Project Grant 83498801

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $429,370 to the University of Rochester to develop ethical report-back guidelines for household exposure research. The key products of this 4-year project are: A typology of the key ethical questions faced by researchers when reporting back individual-level results from household exposure studies. A tool to elicit participants'...

This $294,660 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, under the NIEHS Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training program (CFDA 93.142), will support Radiation Emergency Services LLC to develop a prototype simulation game and training platform. The RadTeamSim-ROUTE simulation aims to address gaps in hands-on radiological field survey training by blending radiological dose modeling with gaming software. This will create...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a planning project to investigate effective science communication strategies for informing the public about environmental hazards like wildfires and landslides. The project collaborates with vulnerable communities to understand their mental models of hazards and develop evidence-based messaging to motivate protective behaviors. The planning...

This $499,454.23 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program aims to develop edible sorbent therapies to mitigate dietary exposures to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals". The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing multicomponent sorbents derived from naturally occurring or generally safe...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $199,999 RAPID Project Grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to monitor the microbial attenuation of toxins released following the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in February 2023. The project aims to test the hypothesis that microbial communities in contaminated areas will show measurable responses that could inform contaminant degradation and natural...

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded a $390,112 Project Grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The goal of this 4-year study is to develop best practices for reporting pesticide exposure results to directors of family child care homes (FCCHs) in California's Central Valley and determine the impact of an integrated pest management (IPM) intervention on reducing...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $361,600 to Baylor College of Medicine to develop ethical guidelines for disseminating results from wastewater research and surveillance programs in Texas. The primary objectives are to: 1) Identify facilitators and barriers to results dissemination through embedded ELSI research and key informant interviews, 2) Conduct community...

This $398,207 Project Grant awarded by the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) aims to develop and test a bundled intervention to improve interdisciplinary communication quality in low-resource pediatric oncology hospitals. The key objectives are: Identify the relationship between communication structure and quality in caring for children with cancer across 20 hospitals. Develop a multilevel intervention to enhance communication quality in low-resource...

This $624,531 federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control under the Lead Technical Studies (LTS) Grants program (CFDA 14.902), will fund research to improve methods for evaluating and controlling residential lead-based paint hazards. The project, to be conducted by Quantech Inc. from November 2024 to November 2027, aims to develop improved lead hazard assessment techniques, establish...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, totaling $407,998 and with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029, is intended to develop a new Bayesian workflow for the analysis of contaminated immunoassay data. The research aims to address limitations of current methods for estimating analyte concentrations in immunoassays, such as large measurement...