# Pilot Project Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $113,395

## Abstract

ABSTRACT (Pilot Project Program)
The Pilot Project Program (PPP) contributes to the mission of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental
Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) by supporting pilot projects that encourage innovation, creativity, and
multidisciplinary collaborations, especially among basic scientists, clinical researchers, and community and
regulatory stakeholders. The Pilot Project Program is an important mechanism for attracting new individuals to
our Center and for providing support to generate preliminary data to compete for external funding. The aims of
the Pilot Project Program are to: 1) attract established investigators new to our Center who can provide new
insights and approaches to questions regarding the relationships between lifestage environmental exposures
and disease; 2) encourage innovation, creativity, and multidisciplinary collaborations, especially between basic
scientists, clinical researchers, and community and regulatory stakeholders; 3) facilitate our Center members'
ability to respond quickly and effectively to new and quick-turnaround research opportunities, especially those
from NIEHS; and 4) provide important support for early-stage investigators to generate preliminary data for
developing independent research projects and compete for independent funding. This approach was
successful in the previous funding periods as evidenced by the number of junior faculty supported, the new
collaborations that were formed, the participation of scientists new to environmental health research that
participated in Center activities as a result of the Pilot Project Program, the number of external grant
applications submitted, the number of resulting publications, and career advancement, all as summarized in
the Research Strategy. Important advances in the administration of the Pilot Project Program during the last
cycle include: 1) the further advancement and refinement of a reviewer consortium with other P30 centers to
help improve objectivity of the reviews as well as avoid conflicts of interest that can result from reviews by
others in the same institution; 2) a modified scoring system and additional pilot funds to enhance community
engagement; and 3) a rapid response mechanism for funding exploratory work in high priority areas with a very
short turnaround time. In the next cycle of the Pilot Project Program, we will build on the momentum generated
in the current funding period by continuing the wide distribution of the Request for Applications throughout the
School of Public Health and the Medical School, continuing the reviewer consortium and continuing to promote
the use of our Core facilities. We will also continue our practice of including a CEC member on the review
committee responsible for ranking of the proposals to assure their input. Together, these practices will continue
the groundbreaking research developed in the initial cycles of the Pilot Project Program to advance a
comprehensive and integrated environme...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10815580
- **Project number:** 5P30ES017885-12
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** John D. Meeker
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $113,395
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2011-04-15 → 2027-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10815580

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10815580, Pilot Project Program (5P30ES017885-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10815580. Licensed CC0.

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