Last month, NIH announced the first projects to be supported through the GEI, or Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative. Part of the funding round included about $19 million for 34 investigators for the Exposure Biology Program. That program is coordinated by NIEHS, NCI, NHLBI, and NIDA to support interdisciplinary teams focusing on building environmental sensors and finding biomarkers that can be used to measure toxins, stress, and DNA damage.
GT lists the environmental technology projects and PIs who won funding through the GEI’s Exposure Biology Program. The awards listed represent NIH’s estimate of total funding for each project.
Joel Pounds
Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab
$1,428,000
Protein Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Associated with Tobacco Smoke and Obesity
Stephen Rappaport
UC Berkeley
$1,184,000
Biomarkers and Biosensors for Studies of Blood Cancer Risks
Rick Weiss
Princeton Multimedia Techn.
$1,040,000
Mobile Food Intake Visualization and Voice Recognizer
Stephen Intille
MIT
$681,000
Enabling Population-scale Physical Activity Measurement on Mobile Phones
Kevin Patrick
UC San Diego
$666,000
A Tool for Geospatial Analysis of Physical Activity
Avrum Spira/Boston University
$643,000
A Non-invasive Gene Expression Biomarker of Airway Response to Tobacco Smoke
Ken Suslick
U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
$589,000
A VOC Dosimeter Based on a Colorimetric Sensor Array
Mingui Sun
University of Pittsburgh
$587,000
A Unified Sensor for Assessment of Diet and Physical Activity
Coral Lamartiniere
University of Alabama
$579,000
Biomarkers of Biological Response to Endocrine Disruptors
Tom Baranowski
Baylor College of Medicine
$571,000
Food Intake Recording Software System: Version 4
Ashok Mulchandani
UC Riverside
$567,000
Wearable Nanosensor for Real-time Monitoring of Diesel, Gasoline Exhaust
Ian Blair
University of Pennsylvania
$557,000
Exposure and Biological Response Biomarkers of Cigarette Smoke
Sang Young Son
University of Cincinnati
$552,000
Development and Field Test of a Positional Tagging Mini Personal Sensor
Ginger Chew
Columbia University
$529,000
Rapid Allergenic Particle Identification
Nongjian Tao
Arizona State University
$525,000
Wearable Wireless System for Real-time Monitoring of Chemical Toxicants
Charles Thompson
University of Montana
$502,000
Protein Biomarkers of Organophosphate Pesticides
Gregory Kirk
Johns Hopkins University
$492,000
Real-time Assessment of Individual and Neighborhood Exposure to Drugs and Stress Using Hand-held Electronic Diaries and Position Technology
Sisir Dutta
Howard University
$485,000
Early Disease Biomarkers of PCB-exposed Human Populations
Mark Rea
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
$482,000
A Personal Light-monitoring Device for Reducing Psychosocial Stress
Charles Rodes
Research Triangle Institute
$481,000
Personal Aerosol Sensor to Link Children's Exposures to Asthma Severity
Bruce Kristal
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
$454,000
Mitochondrial, Metabolite, and Protein Biomarkers of Effects of Diet
Carol Boushey
Purdue University
$452,000
Improving Dietary Assessment Methods Using Cell Phone, Digital Imaging
David Lawrence
Wadsworth Center
$446,000
Biomarker Signatures of Biological, Chemical, and Psychological Stress
Steven Chillrud
Columbia University
$441,000
Smart Mini Personal Monitors for Black Carbon and Multiple Air Pollutants
Bevin Engelward
MIT
$429,000
Comet-chip High-throughput DNA Damage Sensor
Santosh Kumar
University of Memphis
$429,000
Wireless Skin Patch Sensors to Detect and Transmit Addiction and Psychosocial Stress Data
Thomas Kamarck
University of Pittsburgh
$426,000
Computer-assisted Techs for Tracking Exposure to Psychosocial Stress
Patty Freedson
University of Massachusetts
$411,000
An Integrated Measurement System to Assess Physical Activity
Tim Huang
Ohio State University
$365,000
Epigenetic Signatures of Xenoestrogens to Assess Breast Cancer Risk
Vivek Shetty
UCLA
$357,000
Handheld Salivary Biosensor of Psychosocial Stress
Markus Erbeldinger
ICx Agentase
$331,000
Enzyme-Based Wearable Environmental Sensor Badge for Personal Exposure Assessment
Albert Fornace
Georgetown University
$288,000
Genomic and Metabolomic Signatures of Alcohol-induced Liver Damage
Kenzie Preston
NIDA
$157,000
Real-time Assessment of Individual and Neighborhood Exposure to Drugs and Stress Using Hand-held Electronic Diaries and Position Technology
Frank Gonzalez
NCI
$136,000
Genomic and Metabolomic Signatures of Alcohol-induced Liver Damage