UNC CEHS releases 2024-2025 Pilot Projects Program RFA

The UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) has released their 2024-2025 Pilot Projects Program Request for Applications.

The theme of CEHS is translating interdisciplinary research on environmental health threats to improve public health in North Carolina. CEHS facilitates research collaborations by funding university infrastructure to support scientific equipment, facilities, and other resources that can be shared among environmental health researchers. By pursuing shared research questions, CEHS can identify emerging issues that advance understanding about how pollutants and other environmental exposures affect public health and health inequities.

Funding for pilot projects is available to:

1. Support novel translational and interdisciplinary research relevant to environmental health,
2. Support junior investigators and attract experienced investigators that are new to environmental health, and
3. Integrate the UNC research community with CEHS cores and services.

Applications will be accepted for two types of projects:

1. single investigator, with awards of up to five grants of up to $25,000 each
2. interdisciplinary team science, with awards of up to two grants of up to $50,000 each

Investigators that propose a Community Engagement component to a single investigator or team science award can receive a supplement of up to $10,000. Any member of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty is eligible to apply. Postdoctoral fellows are also eligible for Single Investigator awards if they have a collaborating CEHS center member as a Co-PI.

For more information on programmatic fit and funding priorities for the CEHS, contact Michael Sanderson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Applications are due November 20, 2023. A Letter of Intent is due October 20, but is not required.

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For more information, visit sph.unc.edu/cehs/pilot-projects.