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| Principal Investigator: Porter, Weston W | |
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| Institute Receiving Award | Texas A&M University |
| Location | College Station, TX |
| Grant Number | P30ES029067 |
| Funding Organization | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| Award Funding Period | 01 May 2019 to 31 Mar 2025 |
| DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): | Overall ABSTRACT The vision for the Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research (TiCER) is to nucleate research and translational activities of faculty and trainees around the overarching theme “Enhancing Public Health by Identifying, Understanding and Reducing Adverse Environmental Health Risks.” This vision will be achieved by building on Texas A&M University’s ongoing investments in people and facilities and a history of state-wide outreach to community stakeholders, with a particular focus on underserved populations. Existing environmental health investments at Texas A&M provide infrastructure and a diverse expertise base ready to catalyze innovative investigations into environmental health concerns of affected communities and populations, build multidisciplinary collaborations among Center members to elucidate mechanistic links between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes, and translate mechanistic data to actionable outcomes. The Center will continue recent successes in mentoring junior faculty, recruitment of additional established faculty into environmental health research, and fostering a multi-disciplinary, team-oriented intellectual environment among a core group of 54 members representing 11 colleges at Texas A&M. The thematic areas the Center will expand upon are: 1) Stressors to Responses;; 2) Environment and Metabolism;; 3) Individuals to Populations;; and 4) Community, Regulation and Policy. The Center’s vision will be fulfilled through a highly integrated set of Facility Cores. The Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core will support bi-directional translation with a human translational studies component, a mouse translational studies component and an in vitro translational studies component. Three technology-integrating, research facility cores (Data Science, Bio Science, and Chem Science) will ensure Center member access to unparalleled instrumentation and resources of Texas A&M, a top tier public research university with extensive outreach throughout the state of Texas. The facility cores will enhance the capacity, breadth, collaborative nature, and impact of environmental health research. The Administrative Core and Pilot Project Program will facilitate the Center’s function by ensuring continuation of the highest levels of institutional support, fostering career development and promoting multidisciplinary team science that generates knowledge in areas of community concern. The Community Engagement Core will be a critical vehicle for implementation of a multi-prong strategy of the Center by serving as a bi-directional portal to connect Center members, affected communities and other stakeholders that builds on a strong tradition of Texas A&M in public and community service statewide with a research focus on the health and environmental concerns of underserved populations. Overall, the Center will expand the established investigator base and expertise that can be deployed to increase the impact of environmental health research in Texas and beyond. |
| Science Code(s)/Area of Science(s) |
Primary: 31 - Environmental Health Sciences Centers Secondary: - |
| Publications | See publications associated with this Grant. |
| Program Officer | Claudia Thompson |