# Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $34,410

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
 The translation of basic research findings to clinical, applied or public health applications is an extremely
important focus of environmental health sciences. Over the past few years, the Integrative Health Sciences
Facility Core (IHSFC) has provided a bi-directional infrastructure in an interactive collaborative environment
that helps investigators to test cutting-edge hypotheses in integrative translational research on the human
health effects of environmental exposures. The IHSFC has provided extensive access for Center members to
several well-defined study populations within existing epidemiologic studies, with established databases and
archived biological samples, as well as infrastructures and collaborative opportunities for new recruitment and
sample collection. In the past funding cycle, the IHSFC assisted with a total of 32 grant submissions, including
20 NIH grants, 11 of which were funded. In this renewal, we will continue providing services in 1)
environmental epidemiology, which includes consultation on epidemiologic study designs, questionnaire
development, and data analyses; 2) quality control and quality assurance, which includes consultation on
human subjects protocols and IRB issues, biospecimen collection, processing, and storage, and biomarker
development; and 3) clinical research, which includes support in the identification of appropriate human study
populations and identification of clinical investigators for new recruitment in translational studies. We aim to 1)
further develop the infrastructures and provide an interactive environment to promote productive collaborations
between Center investigators with research focusing on basic and mechanistic studies of environmental health
hazards and Center members involved in clinical and population-based epidemiologic studies; 2) enhance
access by all Center investigators to newly-identified and existing available study populations, and to provide a
variety of useful resources and services relevant to translational research, including archived biological
samples from previous and ongoing studies; and 3) strengthen and facilitate the application of basic research
advances to real-world public health problems including early detection, exposure assessment and prevention,
and treatment of human diseases arising from environmental origins. The IHSFC will continue to provide
essential infrastructure in the Center and will continue to significantly strengthening collaborative translational
research in the Center, with the overall mission of our IHSFC being to promote the use of human tissues and
biospecimen samples by bench researchers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9902436
- **Project number:** 5P30ES000260-56
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Yu Chen
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $34,410
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9902436

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9902436, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES000260-56). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9902436. Licensed CC0.

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