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University of Washington Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
University of Washington
The theme of the University of Washington based Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research (CHC) is understanding the biochemical, molecular and exposure mechanisms that define children’s susceptibility to pesticides and the implications for assessing pesticide risks to normal development and learning. The CHC is a multi-disciplinary research center that takes advantage of the established landscape of risk research at the University of Washington; it is administratively housed within the Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication that is in the UW’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
To facilitate both basic and applied research on reducing the adverse effects of environmental pesticide exposures, center participants include members from multiple institutions, schools, and varied departments and clinics. To achieve tangible effects on the community, the CHC includes a partnership with an eastern Washington community within the Yakima Valley agricultural center of our state, to jointly accomplish pesticide intervention with reduced childhood pesticide exposures.
The CHC is comprised of two laboratory based research projects, two field based projects, and four facility cores. The specific objectives of the laboratory based research projects are to:
- identify cellular, biochemical and molecular mechanisms for the adverse developmental neurotoxicity of pesticides and
- identify the impact of genetic polymorphisms for paraoxonase on the developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphate pesticides.
The specific objectives of the two field based projects-a pesticide exposure pathways research project plus the related community based intervention study are to:
- identify critical pathways of pesticide exposure for children and
- to develop a culturally-appropriate intervention to break the take-home pathway that will ultimately result in reducing children’s exposure to pesticides.
The four facility cores (Neurobehavioral Assessment, Exposure Assessment, Risk Characterization and Risk Communication) are designed to support the research agenda and to put the research into a child specific risk assessment context. Thus the scientific findings on pesticide toxicity and exposure can be directly incorporated into risk assessment models that are designed to protect child health.
Laboratory Based Projects
The laboratory based projects in this proposal will specifically address two aspects of children’s susceptibility to pesticides. They will investigate molecular mechanisms of neurotoxicity for pesticides and evaluate the role of paraoxonase in defining sensitivity of children to organophosphate pesticides. Functional assessments for both studies will be performed in the Neurobehavioral Assessment Facility Core. These projects will be closely linked as common organophosphate pesticides will be examined in all projects, animals, and tissues and research results will be readily shared among these researchers.
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Research Center for Particulate Air Pollution and Health
Consortium for Estuarine Ecoindicator Research for the Gulf of Mexico (CEER-GOM)
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
- Original Abstract
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
National Research Program on Design-Based/Model-Assisted Survey Methodology for Aquatic Resources
Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
- Original Abstract
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
- Original Abstract
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- Final Report
University of Washington Center for Clean Air Research (UW CCAR)
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- Final Report
Environmental Research and Technology Transfer Program of The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc.
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Water Environment and Reuse Foundation (WE&RF)'s National Center for Resource Recovery and Nutrient Management
Predictive Toxicology Center for Organotypic Cultures and Assessment ofAOPs for Engineered Nanomaterials
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- Final Report
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