The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $431,750 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The 2-year grant, awarded on January 9, 2025, will support research to investigate a new signaling mechanism that triggers an innate immune response specifically after DNA damage blocks transcription. The study aims to determine how environmental agents that suppress transcription through...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program, awarded a $802,013 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division. The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029, aims to develop new Bayesian methods and tools for analyzing potentially contaminated immunoassay data. The research will focus on improving the analysis and use of immunoassays in...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $292,368 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through March 31, 2026, will support research to "disentangle the drivers and dangers of toxic cyanobacteria biosynthetic heterogeneity in cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs)." The goal is to identify the effects of...
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 $900,804 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program supports the development and validation of an integrated microphysiological screening platform (MPS) with "virtual human" models to assess chemical toxicity. The key products and services to be delivered include: A 96-well MPS screening platform that combines elements of the awardee's commercial 48-well MPS with highly...
This federal Project Grant award of $756,318.00 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), will support research investigating the environmental health impacts of polyethoxylated surfactants. The research aims to comprehensively assess how these ubiquitous chemicals disrupt metabolic health, particularly their potential to promote unhealthy visceral adipose expansion through thyroid hormone receptor antagonism....
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program, provides $356,178.00 to Swarthmore College to conduct research on the behavioral effects of ToxCast Phase I chemicals on planarians, with the goal of determining their potential context of use. The research aims to investigate how various environmental exposures, such as chemicals and toxins, can impact biological systems and public...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $306,872 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to Pico Portal, Inc. to develop and evaluate advanced AI-driven tools to automate, increase efficiency, and reduce the costs of conducting risk-of-bias (ROB) assessments in environmental health systematic reviews. Specifically, the project aims to utilize large language models to accurately identify and extract critical text passages related to per- and...
This $440,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research at Northwestern University to create an unbiased and global map of the cellular response to environmental proteotoxic stress. The project will integrate cutting-edge chemical-genetic screening with computational analysis to identify critical components, functions, and regulatory nodes in the proteostasis network that cells...
This $249,943 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports the research and development of an adverse outcome pathway-focused mechanistic inference tool for 'omics data using semantic knowledge graphs. The key products and services to be delivered through this one-year award include: Improving statistical models to better quantify adverse outcome pathway...