Pilot Project Program

试点项目计划

• 批准号: 8279705
• 负责人: Peter S Thorne
• 金额: $ 30.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8279705
• 关键词: Applications Grants; Award; Biological Sciences; Categories; Clinical; Clinical Sciences; Contracts; Data; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Environmental Health; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Funding Mechanisms; Goals; Grant; Institutes; International; Investments; Manuscripts; Measures; Mentors; Mission; Pilot Projects; Postdoctoral Fellow; Principal Investigator; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Rural Health; Scientist; Services; Students; Training; Translational Research; Uncertainty; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; career; career development; cost; health science research; innovation; interdisciplinary collaboration; international center; meetings; novel; programs; success

10 PILOT GRANT PROGRAM 10.1 GOALS AND SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS The Pilot Grant Program has been a highly valued component of the EHSRC, serving the research, career development and training missions of the Center. The Pilot Grant Program has helped advance the careers of talented junior investigators by bringing them into environmental health science (EHS) research. It has fostered innovation and nurtured novel ideas fueling further grant support and publication (Please see Appendix B). The EHSRC will devote $218,000 per year to the pilot grant program from Center funds. However at the initiative of the EHSRC, additional funds, $60,000 - $90,000 per year, will be available from the Office of the Vice President for Research (through the Biological Sciences Program) to support EHS pilot grants. Also this year a new initiative was begun with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Pilot Grant Program to support one $50,000 EHS-related pilot grant. The Biological Sciences Program and the ICTS Pilot Grant Program are independently administered, providing at least three independent mechanisms for funding research initiatives, especially for junior scientists, in the field of EHS. 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 facilities to pilot grant investigators to enhance their research and reduce their costs ¿ 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 who 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 ¿ Career development and advancement for faculty in EHS The pilot grant program has been extremely successful in meeting these objectives. As shown in Table 10.1, the EHSRC has funded 122 pilot grants since it was inaugurated in 1990 (Please see Appendix B). These have been in two categories, the Research Pilots where research was carried out in the U.S. and International Pilots, where the focus was studies abroad. There have been 106 projects funded through the Research Pilot Grant Program and 16 through the International Pilot Grant Program. Table 10.1 provides data demonstrating the success rate for pilot grant submissions, a 58% success rate for Research Pilot Grant applications and 55% for International Pilot applications. In the current grant cycle (2007 - present), 24 pilot grants were funded, of which only one was an International Pilot Grant (Table E.I). Nearly all funded pilot grants were projects involving junior investigators and the majority of awards having been awarded to junior principal investigators. Since 2003 there has been only one International Pilot Grant funded. This low application/funding rate reflects a shift in the focus of our NIH-funded Center for International Rural and Environmental Health. Therefore in the next funding cycle, we will fold the International pilots into the regular funding mechanism and discontinue this grant category. Since the founding of the EHSRC, investments in the Pilot Grant Programs ($2,157,417) have produced grant progeny with a value of $47,939,311, a more than 22-fold return on investment (please see Appendix B). This success has no doubt been at least partially responsible for the newer partnerships with the Biological Sciences Program and the ICTS program.

10个试点赠款计划 10.1目标和成就摘要 试点赠款计划一直是EHSRC的高度重视部分，为中心的研究，职业发展和培训任务服务。试点赠款计划通过将他们带入环境健康科学（EHS）研究来帮助促进了才华横溢的初级调查人员的职业。它促进了创新和护理新颖的想法，助长了进一步的赠款支持和出版物（请参阅附录B）。 EHSRC每年将向中心资金投入218,000美元。但是，在EHSRC的主动性中，额外的资金，每年60,000美元至90,000美元，将从研究副总裁办公室（通过生物科学计划）提供支持EHS飞行员赠款。同样，今年也是从临床和转化科学研究所（ICT）试点赠款计划开始的一项新倡议，以支持一项与EHS相关的50,000美元相关的试点赠款。生物科学计划和ICT飞行员赠款计划是独立管理的，为EHS领域中至少提供了三种独立的资助研究计划机制，特别是对于初级科学家。 EHSRC试点赠款计划的目标是： �为初级调查人员提供最初的支持，以建立新的环境健康研究线 »提供最先进的设施的服务，以提高试点赠款调查人员，以增强其研究并降低成本 „促进既定研究人员探索环境健康的创新新方向 »刺激其他学科的研究人员将其专业知识应用于环境健康研究 „通过向没有合作的调查人员授予试点项目，以促进新的跨学科合作 该计划成功的客观度量是： „作为飞行员赠款后代发展的赠款和合同 �从飞行员赠款支持中发出的手稿 学生指导和硕士这些和博士学位通过飞行员赠款支持产生的论文 �通过试点赠款计划在研究和赠款方面指导的博士后研究员 �由于该计划而建立的新的跨学科合作 »EHS教师的职业发展和进步 试点赠款计划在实现这些目标方面非常成功。如表10.1所示，EHSRC自1990年成立以来已经资助了122个飞行员赠款（请参阅附录B）。这些属于两个类别，即研究飞行员，在美国和国际飞行员进行了研究，重点是在国外学习。通过研究试点赠款计划资助了106个项目，并通过国际试点赠款计划进行了16个项目。表10.1提供了数据，证明了试点赠款提交的成功率，研究试点赠款申请的成功率为58％，国际飞行员申请的成功率为55％。在当前的赠款周期（2007年 - 现在）中，资助了24个试点赠款，其中只有一项是国际飞行员赠款（表E.I）。几乎所有资助的飞行员赠款都是涉及初级调查人员的项目，并且大多数奖项已授予初级首席调查员。 自2003年以来，只有一项国际飞行员资助。这种低的应用/资金率反映了我们NIH资助的国际农村和环境健康中心重点的转变。因此，在下一个融资周期中，我们将将国际飞行员折叠成常规的资金机制，并停止此赠款类别。 自EHSRC的建立以来，对试点赠款计划的投资（2,157,417美元）已经产生了赠款的进度，价值为47,939,311美元，投资回报率超过22倍（请参阅附录B）。毫无疑问，这一成功至少是针对与生物科学计划和ICT计划的新伙伴关系的部分负责。