Pilot--Project Program

试点项目计划

• 批准号: 7239995
• 负责人: LARRY W ROBERTSON
• 金额: $ 31.72万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7239995
• 关键词: Africa South of the Sahara; Applications Grants; Area; Arts; Award; Contracts; Core Facility; Country; Data; Development; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Eastern Europe; Environmental Health; European; European Union; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; International; Manuscripts; Measures; Mentors; Mission; Pilot Projects; Postdoctoral Fellow; Principal Investigator; Publications; Rate; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Rural; Services; Students; Time; Training; Work; career; cooking; innovation; interdisciplinary collaboration; international center; novel; outreach; professor; programs; success

GOALS AND SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS The EHSRC has now funded 98 pilot grants over the past 15 years. The Pilot Grant Program has been a highly valued component of the EHSRC, serving both the research, career development and training missions of the Center. It has helped advance the careers of talented junior investigators by bringing them into environmental health research. It has fostered innovation and nurtured novel ideas fueling further grant support and publication. The EHSRC will devote more than $250,000 per year to the pilot grant program with $200,000 from Center funds and $60,000 - $90,000 per year of matching funds from the Vice President for Research. Dr. Peter S. Thorne, Center Director directed the program until 2003, at which time Dr. Larry Robertson became the director of the Pilot Grant Program in the last grant cycle of the EHSRC. The Goals of the EHSRC Pilot Grant Program are to: ¿ Provide initial support for junior investigators to establish new lines of environmental health research ¿ Provide services of state-of-the-art facility cores to pilot grant investigators to enhance their research ¿ Facilitate exploration of innovative new directions in environmental health for established investigators ¿ Stimulate investigators from other disciplines to apply their expertise to environmental health research ¿ Foster new interdisciplinary collaborations through awarding of pilot projects to investigators that have not previously worked together The objective measures of the success of the program are: Grants and contracts developed as progeny of pilot grants Manuscripts emanating from the pilot grant support Students mentored and M.S. theses and Ph.D. dissertations generated through pilot grant support Post-doctoral fellows mentored in research and grantsmanship through the Pilot Grant Program New interdisciplinary collaborations established as a result of the program The pilot grant program has been extremely successful in meeting these objectives. As shown in Table 10.1, the EHSRC has funded 98 pilot grants since it was inaugurated in 1990. There have been 83 projects funded through the Research Pilot Grant Program and15 through the International Pilot Grant Program that was initiated in 1997. Table 10.1 provides data demonstrating the success rate for pilot grant submissions. The Pilot Grant Program has funded 55% of the Research Pilot Grant applications and 54% of the International Pilot Grant applications. Nearly all funded pilot grants have been projects involving junior investigators and the majority of awards have gone to projects with junior principal investigators. Junior investigators include assistant professors, faculty associates, and postdoctoral fellows. Uncharacteristically, there were no pilot grant applications submitted to the International Pilot Grant Program in Rounds 18-20. This was discussed among the Executive Committee with Dr. Tom Cook, the Director of International Outreach. Three reasons were suggested: 1) in those years the international trainees that were hosted through our Fogarty-funded Center for International Rural and Environmental Health (CIREH) were focused on areas less well aligned with the focus of the EHSRC; 2) as Central European countries have joined the European Union our trainees have increasingly been drawn from Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and are less prepared to compete for research grants; and 3) One international pilot grant competed successfully in the regular Research Pilot Grant pool. We will continue to encourage applications from trainees and their mentors and will seek to better publicize the International Program. We will also re-evaluate the program after the next round of awards are made to determine the viability of the International Pilot Grant Program

目标和成就总结 EHSRC 在过去 15 年中已资助了 98 项试点拨款项目。 EHSRC 高度重视的组成部分，服务于研究、职业发展和培训 该中心通过引进有才华的初级调查员来帮助他们发展职业生涯。 它促进了创新并培育了新的想法，推动了进一步的资助。 EHSRC 每年将为试点拨款计划投入超过 250,000 美元。 其中 200,000 美元来自中心资金，每年 60,000 - 90,000 美元来自副中心的配套资金 中心主任 Peter S. Thorne 博士一直担任研究主席，直至 2003 年。 拉里·罗伯逊 (Larry Robertson) 博士在 EHSRC 上一个资助周期中担任试点资助计划的主任。 EHSRC 试点资助计划的目标是： ¿为初级研究人员建立环境健康研究的新路线提供初步支持 ¿为试点资助调查人员提供最先进的设施核心服务，以提高他们的能力 研究 ¿促进环境健康创新新方向探索 调查员 ¿激励其他学科的研究人员将他们的专业知识应用于环境健康 研究 ¿通过向研究人员授予试点项目来促进新的跨学科合作 之前没有合作过 该计划成功的客观衡量标准是： 作为试点赠款的后代而制定的赠款和合同 来自试点拨款支持的手稿 通过试点资助支持学生指导并撰写硕士论文和博士学位论文 通过试点资助计划对博士后研究员进行研究和资助方面的指导 该计划建立了新的跨学科合作 如表所示，试点赠款计划在实现这些目标方面非常成功。 10.1，自 1990 年成立以来，EHSRC 已资助了 98 个试点赠款。已有 83 个项目 通过研究试点资助计划和15国际试点资助计划资助 于 1997 年启动。表 10.1 提供的数据表明试点拨款申请的成功率。 试点补助金计划资助了 55% 的研究试点补助金申请和 54% 的研究试点补助金申请。 国际试点补助金申请几乎所有资助的试点补助金都是涉及初级人员的项目。 研究者和大部分奖项都颁给了初级首席研究员的项目。 研究人员包括助理教授、教职员工和博士后研究员。 与以往不同的是，没有向国际试点补助金中心提交试点补助金申请 执行委员会与 Tom Cook 博士讨论了第 18-20 轮的计划。 国际外展总监提出了三个原因：1）那些年的国际化。 通过福格蒂资助的国际农村和环境中心接待的学员 卫生 (CIREH) 的重点领域与 EHSRC 2) 的重点不太一致； 欧洲国家加入了欧盟，我们的学员越来越多地来自欧洲 东欧和撒哈拉以南非洲地区不太愿意竞争研究经费；3) 一 国际试点资助已在常规研究试点资助池中成功竞争。 鼓励学员及其导师提出申请，并将寻求更好地宣传国际 我们还将在下一轮奖项确定后重新评估该计划。 国际试点资助计划的可行性