# Research in Environmental Health Sciences

> **NIH NIH P30** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $699,984

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The research of this broad-based Center is directed towards understanding and preventing injuries induced by
environmentally hazardous agents, with strong focuses on heavy metals, air pollution, and occupational
exposures in human diseases. The NYU Center has well-established research strengths in cardiopulmonary
toxicology, metal toxicology, environmental carcinogenesis, exposure assessment, and environmental
epidemiology, with epigenetics an important new focus that intersects all of these areas. The broad goals of
the Center, which are well aligned to advance the Strategic Plan of the NIEHS, are the identification, evaluation,
prevention, and control of the adverse impacts of environmental factors on human health. Through its active
Working Groups, the NYU Center currently focuses on six important areas in environmental health sciences:
environmental epigenetics, health effects of nanoparticles, environmentally induced cardiovascular
injuries, carcinogenesis, exposure assessment, and environmental effects of non-conventional
hydraulic fracking. Each of the six Working Groups dedicated to each area has a dual focus, with leadership
in basic research coordinated and in translational or population-based research. To achieve its goals, the
Center brings together investigators with a diversity of skills from a wide variety of scientific and public health
disciplines. Furthermore, the Center reaches out to local and regional communities via its Community Outreach
and Education Core (COEC), in a multi-directional process that provides assistance, information, and
education on environmental issues to the communities while receiving valuable insight on community concerns
to guide future research within the Center.This allows the Center to
foster research in complex problems (e.g.
mixtures of toxic metals and PAH in local Superfund toxic waste sites) and embrace emerging environmental
exposure problems (e.g. fracking, electronic cigarette aerosol toxicity).The highly successful
Pilot Project
Program, and the Career Development Program, facilitate the development of new research ideas and new
environmental health investigators. With institutional support, we will continue to recruit additional facultyfrom
outside NYU to firmly solidify the Center's integrated focus on environmental epigenetics. The Center supports
several Facility Cores, which continue to evolve so that Center members have access to and training in the
latest technologies and analytical methods.
To maintain the Center's cutting-edge relevance the Facility Cores,
Pilot Project Program and Working Groups are reviewed annually by user surveys to evaluate their
effectiveness and needs for enhancement.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9902429
- **Project number:** 5P30ES000260-56
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Leonardo Trasande
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $699,984
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-06-01 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9902429

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9902429, Research in Environmental Health Sciences (5P30ES000260-56). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9902429. Licensed CC0.

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