Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
National Environmental Respiratory Center (NERC)
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
The National Environmental Respiratory Center (NERC) is a joint government-industry program of laboratory research and information to improve our understanding of the relationship between complex mixtures of environmental (outdoor) air pollutants and human health.
Environmental air quality regulatory and research strategies have focused largely on single pollutants and sources, but it is unlikely that the health effects observed in individuals or populations are caused solely by single pollutants or sources. Indeed, as levels of regulated air pollutants are reduced, it is becoming less likely that the remaining effects observed in populations are attributable to single pollutant species or sources, or solely to regulated species or sources. There is a clear need to know more about the contributions of individual pollutants and classes of pollutants to the combined effects of exposure to complex mixtures of air contaminants from man-made and natural sources. This difficult, but important, area of research needs to receive increased attention. NERC was created to begin addressing this need directly by conducting key portions of the research necessary to fill this knowledge void and to provide information resources and collaborative research resources in the field.
NERC is located at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the research is conducted by a team comprised of both LRRI and external scientists, collaborators, and subcontractors. The Center is pursuing a multi-year strategy developed with guidance from its External Scientific Advisory Committee, with input on experimental design features from topical expert workshops, and considering advice from its numerous sponsors. The resulting research program will certainly not resolve all "complex mixture" issues, but is making steady progress toward resolving complex composition-exposure concentration-health response relationships for among several common source emissions that encompass hundreds of air contaminants of public health and regulatory interest.
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium
National Environmental Respiratory Center: Health Hazards of Inhaled Gasoline Engine Emissions and Street Dust
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- Final Report
Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics Center
Carolina Center for Computational Toxicology
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
Center for Children’s Environmental Health and DiseasePreventionResearch (P01) (joint EPA and NIEHS) - CHAMACOS
University of Washington Center for Clean Air Research (UW CCAR)
- Original Abstract
- 2010 Progress Report
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
National Environmental Respiratory Center
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Native American Environmental Health Equity Research
Initial Annual CEMALB Progress Report: Human Health Effects of Environmental Pollutants
- Original Abstract
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- Final Report
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.