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New Investigator Application Guidelines

Prepare the following information for our proposal submission website.
After submission, you may change your proposal any time up until the deadline.

IMPORTANT: Coinvestigators and collaborators will be required to log on to our site to complete their Statements of Compliance and upload letters of support. They will be given 2 weeks after the proposal deadline to finish their tasks.

When you finish your portions of the proposal, it will be considered submitted, but incomplete until your coinvestigators and collaborators (if any) complete their portions.

Contact information

For the applicant and any coinvestigators

• Name
• Address
• Phone
• Email

Proposal information

• Title
• Project status - select one
  New (never submitted to TSR&TP)
  Continuing (1 year of funding previously received, proposal is for 2nd year)
  NOTE: Most proposals are funded for 2 years. Some may be awarded 1 year based on review committee considerations.
  Resubmitted (proposal submitted to TSR&TP in a previous year but not funded)
• Animal or human protocol numbers and dates of approval (if applicable)
• Research area - select one
  Ecotoxicology
  Environmental Fate
  Epidemiology/Health Effects
  Mechanisms of Toxicology
  Nanotoxicology
  Policy
  Pollution Prevention/Green Chemistry
  Remediation/Bioremediation
  Risk Assessment

Abstracts

• Technical abstract:
  This abstract should be a succinct, accurate description of the proposed work when separated from the application. Limit to half a page. Proposal reviewers will use this abstract. Write it for an audience of varied disciplines.
• Non-technical abstract:
  Limit to half a page. This abstract will be posted on the TSR&TP website upon funding. Write it for an audience with no special knowledge of your field.
• Project objective:
  Provide a one to two sentence, non-technical description of the project's overall objectives and key milestones.

Budget

Because TSR&TP is a Multicampus Research Unit funded by UC, grants are for direct costs only. No indirect costs are allowed in the budget.

Amounts and descriptions for year 1 and year 2 of grant

• Budgets can be up to a maximum of $80,000 over 2 years
• Personnel
  
  NOTE: Funding is primarily intended to support graduate students. Non-student salary support is not allowed.
  
  Include the following for each person listed in this section:
  1. Name
  2. Role on project
  3. Salary requested for year 1 and year 2
  4. Benefits requested for year 1 and year 2
• Supplies (list by category)
• Equipment (itemize and provide justification)
• Travel (purpose, and if known, dates and locations)
• Other

Biosketches

For the applicant and any coinvestigators

• Education & training
• Research & professional experience:
  Include in chronological order relevant employment, grants and awards, publications, and professional activities (i.e. memberships). Limit to 2 pages.

Other Grant Support (current and pending)

For the applicant and coinvestigators

For each active grant, list the following, describing any areas of potential overlap between projects currently funded and the objectives and goals of this proposed project:

• PI(s)
• Source
• Amount
• Period of funding
• Title
• Objectives
• Overlap

Resources list

Specify the facilities to be used for the conduct of the proposed research. Indicate the performance sites and describe capacities, pertinent capabilities, relative proximity, and extent of availability to the project. Under "Other", identify support services such as machine shop, electronics shop, and specify the extent to which they will be available to the project.

• Laboratory
• Clinical
• Animal
• Computer
• Office
• Other

Research Plan

Limited to 10 pages or less in PDF form - to be uploaded to site

1. Specific Aims
   Generally, hypothesis testing research and/or research directed towards understanding at a mechanistic level is more likely to be funded than purely descriptive studies.
2. Relevance to the UC TSR&TP
   We fund a broad range of studies in various disciplines, so this requirement is broadly construed. Consulting our list of previously funded projects and Research Needs (links from the RFP on the TSR&TP website) will often help define relevance in this context.
3. Background
   Why is this research project important enough to problems of toxics in the environment to warrant funding? Limit this section to 2 pages.
4. Research Design and Methods
   How will you successfully carry out this research project?
5. Data Management/Statistical Analyses
   What statistical analyses will be used to interpret the data?
6. Timetable and Milestones
   Approximately how long will it take to complete each section of this research project and what milestones do you expect to achieve?
7. Future Importance of Research
   How is your research relevant to or how does it address future problems?
8. Extramural Funding Potential
   How will the results of this research project potentially lead to future funding?
9. Literature Cited
10. Continuing Projects: Progress Report
    If you are applying for a second year of funding, provide a brief description of the work accomplished and what the new grant will address. (Not applicable to new or resubmitted projects)

Additional Requirements

If you have added a collaborator or coinvestigator to your project, each person will be sent an email with instructions to submit their Statement of Compliance and a letter of support (optional for coinvestigators) for your project. Collaborators will be given 2 weeks after the proposal deadline to complete these tasks.

Statement of Compliance

The proposal applicant, coinvestigators and collaborators must agree to TSR&TP's terms and conditions of funding:

I agree to comply with all reporting requirements for each year the proposal is funded and/or extended, including the submission of progress and final reports on funded research activities, reports on related patent and licensing activities, reports on trainee career paths, and reports on significant social and economic contributions ensuing from supported research activities. I agree to acknowledge the TSR&TP for any publications resulting from TSR&TP funding. I understand that I am required to obtain appropriate PI status according to our campus policy. I further understand that presenting our research findings at the Annual Research Symposium is expected for each year the proposal is funded and/or extended.

I also agree that if all the TSR&TP funds are not used by the end of the grant period, the PI must request a no cost extension or return the funds to the TSR&TP. If the PI leaves the University of California, all remaining funds must be returned to the TSR&TP.

To the best of my knowledge, all of the information submitted in this application is true and correct.