The University of Southern California (USC) received a $4,107,072 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant, awarded on September 17, 2024, will fund the "CLIMATE-RELATED EXPOSURES, ADAPTATION, AND HEALTH EQUITY (CLIMA) CENTER" project. The center aims to build a transdisciplinary research community and infrastructure to advance solution-oriented climate...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $409,687 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the impacts of wildfire smoke and heat on cognition, mood, and the human metabolome in a large case-control study of Parkinson's disease patients and community controls. The research aims to assess how these environmental exposures affect cognitive decline...
This Project Grant award of $123,408 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program supports research to investigate the relationship between gestational exposure to extreme heat events, neighborhood heat vulnerability, and early childhood blood pressure trajectories. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct this study leveraging data from a regional birth cohort and validated...
This $213,284 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will support research to investigate the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in mediating the health effects of wildfire smoke exposure, particularly in individuals with asthma. The key objectives are to examine whether EV release and content associated with the hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) pathway differentiate the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research investigating the joint effects of early life lead exposure and psychosocial co-exposures on physiological stress and cardiometabolic health across the life course. The $107,493 award, effective March 20, 2025 through February 28, 2027, will enable the Regents of the University of Michigan to: 1) characterize the risk and...
This federal Project Grant award of $795,848 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will support research at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to examine the impacts of prenatal wildfire smoke exposure on maternal immune function, epigenetic changes in children, and subsequent child neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes. The research aims to elucidate the immunologic and epigenetic pathways...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $704,105 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to study the impact of multiple long-term environmental exposures on the incidence of asthma. The research will leverage data from several large prospective cohort studies, including the Nurses' Health Studies and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, to assess how factors like air...
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 $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...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $2,433,239 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant, awarded on August 10, 2024 and running through May 31, 2029, aims to comprehensively assess the impact of wildfire smoke on respiratory mucosal antiviral defenses. The research will use in vitro human nasal epithelial cell exposures and in vivo human volunteer...