This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $242,310 to Emory University for a research project titled "Improved Estimation of Pollen Exposure, Mixtures, and Risk of Respiratory Illness." The project aims to: 1) implement a multi-location time-series study of pollen and respiratory morbidity that includes assessment of individual- and area-level social vulnerability...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $1,294,377 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The grant, titled "CENTER FOR CLIMATE: EQUITABLE AND ACCESSIBLE RESEARCH-BASED TESTING FOR HEALTH (C-EARTH)", will fund research on climate change impacts on health, particularly in marginalized communities, and develop evidence-based solutions. Key objectives include...
This $407,998 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program aims to develop a new Bayesian workflow for analyzing potential contaminated immunoassay data. The primary objectives include: Developing methods to account for error, contamination, and correlations in immunoassay data to improve concentration estimation and exposure-outcome analysis. The methods will be validated using...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $1,377,026 Project Grant (R01ES035791) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The grant will fund a randomized controlled trial in Ghana to assess how early life exposure to household air pollution (HAP) from cooking fires impacts the human microbiome and virome over childhood, and how these changes affect lung function and growth. The study aims to build...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under CFDA 93.837 (Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $177,403.00 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to conduct research aimed at understanding the heterogeneity and endotypes of asthma. The 5-year project, starting on September 1, 2024, will leverage multi-omics data from three cohorts of asthmatic children to analyze the interplay between genetic, epigenetic, and metabolomic factors in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program is providing $213,284 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to study the mechanisms by which wildfire smoke exposure impacts health, particularly for those with asthma. The research aims to examine how extracellular vesicles and the HIF-1 hypoxia pathway influence the health effects of wildfire smoke, both in...
This Project Grant award, totaling $528,194, was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The award aims to develop statistical methods for precision environmental health assessments focused on the health effects of exposure to chemical mixtures. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Developing a general framework for estimating heterogeneous mixture...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $702,364 to conduct a nationwide analysis to determine which fine particulate matter (PM2.5) source sectors and fuel types are most associated with mortality and cardiovascular and respiratory hospital admissions. The project, led by Yale University, will employ large datasets to evaluate how PM2.5 exposure varying by chemical...
This federal Project Grant award of $763,895.00, awarded on September 3, 2024 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports a comprehensive study on the impact of environmental exposures and social determinants of health on mammographic features predictive of breast cancer risk. The primary awardee, Harvard College President & Fellows Of through its Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will collect and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $893,525 to The Johns Hopkins University to implement and evaluate a multi-component intervention to protect lung health in Nepal. The 40-month project aims to reduce environmental and infectious risks associated with chronic respiratory diseases through a community health worker-driven model. Key components include: 1) reducing...
This federal Project Grant award for $704,105, awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports a research project aimed at studying the complex associations between multiple long-term environmental exposures and the incidence of asthma. The project will leverage the extensive data resources of large nationwide cohort studies, including the Nurses' Health Studies and the Growing Up Today Studies, to assess how chemical, physical, and environmental stressors across the lifespan impact asthma risk. Key objectives include determining how multiple environmental exposures are linked to asthma incidence, identifying demographic and social factors that modify these associations, and exploring how plasma metabolomics may mediate the impact of environmental exposures on asthma development. The grant recipient, Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., will conduct this critical environmental health research from May 2025 through February 2030.