Pilot Project Programs
Pilot Project Program
The Pilot Project Program (PPP) supports the CEED strategic vision by developing new research areas, attracting new and established scientists to environmental health research, fostering the careers of early career investigators, catalyzing community collaborations, growing CEED’s funding base, and enhancing our strengths in innovative, impactful environmental health research. Through the Pilot Project Program, CEED can maintain its focus on high-quality science, cutting-edge innovation, and productive interactions with the communities it serves. A major focus of the program is to support the CEED vision of an increase in community-centered environmental health research.
Through the PPP, researchers can test new hypotheses on emerging environmental challenges, establish new relationships with community partners, and develop new technologies and novel transdisciplinary collaborations. The ability to generate solid preliminary data will be critical to obtaining peer-reviewed funding that can directly impact susceptible communities in NJ and beyond. The PPP is vital part of community engagement supported by EOHSI and Rutgers leadership at all levels and highlights the need to build sustainable and cooperative relationships with local and state communities.
Pilot Project Program Leadership
Pilot Grant Project Request and Proposals 2025/2026
Applications Deadline: January 15, 2025
DATE: | December 2, 2024 |
TO: | Faculty, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
FROM: | Troy Roepke, PhD, Pilot Program Director Robert Laumbach, MD, MPH, Community Pilot Program Director |
SUBJECT: | Request for Community Proposals for 2025-26 CEED Pilot Grants |
Type of Grants
These grants support high risk-high yield projects and are the traditional avenue for Pilot Project funding, representing most investigator-initiated Funds of $25,000 are provided for these pilot grants.
These grants seek to engage clinicians, epidemiologists, and basic scientists in research focused on a targeted environmental issue, often involving an exposed cohort or community. They typically involve two or more integrated Full Pilot applications which are reviewed independently. Interactive pilots can also be between CEED and one or more NIEHS P30 Centers, with each Center reviewing and funding a portion of the pilot grant.
These grants support ongoing projects that require a defined or limited set of additional data to complete a manuscript, submit a grant application, respond to grant reviewers, or to purchase a small but essential piece of equipment. Mini-Pilot grants are also used for rapid response to emergent environmental health issues such as natural disasters or industrial accidents.
To advance CEED’s strategic vision, we have expanded our PPP to include funding proposals from community members focused on environmental health issues of groups or individuals within a community.
Newark Water Coalition – CEED Collaboration to Investigate Sources of Environmental Lead in Newark, NJ
Anthony Diaz/Executive Director of Newark Water Coalition and Robert Laumbach MD, MPH, CIH, DABT, Director of the CEED Community Engagement Core created the Mobile Lead testing Unit (MLTU) Project based on the desires of the community to pursue community-driven research to investigate the sources of lead exposure in Newark homes.
The East Trenton Collaborative (ETC), a local community group operating in the East Trenton neighborhood in Trenton, NJ, and NJ Future, a statewide advocacy organization requested a partnership for their initiative to help address lead (Pb) exposure within their marginalized community. They learned about our work identifying Pb in drinking water in Newark from the Newark Water Coalition and requested our help to “make East Trenton a great place to live, work, and play”. Lead by Brian Buckley, Ph.D., Director of CEED Chemical Analysis and Detection facility core, and Shereyl Snider, Community Organizer (ETC), the project was launched in August of 2022 to address lead (Pb) exposure within East Trenton marginalized community.
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