Project Grant R01ES036575
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.113), awarded a $389,229 project grant to Trustees of Tufts College to assess the effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on intestinal health. The 5-year project, which commenced on Jun 12, 2025, will leverage 3D human and mouse intestinal models to comprehensively examine how exposure to environmentally relevant microplastics and nanoplastics impacts gut homeostasis,...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $313,372 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to ITA International LLC. The award, granted on June 3, 2025, supports the development of new methodologies for quantifying airborne ultrafine particulates (UFPs), microplastics (MNPs), and engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in production environments. This research aims to address gaps...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $429,504 to New York University (NYU) School of Medicine to characterize human exposure to microplastics during pregnancy. The overarching aim is to leverage existing infrastructure from the NYU Children's Environmental Health Study (NYU CHES) to measure and characterize microplastics in placental tissue collected from the general...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113), aims to quantify the release of nano- and micro-plastics (NMPs) from common plastic food and beverage containers, and assess their potential health impacts. The $1,479,178 award to the University of Nebraska will: Measure NMP release under various real-world usage conditions to understand how polymer properties and usage impact release...
- This federal Project Grant award of $428,387, provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research to investigate the toxicological consequences of environmentally relevant nanoplastics. The grantee, Purdue University, has developed a novel procedure to reproducibly generate micro- and nanoplastics from common plastic waste materials, allowing for the study of fundamental mechanisms of nanoplastic...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113), awarded a $108,514 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to characterize the pathway by which nanoplastics can be transported from the nose into the central nervous system (CNS). The key research objectives are to investigate the cells involved in this "nose-to-brain" pathway and determine how factors such as sex, age,...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded a Project Grant under the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, totaling $204,679, with a project period from March 20, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The grant will support research to characterize the risk and protective effects of environmental co-exposures, such as lead (Pb) and psychosocial stressors, on adolescent and young adult cardiometabolic health. The...
- The federal Project Grant award titled "Mechanisms of Nano Plastic Transport in the Brain" was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.113). The $404,989 grant, awarded on January 15, 2025, will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to investigate how nanoplastics (plastic particles smaller than one micron) may be transported into the brain via the olfactory...
- This $756,318 federal Project Grant was awarded on June 3, 2025 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health). The grant supports research at Wayne State University to investigate how polyethoxylated surfactants, a class of emerging environmental contaminants, impact metabolic health and the development of obesity. The research will use zebrafish models to comprehensively assess the role...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $474,639 Project Grant under the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113) to North Carolina State University. The grant is for a project titled "Spatial and Tensor Methods for Estimating the Health Effects of PFAS Mixtures", which runs from June 10, 2025 to March 30, 2029. The project aims to employ innovative spatial and high-dimensional causal inference methods to enhance understanding of the...
This $5,453,538 Project Grant was awarded on September 15, 2025 by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which administers the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113). The grant was awarded to New York University School of Medicine to investigate the accumulation of micro- and nanoplastic particles in mammalian tissues, including human exposure pathways, tissue deposition, and potential health impacts. Key objectives include quantifying MNP concentrations in systemic human tissues, evaluating the role of factors like sex, age, and ethnicity, and developing improved methodologies for detecting MNPs in biological samples. The research seeks to provide critical insights into the growing public health challenge posed by ubiquitous environmental MNP exposure. The grant will fund this translational research study over a four-year period, with a scheduled completion date of September 14, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $5.5m | 9/12/25 |