Pilot Project Program

抽象-试点项目方案 加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)环境研究与健康翻译 (地球)中心提供了支持和发展环境健康社区的独特机会 首屈一指的多学科生物医学研究机构，拥有近5000名具有专业知识的教职员工 横跨基础、翻译、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， 加州大学旧金山分校目前只有0.7%的NIH资金来自NIEHS。地球中心试点项目计划 提供一种机制来增加加州大学旧金山分校的环境健康研究的数量 现有广泛的研究基础。通过为探索性研究提供种子资金，地球试点项目奖将 降低在环境研究中开创新方向的门槛，并扩大研究人员和 环境卫生方面的临床医生。我们将通过启用尖端技术来支持地球中心的使命， 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础， 通过核心设施开展翻译、流行病学和临床研究项目，并提供互动 通过地球中心与一群研究人员合作。研究领航奖将允许新的或 现有教员将技能和发展从其他研究领域迅速转移到 环境健康研究。专门为早期调查人员设立的指导科学家奖将 支持创新研究项目，并在环境健康研究方面提供职业和指导。一个 指导临床医生奖，与社区参与核心(CEC)共同管理，面向临床医生将 为临床医生提供专门的时间来获得环境健康方面的经验。试点项目计划将 鼓励开展研究，填补加州大学旧金山分校在发展和偏见方面的环境健康领域的空白。 要简化应用程序流程并获取最大数量的高质量应用程序 环境卫生以外的研究人员提出的创新项目，我们将通过以下方式进行RFA 广泛使用的加州大学旧金山分校资源分配计划(RAP)。评估指标将应用于试点项目 评估和促进项目和整体计划的成功。加州大学旧金山分校地球中心 与整个加州大学旧金山分校科学界的接触将使关于应用 环境健康研究的跨学科方法。这确保了我们的试点补助金获得者 获得当地的专业知识，这有助于他们进入与环境健康相关的领域，并在其中保持力量。

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.