UCSF P30 EaRTH Center Pilot Award for Environmental Health Research
This UCSF grant funds innovative research on how environmental pollutants and chemicals affect disease, especially in vulnerable groups, emphasizing early-life exposures and cross-disciplinary approaches.
Funder: University of California San Francisco
Due Dates: September 28, 2026 (Full application deadline for Fall 2026 RAP cycle)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000 per project for one year; direct costs only; not renewable or transferrable.
Summary: Supports innovative, exploratory research projects in environmental health, focusing on the effects of pollutants and chemicals on disease, with special emphasis on vulnerable populations.
Key Information: Proposals must budget at least $10,000 for EaRTH Core services; only UCSF faculty and certain appointees are eligible.
Description
The UCSF P30 EaRTH Center Pilot Award provides seed funding for exploratory projects in basic science, clinical research, or epidemiology that address environmental health. Projects should align with the Center’s mission to understand and mitigate the effects of environmental pollutants and chemicals, particularly during developmental periods, and to reduce exposures that contribute to disease—especially in underserved or vulnerable groups. Areas of interest include early-life exposure outcomes, disease mechanisms, gene-environment interactions, technology development for monitoring exposures, interventions, environmental justice, climate change, and innovative in vitro or computational hazard identification methods. The Center encourages cross-disciplinary collaborations and projects that utilize EaRTH Core services.
