Clinical and Translational Research Resources

New Hypothesis Expansion/Direction Medium TRSC Research Voucher Award(s):Medium research voucher applications support the expenses (up to $5,000) associated with critical exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies needed by CIEHS members for hypothesis generation and grant (re)submission.

Principal Investigator: Lu Cai, M.D., Ph.D.
Collaborators:J. Christopher States. Ph.D., Ted Smith, Ph.D., Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D.; Emory University Collaborators: Doug Walker, Ph.D., Dean Jones, Ph.D.
Title: Wastewater Exposome Screening In Jefferson County
Lay Description: Developing approaches to measure the exposome will provide an avenue toward precision environmental health. This project proposes to use analysis of wastewater samples to provide data on chemical exposome across a defined geographic area. The exposome data can be correlated with health data to gain insight into correlations between specific exposures and disease.

New Hypothesis Expansion/Direction Medium TRSC Research Voucher Award(s):Medium research voucher applications support the expenses (up to $5,000) associated with critical exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies needed by CIEHS members for hypothesis generation and grant (re)submission.

Principal Investigator:Venkatakrishna Jala, Ph.D.
Collaborator:Mayukh Banerjee, Ph.D.
Title: Effect of Arsenic Exposure on Intestines
Lay Description: Arsenic exposure causes significant damage to the gastro-intestinal (GI) system. Here, we identified microbial metabolite Urolithin A potentially protect against arsenic induced GI tissue damage. We propose to identify the potential mechanisms by determining the differential gene expression patterns between treatment group versus control group of mice.