# Presentation: 319632

## Introduction to the SBRP

**Introduction to the SBRP**

- William A. Suk
*Director*
*Superfund Basic Research Program*

**US Department of Health and Human Services**
**National Institutes of Health**
**National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences **

**Applicant Information Meeting **
**October 29, 2003**
- Research Triangle Park,
- North Carolina

## Morning:

**   ***William Suk*
**Research Focus**
**   ***Claudia Thompson*
**Core Requirements**
**   ***Beth Anderson*
**Additional Requirements**
**   ***Sally Eckert-Tilotta*
**Q & A**
**	**

**Day at a Glance**

**Application Guidelines**
**   ***Claudia Thompson*
**Special Instructions**
*   **Beth Anderson*
**Fiscal and Administration**
**Management**
*   **Susan Ricci*
**Review Process**
**   ***Janice Allen*
**Q & A**
**Wrap-up**
-    *William A. Suk*

*Morning:*

*Afternoon:*

## The Superfund Basic Research Program is focused on acquiring new scientific and engineering knowledge that advances both society's understanding of the human and ecological risks from hazardous substances and the development of new environmental technologies for the cleanup of Superfund sites.

***Brief History***

**SBRP: Mission Statement**

- Established in 1986 under SARA
-  Basic Research
- University-based  grants program
-  Intended to complement EPA and ATSDR
-  Includes training, outreach, partnering, tech. transfer

## SBRP: Mandates

-  *Development of:*

- Methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment
- Advanced techniques for the detection, assessment, and evaluation of the human health effects of hazardous substances
- Methods to assess the risks to human health presented by hazardous substances
- Basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances

## Advanced infrastructure of environmental health sciences

**SBRP: Products**

- Over 6,500 scholarly publications
-  Scores of graduate, undergraduate and post-doctoral students trained
- 65 patents and technology transfer activities

## Driven by:

- Cutting edge science
- Needs of the end users
- Relevance to Superfund
- External Advisory Group Recommendations

*Focus on:*
- Integration of scientific disciplines within a common theme

**SBRP: Scientific Direction**

## SBRP: Vision

- Interdisciplinary Research for Improving Public Health

**SBRP: Vision**

## Disease

- Chemical X

- Ecosystem

- Pathway to Human Exposure

- Fate & Transport

-  Food Web
-  Bioavailability
-  Biomagnification

- Dose Y of
- Chemical X

- Target
- Tissue

- Lesion

- Pathobiology

- Linkages

**SBRP: Vision**

## Disease

- Chemical X

- Ecosystem

- Pathway to Human Exposure

-     Remediation

-  Food Web
-  Bioavailability
-  Biomagnification

- Dose Y of
- Chemical X

- Target
- Tissue

- Lesion

- Pathobiology

- Prevention

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**SBRP: Vision**

## Timeline

- 1987

- 1992

- 2000

- SBRP began

- R*

- 1995

- 2001

- Line
- Item

**2002**

- SBIR Program

- Transition Period

**2003**

**2004**

**2006**

**Timeline**

- Exploratory Grants

- R*

- R*

- R*
-     (awards 2005)

- R*
- (awards 2006)

- R* = Recompeted

- Annual
- Recompetition
- begins

- $ 3M

- $ 48.6M

## Release of RFA		September 16, 2003

**Letters of Intent**		February 13, 2004
**Application Receipt Date**	April 21, 2004
**Application Review**		October 2004
**NAEHS Council**		February 2005
**New Awards**			April 1, 2005

**Dates to Remember**

## http://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/index.cfm

**http://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/index.cfm**

**http://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/rfa/**

**Web Sites of Interest**

**http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html**