# Pilot Program Project

> **NIH NIH P30** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $90,368

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY 
The major goal of the NYU NIEHS Center Pilot Project Program (PPP) is to promote both the Center's long- 
range research interests and its short-term mission. In the process of achieving these major goals, the PPP 
emphasizes collaboration between Center members and the NYU community, encourages Center 
investigators to explore new research initiatives, and motivates new investigators to establish independent 
research in the Environmental Health Sciences. Awarded Pilot Projects are judged based upon the likelihood 
that the proposed research would yield NIEHS R01 funding. In the last funding cycle of the Center grant (2012- 
2016) Pilot funds resulted in a substantial number of NIEHS awards that greatly exceeded the money spent for 
Pilot Projects. The research interests of the Center are four-fold: 1) to understand the mechanisms of action, 
component composition, adverse health effects, mitigation, and risks of ambient pollution exposures; 2) to 
understand the molecular mechanisms of metal toxicity and carcinogenicity; 3) to understand the role of DNA 
damage and DNA repair in environment factor-induced carcinogenesis and cancer development; and 4) to 
explore the epigenetic responses to environmental exposure. The PPP will achieve these goals by: issuing 
RFAs, which are formulated with the input from our Center Director and Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) 
members, conducting the review process via a modified NIH system, and making funding decisions following 
scientific peer review and IAC input. Dr. Tang monitors the Pilot Project research conducted by the 
investigators on a regular basis and reports any interesting results obtained to the IAC, particularly the 
generation of preliminary data that can be useful for an NIEHS grant application. We also require each Pilot 
Project grant recipient to prepare an R01 type grant application with the preliminary data that has been 
acquired as a result of Pilot Project funding, and each recipient must also submit a final report to be included 
with the annual NIEHS Center progress report.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9902438
- **Project number:** 5P30ES000260-56
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Eric Moon-shong M. TANG
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $90,368
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9902438

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9902438, Pilot Program Project (5P30ES000260-56). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-03 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9902438. Licensed CC0.

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