Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The focus of the University of Southern California (USC) Children''s Environmental Health Center is to develop a better understanding of how host susceptibility and environmental exposures contribute to children''s respiratory disease. This research will provide health and environmental officials with a variety of useful intervention tools. USC intends to investigate the relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and asthma in children. This project will determine the biological mechanisms by which ETS alters normal allergic responses in children.
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Southern California Particle Center and Supersite (SCPCS)
Ultrafine Particles: Characterization, Health Effects and Pathophysiological Mechanisms
CECEHDPR - University of Southern California
Southern California Particle Center (SCPC)
Children’s Environmental Health Center
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- 2010 Progress Report
- Final Report
University of California – Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC-CEIN)
Great Lakes Air Center for Integrative Environmental Research (GLACIER)
Southern California Children's Environmental Health Center
- Original Abstract
- 2011 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- Final Report
Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research
- Original Abstract
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- Final Report
The Columbia Center for Childrens Environmental Health
- Original Abstract
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2017 Progress Report
- 2018 Progress Report
- 2019 Progress Report
- 2020 Progress Report
- Final Report
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