The Pilot Program aims to foster research innovation and help build research capacity through engagement with the NM-INSPIRES Cores. We welcome a range of pilot study applications that include basic mechanistic and toxicological, clinical-translational, population, and community engaged research to address to address important issues in environmental health research. Early career and established investigators with research interests in environmental health are encouraged to apply.
Award numbers and funding amounts will be included in the Request for Application announcement.
Research Pilot Award (≥$25,000). This award is an opportunity to support feasibility for a new research direction or to develop preliminary data for an extramural grant application. A minimum of two Research Pilot awards will be prioritized for early stage investigators (ESI) per year.
Core Facility Awards (CFA) (up to $10,000). This will provide access to Core services (funding can be applied to more than one Core). There will be an option to link a CFA to a Research Pilot in cases of exceptional needs for Core expertise and services after consultation with a Core Director.
Cores can be found here.
RFA announcement expected Spring 2023.
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Rama Gullapalli, MD PhD, Department of Pathology
Examining hyperglycemic synergism of cadmium metal stress on metabolism in a zebrafish larval model.
Rachel Speer, PhD, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Zinc mitigation of arsenic-altered gene expression in UVR carcinogenesis.
Guanghua Wan, PhD, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Environmental arsenic hematotoxicity: Toward defining the role of arsenic-induced KLF1 in affecting erythroblasts maturation.
Xiaozhong (John) Yu, MD PhD MPH, College of Nursing
Companion Animals as Sentinels for Predicting the Effects of Environmental Exposure on Human Reproductive Health in New Mexico
Katherine Zychowski, PhD, College of Nursing
Estrogen and extracellular vesicles: a pilot study examining neurological consequences and mechanisms of “burn pit” exposures in a pre-clinical model.
For information please contact: Laurie Hudson, PhD or Theresa Champion