdoctoral Fellow; Principal Investigator; Publications; Rate; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Rural; Services; Students; Time; Training; Work; career; cooking; innovation; interdisciplinary collaboration; international center; novel; outreach; professor; programs; success

GOALS AND SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS The EHSRC has now funded 98 pilot grants over the past 15 years. The Pilot Grant Program has been a highly valued component of the EHSRC, serving both the research, career development and training missions of the Center. It has helped advance the careers of talented junior investigators by bringing them into environmental health research. It has fostered innovation and nurtured novel ideas fueling further grant support and publication. The EHSRC will devote more than $250,000 per year to the pilot grant program with $200,000 from Center funds and $60,000 - $90,000 per year of matching funds from the Vice President for Research. Dr. Peter S. Thorne, Center Director directed the program until 2003, at which time Dr. Larry Robertson became the director of the Pilot Grant Program in the last grant cycle of the EHSRC. The Goals of the EHSRC Pilot Grant Program are to: ¿ Provide initial support for junior investigators to establish new lines of environmental health research ¿ Provide services of state-of-the-art facility cores to pilot grant investigators to enhance their research ¿ Facilitate exploration of innovative new directions in environmental health for established investigators ¿ Stimulate investigators from other disciplines to apply their expertise to environmental health research ¿ Foster new interdisciplinary collaborations through awarding of pilot projects to investigators that have not previously worked together The objective measures of the success of the program are: Grants and contracts developed as progeny of pilot grants Manuscripts emanating from the pilot grant support Students mentored and M.S. theses and Ph.D. dissertations generated through pilot grant support Post-doctoral fellows mentored in research and grantsmanship through the Pilot Grant Program New interdisciplinary collaborations established as a result of the program The pilot grant program has been extremely successful in meeting these objectives. As shown in Table 10.1, the EHSRC has funded 98 pilot grants since it was inaugurated in 1990. There have been 83 projects funded through the Research Pilot Grant Program and15 through the International Pilot Grant Program that was initiated in 1997. Table 10.1 provides data demonstrating the success rate for pilot grant submissions. The Pilot Grant Program has funded 55% of the Research Pilot Grant applications and 54% of the International Pilot Grant applications. Nearly all funded pilot grants have been projects involving junior investigators and the majority of awards have gone to projects with junior principal investigators. Junior investigators include assistant professors, faculty associates, and postdoctoral fellows. Uncharacteristically, there were no pilot grant applications submitted to the International Pilot Grant Program in Rounds 18-20. This was discussed among the Executive Committee with Dr. Tom Cook, the Director of International Outreach. Three reasons were suggested: 1) in those years the international trainees that were hosted through our Fogarty-funded Center for International Rural and Environmental Health (CIREH) were focused on areas less well aligned with the focus of the EHSRC; 2) as Central European countries have joined the European Union our trainees have increasingly been drawn from Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and are less prepared to compete for research grants; and 3) One international pilot grant competed successfully in the regular Research Pilot Grant pool. We will continue to encourage applications from trainees and their mentors and will seek to better publicize the International Program. We will also re-evaluate the program after the next round of awards are made to determine the viability of the International Pilot Grant Program

目标和成就摘要 在过去的15年里，EHSRC已经资助了98项试点赠款。试点补助金计划一直是一个 EHSRC的高度重视的组成部分，服务于研究，职业发展和培训 中心的使命。它帮助推动了有才华的初级调查员的职业生涯， 环境健康研究。它促进了创新，培养了新的想法，推动了进一步的赠款 支持和出版。EHSRC每年将为试点赠款计划投入超过25万美元 中心资金提供20万美元，副中心每年提供6万至9万美元的配套资金。 总统研究。Peter S.索恩，中心主任指导该计划，直到2003年，在这个时候， 博士拉里·罗伯逊在EHSRC的最后一个赠款周期成为试点赠款计划的主任。 EHSRC试点赠款计划的目标是： 为初级研究人员提供初步支持，以建立新的环境健康研究路线 为试点赠款调查员提供最先进的设施核心服务，以提高他们的 研究 促进探索环境健康的创新新方向， 调查人员 鼓励其他学科的研究人员将其专业知识应用于环境健康 研究 通过向调查人员颁发试点项目，促进新的跨学科合作， 以前没有一起工作过 该方案成功与否的客观衡量标准是： 试点赠款产生的赠款和合同 试点赠款支助产生的费用 学生辅导和MS。博士论文通过试点赠款支助产生的论文 博士后研究员通过试点赠款计划接受研究和赠款方面的指导 由于该计划而建立的新的跨学科合作 试点赠款方案在实现这些目标方面非常成功。见表 10.1.自1990年成立以来，环境卫生和社会资源中心已资助了98笔试点赠款。已有83个项目 通过研究试点资助计划和15通过国际试点资助计划， 始于1997年。表10.1提供的数据显示了试点赠款申请的成功率。 试点补助金计划资助了55%的研究试点补助金申请和54%的 国际试点补助金申请。几乎所有获得资助的试点赠款都是涉及初级教育的项目。 大多数奖项都授予了初级首席调查员的项目。初级 研究人员包括助理教授、教职员和博士后研究员。 与往常不同的是，没有向国际试点赠款提交试点赠款申请 第18-20轮的节目。执行委员会与Tom Cook博士讨论了这一问题， 国际推广主任。有三个原因被提出：1）在那些年里， 通过我们的福格蒂资助的国际农村和环境中心主办的学员 健康（CIREH）的重点是与EHSRC的重点不太一致的领域; 2）作为中央 欧洲国家已加入欧洲联盟，我们的受训人员越来越多地来自 东欧和撒哈拉以南非洲，不太愿意竞争研究赠款; 国际试点赠款在常规研究试点赠款池中成功竞争。我们将继续 鼓励学员及其导师提出申请，并将努力更好地宣传国际 程序.我们还将在下一轮颁奖后重新评估该计划，以确定 国际试点赠款方案的可行性