This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is focused on investigating the synergistic effects of chronic manganese fume inhalation and occupational noise exposure on hearing loss. The $240,062 award under CFDA 93.262 - Occupational Safety and Health Program will support research activities over a 2-year period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2026. The awardee, The...
This Project Grant award, valued at $370,980.00, was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The primary objective is to conduct a meta-transcriptomic assessment of chronic respiratory exposure to cobalt-based nanomaterials using a microfluidic three-dimensional lung model. This research aims to determine the potential for these nanomaterials to cause lung injury or predispose individuals to...
This Project Grant award of $740,365 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research to evaluate the roles of metals and metal mixtures in coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, assess genetic susceptibility to these effects, and identify urinary metabolites associated with CHD risk and metal exposures. The lead institution is New York University, with sub-awards to the University of Chicago, University of...
The federal Project Grant award R21OH012548, valued at $271,198, was provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262). The award aims to study the financial impact of burnout and mental health on hospitalist turnover, as well as the contribution of work structures and environment. The University of Colorado-Denver, a major public research university, is the primary awardee and will conduct this research...
The federal Project Grant award R43OH012720 for $887,772.00, granted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262), supports the development of a new particulate respirator by Applied Design Technologies, a for-profit veteran-owned small business. The award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will fund the research, design, and prototyping of this new occupational safety product aimed at...
This federal Project Grant award of $766,661.24 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports research to investigate the acute health effects of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD) construction activities. The key objectives are to: Develop an open-source software tool to automatically detect daily UOGD construction stages using high-resolution satellite imagery. Estimate the acute causal impacts of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) will support research to characterize the impact of uranium-bearing dust (UBD) on the intestinal epithelium. The $350,000 award, spanning Sep 2024 to Jun 2029, will be conducted by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) in Albuquerque, NM. The research aims to determine how UBD, an environmental toxicant found near...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $313,372 to ITA International LLC, a veteran-owned small business, to develop a holistic methodology for quantifying concentrations of ultrafine particulates (UFPs), microplastics (MNPs), and engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in production settings. The goal is to reliably measure and compare these airborne particulate exposures to...
This federal Project Grant award, titled "ASSESSING METALS AND FLAME RETARDANT EXPOSURES ON SOLID WASTE WORKERS," is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) under the Occupational Safety and Health Program (CFDA 93.262). The award of $267,942.00 was made on September 1, 2024, with a final completion date of August 31, 2026. The primary awardee is the University of Washington, which will be conducting research to assess the exposures of solid waste...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports the South African Manganese Environmental Neurotoxic Effects Research (SMELTER) study. The $585,531 award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029, aims to examine the neurological health effects associated with manganese exposure in a cohort of over 800 South African residents. The study involves...