# Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · 2020 · $375,017

## Abstract

INTEGRATIVE HEALTH SCIENCES FACILITY CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) provides Center investigators with necessary tools and
methodologies to address environmental impacts on human health. The IHSFC provides study design support,
health outcomes instrumentation, human subject study facilitation, sample processing and storage, and
technical expertise to integrate Center investigators' environmental health research in human populations and
model systems. It links together many of the capabilities of other Center facility cores, by providing (a) directed
access for investigators to laboratory capabilities, and (b) expertise to support and improve investigators'
clinical and translational research projects. The IHSFC also supports community engagement activities through
training, expertise, and access to equipment. Specifically, the IHSFC promotes translational research by
offering a broad array of services including pre-study consultation; guidance through the institutional review
board process for human subjects research; development of preparation protocols for biological and genomic
samples; processing of biological and environmental samples; archival storage of collected samples; access to
genotyping, epigenomic, and other molecular biology approaches; expertise and instrumentation for a range of
respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurologic health outcomes; access to exposure facilities;
integration of mechanistic animal models representing specific disease etiologies; and access to quality
assurance and auditing expertise. The IHSFC coordinates with the Spatial and Exposure Analytics and
Biostatistics Facility Cores to optimize study analytical design and power, environmental sample collection and
storage and geospatial service; and works with the Community Outreach and Engagement Core to translate
environmental health sciences (EHS) research to communities, regulatory agencies, and the public. In sum,
the IHSFC facilitates Center members' conduct of translational research by incorporating services that provide
expertise in clinical and population-based EHS research in humans, molecular epidemiology and genetics, as
well as animal and in vitro models.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9903314
- **Project number:** 5P30ES007048-25
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Edward Avol
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $375,017
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9903314

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9903314, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES007048-25). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9903314. Licensed CC0.

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