Pilot--Project Program

目标和成就总结 在过去的15年里，EHSRC已经资助了98笔试点赠款。试点助学金计划一直是 EHSRC高度重视的组成部分，为研究、职业发展和培训提供服务 中心的使命。它通过将有才华的初级调查员带到 环境健康研究。它促进了创新，培育了新的想法，为进一步的拨款提供了动力 支持和出版。EHSRC每年将为试点赠款计划投入超过25万美元 中心基金每年提供200,000美元，副总裁每年提供60,000-90,000美元配套资金 研究部总裁。彼得·S·索恩博士，中心主任，直到2003年，当时 拉里·罗伯逊博士在EHSRC的上一个赠款周期中成为试点赠款计划的主任。 EHSRC试点资助计划的目标是： ？为初级研究人员提供初步支持，以建立环境健康研究的新路线 ？为试点拨款调查人员提供最先进的设施核心服务，以增强他们的 研究 ·促进在环境健康领域探索创新新方向 调查人员 激励来自其他学科的研究人员将他们的专业知识应用于环境健康 研究 ？通过授予符合以下条件的调查人员试点项目，促进新的跨学科合作 以前没有一起工作过 衡量该方案成功与否的客观标准是： 作为试点赠款的后代而开发的赠款和合同 来自试点赠款支助的手稿 学生指导和通过试点资助产生的硕士论文和博士学位论文 博士后研究员通过试点资助计划在研究和资质方面得到指导 由于该计划而建立了新的跨学科协作 试点赠款计划在实现这些目标方面取得了极大的成功。如表所示 10.1，EHSRC自1990年成立以来，已资助了98笔试点赠款。已经有83个项目 由研究试点资助计划资助，15通过国际试点资助计划资助， 是1997年发起的。表10.1提供了提交试点赠款成功率的数据。 先导补助金计划资助了55%的研究先导补助金申请和54%的 国际试点拨款申请。几乎所有获得资助的试点赠款都是涉及初级项目的。 调查人员和大多数奖项都颁给了初级首席调查人员的项目。朱尼尔 研究人员包括助理教授、助理教员和博士后研究员。 不同寻常的是，没有向国际试点赠款提交试点赠款申请 计划在第18轮到第20轮。执行委员会与汤姆·库克博士讨论了这一问题 国际外展主任。提出了三个原因：1)在那几年，国际上 通过我们福格蒂资助的国际农村和环境中心接待的受训人员 卫生(CIREH)重点关注与EHSRC重点不太一致的领域；2)作为中心 欧洲国家已加入欧盟我们的实习生越来越多地来自 东欧和撒哈拉以南非洲地区，竞争研究资助的准备较少；以及3)一个 国际试点补助金在常规研究试点补助金池中成功竞争。我们将继续 鼓励学员和他们的导师申请，并将寻求更好地宣传国际 程序。我们还将在下一轮颁奖后重新评估该计划，以确定 国际试点赠款计划的可行性

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