This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $1,270,796 to The Ohio State University to conduct research on the relationship between prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood social anxiety symptoms. The 5-year study will examine how prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), a class of neurotoxic air pollutants, can contribute to the development of social...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, will support the career development of Dr. Alexandra Heaney, a climate epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The $162,024 award, effective February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2028, will enable Dr. Heaney to conduct research on the impacts of ambient dust and extreme heat exposure on adverse birth...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $419,011 to Emory University to develop innovative dimensionality reduction techniques for assessing the joint health effects of air pollution mixtures. The research aims to advance causal modeling approaches that preserve the relationships between air pollutants and health outcomes, in order to provide more accurate assessments of the public...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $249,000 to the University of Colorado-Denver to engage high school students in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project. The project aims to establish schools as clean air environments during and beyond wildfire season by implementing an air quality curriculum and a student-led air quality monitoring network. The...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $650,875 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on August 6, 2024. The grant supports a 5-year research project titled "Driving Environmental Justice: Community Monitoring of Diesel Truck Emissions and Impacts on Asthma Morbidity in Immigrant Communities." The project aims to: 1) estimate the short-term health effects of black carbon exposure on...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $719,892 to New York University (NYU) to conduct research on the impact of phthalate and bisphenol exposure on infant reproductive development during a critical early life stage known as "minipuberty." The research project will enroll 480 infants and their mothers, collecting urine, blood, and breast milk samples to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program provides $216,734 to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research on the effects of prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure on childhood irritability and brain connectivity. The award aims to test the hypothesis that prenatal PAH exposure is associated with persistent irritability...
This $149,857 Project Grant, awarded on July 7, 2025 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research to investigate the role of inhaled particulate matter (PM) in exacerbating pulmonary vascular remodeling associated with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The research aims to define population-level associations between aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonism, plasma metabolites, and PH severity; determine if...
This federal Project Grant award, ID K99ES036168, was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program. The $126,985 award, granted on February 4, 2025, supports research investigating the impact of ambient environmental pollutants on vaccine antibody response and immune function in children. The principal investigator, an environmental epidemiologist and exposure scientist, will leverage the ongoing PROGRESS...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, provides $695,853 to the Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI) from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029. The project will investigate the impact of prenatal and postnatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on children's development, examining the role of placental function and the potential protective...