# Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $223,615

## Abstract

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT (Integrated Health Sciences Core)
M-LEEaD’s mission is to accelerate research that defines the impact of environmental exposures
during vulnerable life stages and to promote translation of research findings to interventions that
mitigate chronic disease. In support of this mission, the M-LEEaD Integrated Health Sciences Core
(IHSC) promotes multi-directional translational research using integrated multi-disciplinary approaches
with the goal of advancing understanding of the impact of environmental exposures across the life-
course on risk of chronic disease. In this competing renewal, we have restructured the IHSC and have
incorporated the former Environmental Statistics Core in order to maximize efficiency and integrate
overlapping functions. A new component of the IHSC is the environmental health practice team in
charge of overseeing outreach to the state and regional professional practice. The IHSC specific
objectives are: 1) to facilitate interaction between basic, mechanistic and toxicological science,
population sciences, clinical research and practice professionals through the searchable, web-based
information kiosk (the M-LEEaD Repository Kiosk), annual workshops and weekly seminars; 2) to
optimize the value and utilization of our large human and animal specimen and data resources for
environmental health research through the M-LEEaD Repository Kiosk; and 3) to promote sound study
design, quality specimen collection, and rigorous statistical analysis, as well as the development of
statistical methods and collaborations to advance environmental research through our consultation
services, seminars, and workshops. A distinctive feature of the IHSC core is that our services are not
related to a specific technology. Rather, the IHSC provides a critical linkage function promoting
translational scholarship and multi-directional stakeholder partnerships. We provide consulting
services to ensure quality of research designs, exposure assessment, laboratory analyses, and
analytic methods, with specific guidance on establishing and maximizing utilization of human and
animal biobanks. We capitalize on the rich set of NIH supported studies led by center members that
encompass a wide range of exposures and life-stages through the M-LEEaD Repository Kiosk
providing information about research opportunities within these well-defined human population and
animal studies, and their associated data and bio-repositories. On the statistical front, the IHSC
develops and consults on cutting-edge statistical methods to advance environmental health. The IHSC
aims to facilitate translation to practice and policy by hosting two annual workshops, one focused on
environmental statistics and one focused on Environmental Health Practice.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9904646
- **Project number:** 5P30ES017885-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Sioban D Harlow
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $223,615
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-06-15

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9904646

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9904646, Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES017885-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9904646. Licensed CC0.

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