NIH/NIEHS: Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR): National Exposure Assessment Laboratory Network (U2C)RFA-ES-15-009
Sponsor: NIH/NIEHInternal Deadline: 03/09/2015Sponsor Deadline: 03/30/2015Program Website
NIH/NIEHS: Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR): National Exposure Assessment Laboratory Network (U2C)RFA-ES-15-009NIH/NIEHS is establishing an infrastructure, the Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR), to provide the extramural research community access to laboratory and statistical analyses to add or expand the inclusion of environmental exposures in their research. CHEAR is being solicited through three FOAs, this FOA solicits a network of laboratories providing a comprehensive suite of laboratory-based analytical services for samples derived from extant or ongoing children's health studies in the extramural research community. Each laboratory center (defined in this FOA as a Hub) within the network will provide analysis of environmental and endogenous exposures through both targeted and untargeted approaches. Each Hub will also provide analyses of biological response indicators such as DNA damage, oxidative stress, immune/inflammation indicators and other molecular markers. Hubs will incorporate a developmental core to develop novel measures for exposures and responses, expanding the number of current, commonly measured analytes, and developing new methods for detecting analytes in other biological matrices, in addition to serum, plasma or urine.
The Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) is a multi-unit infrastructure to provide access to comprehensive exposure analysis that can be performed using biological samples collected in studies of children's health. The network has three units, a National Exposure Assessment Laboratory Network and an Exposure Data Repository and Resource for Statistical Analysis and Methods Development, as well as a coordinating center.
USC may only submit one application in response to this program announcement. Your application submission MUST be coordinated with the Office of the Vice President for Research. Please send a two page abstract via email to Richard White (whitejrw@mailbox.sc.edu) by March 9, 2015. In addition to the 2-page abstract, you should also submit a biosketch for the PI.
NIH/NIEHS indicates that a letter of intent is due on March 30, 2015 and a full proposal is due by April 30, 2015. For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-15-009.html