Pilot Project Program

试点项目：摘要 试点项目计划是环境毒理学英才中心(CEET)的关键组成部分 这将建设环境健康科学(EHS)的能力。试点项目计划旨在支持早期- 有兴趣追求EHS的阶段调查员(ESI)，以及可能正在着手的高级调查员 首次参与EHS项目。为了协助试点项目的申请过程，我们运行了一项赠款撰写计划 在行政核心的职业发展活动中。可用的试点项目分为四个 类别：(A)科学家过渡导师奖(MSTA)，这是我们资助ESI的主要机制 (新招聘人员、临床科学家、研究跟踪教员)需要通过工资和研究保护时间 支持建立他们的独立研究方案；(B)向所有初级和高级人员开放的机会奖 提出创新的EHS项目但尚未准备好接受联邦资助的教职员工；(C)“快速反应” 奖励促进社区参与的研究或向迫切需要的教职员工提供资金 为EHS相关拨款申请生成初步数据；和(D)重点研究奖，以支持 该中心主题领域的研究：空气污染与肺部健康、环境暴露与癌症、 敏感度窗口和环境神经科学，重点支持多名研究人员资助 申请。如果申请可能导致NIEHS或NIEHS的外部资金，它们将获得高度优先 对NIEHS是赞助商的RFA做出回应；如果他们使用一个或多个设施核心，则为综合健康 科学设施核心(IHSFC)、翻译生物标记核心(TBC)和暴露生物信息学核心 (EBIC)。试点项目获奖者在12个月的资助后被邀请返回，介绍他们在 CEET系列研讨会。成果指标，如已提交的赠款申请、已授予的赠款和出版物 每年更新，以说明试点项目之间可能存在的显著滞后阶段 获奖和这些成功的结果。

PILOT PROJECTS : ABSTRACT The Pilot Project Program is a key-component of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) that builds capacity in environmental health sciences (EHS). The Pilot Project Program serves to support Early- Stage Investigators (ESI) that are interested in pursuing EHS, and senior investigators who may be embarking on EHS projects for the first-time. To assist in the pilot project application process, we run a grants-writing program within the Career Development activities of the Administrative Core. The Pilot Projects available fall into four categories: (a) Mentored Scientist Transition Award (MSTA) which is our primary mechanism of funding a ESI (new recruits, clinician scientists, research track faculty) who need protected time through salary and research support to establish their independent research programs; (b) an Opportunity Award open to all junior and senior faculty who propose an innovative EHS project which is not ready for federal funding; (c) a “Rapid Response” award to promote community engaged research or provide funds to a faculty member who urgently needs to generate preliminary data for a EHS relevant grant application; and (d) Focus Research Awards to support research in the thematic areas of the Center: Air pollution & Lung Health, Environmental Exposures & Cancer, Windows-of-Susceptibility and Environmental Neuroscience with emphasis to support multi-investigator grant applications. Applications receive high priority if they are likely to lead to extramural funding from NIEHS or respond to a RFA on which NIEHS is a sponsor; and if they use one or more facility cores, the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC), the Translational Biomarker Core (TBC) and Exposure Biology Informatics Core (EBIC). Pilot project awardees are invited back after 12 months of funding to present on their progress in the CEET seminar series. Outcome metrics such as grant applications submitted, grants awarded, and publications are updated on an annual basis to account for the significant lag-phase that can exist between the pilot project award and these successful outcomes.