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Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) R01
RFA-ES-09-007
Program Summary
The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award is intended to identify outstanding scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who intend to make a long term career commitment to research in the mission areas of the NIEHS and assist them in launching an innovative research program focusing on problems of environmental exposures and human biology, human pathophysiology and human disease.
Awards
Applicants may request up to five years and up to $400,000 in direct costs in the first two years and up to $275,000 in years 3-5.
Eligibility
Applicants must be designated Early Stage Investigators (ESI) by NIH as defined in NOT-OD-09-013.
In addition, applicants must have faculty appointments which are tenure track or equivalent, generally at the level of Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, or equivalent, have a research or health professional doctoral level degree, and have demonstrated outstanding abilities in the basic, clinical or population-based research. Individuals must show they have established research independence from a mentor, and have dedicated independent laboratory and research resources available to conduct the research proposed in the grant application.
Applicants must have a long-term commitment to a career in environmental health research consistent with the core mission areas of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The NIEHS will decline applications not considered central to either to the mission or the research priorities of the NIEHS as part of the initial evaluation for responsiveness.
Applicants may not simultaneously submit identical/essentially identical applications under both this FOA and another HHS funding opportunity announcement. Investigators who have another scientifically distinct R01 application pending at the time of the ONES receipt deadline, i.e., submitted June 5 or July 5 for review at January Council, are eligible to submit a ONES application for a different project. However, since the ONES award is designed for new investigators who do not have R01 support, individuals who receive a fundable score and accept funding for the regular R01 prior to the award of the ONES grant are not eligible to receive the ONES award. If his or her ONES application is not chosen for funding, the PI may activate the regular R01. If the ONES application is chosen for funding, the applicant will have to decide which grant to accept, but may not accept both.
Applicants must devote at least 50% time (6 calendar months) and effort to the grant. However, if during the tenure of this grant, should the PD/PI be successful in obtaining funding through another R01 or similar award, the effort on the ONES award may be negotiated with the NIEHS program staff down to no less than 30% (3.6 calendar months). In addition, the awardees' departments are encouraged to provide an additional 25-30% release time commencing clinical, teaching, and administrative duties in order to allow the awardees to devote a larger percentage of time to research efforts.
UIC is restricted to one application per school or college.Additional Information
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-09-007.html
Deadlines
| UIC Internal Letter of Intent (mandatory) | August 18, 2009 |
| UIC Internal Competition (if necessary) | Note: selection will be made by individual school/college. |
| Sponsor Letter of Intent | October 5, 2009 |
| Sponsor Full Proposals | November 3, 2009 |
Letter of Intent Instructions
- By submitting this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program. The LOI can be emailed to RDS@uic.edu, Attn: Chang Lee.
- If OVCR receives more than one LOI from any school or college, selection will be made
in conjunction with respective school or college. - LOI form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc
Please contact Chang Lee at clee10@uic.edu or 6-1961 with any questions.
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