# UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2022 · $1,548,545

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
 The theme of the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) is translating
interdisciplinary research on environmental health susceptibility to improve public health in North Carolina. The
Center encourages and facilitates collaborations among basic researchers, public health scientists, and
clinicians to generate high impact discoveries that improve public health. Three translational research focus
areas are supported: environmental cancer, cardiopulmonary disease, and developmental disease. Health
disparities and prevalent North Carolina exposures are cross-cutting themes. The strategic vision is implemented
by the Administrative Core, which oversees facility cores, evaluates and funds innovative pilot projects, sponsors
seminars and symposia, supports developing careers, communicates with Center membership, prepares
budgets, reports and newsletters, and tracks publications and grant proposals. The Center has two facility cores
that facilitate human studies and provide scientific support. The Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC)
encourages new clinical and population-based studies and connects members to a wealth of existing studies
and data. The IHSFC also provides expertise in human studies, including professional staffing support for
participant engagement and biospecimen processing. The Molecular Analysis and Statistical Support (MASS)
facility core provides full service scientific support, from study design to data acquisition to analytics. Through
walk-in clinics, individual consultation, training and methods development funding, the MASS core provides
expertise and instrumentation for mass spectrometry, translational histopathology, and cutting edge genomics,
while also providing computational and statistical support with study design, data analysis, training and methods
development. An integrated scientific support model ensures excellence in exposure science, imaging, and
omics studies, strengths of our Center. The Community Engagement Core (CEC) connects CEHS researchers
with community partners, facilitating multidirectional communication and ensuring broad relevance to the State,
both of which are critical to the translational goals of CEHS. Both scientific and engagement projects are
supported by a competitive Pilot Projects program that prioritizes junior faculty. CEHS actively mentors and
cultivates leadership of junior and mid-level career investigators to train the next generation of environmental
health researchers. Through our Stakeholder Advisory Board and External Advisory Board the UNC-CEHS
receives input on environmental exposures of concern in North Carolina communities and feedback on Center
effectiveness. With goals aligned to the NIEHS strategic plan, CEHS serves the public health of North Carolina
and the nation with strategic scientific activities and community engagement.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10414002
- **Project number:** 5P30ES010126-21
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Melissa A. Troester
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,548,545
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2001-06-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10414002

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10414002, UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (5P30ES010126-21). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10414002. Licensed CC0.

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