Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES)

The summary for the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES): - The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award is intended to identify outstanding scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who intend to make a long term career commitment to research in the mission areas of the NIEHS and assist them in launching an innovative research program focusing on problems of environmental exposures and human biology, human pathophysiology and human disease. - NIEHS intends to commit $3.6 million in total costs in FY2006 to fund approximately 6 new awards. - Applicants may request up to five years and up to $400,000 in direct costs in the first two years and up to $275,000 in years 3-5. (See Section IV.6. Other Submission Requirements.) - This is a program of R01 research grants intended for the first time R01 applicant. - Eligible organizations include nonprofit organizations, public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories, units of the state government, eligible agencies of the Federal Government, and domestic institutions. Foreign institutions are not eligible. - Eligible principal investigators include individuals with faculty appointments which are tenure track or equivalent and who have fewer than eight years of postdoctoral experience at the time of application. Ineligible individuals include current and former principal investigators on NIH research project (R01), sub-projects of program projects (P01) or Center Grants with research components (P50) or equivalent research grant awards. Applicants will be expected to devote at least 50% time and effort to the award and have a long term commitment to research in the environmental health sciences. - Only one application per school or college within a university will be accepted. See Section III.1. Eligible Applicants. - See Section IV.1 for application materials. - Telecommunications for the hearing impaired is available at: TTY 301-451-0088