Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for the ONES Award, please submit the materials requested below to this link no later than November 11, 2019, at 11:59 PM.
Budget: Direct costs should be limited to $250,000 per year. With strong justification, research projects which have inherently higher costs may request direct costs of up to $400,000 per year.
Number of Applications: 1 application from WCM (not including Ithaca)
Program Description:
The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on people’s health.
The ONES program is designed to identify outstanding scientists at the formative stages of their career and assist them in launching an innovative research program with a defined impact in the environmental health sciences. These R01 research grants are targeted for researchers who are defined by the NIH as Early Stage Investigators.
Research programs supported by this announcement seek to promote career advancement of the most highly creative and promising new scientists who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in the mainstream of the environmental health sciences, and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and thinking to bear on the problems of how environmental exposures affect human health.
The ONES Program is specifically targeted to Early Stage Investigators and program goals include career promotion as well as the scientific project proposed. Applications for the ONES program differ from standard R01 applications in that applicants are expected to discuss their career goals in the environmental health sciences, include plans for the active participation of an external advisory committee to provide consultation and feedback, include a commitment by the institution to actively support the research program development of the Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI), and a plan for career enhancement to provide new skills and experiences necessary for future research growth in the environmental health sciences.
Applications submitted in response to this FOA must have a research focus on exposure – health related responses from environmental agents within the mission interest of the NIEHS.
Full program details can be found here:https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-18-001.html
Eligibility
- Applicants must have a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent graduate degree.
- PD(s)/PI(s) must be NIH defined Early Stage Investigators.
- In addition, PD/PIs must have faculty appointments which are tenure track or equivalent, generally at the level of Assistant Professor, or Research Assistant Professor, and have demonstrated outstanding abilities in basic, clinical or population-based research. Individuals must have established research independence from a mentor, and have dedicated, independent laboratory space or access to the clinical, population-based and/or public health research resources which will allow them to conduct the research proposed in the grant application as the lead, independent PD/PI.
- Applicants must have research focus and 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 the mission or the research priorities of the NIEHS as part of the initial evaluation for responsiveness.
Application Requirements
WCM is limited to submitting 1 nominee. Due to this limitation an internal selection process will be coordinated. Chairpersons/Division Heads may submit no more than two nominations from their department/division. Note: Chairs/Division Heads submitting more than one nomination must comment on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees. The same comment should be repeated in both nomination letters. Margins should be at least one inch and font size no less than 11 point.
- Letter of recommendation, from the Department Chair, highlighting a candidate’s scientific accomplishments to date and suitability for this award mechanisms (1-2 pages)
- Description of the research strategy (2 pages), which should include the following:
- Brief background or summary of relevant past research
- Proposed research strategy including specific aims
- Significance – address the importance of the problem or critical barrier to progress relative to improved knowledge of how environmental exposures affect human health.
- Innovation – address how the results of the research will lead to major research advances in the environmental health sciences or have significant implications for clinical or public health practice.
- If you propose to study only model compounds, you must provide a clear, reasonable and specific description as to how research on the model compound will lead to a better understand of the mechanisms involved in responses to specific environmental agents which are included in the mission responsibility of the NIEHS.
- Candidate’s CV
Submit the items listed above here no later than November 11, 2019, at 11:59 PM in the order listed as one PDF document using the naming convention PI last name-first initial_ONES2020.pdf (see example below).
Example: Smith-J_ONES2020.pdf
Past Recipients
- Basic Science
- Clinical Science
- Translational Science
- Junior Faculty
- New Investigator
- Postdoc/Residents/Fellows