National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Comparative Biology Elucidation of Environmental Pathways and Susceptibility
Focus: human health, environmental stressors
Deadline: August 23, 2006
Duration: varies
Amounts: $5.1 million total, 10-16 awards
The aim of this initiative is to integrate the traditional strengths of the environmental health sciences, alcohol, and the cardiovascular, lung, and blood research communities with the emerging power of comparative biology approaches and high information-content techniques to determine the critical common pathways by which environmental stressors influence human health as well as the determinants of individual and population susceptibility to those environmental stressors. The goal of this request for applications (RFA) is to solicit applications that promote the understanding of biological processes (pathways and/or networks) that, when perturbed by environmental factors, stressors, or alcohol, alter the susceptibility to complex human diseases. It is anticipated that applications for this initiative will have applicability to human research and will ultimately be tested in human systems (through epidemiological studies, association studies in cohort or case-control studies, human cell culture studies, or human clinical or experimental studies).
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