# Pilot Project Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $1,727

## Abstract

Summary/Abstract (Pilot Project Program) 
The Pilot Project Program (PPP) contributes to the mission of the M-LEEaD Center 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 our initial funding period 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 the 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 progress report. Important advances in the administration of the Pilot 
Project Program during the last cycle include the formation 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. In the next cycle of the Pilot Project Program will build on the momentum 
generated in the first four years by continuing the wide distribution of the Request for Applications throughout 
the School of Public Health and the Medicial School, continuing the Reviewer consortium and continuing the 
Core facilities. We will also continue our practice of including a COEC member on the review committee 
responsible for ranking of the proposals to assure their input. Together, these practices will continue the 
groundbreaking work started in the first cycle of the Pilot Project Program.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9904651
- **Project number:** 5P30ES017885-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** BRUCE C. RICHARDSON
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,727
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-06-15

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9904651

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9904651, Pilot Project Program (5P30ES017885-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9904651. Licensed CC0.

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