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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: 100 Projects, $30 Million to Penn Research
The Almanac, September 8, 2009, Volume 56, No. 02
Ian Blair, PhD, Co-Director of the Oxidative Stress and Oxidative Injury Affinity Group, and Director of the Molecular Profiling Core,
has received a National Cancer Institute stimulus grant of $1.3 million that allows him to continue to study exposure to tobacco smoke and the 3,800 chemical components that make it a leading cause of death in America.
CEET Awarded an Administrative Supplement under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The CEET has received stimulus funding from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences in the amount of almost $367,000. The award, a supplement to the grant which currently supports the Center (5P30-ES013508-04), will allow the CEET to increase capacity in its two facility Cores (Molecular Profiling Core and Integrated Health Sciences Facility Core) as well as its Community Outreach and Career Development Cores.
Other ARRA Funding Awarded to CEET Investigators:
Angela Haczku, MD, PhD, a member of the Lung and Airway Disease Affinity Group, has been invited to become Associate Editor for Allergy - European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, beginning January 1, 2010.
Dr. Kevin Osterhoudt, a member of the CEET Community Outreach and Education Core, has been appointed to the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) with a term beginning July 1, 2008.
The Committee on Environmental Health advises the AAP on issues pertaining to environmental health and toxic exposure. Committee policy statements address such issues as radiation disasters, air pollution, lead screening, and secondhand smoke. The committee supports legislative initiatives designed to protect the health of the fetus, infant, and child from debilitating or hazardous environmental agents.
Penn School of Medicine Partnership Receives Community-Campus Health Annual Award
Edward Emmett, MD, Director of the CEET Community Outreach and Education Core, accepts the award from the Decatur Community Association.
Genes, Environment and Health Initiative Invests In Genetic Studies, Environmental Monitoring Technologies
Studies Focus on Common Conditions, Personal Environmental Exposures
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the first projects to be funded as part of the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI), a unique collaboration between geneticists and environmental scientists. Dr. Ian A. Blair, Co-Director of the CEET Oxidative Stress and Oxidative Stress Injury Core, was successful in obtaining a grant in the "Biological Response Indicators of Environmental Stress" to study "Exposure and Biological Response Biomarkers of Cigarette Smoke".
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