NIH Reissue of RFA ES-15-020   https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-18-001.html

The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators  who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on people’s health.

NOTE Limited: Only one application per School or College within a University will be accepted. UIowa applicants must contact their Dean at least 30 days prior to the sponsor's deadline.

Environmental agents which are considered of primary interest for NIEHS include:  industrial chemicals or manufacturing byproducts, metals, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, fungal, and bacterial or biologically derived toxins. Agents that are considered within the primary mission responsibility of other NIH Institutes and Centers include, but are not limited to: alcohol, chemotherapeutic agents, radiation that is not a result of an ambient environmental exposure, smoking, except when considered as a secondary smoke exposure as a component in the indoor environment (particularly in children), drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, dietary nutrients, and infectious or parasitic agents.  Applications which focus entirely or primarily on exposure factors outside the NIEHS mission responsibility will be considered nonresponsive to this announcement and will not proceed to review. However, it is appropriate to include these factors as part of research to define health effects of the exposome, or the totality of a person’s environmental exposure. These exposures may also be considered as components in the study of the health effects of mixtures, if the primary goal of the study is on an exposure within the NIEHS mission interest.  Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact NIEHS Scientific/Research staff prior to submission to determine if their project meets the goals of the ONES program.