Pilot Project Program

摘要：试点项目计划 试点项目计划是墨西哥湾沿岸精密中心 环境健康(GC-CPEH)增强了该中心的环境健康认同感和影响力 研究基地。试点项目计划的总体目标是支持推进 环境健康科学(EHS)研究，并促进调查人员之间的合作研究 多学科。GC-CPEH试点项目计划将努力增强中心的总体使命， 并通过支持高风险、高收益的EHS研究来促进NIEHS战略计划的目标。GC- CPEH试点项目计划有三个具体目标，旨在通过有效地支持实现这一目标 探索新研究途径可行性的短期项目，对时间敏感的研究做出回应 机会，并为从其他资金获得新的研究支持生成初步数据 最终将解决重大环境健康挑战的机制。 试点项目方案的具体目标是： 具体目标1：促进跨学科协作项目，增强环境健康认同感 与中心的主题重点领域相关的研究，提高参与各方的知名度 并吸引新成员加入该中心。 具体目标2：提高初级调查人员为EHS研究获得外部资金的潜力 通过教育、财政支持和指导。 具体目标3：支持将吸引外部人员的新颖和“高风险、高收益”的探索性研究项目 给予支持。

ABSTRACT: PILOT PROJECT PROGRAM The Pilot Project Program is one of the key mechanisms by which the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health (GC-CPEH) enhances the environmental health identity and impact of the Center’s research base. The Overall Goal of the Pilot Project Program is to support novel investigations that advance environmental health science (EHS) research, and promote collaborative research by investigators across multiple disciplines. The GC-CPEH Pilot Project Program will strive to enhance the overall mission of the Center, and promote the goals of the NIEHS Strategic Plan by supporting high-risk, high-gain EHS research. The GC- CPEH Pilot Project Program has three Specific Aims that are designed to attain this goal by effectively supporting short-term projects that explore the feasibility of new avenues for research, respond to time-sensitive research opportunities, and generate preliminary data for acquisition of new research support from other funding mechanisms that will ultimately address important environmental health challenges. The Specific Aims of the Pilot Project Program are: Specific Aim 1: Foster collaborative interdisciplinary projects, enhance the environmental health identity with research relevant to the Thematic Focus Areas of the Center, increase visibility across the participating institutions and attract new members to the Center. Specific Aim 2: Enhance the potential for junior investigators to obtain external funding for EHS research through education, financial support and mentoring. Specific Aim 3: Support novel and “high-risk, high-gain” exploratory research projects that will attract external grant support.