In addition to the funds provided by the Pilot Project Program, the CCBVP resources available to support new projects include: consultation, access to equipment, and discounted services from the four facility cores. Services from the four facility cores are discounted for Pilot Project Program awardees: These services include:

DNA Microarray Facility Core
Primary contact: Joseph Nevins, 684-2746, j.nevins@duke.edu ; or Holly Dressman, 668-1583, dress002@mc.duke.edu

• Consultation on design of microarray experiments
• Provision of DNA microarrays that are enhanced for CCBVP projects by adding to the standard collection of sequences based on identification of genes important for environmental studies
• Microarrays that will allow various cross-species comparisons (human vs. mouse vs. zebrafish vs. C. elegans)

Proteomics Facility Core
Primary contact: Robert Roubey, M.D., 966-0578 robert.roubey@med.unc.edu

• Cellular protein profiling (flow cytometry)
• Soluble protein profiling (protein arrays: bead-based arrays for cytokine profiling, custom and prefabricated)
• Discovery proteomics (protein-protein interactions, surface plasmon resonance)

Inhalational Toxicology Facility Core
Primary contact: Michael Foster, 668-0382, foste028@mc.duke.edu

• Pulmonary function assessment
• Airway bronchoprovocation
• Human/mouse exposure
• Human Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavageAdvanced Computational

Advanced Computational Technologies Facility Core
Primary contact: Alan Gelfand, 668-5229, alan@stat.duke.edu

• Consulting, advice, guidance and in some cases analysis for
  research projects
• Consulting, advice, guidance and in some cases analysis for DNA
• microarray and proteomic studies
• Bioinformatics support for genetic studiesOnly one year of support will be awarded.

The budget for a pilot project may include: supplies; salary support for technicians, research assistants, and graduate students; research related travel (but not travel to scientific meetings); and other justifiable research expenses. Investigators should contact facility cores for information on costs of facility core services for specific research projects. Faculty salary and indirect cost are not allowable expenses.

Subcontracts cannot be issued to institutions outside Duke.