# Development Core

> **NIH NIH P2C** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $276,459

## Abstract

The BREATHE Children's Center's mission includes a deep commitment to training the next generation of
scientists engaged in children's environmental health research. The BREATHE Center has a history of success
to training early career investigators that has produced some of the leading researchers in the nation. The
longstanding relationships with the community and the foundation of trust built over decades of community
engaged research provides a unique environment to engage trainees from diverse backgrounds. The team
approach to science offers each trainee and early career investigator the opportunity to benefit from the unique
expertise of members of a multidisciplinary team. The Center model is to design a mentoring team for each
trainee that includes junior and more senior faculty. The diverse scientific expertise of faculty includes pediatric
medicine, pulmonary medicine, environmental and exposure science, epidemiology, clinical trials, behavioral
science, implementation science, communication, and policy engagement. Faculty in the Development Core
will provide one-on-one mentoring, facilitate access to formal didactics, provide hands-on teaching
about environmental health research to trainees, and will oversee the execution of the pilot projects. As
part of the Catalyst Program, BREATHE trainees will have access to equipment, supplies, biospecimens and a
developmental program, including workshops and children's environmental health forums, aimed at fostering
collaborations and career development. The pilot studies will leverage the existing infrastructure to address novel
hypotheses with respect to unique exposures, health outcomes, and factors that may influence children's health
and will also be nimble to allow researchers to propose time sensitive projects that address emergent
environmental health issues. The program will be administered by experienced investigators with a rigorous
review process. These resources will provide access for early investigators, both within and outside the
institution, to engage in all aspects of children's environmental health research, advancing novel discovery with
a community engaged approach, with a research staff and biostatical support dedicated specifically to pilot
studies. The Development Core will interact with the Administrative and Translation Cores to solicit feedback in
developing the request for applications and in development activities to ensure activities are well aligned with
the overall goal of the BREATHE Children's Center mission. Our goal is to expand and diversify the engagement
of early career investigators conducting children's environmental lung health research (Aim 1). To support the
conduct, analysis and interpretation of pilot studies that apply innovative approaches to address novel
hypotheses and emergent threats regarding environmental exposures that contribute to children's respiratory
health (Aim 2). To disseminate findings to the scientific and lay community regarding s...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10741784
- **Project number:** 5P2CES033415-03
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Nadia N Hansel
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $276,459
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-12-01 → 2026-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10741784

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10741784, Development Core (5P2CES033415-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10741784. Licensed CC0.

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