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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded Xcellassay, Inc. a $306,872 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant funding will support the development and characterization of a hand-held, bioassay-based test strip for rapid, in-field detection of water contamination by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The goal is to create a 1 x 1.5 cm detection strip printed with 20 nuclear receptor sensors that can be...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded New York University $400,000 under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program for a three-year project grant concluding in August 2025. The goal of the research is to develop and validate novel passive sampling designs that can measure a diverse suite of air toxics and contaminants of emerging concern in ambient urban air at low detection limits. Activities include refining polyethylene films for passive air sampling of hazardous...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Access Sensor Technologies LLC received a $612,682 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), effective August 5, 2025, with completion targeted for January 31, 2027. The awardee is commercializing a High-Throughput Automated Sample Analysis Platform (ASAP) designed to enable large-scale characterization of air pollution exposures for exposomics and precision...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Louisville's Office of Research & Innovation received a $431,750 Project Grant (R21) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), awarded September 12, 2025, with a completion date of September 11, 2027. This two-year study addresses urgent public health concerns in Calvert City, Kentucky, following an industrial accident involving the release of ethylene...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Attogene Corporation received a $257,312 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), awarded on August 26, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2026. The award supports the development of a novel electrochemical biosensor designed to rapidly detect organophosphate and carbamate (OPAC) pesticide residues in environmental and food samples. The biosensor...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Millennium Bioresearch, Inc. (doing business as MB Research Laboratories) received a $259,274 Project Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. The award supports development of the Egg LD50 Assay for Categorization (ELDAC), an in vitro alternative testing methodology designed to replace traditional mammalian acute oral...

This $440,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research at Northwestern University to create an unbiased and global map of the cellular response to environmental proteotoxic stress. The project will integrate cutting-edge chemical-genetic screening with computational analysis to identify critical components, functions, and regulatory nodes in the proteostasis network that cells...

Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under its Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), awarded a $354,375 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles on April 3, 2026, with a completion date of April 2, 2028. The project addresses critical gaps in post-fire indoor air quality research stemming from the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. The research team will expand monitoring to 50 households (25 per fire location) to assess indoor and...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded North Carolina State University a Project Grant of $746,205 on July 8, 2026, under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) to fund research investigating the relationship between toxic metal exposure, epigenetic modifications, and the risk of steatotic liver disease (SLD). The research will be conducted in Raleigh, North Carolina, with completion targeted for April 30, 2031. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, provides $356,178.00 to Swarthmore College to conduct research on the behavioral effects of ToxCast Phase I chemicals on planarians, with the goal of determining their potential context of use. The research aims to investigate how various environmental exposures, such as chemicals and toxins, can impact biological systems and public...