Pilot Projects

A significant portion of the Center's funding is allocated for Pilot Projects. Pilot projects are particularly important to the Center because they foster innovative research, help to broaden membership, and facilitate collaborations between research groups that might not otherwise occur. The goals of the MIT CEHS Pilot Project Program are to achieve the following:

Provide initial support for investigators to establish new lines of research in environmental health

Allow exploration of possible innovative new directions representing a significant departure from ongoing funded research for established investigators in environmental health sciences

Stimulate investigators from other areas of endeavor to apply their expertise to environmental health research

Pilot projects funded focus on preliminary investigation in an area of environmental health science and toxicology that can be completed within one year. Funding is available to all CEHS members, to all members of the MIT faculty, and under appropriate circumstances to investigators in the wider Boston and Cambridge research community.

A call for applications for pilot project funding is disseminated on an annual basis through publication on the MIT Web Site, Tech Talk, and announcements for posting distributed through Department, Lab, and Center Administrative Offices.

The MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences, through support from the NIH-NIEHS Center Grant P30-ES002109, has awarded six pilot projects with a start date of April 1, 2008. The six funded applications are:

(1) Peter Dedon
Professor
CEHS/Biological Engineering
"Changes in the Spectrum of tRNA Secondary Modifications as Biomarkers of Exposure"

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