Pilot Project Program

摘要 试点项目计划(PPP)是环境健康和环境中心的一项影响很大的活动 敏感性(UNC-CEHS)。它提供种子资金，以支持初步数据收集或可行性研究， 对环境健康领域外部资金的新提议的成功至关重要。该计划将优先考虑 支持初级调查人员和开展翻译环境健康工作的跨学科小组 研究。购买力平价的具体目标是：为有兴趣制定 环境健康研究计划；促进跨学科团队探索的进步 翻译环境健康研究的创新想法，特别是在环境癌症方面， 心肺疾病、发育性疾病和社区外展和参与；以及 来自其他领域的经验丰富的调查人员将他们的专业知识应用于环境健康问题。资金来源 每年12月宣布试点项目的可用性，以及时完成选择过程，以便 PP获奖者可以在4月1日开始他们的项目。RFA和申请者指南由 向所有UNC-CEHS成员和附属部门发送校园电子邮件；在整个UNC张贴传单 健康科学学校(公共卫生、医学、牙科、护理和药学)，北卡罗来纳大学主校区 (特别是生物和化学系)和莱恩伯格综合癌症中心， NCTraCS(CTSA)和其他生物医学研究大楼。这些信息也在北卡罗来纳州-CEHS的 网站。UNC-CEHS成员和具有成员-协作者的非成员有资格申请， 第一次，由社区外展和参与核心提交的试点项目提案符合条件。 试点项目有两种：标准PP奖，主要针对初级教师或有经验的教师 新研究领域的教师(五个奖项，每个奖项30,000美元)，以及跨学科PP奖，目标是 对翻译环境健康研究感兴趣的经验丰富的研究人员团队(三个奖项 每人50,000美元)。每项申请由两名专家审查：标准PP的申请由 来自北卡罗来纳大学或其他机构的科学家；由两名成员审查的跨学科PP申请 CEHS外部咨询委员会。我们的获奖者非常成功地获得了 申请随后提交给外部机构，通常利用作为公私合作伙伴关系一部分产生的数据。

Abstract The Pilot Project Program (PPP) is a high impact activity of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (UNC-CEHS). It provides seed money to support preliminary data collection or feasibility studies, critical to the success of new proposals for external funding in environmental health. The program prioritizes support for junior investigators and for interdisciplinary teams conducting translational environmental health research. The PPP specific aims are to: provide support to junior investigators interested in developing a research program in environmental health; foster the advancement of interdisciplinary teams exploring innovative ideas in translational environmental health research, specifically in Environmental Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Disease, Developmental Disease and Community Outreach and Engagement; and stimulate experienced investigators from other areas to apply their expertise to environmental health problems. Funding availability for Pilot Projects is announced annually, in December, to timely complete the selection process so that PP awardees can start their projects April 1. RFA and Guidelines for Applicants are disseminated by campus e-mail sent to all UNC-CEHS members and affiliated departments; flyers posted throughout the UNC Health Sciences schools (Public Health, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Pharmacy), main UNC campus (particularly Departments of Biology and Chemistry), and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCTraCS (CTSA) and other biomedical research buildings. The information is also on the UNC-CEHS's website. UNC-CEHS members and non-members with member-collaborators are eligible to apply, and for the first time, Pilot Project proposals submitted by the Community Outreach and Engagement Core are eligible. There are two types of pilot projects: Standard PP Award, targeted mainly to junior faculty or experienced faculty in a new area of research (five awards of $30,000 each), and Interdisciplinary PP Award, targeted to teams of experienced investigators interested in translational environmental health research (three awards of $50,000 each). Each application is reviewed by two experts: applications for Standard PP are reviewed by scientists from UNC or other institutions; applications for Interdisciplinary PP reviewed by two members of the CEHS External Advisory Committee. Our award recipients have been very successful in obtaining funding for applications subsequently submitted to external agencies, usually utilizing data generated as part of the PPP.