Developmental Projects Program

MRCE发展项目计划旨在为创新和 生物防御和EID高风险研究。发展项目计划增加了重要的价值， MRCE战略计划：（1）支持生物防御和新兴领域的新研究人员 传染病，或支持杰出的既定研究人员谁是移动他们的研究， 第一次生物防御;（2）使MRCE能够改进和增强当前的主题，或开发 替代研究主题-基本上是一个“农场俱乐部”的战略项目，新生的想法可以 培养成成熟的多研究者研究工作。这是MRCE灵活性的关键， 使其研究工作适应新的区域/国家需求;（3）支持新领域的高风险研究 如果1-2年的资金可能足以确定该想法是否有价值，并且可能具有竞争力， 从其他来源的资金;（4）扩大MRCE研究计划的广度，并带来新的 研究机构进入MRCE和生物防御工作。我们建议每年资助六项计划， 每个项目每年的直接费用高达10万美元。没有一个项目将获得超过两年的资助。 项目将被选定的MRCE指导委员会在竞争中开放给所有合格的研究人员 从第七区和克利夫兰为了确保最大的灵活性，并保证MRCE始终 资助最好的研究，发展计划每年重新竞争。发育 项目也可能离开程序，因为他们收到校外资金，或晋升为 战略项目。

The MRCE Developmental Projects Program is designed to provide short-term support for innovative and high risk research on biodefense and EID. The Developmental Projects Program adds significant value to the MRCE Strategic Plan by: (1) supporting new investigators in the field of biodefense and emerging infectious diseases, or supporting outstanding established investigators who are moving their research into biodefense for the first time; (2) enabling the MRCE to refine and augment current themes, or develop alternative research themes-essentially a "farm club" for the strategic projects where nascent ideas can be groomed into full-blown multi-investigator research efforts. This is key for the flexibility of the MRCE in rapidly tailoring its research efforts to new regional/national needs; (3) supporting high-risk research in new areas where 1-2 years of funding may be sufficient to determine if the idea has merit, and may be competitive for funding from other sources; and (4) expanding the breadth of the MRCE research program and bringing new institutions into the MRCE and into the biodefense effort. We propose to fund six projects annually, with each receiving up to $100,000 in direct costs/yr. No project will receive more than 2 years of funding. Projects will be selected by the MRCE Steering Committee in a competition open to all qualified investigators from Region VII and Cleveland. To ensure maximum flexibility and to guarantee that the MRCE is always funding the best research, Developmental Programs are re-competed on a yearly basis. Developmental Projects may also leave the program because they receive extramural funding, or are promoted into a Strategic Projects.