The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC, scehsc.usc.edu) is pleased to announce the 2020 Pilot Projects Program, supporting one-year research projects that aim to promote the understanding of environmental exposures and human disease.
The goal of the program is to provide investigators with an opportunity to collect preliminary data and/or validate the utility of specific methods or techniques to establish the feasibility of larger-scale research projects and ultimately seek external (especially NIEHS) funding.
The SCEHSC is seeking investigator-initiated applications from all environmental health research areas. Topics of special interest include:
| New Approaches for Exposure Assessment | Environmental Contributions to Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction |
| New Approaches for Environmental Disaster Response Research | Application of Omics Technologies to Environmental Health Research |
| Climate Change, Adaptation, and Environmental Health | Complex Mixtures in Environmental Health |
| Environment, Neurodevelopment, and Neurological Diseases | Human Microbiome and the Environment |
| Novel Approaches in Environmental Disparities Assessment |
Individuals with a faculty appointment in any department or school/division at USC, CHLA, UCLA or Caltech are eligible to apply.
LETTER OF INTENT & SPECIFIC AIMS
Prospective applicants will submit a one-page Letter of Intent (LOI) along with one page of final Specific Aims (SA). The LOI will include the project title, a brief summary of project objectives, and identification of the key participating investigators. All proposed projects should have a clear and identifiable environmental health emphasis. Please e-mail Letters of Intent and Specific Aims to Vivian Lee, viv.lee@usc.edu, by the LOI deadline.
FULL PROPOSAL
Successful LOI applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal for up to $50,000 of funding. Instructions for full proposal submission can be found on the SCEHSC Pilots webpage (scehsc.usc.edu/2020-pilots). Please email full applications as one PDF file to Vivian Lee, viv.lee@usc.edu, by the full proposal deadline.
Deadlines and Notification Schedule
| Request for Applications | LOI & SA Deadline | LOI Notification |
| July 29, 2019 | August 26, 2019 at 5:00 PM | September 3, 2019 |
| Full Proposal | Award Notification | Award Start Date |
| September 17, 2019 at 5:00 PM | December 2019 | April 1, 2020 |
