Developmental Projects Program

MRCE开发项目计划旨在为创新和 生物防御和开斋节的高风险研究。发展项目计划为以下项目增加了重大价值 MRCE战略计划：(1)支持生物防御和新兴领域的新研究人员 传染病，或支持杰出的知名研究人员将他们的研究转移到 第一次生物防御；(2)使MRCE能够提炼和增强当前的主题，或开发 另类研究主题--本质上是一个战略项目的“农场俱乐部”，在那里可以有萌芽的想法。 培养成成熟的多调查者研究工作。这是快速实现MRCE灵活性的关键 使其研究工作适应新的区域/国家需求；(3)支持新领域的高风险研究 在这种情况下，1-2年的资金可能足以确定该想法是否有价值，并可能在 来自其他来源的资金；以及(4)扩大MRCE研究计划的广度，并引入新的 机构投入到MRCE和生物防御努力中。我们建议每年资助六个项目，包括 每个客户每年可获得高达100,000美元的直接成本。任何项目都不会获得超过两年的资助。 项目将由MRCE指导委员会在一项向所有合格调查人员开放的竞争中选出 来自第七区和克利夫兰。以确保最大的灵活性并保证MRCE始终 为最好的研究提供资金，发展项目每年都会重新竞争。发展中 项目也可能因为接受外部资助而退出计划，或者被提升为 战略项目。

The MRCE Developmental Projects Program is designed to provide short-term support for innovative and high risk research on biodefense and EID. The Developmental Projects Program adds significant value to the MRCE Strategic Plan by: (1) supporting new investigators in the field of biodefense and emerging infectious diseases, or supporting outstanding established investigators who are moving their research into biodefense for the first time; (2) enabling the MRCE to refine and augment current themes, or develop alternative research themes-essentially a "farm club" for the strategic projects where nascent ideas can be groomed into full-blown multi-investigator research efforts. This is key for the flexibility of the MRCE in rapidly tailoring its research efforts to new regional/national needs; (3) supporting high-risk research in new areas where 1-2 years of funding may be sufficient to determine if the idea has merit, and may be competitive for funding from other sources; and (4) expanding the breadth of the MRCE research program and bringing new institutions into the MRCE and into the biodefense effort. We propose to fund six projects annually, with each receiving up to $100,000 in direct costs/yr. No project will receive more than 2 years of funding. Projects will be selected by the MRCE Steering Committee in a competition open to all qualified investigators from Region VII and Cleveland. To ensure maximum flexibility and to guarantee that the MRCE is always funding the best research, Developmental Programs are re-competed on a yearly basis. Developmental Projects may also leave the program because they receive extramural funding, or are promoted into a Strategic Projects.