Project Grant R01ES026961

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $701,902 and awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research on the link between prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood social anxiety symptoms. The primary objectives are to: 1) investigate whether prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a class of neurotoxic air pollutants, is associated with social anxiety symptoms in...

This $238,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program will support a study investigating the association between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy and the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in children born in California between 2000-2015. The project aims to leverage California Department of Developmental Services records to identify approximately 10,000 CP...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $504,283 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) to study the etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children born preterm. The key objectives are to: Determine the epidemiology of ASD in preterm children and characterize associated risk factors. Estimate population-level measures of risk, such as heritability...

This $421,047 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research on the interaction between genetic and environmental risk factors for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The principal investigator will use the prairie vole, a rodent species with complex social behaviors, to study how exposure to the pyrethroid pesticide deltamethrin during pregnancy and lactation impacts...

This $174,323 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support a secondary data analysis study examining the relationship between residential ambient air pollution and pediatric hospitalizations due to acute respiratory disease across New York State. The study aims to: 1) assess the effect of air pollution on acute respiratory disease using...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, is supporting a research study by Dr. Mariah Deserisy at Columbia University. The $216,734 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, aims to investigate the association between prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and the development of persistent irritability in early childhood, as well as the underlying effects on...

This federal Project Grant award of $843,410 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program aims to establish the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model for assessing the neurodevelopmental impacts of air pollution, specifically diesel exhaust. The key objectives are to: Determine the effects of varying developmental stage and diesel exhaust dose exposures on neurodevelopmentally programmed behaviors and metabolic...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $605,550 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to the University of Toledo Health Science Campus Division for a study titled "Developmental Pyrethroid Exposure in the Prairie Vole as a Model of Environmental Risk for Autism." The project aims to explore the maximum safe developmental dose of the pyrethroid pesticide deltamethrin and its effects on neurodevelopmental outcomes in...

The National Institute on Aging awarded a $2,278,304 Cooperative Agreement grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Emory University to investigate the molecular mechanisms linking exposure to air pollution components and the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The project, titled "IMPACT-ADRD: Investigating the Multi-Omics Perturbations Associated with Complex Environmental Toxicants and Their Contribution to Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias,"...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a Project Grant to Emory University under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) to investigate the link between air pollution exposure, the blood and brain metabolome, and their effects on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The total grant award is $2,329,825.00 with a project period from September 2024 to April 2029. The key objectives of this research project are to: 1) identify which specific components of fine particulate...