# CACHET: Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · 2020 · $197,101

## Abstract

1. INTEGRATED HEALTH SCIENCES FACILITY CORE: ABSTRACT
The Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) will provide infrastructure and highly focused trans-
disciplinary services to CACHET including study design; participant recruitment and enrollment; data collection
and management; collection, processing and storage of biologic and environmental samples; and innovative
approaches to exposure estimation using both traditional and cutting-edge techniques. This array of services
will provide tools to translate fundamental research into knowledge supporting disease prevention and the
mitigation of racial/ethnic environmental health disparities. The IHSFC will have leadership at both University of
Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and University of Chicago (UofC), and will build upon the existing research resources
at these institutions to ensure that Core support is used for the development of additional resources that are
key to conducting EHS work. Many of the resources that the IHSFC will use to meet the environmental health
sciences (EHS) translational research needs of CACHET investigators exist at our two institutions but will be
modified, centralized and efficiently organized between the two institutions by leveraging the institution-specific
strengths. IHSFC personnel include experts in epidemiological study design, population exposure studies,
specimen collection and quality assurance, and environmental exposure assessment. IHSFC personnel will
collaborate with personnel in the Statistics and Modeling Facility Core to address the needs of CACHET
investigators requiring statistical services for the planning, implementation and analysis of EHS studies as well
as personnel in the Biomarkers Core (BC) to address molecular assay requirements involving biomarkers of
environmental exposures and environmental signatures in human biological materials. The IHSFC will also
provide interpretation of results and facilitate dissemination of the results to Chicago communities and beyond
in conjunction with the Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC). In addition, the IHSFC will work
with the COEC as well as relevant Institutional CTSA and Cancer Center Cores to translate community-based
EHS questions and concerns into specific scientific hypotheses that may be supported by CACHET through
the Pilot Project Program.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9922310
- **Project number:** 5P30ES027792-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- **Principal Investigator:** BRIAN C-H CHIU
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $197,101
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9922310

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9922310, CACHET: Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (5P30ES027792-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-10 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9922310. Licensed CC0.

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