Pilot Project Program

摘要-试点项目（PPP） 北方环境卫生与司法中心的试点项目方案的目标 曼哈顿（CEHJNM）将为杰出的新研究想法提供种子资金和智力支持 现有成员和潜在的新成员。PPP为研究提供资金（全面试点≤ 3.5万美元 项目和≤ 1万美元的小型试点），获得CEHJNM最先进的设施核心（FC），以及研究 设计、拨款准备和智力支持。公私伙伴关系特别促进与以下方面相互作用的项目： 我们的当地社区。我们优先考虑来自（a）早期职业教师的申请;（B）由和/或包括 （c）在科学和学术界历来代表性不足的群体中担任关键角色的科学家; 还不是CEHJNM成员。资助促进了我们对环境对健康影响的理解 重点关注CEHJNM的五个科学方向：环境正义，推进 Exposome，环境数据科学，生物和分子机制，气候和健康。在 除了支持CEHJNM当前的方向外，PPP还鼓励研究的发展 在这些方向之外，作为一种发展新的重点领域的方式。 在CEHJNM的一生中，PPP取得了非凡的成功。2013年至2021年， 公私伙伴关系收到了115份试点提案，其中52份得到了资助。PPP获奖者包括来自19个国家的调查员 跨哥伦比亚大学（CU）的不同部门，从而促进新的跨学科的发展 合作和扩大CEHJNM社区。更重要的是，PPP带来了新的想法 这大大提高了CEHJNM研究的影响力。本供资周期的创新包括一个新的 供资机制、领导层的变化以及促进多样性的新审查标准。我们将推出一 新一类的全试点奖，跨学科联动试点（联动试点）征求两个协调 中试应用（每个≤ 3.5万美元）将机械中试与人体研究联系起来。人民党领导层现在包括 一名人口科学家（Factor-Litvak）和一名实验室科学家（Re），以帮助支持全方位的应用。 我们还将修改我们的评分标准，正式将申请人团队的多样性纳入审查范围 过程 公私伙伴关系的目标是：目标1。促进创新的环境健康研究，填补关键的 翻译差距和促进CEHJNM的当前和未来的研究方向。目标2.支持早期职业生涯 教职员工，特别是那些认同历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的人， 学术界，开发创造性的，新颖的研究项目。目标3.吸引CU的教职员工 具有不同背景和专业知识的社区。目标4。促进关键环境健康研究 通过与社区团体的多方位沟通确定的问题和关切， 持份者

SUMMARY – PILOT PROJECT PROGRAM (PPP) The goal of the Pilot Project Program (PPP) of the Center for Environmental Health and Justice in Northern Manhattan (CEHJNM) is to provide seed funding and intellectual support to outstanding new research ideas from existing members and potential new members. The PPP provides funding for research (≤$35K for full pilot projects and ≤$10K for mini-pilots), access to CEHJNM state-of-the-art facility cores (FCs), and research design, grant preparation, and intellectual support. The PPP specifically promotes projects that interact with our local communities. We prioritize applications from (a) early-career faculty; (b) teams led by and/or including scientists in key roles from groups historically underrepresented in science and academia; (c) faculty who are not yet CEHJNM members. Funding advances our understanding of the health impacts of environmental exposures with a focus on CEHJNM’s five scientific directions: Environmental Justice, Advancing the Exposome, Environmental Data Science, Biological and Molecular Mechanisms, and Climate and Health. In addition to supporting CEHJNM’s current directions, the PPP also encourages the development of research outside of those directions as a way to develop novel areas of focus. Over the lifetime of the CEHJNM, the PPP has been an extraordinary success. Between 2013 and 2021, the PPP received 115 pilot proposals, of which 52 were funded. PPP awardees included investigators from 19 different departments across Columbia University (CU), thus fostering the development of new interdisciplinary collaboration and the expansion of the CEHJNM community. More importantly, the PPP seeded novel ideas that significantly advanced the impact of CEHJNM’s research. Innovations for this funding cycle include a new funding mechanism, a change in leadership, and new review criteria to promote diversity. We will introduce a new category of full-pilot awards, the Cross-Disciplinary Linked Pilots (Linked Pilots) soliciting two coordinated pilot applications (≤$35K each) linking a mechanistic pilot to a human study. The PPP leadership now includes a population scientist (Factor-Litvak) and a laboratory scientist (Re) to help support a full range of applications. We will also modify our scoring criteria to formally include the diversity of the applicant team in the review process. The aims of the PPP are to: Aim 1. Foster innovative environmental health research that fills critical translational gaps and fosters CEHJNM’s current and future research directions. Aim 2. Support early-career faculty members, particularly those identifying with groups historically underrepresented in science and academia, to develop creative, novel research projects. Aim 3. Attract faculty members from the CU community with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Aim 4. Facilitate research on crucial environmental health questions and concerns identified through multidirectional communications with community groups and stakeholders.