Pilot Project Program

10飞行员补助金 10.1目标和成就摘要 试点补助金计划一直是EHSRC的一个高度重视的组成部分，服务于该中心的研究，职业发展和培训任务。试点补助金计划通过将有才华的初级研究人员带入环境健康科学（EHS）研究，帮助他们推进职业生涯。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（请参见附录B）。EHSRC每年将从中心基金中拨出218,000美元用于试点赠款计划。然而，在EHSRC的倡议下，研究副总裁办公室（通过生物科学计划）将提供额外的资金，每年60，000 - 90，000美元，以支持EHS试点赠款。同样在今年，与临床和转化科学研究所（ICTS）试点赠款计划开始了一项新的倡议，以支持一项50，000美元的EHS相关试点赠款。生物科学计划和ICTS试点赠款计划是独立管理的，提供至少三个独立的机制，为EHS领域的研究活动提供资金，特别是为初级科学家提供资金。 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 为试点研究人员提供最先进的设施服务，以加强他们的研究并降低成本 促进探索环境卫生领域的创新新方向，为已建立的调查人员提供便利 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 通过向以前没有合作过的调查人员授予试点项目，促进新的跨学科合作 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 试点补助金支助产生的工作量 学生辅导和MS。博士论文通过试点赠款支助产生的论文 通过试点赠款计划指导博士后研究员进行研究和赠款 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 试点赠款方案在实现这些目标方面非常成功。如表10.1所示，自1990年成立以来，EHSRC已资助了122项试点赠款（请参阅附录B）。这些项目分为两类，研究试点项目在美国进行研究，国际试点项目的重点是在国外进行研究。有106个项目通过研究试点赠款计划获得资助，16个项目通过国际试点赠款计划获得资助。表10.1提供的数据显示了试点资助申请的成功率，研究试点资助申请的成功率为58%，国际试点申请的成功率为55%。在本赠款周期（2007年至今），共资助了24笔试点赠款，其中只有一笔是国际试点赠款（表E. I）。几乎所有获得资助的试点赠款都是涉及初级调查员的项目，而且大多数奖金都授予了初级首席调查员。 自2003年以来，只有一项国际试点赠款得到资助。这种低申请/资助率反映了我们NIH资助的国际农村和环境卫生中心的重点转移。因此，在下一个供资周期，我们将把国际试点纳入常规供资机制，并停止这一赠款类别。 自EHSRC成立以来，对试点赠款计划的投资（2，157，417美元）产生了价值47，939，311美元的赠款后代，投资回报率超过22倍（请参见附录B）。毫无疑问，这一成功至少部分地促成了与生物科学计划和ICTS计划的新伙伴关系。

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.