The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $305,260 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to Access Sensor Technologies LLC, a small business in Fort Collins, Colorado. The grant project aims to commercialize the AIRPEN, a versatile, wearable device for rapidly and accurately characterizing human exposures to particulate matter and volatile organic compounds in the wake of climate-related...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) Federal Grant Program, is supporting the development of a novel stand-alone wearable device for tracking environmental exposure and evaluating respiratory response. The total funding amount is $324,770.00, awarded on September 17, 2024, with a project period through September 14, 2025. The key products and services to be delivered under this award involve...
This National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 Engineering) Project Grant award totaling $400,000 aims to develop a network of chemical sensors that can continuously monitor outdoor air for carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. The University of California, Davis will lead this 3-year effort to assemble a sensor network that can detect and quantify targeted VOC levels, with data relayed to a cloud platform for analysis. The team will first test...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program provides $419,011.00 to Emory University to develop innovative dimension reduction techniques based on causal structural models. The goal is to preserve the causal relationships between air pollution mixtures and health outcomes, in order to enable more accurate assessments of air pollution's impact on public health. The research will...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides funding of $676,077 to Colorado State University to conduct a national-scale study on the impacts of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) composition and oxidative potential on cardiorespiratory morbidity and mortality. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Deploying a low-cost measurement network...
This $499,828 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act, provides funding to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in the Marin City, California community. The grant will support the deployment of a network of air quality monitors to collect data on PM2.5, NO2, and black carbon. This will enable the grantee, Marin...
This $150,416 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research to develop new topological deep learning (TDL) methods and leverage them for spatiotemporal causal inference to better understand and mitigate health disparities related to extreme heat and air pollution. Key innovations include new TDL techniques for processing multi-resolution areal data, frameworks for using TDL in...
This Project Grant award, totaling $175,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) federal grant program. The award will fund the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) to serve as a "field builder," "field catalyst," and "funding catalyst" to expand national capacity and accelerate...
This $272,910 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, aims to optimize the use of portable air cleaners (PACs) to reduce household particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure in Uganda. The key objectives are: Identify and optimize environmental factors that maximize PM reduction with PAC use in real-world low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings. Design and test an optimal power supply system...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $1,377,026 Project Grant 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 to assess how early-life exposure to household air pollution (HAP) impacts the development of the human microbiome and virome, and how these changes are associated with lung function and growth in children in low- and middle-income countries. The...