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While most NIH and other federal
grants fund research projects,
the NIEHS Center Grants are
funded to increase the amount
and quality of Environmental
Health Sciences research,
recruiting new investigators to
the Environmental Health
Sciences field, educating young
investigators, and developing
facilities to improve the
research at both the University
of Cincinnati and Cincinnati
Children's Hospital. These
Centers are designed to
establish innovative programs of
excellence in the field of
environmental health sciences by
providing scientific and
programmatic support for
promising investigators and
areas of research. A Core Center
Grant is an institutional award
to support centralized
scientific resources and
facilities shared by
investigators with existing
research projects. By providing
a Center structure and Core
resources this support is
intended to enhance the ability
of scientists working the field
of environmental health sciences
to identify and capitalize on
current and emerging
opportunities that will lead to
outstanding research advances to
improve our understanding of the
relationship between
environmental exposures and both
human biology and human disease.
These Centers provide the
framework to support and
maintain a high level of
productivity of research grants
at the institution and
activities to develop new
research which builds on current
strengths but promotes
translation to on clinical and
public health applications. An
EHS Core Center Grant helps to
integrate and promote research
in existing projects and
provides an administrative
framework within one or several
central themes.
The focus of our center is the
interaction between genetics and
the environment. Why do
people, when exposed to the same
dose of an environmental toxin,
have different levels of
disease? Our mission is to
promote integrative research
between basic and applied
scientists, epidemiologists, and
clinicians to develop an
understanding of the complex
relationships between genetic
predisposition factors and
environmental exposures.
We strive to improve human
health through clinical practice
and public health initiatives
that prevent illness and
decrease mortality from diseases
associated with environmental
exposures.
Our members work through focus
groups, which are flexible
collections of members from
diverse disciplines who come
together because of common
disease-oriented research
interests. The Center for
Environmental Genetics helps to
support facilities, or service
cores, that are needed for
modern research, but often
require equipment or expertise
beyond a single research lab.
We also work to support the next
generation of environmental
health scientists through our
Career Development Program.
An
important aspect of the Center
for Environmental Genetics is
the
Pilot Project Program.
Every year the Center supports
research projects that are
centered on the gene-environment
interaction. This seed
money supports new initiatives
in basic research, attracts
investigators to research in
Environmental Health Sciences,
and enables our Center members
to use the Facilities and
Services Cores that would
otherwise be unavailable to
them.
Members of the CEG can use
Center resources for manuscript
production, grant applications,
study design, IACUC, Biosafety,
IRB, and radiation safety
protocol submissions.
Contact the
Center office for more
information.
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