Pilot Project Program

试点项目计划

• 批准号: 8279705
• 负责人: Peter S Thorne
• 金额: $ 30.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8279705
• 关键词: Applications Grants; Award; Biological Sciences; Categories; Clinical; Clinical Sciences; Contracts; Data; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Environmental Health; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Funding Mechanisms; Goals; Grant; Institutes; International; Investments; Manuscripts; Measures; Mentors; Mission; Pilot Projects; Postdoctoral Fellow; Principal Investigator; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Rural Health; Scientist; Services; Students; Training; Translational Research; Uncertainty; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; career; career development; cost; health science research; innovation; interdisciplinary collaboration; international center; meetings; novel; programs; success

10 PILOT GRANT PROGRAM 10.1 GOALS AND SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS The Pilot Grant Program has been a highly valued component of the EHSRC, serving the research, career development and training missions of the Center. The Pilot Grant Program has helped advance the careers of talented junior investigators by bringing them into environmental health science (EHS) research. It has fostered innovation and nurtured novel ideas fueling further grant support and publication (Please see Appendix B). The EHSRC will devote $218,000 per year to the pilot grant program from Center funds. However at the initiative of the EHSRC, additional funds, $60,000 - $90,000 per year, will be available from the Office of the Vice President for Research (through the Biological Sciences Program) to support EHS pilot grants. Also this year a new initiative was begun with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Pilot Grant Program to support one $50,000 EHS-related pilot grant. The Biological Sciences Program and the ICTS Pilot Grant Program are independently administered, providing at least three independent mechanisms for funding research initiatives, especially for junior scientists, in the field of EHS. 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 facilities to pilot grant investigators to enhance their research and reduce their costs ¿ 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 who 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 ¿ Career development and advancement for faculty in EHS The pilot grant program has been extremely successful in meeting these objectives. As shown in Table 10.1, the EHSRC has funded 122 pilot grants since it was inaugurated in 1990 (Please see Appendix B). These have been in two categories, the Research Pilots where research was carried out in the U.S. and International Pilots, where the focus was studies abroad. There have been 106 projects funded through the Research Pilot Grant Program and 16 through the International Pilot Grant Program. Table 10.1 provides data demonstrating the success rate for pilot grant submissions, a 58% success rate for Research Pilot Grant applications and 55% for International Pilot applications. In the current grant cycle (2007 - present), 24 pilot grants were funded, of which only one was an International Pilot Grant (Table E.I). Nearly all funded pilot grants were projects involving junior investigators and the majority of awards having been awarded to junior principal investigators. Since 2003 there has been only one International Pilot Grant funded. This low application/funding rate reflects a shift in the focus of our NIH-funded Center for International Rural and Environmental Health. Therefore in the next funding cycle, we will fold the International pilots into the regular funding mechanism and discontinue this grant category. Since the founding of the EHSRC, investments in the Pilot Grant Programs ($2,157,417) have produced grant progeny with a value of $47,939,311, a more than 22-fold return on investment (please see Appendix B). This success has no doubt been at least partially responsible for the newer partnerships with the Biological Sciences Program and the ICTS program.

10 试点资助计划 10.1 目标和成就总结 试点资助计划一直是 EHSRC 的重要组成部分，为该中心的研究、职业发展和培训任务服务。试点资助计划通过将有才华的初级研究人员带入环境健康科学 (EHS) 领域，帮助他们促进职业发展。它促进了创新并培育了新的想法，推动了进一步的资助支持和出版（请参阅附录 B），EHSRC 每年将从中心资金中为试点资助计划投入 218,000 美元。研究副总裁办公室（通过生物科学计划）每年将提供 60,000 - 90,000 美元，用于支持 EHS 试点拨款。今年，临床和转化科学研究所 (ICTS) 启动了一项新计划。试点拨款计划支持一项 50,000 美元的 EHS 相关试点拨款 生物科学计划和 ICTS 试点拨款计划是独立管理的，为资助研究计划（特别是针对初级研究计划）提供至少三个独立机制。 EHS 领域的科学家。 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服务，以加强他们的研究并降低成本 ¿促进现有研究人员探索环境健康方面的创新新方向 ¿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 ¿通过向以前没有合作过的研究人员授予试点项目来促进新的跨学科合作 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 ¿ EHS 教师的职业发展和晋升 试点拨款计划在实现这些目标方面非常成功，如表 10.1 所示，自 1990 年启动以来，EHSRC 已资助了 122 项试点拨款（请参阅附录 B）。研究是在美国和国际试点项目中进行的，其中重点是海外研究。有 106 个项目通过研究试点资助计划获得资助，16 个项目通过国际试点资助计划获得资助。 10.1 提供的数据显示了试点拨款申请的成功率，研究试点拨款申请的成功率为 58%，国际试点拨款申请的成功率为 55%。在当前拨款周期（2007 年至今），共资助了 24 项试点拨款，其中只有 24 项试点拨款获得资助。其中一项是国际试点资助（表 E.I），几乎所有资助的试点资助都是涉及初级研究人员的项目，并且大多数奖项都授予了初级首席研究人员。 自 2003 年以来，只有一项国际试点拨款获得资助，这一较低的申请/资助率反映了美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 资助的国际农村和环境健康中心的重点发生了转变，因此在下一个资助周期中，我们将取消国际试点。纳入常规供资机制并终止这一赠款类别。 自 EHSRC 成立以来，试点赠款计划的投资（2,157,417 美元）已产生了价值 47,939,311 美元的赠款后代，投资回报率超过 22 倍（请参阅附录 B），这一成功至少是成功的。部分负责与生物科学计划和信息通信技术计划的新伙伴关系。