Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
University of Illinois FRIENDS Childrens Environmental Health Center
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The FRIENDS Childrens Environmental Health Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was established in 2001 to investigate the interactive effects of PCBs and methyl mercury (MeHg) on neurodevelopment.
Current research includes longitudinal assessment of a birth cohort exposed to these chemicals through maternal consumption of contaminated fish, and complementary laboratory-based projects including animal and in vitro models to determine the mechanisms through which these contaminants induce neurological deficits in children. The population being studied consists of Hmong and Laotian refugees who settled in northeastern Wisconsin after the Vietnam War and who regularly consume fish from the Fox River, which is often contaminated with PCBs and MeHg. A priority of the Center is to develop effective educational strategies to reduce exposure of this population to these fish-borne contaminants.
The Center is the collaborative effort of investigators in epidemiology, toxicology, biostatistics, and developmental psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Texas A & M University, the University of Oklahoma, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the New York State Department of Health, and Michigan State University, and includes an administrative core, a community-based project, two biomedical research projects and an analytical toxicology core.
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Carolina Center for Computational Toxicology
The Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT)
Environmental Research and Technology Transfer Program of The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc.
Center for Comprehensive, optimaL, and Effective Abatement of Nutrients
Cardiotoxicity Adverse Outcome Pathway: Organotypic Culture Model and in vitro-to-in vivo Extrapolation for High-throughput Hazard, Dose-response and Variability Assessments
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
SEARCH: Solutions to Energy, AiR, Climate, and Health
- Original Abstract
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- Final Report
A Sustainable Center for Crowd-Sourced Water Infrastructure Modeling
- Original Abstract
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- 2021 Progress Report
- Final Report
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