Pilot Project Program

试点项目：摘要 试点项目计划是环境毒理学卓越中心（CEET）的关键组成部分 建设环境健康科学（EHS）能力的项目。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）以及可能开始的高级调查员 首次参与EHS项目。为了协助试点项目的申请过程中，我们运行一个赠款写作计划 在行政核心的职业发展活动中。现有的试点项目分为四个 类别：（a）指导科学家过渡奖（MSTA），这是我们资助ESI的主要机制 (new招聘人员、临床科学家、研究跟踪教师），他们需要通过工资和研究来保护时间 支持他们建立独立研究计划;（B）向所有初级和高级学生开放的机会奖 教师谁提出了一个创新的EHS项目，这是不准备联邦资金;（c）“快速反应” 奖励，以促进社区参与的研究或提供资金，以教师谁迫切需要 为EHS相关拨款申请生成初步数据;以及（d）重点研究奖，以支持 研究中心的主题领域：空气污染与肺部健康，环境暴露与癌症， 敏感性窗口和环境神经科学，重点是支持多研究者补助金 应用.申请获得高优先级，如果他们有可能导致校外资金从NIEHS或 响应NIEHS作为赞助商的RFA;如果他们使用一个或多个设施核心， 科学设施核心（IHSFC），翻译生物标志物核心（TBC）和暴露生物学信息学核心 （EBIC）.试点项目获奖者在12个月的资助后被邀请回来，介绍他们在 CEET系列研讨会。成果指标，如提交的赠款申请、授予的赠款和出版物 每年更新一次，以说明试点项目之间可能存在的重大滞后阶段 获奖和这些成功的成果。

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.