Pilot Project Program

摘要-试点项目 加州大学旧金山分校弗朗西斯科（UCSF）环境研究和健康翻译 （EaRTH）中心提供了独特的机会，以支持和发展环境健康社区， 首屈一指的多学科生物医学研究机构，拥有近5，000名专业教师 跨越基础、转化、临床和人口领域。尽管是美国国立卫生研究院资助的顶尖公立大学， 目前，UCSF只有0.7%的NIH资金来自NIEHS。EaRTH中心试点项目计划 提供了一种机制，以增加环境健康研究的数量在加州大学旧金山分校利用到 广泛的研究基础。通过为探索性研究提供种子基金，EaRTH试点项目奖将 降低在环境研究中开创新方向的障碍，增加研究人员的渠道， 环境卫生临床医生我们将支持EaRTH中心的使命， 在与环境健康直接相关的领域进行探索性研究。这一目标是通过支持基本的， 通过核心设施进行翻译、流行病学和临床研究项目，并提供互动 通过EaRTH中心与研究人员社区合作。研究试点奖将允许新的或 建立教师迅速转移技能和发展从其他研究领域的竞技场的 环境卫生研究。专门为早期研究人员设立的指导科学家奖将 支持创新研究项目，并提供环境卫生研究方面的职业和指导。一 指导临床医生奖，与社区参与核心（CEC）联合管理，临床医生将 为临床医生提供专门的时间来获得环境卫生方面的经验。试点项目将 刺激研究，填补了在加州大学旧金山分校的发展和先入之见的环境健康领域的空白。 简化申请程序，并通过以下方式收集最多的高质量申请： 环境健康以外的研究人员提出的创新项目，我们将通过以下方式开展RFA： UCSF资源分配计划（RAP）。评估指标将应用于试点项目 项目评估和促进项目和整体计划的成功。UCSF EaRTH中心 与整个加州大学旧金山分校科学界的接触将有助于讨论 环境卫生研究的跨学科方法。这确保了我们的试点赠款接受者有充分的 获得当地的专门知识，这有助于他们进入环境卫生相关领域并在其中保持活力。

ABSTRACT – PILOT PROJECT PROGRAM The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center offers the unique opportunity to support and grow an environmental health community at a premier multidisciplinary biomedical research institution with nearly 5,000 faculty members with expertise spanning basic, translational, clinical, and population arenas. Despite being the top NIH-funded public university, only 0.7% of NIH funding at UCSF currently comes from NIEHS. The EaRTH Center Pilot Project Program provides a mechanism to increase the amount of environmental health research at UCSF by tapping into the existing broad research base. By providing seed funds for exploratory studies, EaRTH Pilot Project awards will lower hurdles to initiating novel directions in environmental research and grow the pipeline of researchers and clinicians in environmental health. We will support the mission of the EaRTH Center by enabling cutting edge, exploratory research in areas directly related to environmental health. This goal is promoted by supporting basic, translational, epidemiological and clinical research projects through Core facilities as well as providing interaction with a community of researchers through the EaRTH Center. A Research Pilot Award will allow new or established faculty to rapidly transfer skills and developments from other research areas to the arena of environmental health research. A Mentored Scientist Award specifically for early-stage investigators will support innovative research projects and provide career and mentoring in environmental health research. A Mentored Clinician Award, administered jointly with the Community Engagement Core (CEC), for clinicians will provide dedicated time for a clinician to gain experience in environmental health. The Pilot Project Program will stimulate research that fills gaps in the area of environmental health in development and preconception at UCSF. To streamline the application process and to capture the largest number of high quality applications with innovative projects proposed from researchers outside of environmental health, we will conduct the RFA through the broadly used UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP). Evaluation metrics will be applied to the pilot projects to assess and promote success of projects and the overall program. The UCSF EaRTH Center engagement with the entire UCSF scientific community will enable discussions of the application of interdisciplinary approaches to environmental health research. This ensures our pilot grant recipients have full access to local expertise, which assists their entry into, and staying power in, environmental health-related areas.