# Pilot Project Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2021 · $240,000

## Abstract

Project Summary of the Pilot Projects Program
The goal of our Pilot Project Program (PPP) is to provide funding for research (up to $35k per award), access
to state-of-the-art Facility Cores (FCs), and intellectual support primarily for junior faculty and to recruit senior
faculty to the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan (CEHNM). Funding is targeted to projects
that advance our understanding of the health impacts of environmental exposures over the life course, with a
focus on the four themes for this funding cycle: Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Epigenetics and
Disease Mechanisms, Climate and Health, and Translation and Disease Prevention. In addition to supporting
current CEHNM themes, the PPP is used to encourage the development of research in new directions outside
of those themes as a way to develop novel areas of focus. The PPP also seeks to fund projects that concern
the local communities (e.g., West Harlem, Central Harlem, Washington Heights/Inwood and the South Bronx),
as identified by our Community Engagement Core (CEC). The PPP has successfully stimulated interest in
environmental health issues by junior and senior investigators at the University who are not Center Members
and provided them with access to the expertise of our senior investigators in the CEHNM as well as to our
outstanding FCs, which enabled them to generate preliminary data for new grant applications. The success of
the PPP is measured by new extramural grants awarded to Pilot Project (PP) investigators, publications
resulting from PP research, junior faculty supported, new investigators to the CEHNM community, and new
interdisciplinary projects developed. By all of these measures, the PPP has been an extraordinary success.
Between 2008-2014 (last cycle and first two years of this cycle), the PPP received 76 proposals, of which 28
were funded. The $713K invested in these PPs resulted in 6 R01s, 2 R21s, 2 K awards, 1 R33, and 13 other
grants for a total of $20.1M in new grants ($28 in grants for every $1 funded in pilots), as well as 32 PP
publications. All of the funded PPs went to either junior faculty members or investigators who were not already
CEHNM investigators. For the proposed funding cycle, the Specific Aims of the Pilot Project Program are as
follows: Aim 1. Foster innovative environmental health science research that fills important research gaps
identified in CEHNM working group areas and allows for the development of future CEHNM research
directions. Aim 2. Support junior faculty members in developing creative, novel research projects that facilitate
the establishment of an independent research program and further their careers. Aim 3. Bring new faculty
members from the University to the CEHNM community to conduct innovative research that fills critical gaps in
environmental health science research. Aim 4. Facilitate research that answers significant environmental
health questions raised by the CEC. In summary, our PPP has a...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10187576
- **Project number:** 5P30ES009089-23
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** MATTHEW S PERZANOWSKI
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $240,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1998-07-01 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10187576

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10187576, Pilot Project Program (5P30ES009089-23). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10187576. Licensed CC0.

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