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NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) Awardees—Informational Session
SOT Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, March 19
Chairperson(s): James Mastin, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC and Carole Shreffler, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Endorsed by:
Inhalation and Respiratory Specialty Section
Concerned with assuring the quality of biomedical research, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences launched an initiative to support the future generation of exceptionally talented and creative new scientists. For NIEHS, this involves helping to develop a cadre of talented early-career scientists who will further the understanding of the impact of environmental exposures on human health through disciplines such as toxicology, epidemiology, and clinical research, as well as multi-disciplinary translational research. 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, NIEHS has established the ONES program to fund R01 research grants intended for researchers who have not received their first R01 research grant. It is designed to be highly competitive, each school only being allowed to submit one application, with a limited number awarded each year. These R01s are distinguished from other R01 research grants in that they provide funding for developing necessary resources and for career development activities in addition to funding for research expenses. Research programs supported by this announcement seek to promote career advancement for 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 biology, human pathophysiology and human disease. The first round of awardees included researchers investigating the effects of air pollution on pulmonary and cardiovascular disease, the mechanisms of arsenic carcinogenesis, mechanisms of repair of environmentally induced DNA damage, and sensory neuron signaling in response to environmental exposures. This session will provide attendees the opportunity to hear the exciting, innovative research being conducted by these talented new researchers and introduce the recipients of the second round of ONES awardees.
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