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Lead Campus 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, coinvestigators and affiliated faculty

• Name
• Address
• Phone
• Email

Proposal information

• Title
• Area of emphasis
• Total funding amount requested (up to a maximum of $270,000/year for 3 years)

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 the field.
• Project objective:
  Provide a one to two sentence, non-technical description of the project's overall objectives and key milestones.

Lead Campus Information

• Area of emphasis (research fields)
• Start and end dates
• Matching funds amount and source (if any)

Budget

Amounts and descriptions for year 1 of the grant.

• Research Awards
  Indicate the number and $ amount of graduate student and postdoctoral research awards the lead campus plans to give out each year.
• Personnel
  
  NOTE: Direct support for the PI in the form of partial salary is allowed when specifically justified, but discouraged. The TSR&TP is primarily a graduate student training program. Due to limited funds, we cannot support faculty salaries on a regular basis.
  
  Include the following for each person listed in this section:
  1. Name
  2. Role on project
  3. Percent effort
  4. Salary requested for year 1 and year 2
  5. Benefits requested for year 1 and year 2
• Integrative activities (specify courses, seminars, etc. and amounts budgeted for each)
• Supplies (list by category)
• Equipment (itemize and provide justification)
• Travel (purpose, and if known, dates and locations)
• Other (include personnel justification, if any, in this section)

Biosketches

For the applicant, coinvestigator and affiliated faculty

• 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 coinvestigator

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

Education and Research Plan

Limited to 15 pages or less in PDF form - to be uploaded to site

1. Program focus (limit to 1 paragraph)
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. Proposed Program
   This is the major portion of the proposal and should be presented concisely, but detailed enough to indicate the significance, effectiveness, and breadth of the program. The synergy between the components must be well defined. Applicants should also describe how the program will be complemented by other existing or proposed programs. List how participating faculty interactions will be encouraged. List milestones for accomplishments.
4. Leadership
   Describe the qualifications (management and administrative skills) and past experience of the PI(s) who will serve as Director and Associate Director (if designated) of the proposed program.
5. Program Governance
   a.Vision: What mechanism will be used to guide the program?
   b.Short & long term goals
   c.Implementation: What criteria will be used to award grants/fellowships?
6. Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Training
   Describe how participation will be integrated into the program to provide high quality research activities directly related to fundamental knowledge and/or applied problem solving in the selected area(s) of focus.
7. Integrative Activities
   Describe the research group and departmental graduate and postdoctoral activities, either existing or to be developed, related to the lead campus' focus. These activities must have a significant interdisciplinary character and may consist of courses, seminars, workshops, and/or retreats. List timetables for these activities.
8. Post TSR&TP Funding Transition Plan
   The basic philosophy of the TSR&TP is to provide seed funding for new programs that are expected to seek and achieve substantial extramural funding. Such programs become self-sustaining within a reasonable time period so that they may retain their identity without continued TSR&TP support. The P.I. should put forward a concrete plan, with appropriate timelines, describing how it is anticipated to achieve this goal. Such a plan will usually involve seeking an institutional training grant, or comparable funding, from an extramural agency.
   
   A second goal of the TSR&TP is to seed fund entities that will eventually achieve recognition as regional or national Centers of Excellence in some specialized area in the field of "toxic substances". The P.I. is asked to present a vision of how the proposed program will progress to becoming a Center of Excellence, what are the expected timelines to achieve this goal, and what might be measurable milestones along the way that the TSR&TP Executive Committee can monitor to evaluate whether this goal is being achieved.
9. Literature Cited

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.

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